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Evening star., 1933-04-24
FRENCH DELEGATE
JOINS TRADE TALK
Roosevelt and Macdonald
Continue Conversations
On Currencies.
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varied engagements, while the economic
experts of the nations were busily en-
gagged In preparing the data for their
use later, following out the lines al
ready advanced in the conferences be-
tween President Roosevelt and Mr. Mac
Donald over the week end. M. Her
riot made a visit to Mount Vernon to
lay wreath on the tomb Of George
Washington and also to Arlington
where he placed wreath on the tomb
of the Unknown Soldier. If the
experts have so far completed their
work on the various problems assigned
them for information, the tea party
at the White House at O'Clock
may be turned into a real conference.
with the President and M. Herriot get
ting down to their first discussion OF
the questions before them.
Borah Host to Macdonald.
Prime Minister Macdonald and his
daughter, Miss Ishbel, were the guests
of Senator and Mrs. William E. Borah
for breakfast early today. Mr.. Mac
Donald and the former chairman Of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee re-
newed a pleasant friendship, which be-
gan when Mr.. Macdonald came to
Washington nearly four years ago to
discuss the question of arms limitation
with former President Hoover. Today
they had an opportunity to talk over
informally the problems which will con-
front the coming economic conference.
Senator Borah has for years insisted
that relief for the world could be OBJ
tanned only through International agree
ments on economic subjects. He was
one Of the earliest sponsors Of an in
ternational economic conference, such
as Is now planned, just as he was an
originator Of the plan for limitation Of
naval ornaments
Senator Borah later said that Prime
Minister Macdonald was optimistic and
believed agreements could be reached
here which would make the world eco
nomtc conference a success. Their con.
versation, he said, had ranged through
disarmament, currency and other ques-
tions that are likely to come before the
economic conference. He would not
give the details of their talk, however.
When Macdonald left the Borah
apartment on Connecticut avenue, he
went to pay formal call on Senator
David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, one of
the American delegates to the London
Naval Conference. On the return OF
the prime minister to the White House,
he and the President were again en-
gagged in conference, until it was time
for the prime minister to go to the Ca
madam legation for luncheon.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
R. F. {. FUND
CROWS SHORT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. U.P)-
Funds of the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation available for bus
inesS and unemployment relief
purposes will be exhausted in the
next six or eight months, Chair
man Pomerene informed a senate
committee today.
He warned that if new relief
measures are adopted by congress it
will be necessary to have additional
funds furnished.
Pomerene appeared at banking
and currency committee hearing
on bill to extend corporation re-
lief loans to public educational in
stitutions for maintenance purpos-
eS.
IF the corporation is to continue
its work it is going TO take in the
next six or eight months all the
funds under the relief act" he
said. IF new relief provisions are
to be Incorporated it is incumbent
on congress to furnish additional
appropriations"
Pomerene said he felt ''some To-
calities' were not helping them
selves as much as they might, but
passing the burden on TO WASH
ington."
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
LAWYER CLAIMS MRS, JUDD
INCOMPETENT AS WITNESS

COURTROOM, PHOENIX, Ariz.,
Jan. 10. U.P)-A motion to strike
out the testimony of Winnie Ruth
Judd, condemned murderess and
principal witness against John j.
Halloran, accused as her accessory,
was made by his counsel today.
The motion charged Mrs. Judd
was mentally and physically un-
sound and therefore incompetent
as witness. Judge j. c. Niles said
he would rule on il when the hear
ing resumes this afternoon.
This move on part of the de-
fense, should it succeed, would de-
prive the state of the testimony
by which it moves to prove Hallor-
an assertedly aided Mrs. Judd in
disposing of the body of Agnes
Ann lie Roi, her one-time friend.
During the session, Smith ques-
toned her minutely in regard to
the alleged fight in which Mrs.
LIE Roi and Hedvig Samuelson were
killed.
In nearly every answer she start
ed to evade the direct question, and
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
OBJECTION TO
TERMINAL AT
LOS ANGELES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. tUP)-
Railroads today appealed to the
interstate commerce commission in
an attempt to halt construction OF
the Los Angeles union passenger
terminal which the California rail-
road commission has ordered them
to build.
A terminal station would cost
from $7,597, ,4O4 to $13,386,092 de-
pending on trackage plans. The
railroads said in their argument
that the depression has left them
without sufficient revenue for the
project.
The Santa Fe, Los Angeles &
Salt Lake and Southtrn Pacific
railroads united in asking for a
rehearing.
The California commission on
December IL denied a similar re-
quest. If the interstate commerce
commission will reopen the case,
the railroads said, they will be able
to prove they cannot afford the
terminal.
While the I. C. G. has no auth
ority over construction of the
building itself, it could stop the
project by resembling orders for
construction of tracks to the ter
minal. This the railroads asked the
commission to do.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
By III. X. EKINS
United Press Staff Correspondent

PEIPING, Jan. 9.-Manchoukuo
and japanese troops were concsn-
trated outside the Great Wall to-
day while Chinese regulars and ir-
regulars received orders from Mar
shall Chang Hseuh-Liang to pre-
pare to. repel the invaders along
the border of Jehol province.
Fighting continued outside the
wall despite a heavy snow which
filled passes and covered north
China. japanese artillery failed to
dislodge Chinese at Chaoyang
where the Chinese Commander re-
ported he had halted two Japan
ese armoured trains.
Chinese officials here demand
ed the arrest, on grounds of trea-
son of Chinese militarists COM
manding Manchoukuo troops.
The activity of the Manchoukuo
troops and the concentration OF
heavy japanese forces east OF
Shanhaikwan indicated that when
Japan resumes the drive on Jehol
province, the southern route, via
Lingyuan, will be chosen. On the
north, Japanese columns could
move simultaneously into Jehol
through Kailu and Chaoyang.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
GROWERS ADOPT
NEW STANDARDS

Proposed changes in the stand
ardization law were adopted by
lettuce and cantaloupe growers and
shippers of the valley who met last
night in the office of the agricul-
tllral commissioner at the court
house. S. S. Rogers, chief of the
bureau of fruit and vegetable STAN
dardization, was present to discuss
the proposed changes.
Among the changes which will
be recommended to the state legis-
lature for adoption are the follow
ing affecting lettuce: that tip burn
be classed as a serious defect, that
the 45 B crate be adopted as STAN
dard, to be 13 by 171s by 21as to
conform with railroad rates, and
that the same grades shall be used
for packing and marketing of dry
pack lettuce as are used for ice
packing.
Regulations affecting shipping
and marketing of cantaloupeS
which were recommended provide
that the minimum requirement for
cantaloupes be raised from eight
per cent soluble solids to nine per-
cent that an eleven per cent
soluble solid test be adopted for
! honeydews or else that they be full
slipped while a II per cent SOL
uble solids test be adopted for hon.
eyballs.
This afternoon lettuce growers
and shippers were to meet with
Harrigan to discuss marketing
problems.
Tonight grapefruit growers of
Coachella and Imperial valleys
will meet at 7 o'clock to discuss
grapefruit Standardization laws.
B. A. Harrigan, agricultural COM
missioner, reports that he talked
recently with Arizona growers and
that they signified their willing
ness to adopt the same maturity
standards and grades used for I'M
perial Valley grapefruit. They wish
to to meet in the near future with
local growers and discuss opera
tion of a clearing house for mar
keting all desert grapefruit.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
JAPAN ADMITS
ISLAND WORK
BY STEWART BROWN
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright 1888 by United Press
GENEVA, Jan. 19. - Admission
by Japan that appropriations for
harbor construction on islands
under Japanese mandate . in the
Pacific ocean between the Philip
pines and Hawaii have more than
tripled since 1927, but the flat de-
nial that Japan has constructed
naval or military bases in violation
of existing treaties is contained in
the report of the League of Ma
tions mandates commission to be
published tomorrow, the United
Press was informed today in high
diplomatic quarters.
The mandates commission OBJ
tained formal statements from the
Toxic government after lengthy
cross examination of Noburni Ito
japanese delegate, regarding re-
ports that Japan was building ma
val and military bases in the
South Sea Islands.
The president of the commission,
the Marquis Theodoli of Italy, and
the Swiss delegate, William Rap
pard, repeatedly questioned Ito
during secret session in Novem-
ber. The questioners pointed out
that Japan, since 1925, had not
mentioned observance of the mill
tary and naval clauses of the man
date in her annual reports, and
also stressed the fact that the Jap
anese annual report for 1881 con-
tanned long description of hab-
it's of natives of the Sbuth Seas,
but did not mention more import
ant information
Replying to has questioners, Ito
admitted extensive improvement
had been made il: the harbors of
the Caroline and Mariana Islands.
The purpose, he said, was to ac-
commodate sugar traffic.
The Japanese government in
tended to spend, 1050,000 yen to
deepen the harbor at Seypan Is
land, the japanese delegate said, to
handle vessels of 5000 tons.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
j. s. DEPORTS
KID CHOCOLATE

KEY WEST, Fla, Jan. 10. U.P)
kid Chocolate, worlds feather
weight boxing champion, wa S
ttorced to return to Cuba on the
steamer "Cuba' which cleared
port at noon today.
Chocolate and his manager, Luis
Gutierrez, were taken into custody
when they arrived last night
aboard the Cuba. immigration au-
thoritieS told them they could not
stay unless they secured permit
from the department of labor,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. W.P)-
Deportation to Cuba of Kid Cho-
colate, worlds featherweight box
ing champion, today was upheld
by labor department officials as
legally within the province of i'm
migration authorities at Key West,
Fla
Chocolate can file here an ap-
peal from the exclusion ruling, Of
ficials said, and if it is granted
he may gain entry. Otherwise,
they said, he and his manager,
Luis Gutierrez, must remain out
side the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
TECHN0CRACY
MEN GET AID

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. U.P)-One
hundred unemployed engineers and
architects doing research work for
the technocrats are being paid $54
a month each from the New York
City unemployment relief fund.
This revelation coupled with half
a dozen books and magazine ar
ticleS attacking and defending the
movement, helped to keep techno-
cracy in the center of public dis
cussion. The magazine, The Ma
ton, called upon the technocrats
to open their books for inspection.
Dean Joseph w. Barker of Colum-
bia university engineering school
said the present hullabaloo was
based on the personal opinions of
few technocrats and that the sta
tistics thus far gathered could not
support them. ..=s.,
Virgil Johnson, president of the
national industrial conference
board, writing in Scribners, said
technocracy was "juSt another
phase of the. strange suicide COM
plex which has affected the more
sensitive minds in American bus
mess life"
Raymond w. Houston, assistant
director of the emergency work
and relief bureau, said the unem-
ployed professional men were furn-
ished the technocrats on the same
basis that trained workers were
provided to other scientific pro-
jects at Columbia university, New
York university, and other institu-
tiOnS
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
Farm Moratorium,
Looms In IOlUo

DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 49,
UPi-A moratorium On farm mort
gage foreclosures in Iowa appear
ed imminent today.
Legislative leaders, harried by
the pressure of hundreds of farm
ers who announced they would re-
sist, by force if necessary, the fore
closure of mortgages which entail
deficiency judgments, have re-
ceived an indirect order from Gov
ernor Clyde L. Herring to work
out a solution.
In an address before the annual
meeting of the Iowa farm bureau
federation, the governor pledged
his aid to farmers and speedy leg
islative relief from foreclosure.
The only manifestation Of the
farm unrest yesterday occurred at
Mt. Pleasant, where approximate
ly 500 farmers gathered to organ
ize the Henry County Taxpayers
league. They petitioned the legisla-
ture for revolutionary changes in
the states taxing system and de-
manded so per cent reductions in
salaries of all public officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
TENOR 6 SCALE
To CD HIGHER

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. 'U.P)-
Tito Schipa, operate tenor, will
undergo an operation in Hollywood
hospital tomorrow which is expect
ed to add two to four notes to his
voice range.
Schipa's present range is as high
as B flat above high G. The oper-
alton, if successful, will make it
possible for him to reach E flat
above high c, according to DR..
Edward Kellogg, who will perform
the operation.
Recently Schipa suffered a sore
throat. This will lead to the re-
moval of enlarged tonsils tomor-
row, and for adjusting the "epi-
glottic space" in his throat.
1t will require about six weeks for
the tissues of the singers throat
to heal so he can safely sing, his
doctors said.
DR.. Kellogg some time ago per-
formed a similar operation upon
Lilly Pons which added two or
three notes to the top of her reg
lister.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
Head OF Brokerage
House Disappears

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. UP
Evidence preliminary to a grand
jury investigation was turned over
to the district attorneys office to-
Gay by the state corporation COM
missioner in suspending the brok-
erage license of w. A. Hewitt &
Co., of Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco.
The suspension was ordered by
Assistant Commissioner G. F. john
son who said he had been unable
to locate w. A. Hewitt, president
of the company, or his wife, who
acted as secretary.
Prosecutors, reporting a short
age they said may approach $4,000,
said they would seek grand theft
indictment but did not disclose
who would be named. An audit
of the company's financial affairs
was ordered recently.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
ROLPH PROBE
HALTED UNTIL
SESSION ENDS
Inman Investigation Brought To
Sudden End Following Charges
Of Fishing Trip.
DENIAL MADE BY INMAN
Senator Asserts Results OF In
quiry VIII Save Much Money
To People Of State.

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Jan. 10.
UR)-The senate committees in
vestigation of Governor Rolph's
administration today was abrupt
ly halted until the end of the first
half of the present session.
This afternoons meeting will be
the last until February 6, it was
announced by Senator j. M In
man, Sacramento, chairman of the
committee.
Inmans statement was made af-
ter the committee was accused of
being a fishing expedition with
no fish" by Senator Roy Fellom,
San Francisco, who demanded a
progress report from the group.
In answer, Inman denied the
senators were Fishing" and said a
report of what had been accom-
plished was impossible inasmuch as
no single phase of the inquiry had
been completed.
II may say, however, that in ref
erence to the San Francisco state
building annex, the committee may
be able to submit a report that
will save the state from 100000
to $1,000,000', Inman declared.
"The report as a whole will be
worth many times what the work
of the committee will cost the
state"
The schedule for the next meet
ings were announced by Inman as
follows:
February 6-8, secondary highway
system; February ell, Ventura
hospital site; February 14-15, in
surance; February 1913, state
bond transactions; February 20,
San Francisco state building an
mex; February 81, department. of
agriculture, and February 1923,
miscellaneous.
Block Imperial Bill
Two resolutions ratifying amend
ments to the Stockton city charter
were passed by the senate.
| An attempt to gain immediate
consideration of a bill to validate
a contract voted by the people of
Imperial for the construction of the
All-American canal project by the
federal government, We blocked by
Senator Charles H. Deurl, Chico.
Senator Deuel. opposed the urgen-
cy clause of the bill on the ground
all measures should be considered
first by committees. The bill was
referred to the irrigation committee
and early action was asked.
Seeking more information on
in state, county and district school
fund apportionments, the govern
mental efficiency committee delayed
final action on the proposals until
meeting tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
Wife OF Coast
Churchn1an Dies

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. W.H-
Funeral services will be conducted
here Saturday for Mrs. Maria Jane
Van Deerlin, 80, wife of DR.. j. H.
Van Deerlin, canon of st. Paufs
cathedral, and cousin OF Lord
Bishop of Buckingham, England,
who died here yesterday.
Mrs. Van Deerlin had been Ill
for IA months. She had mace her
residence here since 1904. Her
father was patron and rector of
Tregony Parish, England, her birth
place. Her maternal grandfather
was chaplain of the British en-
bassy in Paris for years, and was
chaplain to Queen Victoria.
In addition to her husband, a
priest of 81 years, eight children,
IL grandchildren and three great
grand children survive her.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
Way Paved For
RichfieLd Sale

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. UP
A major step toward rehabilitat-
ing the defunct Richfield Oil COM
pany was claimed taken today by
Receiver William G. McDuffie in
announcing a settlement in the
governments judgment for $9,277,-
661 against the Pan American Pc
troleum company, Richfield sub
sidiary.
The government has agreed to
accept $5,015,000 as full settlement
of its claims, based upon an ac-
counting for oil and gas extracted
from three naval leases in the Elk
Hills district, McDuffie said. The
Judgment was awarded in district
court and later upheld in the U.
S. supreme court.
The settlement paves the way for
sale of the Richfield properties, the
receiver said. The litigation had
been a major stumbling block in
the path of prospective buyers. At
present, the. Standard Oil Com
pany of California has a bid of
$23 100000 being considered by
creditors.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
NeU Drug To Help
Medical Science

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. W.P)-
Medical science is expected to an
nounce soon the perfection of a
narcotic drug derivative which is
more effective in relieving pain
than morphine or heroin, the Unit
ed Press learned today.
This drug = dilaudid is being
studied by the United States public
health service and leading clinics
throughout the nation.
German and Swiss scientists al
ready have made remarkable claims
for dilaudid. Several high-ranking
German doctors have said dilaudid
is not habit-forming.
Recent experiments at the Mayo
Brothers clinic have shown dilaudid
to be especially valuable in obste-
trical cases, and in prolonged treat
nents of cancer and painful dis
orders of intestinal tissue.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
WEIR SPEAKS
To ASSESSORS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. U.P)-
An investigation to determine if
gambling ships in anchorage be-
yond harbor points can be taxed
by counties was ordered by the
Southern California Assessors as
sociation in annual convention
here today.
Assessor James Sleeper of Orange
county was appointed to direct the
inquiry against three gambling
barges lying off Long Beach har-
Dor.
The convention took a firm stand
on the necessity of reducing as
sessment valuations with Assessor
Frank Weir of Imperial county de-
claring that unless governmental
expenses are reduced and the saw
ings are passed along to property
owners, 1--WE will be nation of
renters"
1--WE know the terrible condition
in our counties, where homes and
farms are being confiscated be-
cause of tax levies," he said, "but
we are poWerless to do anything
except reduce valuations on which
taxes are based"
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. U.P)-
The annual spring business slump
would be eliminated by moving up
the tax assessment date by legisla-
tive act from March l to January
l, the Assessors Association of Sou
thern California declared today in
unanimously endorsing the pro-
posed move.
Ed w. Hopkins, Los Angeles
county assessor, was chief propon-
ent of the plan. At present, he
said, people wait until after the
assessment date before starting
construction or other projects. Al
though business houses claim their
heaviest inventories are on hand
at the first of the year, the gen.
eral benefit to business would re-
compense them Ior their increased
taxes, Hopkins believed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19
People Of Three
Villages Exiled

MOSCOW, Jan. 10. U.P) - The
entire population of three Cossack
settlements in the Kuban region,
totalling $4,000 persons according
to the 1929 census, was exiled into
the far north today as the first
move Of the governments plans
for wholesale shifting of popula-
tionS.
The mass deportation was con-
sidered exemplary punishment.
The government decreed recent
ly that socially undesirable" class
es would be put to work in regions
where they could contribute most
to naturalization. Grain collec-
tions were slow in the Kuban reg
ion.
The exile was not mentioned in
the Moscow Press. but was proud
ly displayed in RoStov newspapers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-19

was constantly interrupted by
Smith as she digressed.
Then, just at the hour for the
noon recess, Smith rose and ad-
dressed the court. He recalled the
difficulties experienced by attor-
neys during the entire preliminary
hearing in getting answers to the
questions asked without depression
and explanation.
He then presented his motion
asking that the court strike out
all of Mrs. Judd's testimony as in
competent.
Mrs. Judd sat unmoved as Smith
walked up to the bench, declar-
ing he was presenting a motion in
which she was accused of being in
competent.
Mrs. Judd's emotional outbreaks
we're few. At one time she lashed
back at Smith as he was attempt
ing to find out how close she was
when Miss Samuelson was shot.
I'm not on trial right now for
Hedvig Samuelsons death" she
screamed.