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Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
MANY DEATHS
OVER HOLIDAY
Traffic Accidents Lead Toll
OF Tragedies Which Claim
Lives OF ITO.

CHICAGO, July 5. U.H The
nations Independence day celebra-
ton cost the lives of at least ITO
persons, a survey by United Press
revealed today.
Traffic accident, droWnings,
plane crashes and fireworks explo-
sions contributed the majority of
deaths. Combined with casualties
indirectly resulting from holiday
celebrations they caused ITO deaths,
the survey showed.
With fair weather over most of
the country, automobile and cross
ing mishaps took the heaviest toll.
In Michigan alone % persons died
in automobile accidents. Sixteen
died in California from the same
cause and seven in Kansas, six in
Pennsylvania, eight in Ohio, five in
Iowa, five in Indiana.
New York led the number of in
juries resulting from fireworks ex-
plosions. Physicians and hospitals
there treated at least 1000 victims
for burns. Only few were serious.
More than 100 fireworks accidents
we're reported in the Chicago area.
Ninety-six were burned in southern
New Jersey and 46 in eastern Penn
sylvania, three fatally. A large
number of injuries also were re-
ported from Milwaukee.
Parachute Jumper Dies
In Southern California four men,
bers OF one family we're killed in a
railroad crossing crash. At Seattle
Wash, girl fell to her death from
third story window while trying
to get a better view of a holiday
parade.
The most spectacular accident was
at the Worlds fair here. Climax
ing holiday fireworks program,
Joseph Wilson, Hollywood, leaped
from an airplane in a parachute
stunt. Two 'chutes he was carrying
failed to open and he plunged to
his death in Lake Michigan while
more than $4,000 spectators watched.
In Pennsylvania the number of
deaths for the weekend and holi-
day period was AZ. More than 300
were injured.
Illinois reported II deaths, four
of them by drowning. New York
had the greatest number of drown
ings-five.
At least six persons died in plane
crashes. In Indiana a man was
killed when the ship his son was
plotting plunged to earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
GIBSON 5 LUCK
YET IN DOUBT

LOS ANGELES, July 5W.P-While
Hoot Gibson, film cowboy and avi-
ator, injured in a crash at the ma
tional air races Monday, is show
ing continued improvement, he is
mot out of the woods YETI DR..
George o. Berg, who with Dr. Harry
Martin, is attending the actor, said
today.
Gibson suffered fractures of the
first, second and third Vertabrae,
and first. second and third ribs on
the right side, when he was pitched
from his plane as it crashed at a
speed of $50 miles an hour. He
was engaged in a race with Ken
Maynard
The physicians were conducting
further tests today, the result OF
which will not be known for some
hours.
Although he said the possibility
was remote, there is still a chance
internal injuries might develop, DR..
Berg said.
Gibson is the most indestructi-
BILE person I ever saw said DR..
Berg. "Tmagine being catapulted
from a plane at that speed and
pulling the safety belt with you.
IS a miracle he wasn't killed out
right
The fractured vertabrae, almost
equivalent of a broken back, will
keep the actor in bed for several
months, it was believed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
st. James Hotel
Control Disputed

LOS ANGELES, July 5. U.R) -
Control of the st. James Hotel COM
pany of San Diego by r. D. Lacoe,
president, and Ralph D. Lacoe, vice
president, was disputed today in a
suit filed in federal court, seeking
to force them to surrender the
property for benefit of creditors.
The action was filed by Charles
B. De Long and John A. Held, truS-
tees in bankruptcy for the estate,
who accused the Lacoes of procur-
ing collusive and fraudulent fore
closure on a $4,000 bond issue
against the property in order to
acquire it for themselves at a frac-
ton of its true value. An account
ing of their management also was
sought.
The concern has been in bank
ruptcy for the last two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
BY SIR WALTER LAYTON
Written for The United Press

Copyright, 1888, by United Press
LONDON, July 5.-The statement
by President Roosevelt which was
issued in London Monday morn
ing removed the possibility of the
world economic conference attain
ing any of its major objectives at
the present time and seriously pre-
JUDGED its chances of ultimate sue
cess.
Mr.. Roosevelt counseied the con-
ference to forget about stabiliza-
ton and get on with its task of
bringing abolp real permanent
financial stability But no pro-
gress on the economic problems
before it is possible so long as there
is instability in the exchanges.
In proposing to adjourn, the con-
ference merely recognized the state
of deadlock into which the Amer
lean declaration has precipitated it.
To Americans, who are rejoicing
in the first flush of enthusiasm for
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05

a policy which has raised prices,
diminished unemployment and ex-
panded volume of BUSINESS. the re-
fusal of European nations to apply
the same formula and their in
siStence OH aoilization-Which in
the American view would limit and
reverse the Roosevelt program-may
seem difficult to understand.
Recall Bitter Memories
In the case of continental Euro
pean nations this attatude arises
out of their own bitter experience.
The representatives of all those
nations which have any experience
in initiation are alarmed at any
policy which suggests, however re-
moteiy, the possibility of repeating
their sufferings of 10 years ago.
In particular they fear any plan
which depends for its success upon
making the public distrustful of the
value of its own currency. You can
not, they say, build a sound, last
ing recovery upon the belief that
money, which is the basis of Gre
dit and the means by which busi-
ness is transacted, is not to main
tain its value.
One may point out to them that
what is now desired is to return
to the comparatively balanced price
level of 1928 and not a progressive
and apparently unlimited rise in
prices they knew a decade ago
but to no vail. At the first signs
of depreciation, they say, their
countries would flare into social
and political revolt. They are all
convinced there can be no such
thing as controlled initiation
This is not the case with Great
Britain. British opinion has for
some years past shared many of
the beliefs which are now direct
ing American policy. We have al
ways maintained that general
rise in prices is essential if econ
omic balance and prosperity are to
be restored and the British gov
ernment has declared its desire
to see such a rise.
Doubt POlicy's Success
Further than that we believe that
since credit contraction played a
part in initiating the depression,
credit expansion should play a part
in curing it. We have been disap-
pointed in the way the gold STAN
dard has operated in the postwar
era and certainly are in no hurry
to tie the pound to it until we are
assured that at least some of its
faults have been remedied. Why
then, is Great Britain unwilling to
follow the American lead?
The answer is, in brief, that we
doubt the efficacy of monetary
policy by itself to bring about more
than a temporary and deceptive
return to prosperity and that we
are skeptical of Mr.. Roosevelt S
ability to keep his policy within
the bounds of moderation.
1t is nov surprising that other
countries find it impossible to de-
clare their adhesion unrServedly to
a program in which so many points
are unknown and the general di-
rection of which seems at dis
tance of 5000 miles to be uncertain
and fluctuating from month to
month.
In particular we fear that Am
erican policy-on its present lines
is in danger of increasing the
obstacles to international trade in
stead of reducing them and that it
leads not toward cooperation but
toward economic isolation.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Couple Decided
Diuorce Needed

LOS ANGELES, July 5. U.P) -
Mr.. and Mrs. Ken H. Beard of Mo-
desto seemed today to be in perfect
agreement on one question: each
wants a divorce.
"She attacked me with scissors,
shoes and other things. nagged and
scratched me and associated with
Darrell Hill, who, she said, was
much gentler than l." complained
Beard.
HE choked me and dragged me
about by the feet, twisted my wrists
and knocked my head against the
wall" complained Mrs. Beard. "He
made love to Arleen Green"
Beard is a rancher.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Senator Borah
Much Better

BALTIMORE, Md, July S. U.P)
Johns Hopkins hospital authori-
ties today said Senator Borah,
Repn., Idaho, was making such a
satisfactory recovery from his op-
Grafton that he would be able to
leave the hospital next week, al
though he may stay longer to have
complete rest.
There was some mystery as to
how serous the senator's condition
had been after the operation a
week ago.
Mrs. Borah, returning to WASH
ington, said yesterday that her
husband was "at last out of dan
ger" after doctors had fought for
days against symptoms of pneu-
monia. DR.. Lloyd Lewis of the hos
pital staff insisted that Borah's
temperature had been normal for
nearly a week and that his condi-
tion otherwise had been good.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
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EIGHT DIE IN
Los ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, July S. W.H -
Eight persons, including an entire
family of four, we're killed in Fourth
of July accidents in and near Los
Angeles.
Every fatality resulted from an
automobile accident Though there
were numerous firecracker casual
ties, including small boys burst
eardrum, none resulted fatally.
The entire family of Henry Ep-
stein was killed when Epstein turn
ed his automobile directly into the
path of a Southern Pacific passen-
ger train. The dead:
Epstein, 40.
Mrs. Marie Epstein, 40.
Gwendolyn Epstein, 16.
Lawrence Epstein, II.
Struck broadside by the locomo-
tive, the automobile was dragged for
200 yards. His family wiped out in
the Wreckage, Epstein was thrown
clear, suffering injuries from which
he died later.
Failing to negotiate sharp key
turn in northbound traffic, an au-
tomobile overturned and rolled over
three times. Nicholas Madonna, 81,
was killed and Miss Jean Clemow,
18, critically injured.
Mrs Myrtle Kirkendahl, 35, was
killed in an automobile collision.
Thrown from the automobile in
which she was riding, Miss Winifred
Cordich, 18, of San Pedro, was fa-
tally injured.
William A. Stewart, "a, died at
Van Nuys hospital, after his auto
mobile had overturned.
AT least four more victims of
traffic accidents were given only
slight chances to recover.
Though the beaches were throng-
ed with thousands of holiday cele-
brantS, not a death from drowning
was reported. Municipal lifeguardS
reported that 26 bathers had been
helped ashore, and 10 minor rescues
were reported at Santa Monica.
Mangled hands and minor burns
summed up the fireworks casualties.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Government Sues
For Delinquency

LOS ANGELES, July 5. WP)-
Income tax delinquencies totaling
$84,863 for earnings in 1929, 1880
and 1881 were charged against Luis
M. Salazar, San Diego customs
broker, in a suit on file today in
U. S. district court.
Federal authorities said Salazar
already faces an Indictment on the
1929 evasion charge and that nc is
fugitive from justice in Lower
California.
Helen Twelvetrees, screen actress,
was named in another tax lien as
aSsertedly owing the government
additional taxes of $1056 on her
1882 income.
Other members of the film col
ony named in liens included Ted
Healy, $1297 for 1892: Nacio Herb
Brown. song writer, $3465 for 1892;
John Murray Anderson, $5945 for
1880; Harry Meade White, writer,
$l89 for 1892; Jules Furthman,
writer, 1921 for 1929.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
TURNER TAKES
AIR HONORS
Winner OF Transcontinental
Race Also Takes Speed Con-
test At Los Angeles.
BY GEORGE II. BEALE
,;tad D-aee ctoff CoYraeno,aJo.

United Press Staff Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, July 5.-Colonel
Roscoe Turner, veteran speed flyer,
today held a major share of the
glory and riches of the 1888 ma
tional air races.
He climaxed his brilliant per-
formances of the meet by driving
his golden Wedell-Williams plane
to victory in the Thompson trophy
event at the close of the races yes
terday.
This race carried the second lar
geSt purse of the four-day spec
tacle. He took the largest when he
won the Bendix transcontinental
dash July l.
Fifty Thousand spectators saw
Turner zoom around a 100 mile
closed course shortly before h,le
holiday dusk to win the Thompson
trophy with an average speed of
241 .051.
That speed was disappointing to
Turner because it failed to better
the record of 252686 set by jim
my Doolittle in winning the event
last year, but it was considered
good by others because heavy haze
made the course difficult and Tur-
ner missed a pylon, losing time to
circle and clear it correctly.
Turner received $3,375 for win
ming the Thompson cup and $5,05O
for finishing the Bendix cross
country race from New York in L!
hours and 30 minutes, new record
for the East-West flight.
Second to Turner in the Thom-
son race was Jimmy Wedell, of
Patterson, La, designer of his own
and Turner's planes. 1t was a
doubeheader for Wedell, too, for
he finished second to Turner in the
Bendix.
Women Perform
After Wedell came Lee Gehlbach
Detroit; Ray Minor, Los Angeles;
George Hague of Santa Monica;
and v. D. Granville, Springfield
Mass, in the order named.
In the other feature race of the
final days program, Mae Haizlip
wife of Jimmy Haizlip, st. Louis
averaged 1853 miles an hour to win
the 10 mile Aerol trophy race fol
women. Marty Bowman, Burbank
Calf, Gladys ODonnell, Long
Beach, and Miss H. Sumner, Los
Angeles, finished second, third anc
last
The Thompson trophy was
awarded by Mary Pickford, motion
picture star, making her first pub
ic appearance since it became
known that she had separated from
| Douglas Fairbanks, and that di-
vorce might follow.
Attendance at the four day meet
was estimated at 10000 by Cliff
ford Henderson, managing direc-
tor of the races. He estimated the
total gate receipts at $150,0O0 OF
which $4,000 was listed as prize
money. Such a figure would enable
local civic bodies, aviation groups
and other sponsors to break even
on the enterprise.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
ITALIANS OFF
FOR ICELAND
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July
5. U.P,-The italian air arma-
da led by Gen. ItalO BalbO, en-
route to Chicago, arrived at
ass p. m. today from London
derry, Ireland.

LONDONDERRY, Ireland, July
5. <U.P@General Italo Balbo today
led his fleet of "a Italian Royal
Air Force "S55X" flying boats on
the third stage of their trip to the
Chicago eXposition-a 900 mile
flight to Reykjavik, Iceland.
Balbos plane took of from the
water of Lough heath at 1910 p.
m. G:40 a. m. EDIT and the other
planes followed group by group
Held here since Sunday by bad
weather, the planes faced a dan
gerous stretch of their 7,100 mile
Orbetello- Chicago flight on the
cruise to Iceland. Their cruise lay
northward along the Hebrides Is
lands and northwestward across
the Atlantic, up above the southern
extreem of the drift ice area to
Reyjavik, off the great Faxa ford
on the west coast of Iceland.
The planes all rose smoothly and
left the Londonderry heat wave
while group of girls on the beach
sang Come Back to Erin"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Mt. LasSen Has
Holiday Spree

RED BLUFF, Calf, July 5. U.H
Mt. Lassen, only active volcano in
the United States, celebrated Fourth
of July in its own particular way.
While the mountain didn t go so
far as to erupt, it was held respon-
sible for "a earthquake shocks that
ratified the district yesterday in the
vicinity of Mineral.
w. L. Collins, superintendent of
Lassen National Park, said the park
seismograph has recorded 43 earth
quakes since July l, of which yes
terday S were the sharpest.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Local Holiday
Passes Quietly

No runs, no hits, no errors is the
score for the Fourth of July cele-
bration in Ell Centre yesterday.
Firemen made no runs to fires
started by firecrackers, no one was
struck by exploding torpedoes and
no one aimed a skyrocket at any
one else.
Bombardment began early in the
evening Monday and continued un-
til late nour last night. The sky
was brilliant at times with burst
ing rockets and other displays.
Children in all parts of the city
enjoyed the day but apparently CO.
operated with officials 100 per cent
by observing care and caution in
handling firecrackers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Price OF Corn
ShoUs Increase

CHICAGO, July 5. W.P)-A sem
sational rise in corn prices crowd
ed other grains out of the picture
on the board of trade today, the
yellow cereal closing more than
three cents higher.
Wheat reacted on heavy profit
taking after an early bulge. Oats
declined with wheat. At the close
wheat was 11s to LIS cents lower,
corn was 21s to 3B cents higher
and oats we're Ia to rs cents low
er.
July wheat closed at 96%, July
corn .597s, and July oats .46.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
EINSTEIN ACCEPTS OFFER

CHICAGO, July 5. (U.P) - Prof.
Albert Einstein will cooperate in
administration and direction of the
physics institute of the Hebrew
university at Jerusalem, it was an
nounced here today by DR.. Chain
Weizmann, president of the uni
versity. A cable received by DR..
Weizmann from the German physi-
cist said he would accept chair
at the university if certain reforms
he suggested were carried out. DR..
Weizmann said the suggestions
would be followed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Valley Grapes
TUo Weeks Late

Some two weeks after the usual
date early table grapes, mostly
Thompson seedless, began to move
out of the valley Monday, when j.
Caratan shipped a carload by ex-
press from Seeley.
George F. Johnson also shipped
a car by freight from Seeley Mon
day, following with an Ell Centre
car yesterday and a carload from
the Holtville region today.
The quality OF the fruit is SUI
perior this year. according to b. A.
Harrigan, county agricultural COM
missioner in charge of shipping
point inspection. Due TO the late
season, however. prices are only
fair.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Government Pay
Cut Extended

WASHINGTON, July Is. {U.Pp-
The Is per cent reduction in the
salaries of all government en-
ployees was extended to December
81 today by President Roosevelt in
an executive order.
The extension from July was
made after a study of the costs
of living" index for the six months
ending June 80.
The cost of living for thae period
was 1913 per Gene lower than for
the base period, namely the six
months ending June 80 1928.
On the besis of the lowered liv-
ing costs, The president in his or
der extended the pay reductions un-
der the authority granted him in
the economy act.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
DIRECTORS MEET

Directors of the Imperial frrige-
tion district this afternoon ad-
journed until O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon. The morning and early
afternoon hours otday we're devoted
to the transaction Of routine bus
iness.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Double What We
Haze In Month

YUMA, Ariz., July 5. W.H
"A new all-time record for
Arizona's "Gretna Green" was
established Monday, Donald
W.sener, superior court clerk,
said today as he finishing re-
cording "A marriage licenses
issued that day.
FOrty-twO of the licenses
were issued to couples from
California, who later we're
married here.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
BRITISH ECONOMIST Explains
OPPOSITION To j. 8. PROGRAM
Says Sterilization Agreement Essential
From European Standpoint For Success
OF London Conference.

Editors Note: Sir Walter
Layton, internationally famous
economist, explains in the fol-
lowing article British and Eur
Opean reactOn to President
ROOsevelt's telegram to the
world economic conference. 1t
is one of a series on the con-
ference.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
GRAPE PRICES BETTER

FRESNO, July 5. U.P)-Offers of
$l00 an acre for Thompson grapes
on the vine were reported here to-
day. The offers were from $25 to
$50 an acre better than last year S,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
(@yFR|sS}!s:iR, (yF5Sa e.:

PRESCOTT, Ariz., July 4.
(SpeciaD-Well, here we are
in Prescott, the real western
town a mile high and 100 miles
wide. I would rather have Ari-
zonas record as a state than
New York with her numbers,
Massachusetts with her intel
lect. or California with her mo-
desty.
Arizona prolongs the life of
the afflicted as we'll as makes
perpetual the lives of the well.
BY the way, I see in the Ari-
zona Republic that the London
conference was knocked cuckoo
when Roosevelt told them it
was our dollar and we could
arrange the price of it.
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
CONFEREN nee
EXPECTED To
CLOSE SOON
England And U. S. Agree On
Joint Statement Which Will
Decide Its Fate.
EUROPEANS FEEL BITTER
Delegates Increase Opposition
10 Roosevelt's Suggestions
For Proceeding.
BY HARRY FLORY


United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, July S. <U.PeUnited
States sources understand Prime
Minister j. Ramsay Macdonald
canvassed the leading delegates to-
day, after which it was agreed the
steering committee would adjourn
the world economic conference in
definitely at its meeting tomorrow.
LONDON, July S, U.P)-With the
fate of the world economic con-
ference hanging in the balance, the
United States and Great Britain
agreed tonight on a joint state
ment which, it was expected, would
bear vitally on whether the confer
ence is to adjourn or attempt to
continue.
LONDON, July 5, President
Roosevelt's suggestions on how the
world economic conference might
continue its work were regarded as
decidedly unsatisfactory today by
members of the steering committee
of the conference.
The PRESIDENTS suggestions, be-
fore being made public, were con-
veyed to members of the conference
individually and informally.
They later advised Cordell Hull,
secretary of state, that unless the
President had something more to
offer they felt the best solution
was adjournment of the conference,
with the exception of a few eco
nomic subcommittee.
The conference thus was again in
danger of adjournment despite the
strenuous efforts of the United
States, backed by the British do
minions, to prevent it.
Hull was understood to have con-
veyed to President Roosevelt the
adverse reactions of the steering
committee members, and was re-
ported even to have urged the Pre-
sident to make some concessions to
the gold standard nations if he de-
sired to prevent adjournment.
The result of the mornings de-
velopments was that although the
OtllbCu OhdbCo NClO6dpiOi1 SAAANhohJ
still opposes adjournment, the ma
ority individually feel there is not
much point in continuing.
Bitterness against Mr.. Roosevelt
among delegates of other nations
has increased instead of abated.
Widespread objections were voiced
against what they called his eff
forts to be dictator of the con-
ference.
LONDON, July S. EU.P)-Secretary
of State Cordell Hull talked by
transatlantic telephone for 20 min
utes with President Roosevelt at
about 5 p. m. today, after two
hour meeting of the United States
delegation to the world economic
conference.
Hull talked from his office at
American headquarters here.
The conversation was confiden-
tial and other members of the del
egation were excluded from the
room. James P. Warburg, American
financial adviser tried to enter
during the conversation and was
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05
Baseball Scores
National League

AT Chicago
Cincinnati loo 0O2 000-3 10 2
Chicago ..............4 400 100 0Ox-5 7 |
Derringer. Johnson, Frey and
Manion, Hemsley; Thinning and
Hartnett.
At Pittsburgh
st. Louis ....102 200 010-6 IL |
Pittsburgh .......00U 040 30X-7 ID 0
Walker, johnson, Mooney, Carle-
ton and Wilson: Meme, Smith,
Hoyt, French and Picinich.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05

WASHINGTON, July 5. tU.H-
Details of the industrial recovery
program were scanned today by
President Roosevelt at conference
with Secretary of Interior 1ckes
and Secretary of Commerce Roper.
No decisions, however, were reach
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-05

At Pittsburgh