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Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
CONDITIONS IN
CUBA BECOME
MORE CHAOTIC
Strikes And Communistic Acti-
vities Threaten Regime Of
Grau San Martin.
WELLES STILL HOPEFUL
American Ambassador Believes
U. S. Intervention May Yet Be
Avoided.
By LAWRENCE S. HAAS

By LAWRENCE S. HAAS
United Press Staff Correspondent
HAVANA, Sept I8.-President
Ramon Grau San Martin, clinging
tenaciously to office, fought to-
day against the threat of strikes
and the possibility of widespread
disorders that could easily upset his
regime.
Though there was increased op-
timism at the presidential palace,
there was no apparent reason for
it.
Conditions in the country were
seemingly becoming increasingly
chaotic. Students and army enlist
ed men were the sole governing
power in many towns.
Communist activities were notice.
able. Striking workers at the Ma
bay Sugar central were reported to
have organized soviet. Efforts
were made to form similar soviets
at other centrals.
The government met some sue
cess in staving off additional strikes
which would undoubtedly lead to
its collapse.
Business men here registered
their opposition to the Grau San
Martin regime. 1t was with diff
Guilty that Grau San Martin per-
suaded them to abandon plan to
close their establishments tomor-
row in protest against workers de-
mands for increases of pay Of such
scale that, employers said, success
full operation of their enterprises
would become impossible
The decision not to close must
be ratified toda- by all the busi-
ness men concerned.
Meets With Welles
The provisional president yester-
day held his first conference with
/ A m r ic a n Ambassador Sumner
Welles since he assumed office.
Neither he nor Welles would dis
cuss it. Welles seemed more hope
full that Cuba's political situation
could be cleared up without an out
break of disorders that might bring
American armed Intervention.
Popular opposition to intervention
grew hourly. In each demonstra-
ton banners denouncing Yankee
I Imperialism" were prominent.
An American destroyer fired
shot yesterday-but it was to break
up tornado clouds that menaced
Gardenas.
Labor troubles likely to endanger
Americans were reported in the
provinces but there was no disorder.
The American consul at Santiago
advised Americans in the Santiago
district to proceed to Rente, across
! the harbor, if disorders occurred.
! Women paraded Havana yester-
day, demanding the vote and the
notification of the Platt amend
ment to the Cuban constitution
which legalized American interven-
ton.
! Grau San Martin apparently
made no progress in his efforts to
win the support of the political
factions.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18

SAN JOSE. Calf. Sept. 10. iU.P
David A. Lamson's iron compo-
sure was unbfoken today as he
waited a sentence OF death at 10
a. m. Tuesday A jury Saturday
night found him guilty Of murder
ing his wife Allene and did not
recommend leniency.
Conviction of the 30-year old un-
iversity scholar OF first degree muir
der was followed today by a battle
for custody OF little Allene Gene
we've Lamson The two-year- -old
curly haired girl whose mother was
battered TO death In the bathroom
OF the Lamson home at palo Al
10 last May 80. has been care for
since q Dr. Margaret Lamson, sis
ter of David.
Frank c. Thorpe. of Lamar. Mo.
brother OF the slain woman. said
he would start court action today
TO gain possession Of the child He
said he wanted 10 change her name,
adopt her and raise her with his
own eight-year-old daughter at La
mar. Missouri. where Mrs. Lam
sons body lies.
David Lamson is a convicted
murderer and has no right to that
child" said Thorpe. who expressed
satisfaction that Justice had been
done"
Neither has his family any right
TO little Allene. II she is raised with
them she will go through life as
'Allene Lamson. the girl whose ia
ther murdered her mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
TRIO ON TRIAL
IN YUMA COURT

YUMA. Ariz., Sept 10. Ue-Lew
Douglass, bespectacled Texas bad
man." was scheduled 10 renew his
defense today 70 charges Of mur-
dering two aged prospectors for
their hCarded gold
The trial had been interrupted
by defense counsel In the hope
of obtaining evidence 70 prove
Douglass insane. Two alleged ac-
completes, Nillarc Doughty and
Dan OConnen. are also On ulil
The state accuses the trio Of
fatally shooting Ralph Hart and
Jack Hayden. at their mining claim
in the isolated country near Bouse,
Ariz., last Feb. 7. They were ar
rested a short time later in New
York City.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
LADY CHANGES
HER METHODS

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18. <U.Ps-
An attractive 20-year-old blonde
who said she was Virginia Leihy of
Portland, Ore, was held in Jail to-
day, threatened with prosecution
on three charges, all because she
changed her mind.
Virginia was polite when Motor
cycle Officers B. L. Fleming and
w. E. Sheppard halted her to check
her license plates.
Have a cigarette, boys" she
proffered
They told her the plates we're ir-
regular.
You'll pardon me, I'm sure" she
said, asserting to the examination
she powdered her nose.
Yes. indeed" said Fleming.
And you will come over TO the
station with us, won's you?"
"Oh, certainly" she smiled, slid
ing over in the seat to make room
for the officers.
They said she chatted pleasantly
until they had driven several
blocks.
Excuse me-" she murmured sud-
denly, reaching into pocket OF the
car. Her small hand emerged with
a gun, the officers said.
Sheppard disarmed her with
quick twist of the wrist whereupon
she was transformed into 100
pound fighting machine. the for
mer reported. Finally subdued. she
was taken to the Hollywood police
station where she was booked on
suspicion of robbery, violation Of
the deadly weapon act and suspi-
cion of auto theft. She said she had
arrived only recently from Portland
and that she was driving her bro
theirs car. Her brother, she said.
had given he the gun 10 protect
herself.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
Horne Funeral
Rites Tomorrow

FIleral services for Mrs. Maude
Gertrude Horne, 80, w'st died at
4:40 o'clock this morning, will be
conducted from Lemons chapel at
2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
with Rev. w. E. Malan, pastor of
the Methodist church, officiating.
Interment will be made in Ever
green cemetery.
She was born in st. Joseph, Mo,
and had made her home in Cali
fornia for the last six years.
Her survivors are: her husband,
Otis Horne, daughter. Mrs. Ruby
Pinkney of this city, her mother,
Mrs. Anderson of Ell Centro, a sis
ter, Mrs. Elsie Nelson of Kansas
City, Mo-. and a brother, Raymon
Anderson of Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
SLIGHT INCREASE REPORTED IN
ENROLMENT OF LOCAL SCHOOLS

Ell Centro's elementary schools
show an increased enrolment of 20
pupils over the first days enroll
ment last year, according to figures
released today by Guy A. Weakley,
district superintendent of schools.
By noon today enrolment had been
completed and the total for the
elementary schools was 1912 as COM
pared to 1922 from The Press files
report for the first day of school
last year.
Enrolment by schools is as fol-
lows: East Side, 1879 in 1888 as COM
pared to 1913 in 1882; Harding, 374
in 1888 and 372 in 1882; Lincoln,
248 in 1888 and 220 in 1882; Nc
Kinley 2l6 in 1888 and 1893 in 1882;
Wilson, 206 in 1888 and 248 in 1882.
Wilson is the only school with a
smaller enrolment the first lay of
this year as compared to the first
day of last year.
Figures for the high school en-
rollment were not available at press
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
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0,s,3 NeNaash, Syndicate. Ia
ROAD CRASHES
|NJURE MANY
Two Seriously Hurt In Traffic
Accident Occurring Over
Weekend.

Several persons were injured, two
of them seriously, in a series OF
automobile accidents which hap
pened in the county over the week.
end.
Mrs. Joe Humphrey, Brawley, is
at county hospital in serious con-
dition with a fracturfeG skull as
the result of an accident in which
10 other persons were injured at
2:3O o'clock yesterday morning
about a mile and half north OF
CaleXico.
According to the report made by
the county traffic officer who in
vestigated the accident, Joe Hum
phrey, while driving north on the
highway from CaleXico struck a
man who was walking along the
read. Stopping his car to ask whe-
ther or not this man, whose iden-
tity could not be learned, had been
seriously injured, the man started
to quarrel with Humphrey and
threatened to fight.
At this juncture another car
tro, coming in the same direction,
crashed into the rear of the Hum
phrey car, damaging it and injur-
ing occupants of both machines.
Those injured we're: Mr.. and Mrs.
G.. D. Townsend, Mrs. Humphrey,
Bryan Hurst, Lille Hurst, AL Les
ter, Al Allen, Brawley, and Walter
Wetzel, Ell Centre. These with the
exception of Mrs. Humphrey, re-
ceived cuts and bruises, but none
of serious nacure.
Mrs. Humphrey was at first TAX
en- to La Solana hospital in Ell Gen.
tro and then to the county hospi-
tai where physicians are expecting
to operate tonight. The man for
whom Humphrey had stopped dis
appeared during the excIsement and
no trace of him was found later.
Dust Causes Crash
John Sommer, Holtville, was
bruised and scratched: Mary Som
mer, II, received Il deep laceration
of the scalp, Johnny Sommer, s
may have possible internal injuries
and Bahr Singh, received frac-
tured knee as the result of another
accident which happened at 11:2C
o'clock yesterday morning a half
mile east of Holtville.
The report on this accident
states that Sommer was going
east and Singh was coming in the
opposite direction following be-
hind another car. The first car
raised such a cloud of dust that
Singh was unable to keep from
swerving across the road and he
sideswiped the Sommer car. The
injured received treatment in Holt
vile.
, Louis Cosa, Reber, received a
painful head cut at 3 o'clock yes
terday afternoon when his auto
mobile overturned on the highway
about a mile east of Heber. Gotta
who was driving west at the time
got off the pavement onto the gra-
vel shoulder and in attempting to
get back onto the road again
cramped his wheels too far with
the result that the car overturned
Passing motorists extricate6 him
from beneath the car and took him
in to Heber where he received
treatment.
A report was received at traf-
fic headquarters this morning that
an Indian had been hurt in traf-
fic accident this side of the Yuma
bridge, but no details could be had
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
ATTORNEYS FOR LAMS0N PLAN
BATTLE ON DEATH PENALTY
Will Appeal From Verdict Of Jury Which
Found Former Stanford Man Guilty In
First Degree Without Recommendation

IF I raise her she will have my
name. She will live far away from
all this. BY the time she has grown
up perhaps people will be merciful
enough to forget this tragedy out
here"
DR.. Lamson and other members
OF the slayer's family are expected
to fight Thorpe's effort to obtain
custody of the girl
Attorney Bitter
Edwin M. Rea, chief defense
counsel. was bitter against what he
termed unfair" prosecution tac-
tics. He criticized Superior Judge
r. r. Syer's handling of the case
Rea was not permitted to demon
strate to the jury with a living
model how the former Stanford
coed and Y. w. c. A. secretary
might have fallen accidently and
crushed her skull.
IT don't understand Bob Syer's
attitude during the whole trial."
said Rea. He ruled against us on
every point. And when I submit
ted more than so points on which l
wanted him 10 instruct the jury he
included not single one of these
points in his final charge"
The jury of seven men and five
women took only three ballots and
returned a verdict of murder in the
first degree after being out lit
tie longer than eight hours. Twen-
ty-five minutes after the jury re-
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
6. A. R. LINE
GETS THINNER

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. l8. U.P)-
A thousand white haired, blue clad
soldiers, barely the number OF a
fighting regiment when they an
swered President Lincoln IS call in
1861 but now all that remains of the
grand army of the republic, en-
camped here today.
Still staunch in spirit but weak
physically, the veterans again clos
ed up the ranks for the blank files
of comrades who have dropned out
for a final rest. But the few who
assembled today for the grand
army's 9th annual encampment
still carried the tradition of the
thousands who marched away to
the Civil war.
Commander in Chief Russell c..
Martin, Los Angeles, opened the
business sessions today for meet
ings of the credentials committee,
the executive committee and the
council of administration.
The encampment will continue un-
til Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
STORM TAKES
LIVES Of TEN
Heavy Property Damage Re-
ported In Area Swept By At
lantic Coast Hurricane.

BEAUFORT. N. c., Sept. 18. tU.PJ
The hurricane which swept the
North Carolina coast over the
weekend left toll of 10 known
dead and one missing today.
Patched communication lines
brought word of four men drowned
when they were washed from a
barge in Albemarle Sound, three
girls and woman who died in Car
teret county, sailor washed from
the motorship Sun and fisherman
drowned near Nag's Head. A Negro
coast guardsman was reported miss
ing.
Those swept from the barge, two
white men and two Negroes, were
not identified. The bodies of the
Negroes were recovered.
Two small daughters of Elijah
Dixon, Merrimon, drowned when
the water rose to height of 16
feet in their home.
A 17-year-old daughter of Herbie
Caraway, Merrimon, was crushed
to death when house undermined
by the water, toppled over on her.
Mrs. Ella S. Delmar, 81, South
River, drowned when South River
OverfloWed its banks.
Late reports from Kittyhawk anc
Nag's Head indicated that inhabi.
tants had abandoned their home;
which had been buffeted by the
hurricane late Friday and early Sat
urday.
Reports of damage mounted
hourly as more sections were hearo
from today, and is expected tc
amount to millions Of dollars.
Crops Damaged
In Carteret county alone damage
was expected to exceed S1,000,000 II
had been cut off from communica-
ton with the rest of the state since
Friday night, and first reports
trickled out late Sunday.
One storm center also struck
New Bern and Craven county, and
Pamlico county, all near here, caus-
ing millions of dollars to property
merchants goods, and crops, ano
washing away the 100000 Neuse
River bridge at New Bern
Storm damage in the Elizabeth
City area was comparatively small
being confined chiefly to uprooted
trees, damaged communications
and disrupted power service.
The Red Cross opened emergency
relief headquarters al Morehead
City, Beaufort and Atlantic, all in
Carteret county. A coast guard boat
was dispatched to Hateras Village,
near Cape Hatteras, with food and
clothing requested by fishing viii
lagos of the island. Another boat
carried supplies to Salter Path
across the sound from Morehead
City.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18

time due to the fact that registra-
ton and classes were being held
simultaneously. Last year at the
end of the first day, the hign school
enrolment was 542.
With the exception of nine schools
which opened last Monday, all
schools of the county opened today,
stated c. B. Collins, county super
intendent of schools. The nine
schools which opened early included
those in the river district and Mt.
Signal and McCabe. Figures for
the county enrolment will not be
sent in until the end of the week
Last years enrolment was approx
imately 13, 1900 for the elementary
schools.
More Pupils Expected
Increased enrolment is anticip-
ated as students may register all
this week and as many youngsters
have not yet returned to the city.
This noon the teachers of the city
elementary schools met at the Bar
bara Worth hotel with heads of
the service clubs. Junior and senior
chambers of commerce, the Ameri-
can Legion and the press.
Cooperation between agencies in
tCrested in the welfare of children
was the theme of the luncheon
presided over by Weakley.
The superintendent expressed his
appreciation Of the cordiality of his
welcome and the friendliness shown
him by the various civic bodies. all
Confined On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
Cotton Pickers
Threaten Strike

TULARE, Calf, Sept. l8. EU.P)-
A cotton pickers' strike, involving
thousands # workers In the San
Joaquin valley, was threatened to-
day unless pickers are paid ST per
100 pounds picked.
The Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Industrial union, promin-
ent in peach and grape pickers'
strikes in the valley, announced fol-
lowing a meeting here Sunday that
the cotton strike would be called
within 10 days unless their demands
we're met.
The scale last year was 40 to 60
cents per 100 pounds. Two hundred
pounds per day was said to be an
average picker's yield.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
JEAN HARLOW
WEDS AGAIN
Noted Picture Star Flies To
Yuma To Become Bride Of
Cameraman.

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18. up =
Jean Harlow, the screens famed
platinum blonde, took her third
husband today.
Surprising the entire film col
ony, she boarded an airplane, flew
to Yuma, Arizona, and there was
married to Harold G.. Rosson, we'll
known motion picture cameraman.
The ceremony was performed by
E. A. Freeman, justice of the
peace, at 4:30 a. m. Miss Harlow
and her third husband returned
here Immediately in their plane,
arriving at 7 a. m.
Miss Harlow and Rosson had been
seen together frequently of recent
weeks but there had been no init
nation that the romance had de-
veloped so far.
The screen sirens first marriage
was to Chares F.. McGrey, of Chi
cago, whom she divorced in Janu-
ary, 1881. Her second huband was
Paul Bern, prominent motion pic
ture producer and director, who
committed suicide in September.
1882, less than three months after
their wedding.
Miss Harlow, stunning in black
velvet dress and a fur coat, smiled
radiantly as she debarked from the
plane here.
She said she had known RosSon
for two years and that they had
been planning the marriage for
some time.
She was SO uncertain about fu-
ture plans, however, that she gave
the impression that it was short
notice idea.
1--WE have no plans at ALL" she
said. 1--WE may go to Honolulu la
ter on a honeymoon. For the pre-
sent we both have to see what the
studio has for us to do
NO." she answered a question
I'VE don't have any place to live,
or anything like that. The only
thing I know about the future is
that I'm going to get a cup of cof-
! fee right now
Miss Harlow, however, put OF
getting the coffee while she posec
for photographers. Accustomed tx
this, Miss Harlow stood before the
cameras, calm and certain of her
self.
! Rosson, usea TO taxing picture;
instead of posing for them, was
very i'll at ease.
He was flustered and squirmeo
and tried to rush the proceedings
MY new husband can't take it,
Miss Harlow quipped as Rossor
plead with the photographers tc
hurry this thing up"
Rosson, 38, short of stature, with
dark hair and small black mus
tache, said that he and Miss Har-
low had been secretly engaged for
five months.
1T might seem," he said, that
we rushed into this in hurry but
that isn't true. We have been
| friends for two years and have been
planning to do this thing right
along"
Rosson said he first met the ac
tresS when she was working on all
adjoining set at the same film stu
dio. Later he did the camera work
for some of her pictures, including
Red Dust"
Rosson first came to Hollywood
IA years ago. He now rates as one
of the ace cameraman of motion
pictures. He was born in Newport
R. l., and attended Rogers prepara-
tory school there. He served over
seas with the rainbow division
during the World war.
The marriage today was his first
After the newlyweds had theil
coffee at the airport they climbed
into Rosson's small automobile tc
drive to the home of Miss Harlow's
step-father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. Marino Bello.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
SENATOR INJURED

WASHINGTON, Sept. lB. IU.Pj-
Chairman Fletcher of the senate
banking and currency committee
was painfully injured in an auto
mobile accident today.
Fletcher suffered from cuts and
bruises and shock. The crash oc-
Cured when his limousine collided
with q delivery truck.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
Baseball Scores
American League

Al New York dst game)-
Chicago .... 00i 900 000-i ? l
New York leo 0Ol O4x-6 10 |
Gregory and Sullivan; Allen and
Diokey.
Al New York end gameD-
Chicago 900 0iO OOO-4 9 0
New York 900 100 OILS Q 0
Tietje. Hcnshaw. Wyatt and Ber-
~; Ruffing and RenN
At Boston
Cleveland 800 600 06O-9 Il o
Boston 600 600 600 > S
Hildebrand and Pytlak: Rhodes.
Welch. Andrews and r. Fcrrell
A, Philadelphia
Detroit ... 002 ESQ 0i0-8 Q >
Philadelphia s504 0l0 iOx-9 IL /
Hamlin. H0gsett, Auker. Pasek
and Hayworth: Mahaffoy, Coombs.
McKeithan. Peterson and Cochranc
Al Washington
St. Louis 100 100 O20-f 7 0
Washington oil 900 OO0-2 10 >
Gray and Hcmsley Burke and
Berg.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
EDUCATION BOARD MEETS

Special meeting of the county
board of education was TO take
place az 4:45 this afternoon in the
office of the county superintendent
ca schools at the court house.
The board WIN meet in special
session Tor the purpose OF granting
certificates.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
hatiOnGi League

Al Pittsburgh list gamcl-
Philadelphia 600 600 Oi0-l : 0
Pittsburgh 900 00l 0iN-2 8
Elliott, Ragland and Davis; Meine
and Dickey.
At Pittsburgh end gamel-
Philadelphia O03 900 O3O-6 2 >
Pittsburgh 600 900 OO0-O I 0
Holley and Davis, Hoyt, Chag-
non, Grace and Finney.
At Cincinnati
ENston ..........ii2 0l2 0l0-8 "a
Cincinnati 600 o0i 100 n !
Frankhouse and Hogan; johnson,
Stout and lombard.
AT Chicago
Brooklyn $50 0ol 000-6 9 ?
Chicago 600 20l 100 II .
Mungo and Lopez: Hermann,
Bush and Phelps.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18
@kNInL!L-,e
w Isoys:

SANTA MONICA, Sept. II.
(SpeciaD-Looks like the days
of these sob sisters" moaning
around over anyone on trial is
over. Juries have started in Civ
ing the deceased or injured
party a break.
Looks like my single-handed
crusade to keep us out of Cuba
hasn't been very successful.
Now we got to go in to protect
Americans, who would have
needed no protection had we
had no diplomacy or battleshlpS
to get us in wrong in the first
place.
We are just getting ready to
trade lives for sugar. 1t would
be better if we all learned to
drink it black.
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-18

Continued On Page 81
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-03
CHILD HEALTH WEEK.

This, the first week in May is being observed as usual Child Health Week, set apart for that purpose by Presidential proclamation Since the depression set in, each year in this period there has been special emphasis placed by official and other agencies upon the importance of properly bal anced food for the child and through this means some of the worst of permanent harm has been prevented. Never before has the country been so conscious of the needs of children. It knows that the undernourished child is apt to become the victim of the serious diseases such as tuber- colosis, well the minor ailments of childhood Not only is it subject to the infectious diseases of the young but in later years is likely to fly succumb to other illnesses. Lack of food, or the wrong kind of food brings lasting ills to the com munity well as to the child and family. There is appreciation of these vital facts.
 Child Health Week serves to emphasize these fac- tors well the need for educational opportuni- ties for the opportunity to play and to get in the open It takes all of these to develop sound bodies and sound minds. By calling special attention to these things and their importance during the first week in May, the nation becomes more child-con scious all year than would otherwise be the case