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Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
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CHILD VICTIM
Of ATTACKER

NEW YORK, March %. (U.H =
A bruised and lacerated 6-year-old
girl was found in burlap bag to-
day in the basement of Brooklyn
tenement house.
Physicians worked over the dying
child but we're unable to revive her
and she was pronounced dead at
1915 p. IN. Meanwhile detectives
sped through the district, where
five major crimes against children
nave occurred in the last two years.
The assailant had knotted a rope
tightly around the neck of his vic
tim, Barbara Wiles. She had been
carelessly stuffed into the sack.
The child's mother, Mrs. Anna
Wies, had sent Barbara to the base
ment for her brothers baby car
riage Is minutes earlier. When
Barbara did not return, Mrs. Wiles
went to the basement.
Barbara had been severely beaten.
Physicians said she had been crimi-
nally assaulted.
The childs father, Harold Wiles,
was not at the house when the
crime occurred. He has been IN
employed for six months and was
looking for work.
News of the crime spread quickly
through the crowded tenement dis
trict. Frantic mothers ran through
the streets, herding their children
home.
Detectives made door to door
search. A woman living five doors
from the Wiles tenement said she
had found a man lettering in the
hall and had told him to move on.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
SENATE OkAYS
FOREST PLAN

WASHINGTON, March 2S. U.P)-
President Roosevelts reforestation
plan to employ 250000 destitute
men was approved by the senate
today after elimination of provi-
sions which provoked organized la
Dor to complain that the measure
was a conscription act savoring Of
Hitlerism.
The house is to consider the
measure tomorrow.
The senate struck from the orig
inal bill details of recruiting, ad-
ministration and compensation.
President Roosevelt was given, in
stead, broad powers to develop his
project as he desires. 1t is said
that the bill in its present form is
acceptable to the administration.
Senator Walsh Dem), Massa-
chusetts, in charge of the bill, esti-
mated $148,9 100000 would be avail
able for the work.
A companion unemployment
project, making $500.0oO,O00 avail
able for direct relief grants to
states, received favorable senate
committee action earlier in the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
SUPERVISORS
TALK LIQUOR
Means OF Regulating Beer In
County Uncertain Pending Ac-
tion By Legislature.

Finances, lights and liquor en-
gagged the attention of the board
of county supervisors at their meet
ing N the court house yesterday
afternoon. On the first two of
these problems action was taken at
the meeting, while the last one
was left over for consideration at
some future date.
Members of the board related
how they had been approached
from time to time with requests for
information on what the position
of the county would be in view of
the recent action of congress on
the liquor question. District At
torney Elmer Heald was called to
the chamber by the board to out
line for them the position to be
taken by the county in this matter.
Beald told the board that it must
wait before taking definite action
until the national congress and the
state legislature have cleared the
atmosphere by some definite legis-
lation on the question of handling
the liquor traffic. After this was
done, he said, the board could con-
slider the application Of this legiS-
lation for the county.
The chairman of the board was
authorized to sign a contract with
the Southern Sierras company for
lights at the airport and also to
sign an agreement with the Amer
;can Airways for the use of the
county airport for landing purposes.
A request was made to the Reco
A request was made to the Re-
construction Finance Corporation
that the revolving fund for the
county should be raised to $4,000.
An invitation was extended to the
tax association to appoint a COM
inittee which would sit with the
heard on the county budget and
realty taxes for next year.
Dr. Warren Fox, county health
officer, appeared before the board
with communication from the
county grand jury requesting him
to make a visit to the county farm
and, after an investigation of thai
institution, to make written re-
port to the jury on sanitary con-
diLions as they existed there. After
some discussion of the matter it
vas determined that the board
would accompany Doctor Fox when
he made this investigation. next
Monday.
Several budget transfers we're
authorized after which the board
adjourned until April 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
FILM
ACTOR SLAIN

LOS ANGELES, March %. U.P)-
A jig-saw puzzle played an impor-
tant part today in the attempted
solution of the Staying of Ung Yook
Ming, 38-year-old film actor, shot
to death here late yesterday.
Police found six members of a
Chinese family placidly working on
a jig-saw puzzle less than 20 feet
from the spot where Ming's riddled
body was discovered.
The Chinese insisted they knew
nothing" although they were work
ing on the puzzle when The shooting
occurred.
Police held Robert Chong, 81,
dapper member of the Hop Sing
tong on the charge of having a re-
volver in his possession. Chong was
caught running from the hallway
where Ming, known in films as
Monte Fook,, was killed, police said.
They added a revolver containing
five empty shells, still warm, was
found in Chong's trouser leg.
In addition to attempting to dis
cover what the Chinese family saw
during the session with the jig-saw
puzzle, officers where checking the
possibilities of a tong feud or a
lovers quarrel as likely clues for
the killing.
Chong insisted he did not fire
the shots which killed Ming.
"a man came running around the
corner, showed the gun in my hand
and ran," Chong said. Il got scared
and ran myself"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
VICTORY FOR
WET FORCES
IN Sc t UP
Amendments Suggested By Dry
Advocates Rejected Follow
ing Stormy Session.
PROVIDES % DELEGATES
Assembly Defeats Gin Marri-
age Law Repeal But Refuses
To Cut Salaries
By THOMAS b. MALARKEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

OheCu NEcoo otdii correspondent
SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 2S.-
W.P)-A bill providing for legal
machinery to vote in California for
the repeal or retention of the 18th
amendment lacked only two steps
today before enactment. senate
passage and the governors sigma
ture.
The senate judiciary committee
last night approved the Hornblower
bill setting up the ways and means
by which Californias electorate
may decide whether it will sup
port the existing national prohibi-
ton setup or vote for repeal.
A formidable group of dries
some 35, principally from Southern
California-addressed the senate
judiciary committee in support of
21 amendments to the Hornblower
bill prepared by Ben F. Gels, at
torney for the anti-saloon league.
All 81 amendments were over
whelmingly defeated and the bill
was sent out OF the committee do
pass" in the form the vets desired.
This was:
Nomination of wet and dry del
egates to the prohibition referen-
dun election by petition. The can
didate who secured the most sig
natures would be the nominee.
One wet and one dry delegate
would be selected from each of the
20 congressional districts and two
would be nominated at large.
The referendum election would
be held at the August 1884 primary
unless there was special election
before that date.
California'S gin marriage law will
remain in the statute books. A
bill to repeal it on the ground it
was driving California couples
across the state border to get mar
ried was decisively defeated in
the lower house, So to IA.
Balk On Cuts
The assembly comittee on con-
stitutional amendments was loath
to take action on proposed
amendment reducing the legisla-
tors salaries from $1,000 to $1,000
annually.
First an amendment to cut the
salaries 10 per cent, introduced by
Assemblyman Ford Chatters, Lind
say, was voted down. Then mot
ion to send the bill out do pass"
failed. Only four committeeman, in
Guiding Chatters, voted for the
measure.
Four educational economy bills
were approved by the senate by
a wide margin.
One conferS upon county boards
of supervisors, as we'll as county
school superintendents, the right to
review school budgets. The aboli-
ton of the teachers tenure act
would be affected by the second.
The third reduced fixed charges
of school districts by setting a max
imum of $50 per pupil annually for
elementary schools and a minimum
of SIS. Thirty dollars would be the
minimum for high school pupils
and $50 the maximum. The exist
ing law compels counties to con-
tribute not less than $50 per ele-
mentary school pupils and $50 for
high school pupils.
The fourth increases the kinde-
garden age from four and one half
to five years and gives school dis
tricts discreditionary right to estab-
lish kindergardens.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
Former Teller
Admits Theft

LOS ANGELES, March 81. W.P)-
H. Roy Decker, former collection
teller of the Inglewood branch of
the Security First National bank,
will be sentenced next Monday on
charges of misappropriating $31 $40
OF the banks funds.
Decker pleaded guilty to the
charge before Federal Judge Will
liam p. James.
Judge James continued the case
Until Monday to allow the federal
probation officer to investigate the
case and Decker's past record
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
Cryer In FAVOR
OF Consolidation

LOS ANGELES, March g. U.H
Former Mayor George E. Cryer,
announcing the platform on which
he will run for the office again,
said today he favored the incor-
poration into one governmental
unit of the 43 cities in the Los
Angeles metropolitan area.
"In my opinion" he said, "the
way back to lower taxes is to cut
Gown, eliminate and consolidate.
The entire area is destined to be-
come one great city in fact, if not
IN political identity. I suggest it
be combined under one govern
mental unit"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
ROLPH INSISTS
upon REPORT

SACRAMENTO March %. Up)-
Aroused by reports the Inman SEN
atorial investigating commit t e c
might indefinitely postpone submis-
sion of its final report, Governor
Rolph angrily insisted today that
the committee make its concluding
summation in the near future.
When the first installment of
the committees report was sub
mitted Senator j. M. 1nman was
vague and indefinite about the
concluding number
Il claim" the governor declared,
st am entitled to full and COM
1lete report"
"The committee has done all the
damage they can do to me. II 1
am wrong in any respect, want
the people to know it. And if I'm
not strong enough to withstand
an attack like the Inman commit
tees 1 am not fit to be governor. "
The governor said he would not,
under any circumstances, take ac-
ton either in defense of, or
against, DR.. j. M. Toner, director
of institutions. and ROLAND Van
degrift. director of finance, until
he had persued the final summa-
rion of the committee, yet to be
written.
THE sena.c should also insist on
the final report the governor
said. after all, $500 was ex-
pended by the committee. And
where are the vouchers and the re-
ceipts?"
Governor Rolph denied he had
assured either Vandegrift or Tower
their jobs were safe.
IT have only seen Vandegrift for
a few moments since the report
was issued and have not even con-
suited DR.. Toner However both
have been asked to submit reports
and will do So"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
BOUND
FOR ENGLAND
FORCED DOWN
Cause OF Accident Not Stated
In Dispatches From Scene OF
Catastrope.
FIRE DESTROYS WRECKAGE
No Americans Reported On List
Of Passengers According To
Company Officials.

DIXMUDE, Belgium, March %. U.D
The British Imperial Airways pas
senger plane, City of Liverpool,
With Is persons aboard, crashed in
flames today at Essen
Police after an hours effort re-
covered five bodies. 1t was as
sumed the remaining 10 were dead.
An eyewitness to the diseaster
saw bodies falling from the flam-
ing plane before it crashed, indi-
eating they had jumped
Some bodies were found 300 feet
from wreckage.
The victims comprised one Bel
gian, three Germans and IL Eng
liSh.
Twelve Of the dead were passen-
GERS and the ether three made up
the crew.
LONDON, March %. UP)-An
Imperial Airways plane enroute
from Brussels to Croydon with IS
persons aboard crashed near Dix
nude, Belgium, today and it was
feared all were killed, Imperial Air
ways announced.
The plane, enroute from Cologne,
had alighted at Brussels and re-
sumed its journey to Croydon when
the crash occurred. The cause was
unknown.
It was understood the passengers
comprised four from Cologne and
the others from Brussels. A pilot,
mechanic and radio operator were
aboard.
A representative of Imperial Air
ways left for the scene from
Brussels and three others from
Croydon.
The airplane left Brussels at
1886 p. m. and apparently nose
oived about p. m. after passing
Essen, near Dixmude.
A report from Paris said it
crashed in flames and that all
aboard were dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
Group Protests
Rent EUiction

LOS ANGELES, March 28. UP)--
A group OF men, women and chill
dren numbering almost 100 spent
last night campink in Elm street,
just outside the city limits, the
sheriff's office reported today.
Deputies said the movement was
one of sympathy for family that
was evicted in that district for fail
ure to pay rent.
There was no disorder of any
kind and officers stood by to keep
traffic moving. The protesting
group mostly sat around campfires,
brewing coffee and singing.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
Dill OPERATORS
FAIL To AGREE

WASHINGTON, March %. U.R)-
State officials and major and in
dependent oil producers failed to
reach an agreement today on a
definite program for Stabilization
and rehabilitation of the oil indus
Try.
When the hour arrived for Is
representatives of the three groups
assembled here for conference on
the Oil problem to report to Sec
retary of Interior Ickes, Governor
Landon of Kansas, chairman an
nounced the members could not ap-
prove a proposed plan without
further study.
The conferees retired for addi-
rional study and it was announc-
ed they would report again to Ickes
at p. m. Officials hoped they
then would have a proposal for
lasting improvement of the indus
try. Members of the group refused
10 reveal the nature of the program
under discussion.
1t was formulated by subcom-
mittee of six chosen late yester-
day.
Meanwhile, Ickes sat for more
than an hour with a small group
of Texas and California independ-
ents who refused to be bound by
any of the suggestions made by the
majority.
The independent dissenters pre-
sented their own program for i'm
provement of the industry, but were
advised to return to their hotel for
further conferences and present
their plan tomorrow in more de-
tailed form.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
Bromley Injured
In Yuma Crash

YUMA, Ariz., March %. W.P--
The ill-luck which logged the at
tempts of Lieut.. Harold Bromley TO
fly the Pacific ocean still pursues
him. Bromley was injured last
night when his tri-motored trans
port plane crashed at Yuma air.
Fort.
He received cuts and bruises
about the head. but his passenger.
Willard F Helman Of Los Angeles,
was uniniured They we're enroutc
70 Ell Paso. Tex.
While attempting landing, the
big 12-passenger ship was struck by
a sudden gust OF wind 100 feet
above the field. The plane noeed
to the ground but landed upright,
tearing away the landing gear.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
Committee Fauors
Wagner Measure

WASHINGTON, March %. U.P)
The senate banking and curren-
~ committee voted today to report
favorably the Wagner $500, 1000, 900
unemployment relief bill with a re-
Stricticn that not more than Is per
cent of the new funds may be al
located to any one state.
The committee approved the pro-
vision in the bill which removes an
identical IS per cent restriction on
funds remaining from the unem-
ployment relief grant of last year.
About $86O0O,0O0 of that fund re-
mains uneXpended.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
MUCH INTEREST IN ELECTION
OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES HERE

School board elections are Great
ing active interest throughout
.,lc county and in Ell Centro in par
ticular since a number of candi-
dates are running for the vacancies
ON both the elementary and high
school boards. The elections will
take place Friday. March 81.
Three candidates are running for
the vacancy on the elementary
school board, caused by the expir-
alton of L. r. Philley's term as
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
Russia Protests
Maxi Violence

MOSCOW, March %. U.P)-Sov-
let Russian added its unofficial
protests to those of other nations
today against the policies of the
Hitler government in Germany.
The newspaper Izvestia publish
ed a demand that Chancellor Adolf
Hitler prevent attacks upon Soviet
citizens and organizations in Ger
many.
Chancellor Hitler's policy of
friendly relations must be proved
by deeds as we'll as words, Izvestia
declared
1t protested particularly against
Nazi violence alleged to have been
directed toward Soviet Oil stations
IN Germany.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
ACTRESS RETURNS

HOLLYWOOD. March %. W.P)--
Norma Talmadge, motion picture
actress, was back in Hollywood to-
day for a three or four week visit.
She said she might go to Chicago
later to appear in revue with
George Jessel. She has been in
Florida recently.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
THIEVES VISIT LINER

LOS ANGELES HARBOR, March
28. UP)-Sneak thieves who enter
ed the cabins of passengers and
officers on the Empress of Britain
while it was docked at San Fran
cisco, took approximately $700 in
cash, Stanley Pearch, purser, re-
voaled today.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-28
FIFTEEN KILLED IN BELGIAN PLANE CRASH
mMlLL.
R!S2!;

BEVERLY HILLS, March q.
(SpeciaD-Papers all state Hitler
is trying to copy Mussolini.
Looks to me like its the Klux
that he is copying. He don't
want to be emperor, he wants
to be kleagle.
But amt it relief to have a
government over here that its
going to let 'em solve their own
troubles over there. see where
he is kinder toning down on his
racial and religious hatreds. If
he does, that guy is liable TO
come through at that.
You know nobody thought
the Democrats could do any
thing, either, when our old form
Of government was overthroWn
last fail. But the Dems. sur
prised not only the world but
themselves. and now every coun-
try is trying to borrow a good
Democrat TO come and put 'em
on their feet. Mexico has al
ready made me an offer.
Yours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-04

ance of two billion dollars in 4 per cent bonds,
the interest guaranteed by the government.
These bonds may be used to purchase out
standing mortgages or to make new loans.
The distressed farmer will be assured of
an immediate decrease in interest payments
to Az per cent he may arrange amortization
of his loan over longer period of years, and,
if his distress is extremely acute, he may Sc
cure a reasonable moratorium
The possibility also exists to scale down
the values of land on which mortgages were
given when those values were inflated unduly,
but it is not likely that this scaling down will
apply to mortgages made in very recent years,
for during that period land values already
have been reduced.
This, apparently, is no charity bill, intend
ed to transfer to the government the whole
mortgage burden. 1t hardly could be, since
it involves the issuance of only two billions in
bonds as compared with total farm mort
gage debt of almost nine billions. But it offers
definite help to distressed farmers, and prom
Uses thus to stabilize the whole mortgage
market.
III is true that the government, Slmultane-
ousy, will be endeavoring to raise farm prices
to pre-war levels through the farm relief bill
But this definitely is an experiment, and so
described by President Roosevelt. He doesn't
know that it will work, or actually raise farm
prices; he hopes it will. We do, too.
Congress could do no better thing, we
think, than to pass the debt relief bill along
with the farm price relief bill, and do it
quickly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-04
Why Ruin a Good Record?

ticipation known TO the public This, Of course,
gives a wonderful opportunity for secret dis
tribution of political patronage. 1t also gives
certain prominent drys a chance to make a
quiet profit in these lean days without undue
embarrassment
Beer should not be the object Of political
patronage. The American people are con-
Quoting a great social experiment in the legal
ization of beer Broadminded, conscientious
citizens Of both wet and dry persuasion are
hoping for great things from It, Governor
McNutt and his advisers should approach the
problem in that spirit.
Still another flaw in the Democratic import
system is that it, in effect. provides the means
for the state of Indiana to set up protective
tariff on beer made outside the state 1t seeks
10 encourage local industry at the expense of
the other breweries Of the nation.
This is excellent in theory Every one
wants to do all he can to encourage business
at home, but the Hoosier state still is in the
Union and the Constitution of the United
States specifically reserves the tariff-making
power for the federal government alone. Even
if it did not, since when has the Democratic
party become AN advocate of protective tariffs?
No sensible person believes that the big
national brewers are going to be good boys
from now on. There is no doubt that they will
need good switching from time to time. But
IndianaS police powers are ample to handle
them without such a peculiar program as that
which Governor McNutt has promulgated.
This newspaper supported the Governor. It
has no reason TO regret that it did If election
day were next week. it would be supporting
him again, but he is botching the beer propo-
sition. The voters supported him because he
was young, vigorous progressive. They were
tired of the old party machine of the Republic
ans. Surely he is not going to use beer to
build another party machine.
If he attempts to meet the Republicans on
their own ground, he may strike snag. The
Republicans of this state have been doing
business for quite time on the old-fashioned
basis They probably have forgotten more
about running party machine than Governor
McNutt and his advisers know.
1t is to be hoped that the Governor will not
lose his amateur standing in politics That is
his chief appeal to an electorate sick to death
With the old merry o-round of political priv
Iege, patronage, and jobbery.