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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
SUPERVISORS
STILL WORKING
NUPON BUDGET

Adjournment until 3 o'clock this
AFTERNOON was voted by the board
of SUPERVISORS late yesterday after
day spent in discussing various
phrases of the county budget which
is slowly taking shape. -
The board worked particularly on
county ordinance which will be
issued as complement TO the bud
get, m all probability toward the
end of this week. Since the state
law has put into the hands of the
supervisors the setting Of sharies
for bounty officials, many changes
have had b be made in the first
setup.
A tentative schedule OF salaries
fOr department heads. deputies and
office management for county Of
ficials was incorporated In the first
draft of the proposed ordinance
made by Elmer Head, district at
tornav, and this is now recaving
the careful attention of the super
visors who are calling In the DIFF
ferent officials for conferences on
these items.
1t was learned at the court house
this morning that In all probability
the final draft OF the ordinance
will be ready for acceptance by
the supervisors either late this
week or early next week.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
FEDERAL AGENTSD0 splendid
WORK IN APPRF HEND|NG BAILEY
With Assistance Of Charles Urschel, Recent
kidnapping Victim, Leader Of Desperate
Gang Taken Without Firing Shot,

before dawn and captured Bailey,
leader of the Decoration day Kan
sas prison break and sought in
connection with the Kansas City
union station massacre.
He was arrested without resis-
lance along with the occupants of
the farmhouse. Four were held.
Their names were announced as r.
G. Shannon, his wife, Amman
Shannon, and Oleta Shannon, the
sons wife.
Federal authorities planned to
take Bailey secretly from Jail here
to Kansas City, Mo-, for trial on
murder charges in connection with
the station massacre. He may re-
ceive the death penalty for this
if convicted.
"There is no doubt that Bailey
is the man who sat coolly behind
a machine gun in front of the I'M
ion station plaza June II and
turned the gun this way and that,
moving down the police officers
and agents who were escorting
Frank Nash back to Leavenworth,p
said a federal official.
Sure Of Man
"We know it positively. The j.
Identification is beyond dispute. We
plan to have him put on trial in
the Missouri state courts for MUIR
der placing that crime ahead OF
the Urschel kidnapping and all the
others which Bailey has commit
ted
The machine gun in Bailey IS
possession when arrested is being
sent to Merle Gill, Kansas City
ballistics expert, for comparison
with the bullets taken from the
bodies of the slain men and their
automobiles.
"The shooting of Frank Nash
the prisoner, seems to have been
established as altogether acciden-
tall said the official. "Our in
formation is that Bailey and his
associates we're there to rescue
Nash and not to kill him.
Bailey had some of the marked
bills paid in the ransom in his pos
session when arrested. Finger
prints of Urschel were found on
window panes, the chimney of an
oil lamp and upon dishes, definite
ly establishing the farm as his
place of captivity.
Urschel met with about Is Off
GERS in the dim a a. m. light Sat
urday in Fort Worth, Tex, and the
party left secretly for Paradise, &C
miles distant.
Dawn was breaking when they
reached the farm house. Depart
ment of justice agents gave Urschel
shotgun for protection and they
spread out around the house.
Displaying no fear, Urschel kept
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
MORE DEATHS
DUE TO HEAT

FRESNO, Aug. Is. U.p, - Two
more deaths we're added today to
the toll of high temperatures in the
San Joaquin valley.
Mrs. Philena Amanda Rhodes
Pierce, SO, of San Francisco, was
overcome fatally on an automobile
ride in the Yosemite valley. Her
body was to be taken to San Fran
cisco today from MERGED.
An unidentified Mexican about
Is died from heat prostration al
Tulare after he was taken from a
stage enroute from San Francisco
to Los Angeles.
Their deaths brought the seasons
toll to IL.
Continued high temperatures,
with maximums over 10s degrees,
were forecast for the valley today
by the federal weatter bureau.
Fresno yesterday recorded a max
imum temperature of 112 degrees;
Bakersfield lie with .02 inch OF
rain: MERGED, 100 and Stockton. iOl.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
VANDERBILT IN
AUTO ACCIDENT

SANTA PAULA, Calf, Aug. Is.
U.R-Rolland A. Vandegrift, state
director of finance, was injured
early today when the automobile he
was driving turned over during
rainstorm on the Castaic road, sew
en- miles east of Fillmore.
Vandegrift sustained ad islocated
shoulder and a splintered bone in
the shoulder joint.
vandegrift was accompanied by
Ray Harrington, accountant in his
Sacra mento office. Harrington
was not injured.
The men left Sacramento yester-
day afternoon, and were enroute
to the Vandegrift ranch at CANA
rillo, Ventura county. Vandegrift
said his automobile skidded on a
curve and turned on its side dur
ing a rainstorm at 4 a. m.
The men were picked up by Ray
Anderson and Richard Doyle of
Santa Paula, and brought to Fill
more for emergency treatment.
Vandegrift later was removed to
the Santa Paula emergency hospi-
tai, where he remained pending
the arrival of DR.. John Wright of
Pasadena, bone specialist and
personal friend.
Vandegrift was to have attended
ground breaking ceremony at the
Camarillo state hospital for mental
cases today.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Pacific Relations
Group Conferring

BANFF, Alta. Aug. Is. U.H -
China and Japan, enemies on
Manchurian battlefields, sat down
at table today with other nations
of the Pacific as participants in
conference to improve interna-
tional understanding.
Round table conferences of the
Institution of Pacific Relations, an
outstanding unofficial international
agency, opened today. First rank
leaders of represented nations
charged their conferees to approach
troublesome economic and political
situations with a scientific atti-
tude.
Although clothed with no official
status, delegates planned to thresh
out in secret their conflicting att
tudes, hoping to lind basis for
formal understanding later.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. Is. U.p)
It. A. j. Mastin, state prosecutor,
today prepared first degree MUIR
der charges against Harvey Bailey
and said the death penalty would
be asked for him.
r. E. Vetterli, chief of the local
bureau of the department of JUS
tice, asked Mastin to file the charge
in connection with the union sta
ton plaza massacre here June II.
DALLAS, Tex, Aug. IS. U.P)-
Air line planes which passed twice
daily over the farmhouse where
Charles Urschel was held by kid
napers, supplied the clue which
led to the arrest of Harvey Bailey
and solution of the crime, it was
revealed today.
Bound and partially blinded by
tape, the oil millionaire heard
planes pass twice a day over the
place. On Sunday one plane did
not pass. Department of justice
agents checking logs of American
Always pilots found that a pilot
had detoured that day because of
weather.
A study of the schedule and a
map enabled the investigators to
fix the location of the kidnapers
hideout in an area IS miles north
west of here. They picked out the
house from an airplane with the
use of binoculars.
With Urschel accompanying them
agents then descended on the place
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
JAIL JUST A
MERRY PARTY

WILLOWS, Calf, Aug. Is.
U.P-Five prisoners CT the
new model Glenn county jaiI
confessed to Sheriff Roy Head
today that they had been
spending their nights else
where.
The men fashioned key
out Of a mop handle, left af-
ter dark each night, attended
gay parties and visited friends.
They were always in their cells
in the mornings.
The quintet may make up
fer the escapades by addi-
tional sentences for Jail break
ing, Sheriff Head said.
The "good time prisoners,
are william Coleman, trusty
Clarence Handy, C. c. Berry,
Sam Hutchinson and Vic
Green.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
RESIDENT OF
VALLEY DIES
IN CAR CRASH

COTTON, Calf, Aug. IA. U.H -
Mrs. Margaret E. Miller, IS, Ell Gen.
tro, was killed and four other per-
sons injured in an automobile COL
lision on the highway near here
last night.
Charles Miller, 80, also of Ell
Centre was the driver OF the car
in which Mrs. Miller rode, when 1t
collided with one driven by j. w.
Snider, Al, Los Angeles, who was
accompanied by his wife, Matte, a,
and son, j. w. Snider jr. 10. All
were cut and bruised.
A third automobile which turned
suddenly off the highway, was
blamed for the crash.
Check of various Miller families
in the valley directrs today, indl-
Gated that the victim mentioned IN
the above dispatch is Mrs. Mar
garet E. Miller of the Acacia dis
trict, who had been a valley resi-
cent for many years.
Mrs. Miller is reported to have
left the valley several days ago on
a vacation trip and has a son named
Charles corresponding to the name
of the party injured in the acct
dent in which she lost her life.
Inquiry at the Knopsnyder tu-
neral parlors in Cotton today de-
veloped the information that flu
neral arrangements had not been
completed but 1t was believed burial
would be in Monrovia on Thursday.
Attendants at the funeral parlors
state Charles Miller was not Sc
riously injured but is still confined
to a hospital in Cotton.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Engineers Will
Guard Big Fund

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. W.H -
Ten experienced engineers were as
signed today to prevent graft and
see that the government gets its
moneys worth in the $4,000 100000
public works program.
"They will see to it that contract
specifications are lived up to, that
the government is not cheated and
that government funds are dis
bursed as Intended" said Secretary
of Interior Ickes, administrator OF
the fund.
The inspectors, their headquar-
tiers and territories included
Frank Y. Mclaughlin, San Fran
cisco-California, Nevada, Utah,
Arizona. .--.-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
POLITICS
CAUSE CRIME
BY SANDOR S. KLEIN
Press Staff Correspondent

ohhsSu ACoo
NEW YORK, Aug. Is. U.R -
Gangsters and racketeers ARE part
of the machine" of municipal con-
troll, U. S. Attorney George z. Med
allie OF New York, charged today be-
fore the senate racket committee.
II don't intend to cite any par
ticular administration, but what
I say is true of both political par
ties wherever the 'pickings' are
good" Medalie said.
Until politics are divorced from
municipal affairs then racketeering
will prevail" he added.
$50 long as patronage exists in
municipal politics-so long as the
people keep countenancing that
power-in New York, Chicago, or
any other large city, you will have
that alliance with crime"
You mean then that millen-
ium must first come in municipal
government" broke in Joseph B.
Keenan, of Chicago, special assis-
tant United States attorney gen.
eral.
. Exactly, and the word millen-
ium doesn't brighten me, either
Every time change in government
is advocated the word millennium
springs up.
eff the federal government had
control of all major crimes, the
situation might be controlled" he
said, "but it would require a federal
detective force of nearly $4,000 mon.
That would be unwieldy."
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
BY LAWRENCE HAAS
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

Onltcd PreSS Seaff correspondent
HAVANA, Aug. Is. - American
Ambassador Sumner Welles, WHO
informed the diplomatic corps that
he had instructions TO establish Of
ficial relations with the De Ces-
pedes government, has paved the
way for early world recognition of
the revolution born regime, it was
learned on reliable authority today.
The American destroyer Claxton,
one of two sent to aid the new gov
eminent, steamed away after less
than "a hours in Havana harbor
In its place the Cuban cruiser Cuba
docked at the entrance to the bay.
The American destroyer Taylor still
was in the harbor.
The Claxton was bound for the
American naval base at Guanta-
namo, Cuba, where it will be in
stantly available should events re-
new the need for its presence here.
The diplomatic corps met secretly
last night at the Spanish embassy
to EFFECT an interchange of i'm
~ CoolOllo
The United Press learned from
reliable source that Welles told
the diplomats he was ordered to
establish official relations with the
government Of President Carlos
Manuel de Cespedes.
He told them, it was understood,
that the new government had order
we'll established. He was under
stood to have said that the war
ships sent mere we're sent only to
support the new government if it
needed them.
Tramcars changed through the
streets, workers returned to their
jobs, shops reopened and the city
outwaHly presented AN increasing
ly normal aspect as Welles invited
world powers to give the Ce Ces-
pedes government a diplomatic vote
of confidence.
The Porrista hunt continued. AT
least six of the dreaded Machado
gunner were killed in the streets
yesterday, 16 more were imprisoned
snd Machadista police who had in
Cured popular disfavor were shot
down as were police hformers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
REEL DOUBLE
REAL HEROINE

GROVE CITY, Pa, Aug. Is. U.Pl
"A 17-year-old motion picture
double" who played a heroine's
role in real life, passed up the at
tention she attracted today as
lust a bit overriding it,"
Margaret Warn of Cincinnati
was chosen from among a hundred
girls to double for Helen Twelve
trees in a motion picture made IN
Tampa last year. Her part was to
play dangerous or athletic scenes
for the actress.
Yesterday she played her own
role-the would-be reScuer of Ar
thur c. Wingold, Carnegie Tech
instructor, who was seized with
cramps as he swan in the Grove
City country clubs pool.
Miss Warn was golfing nearby
when she heard Wingold call for
help. She ran to the pool, throw
ing off her clothes as she ran, and
dived after Wingold. She located
him, could not bring him ashore,
but she held him afloat until other
swimmers arrived. Wingold had
swallowed too much water, and re-
suscitation efforts were futile.
Miss Warn, who will finish at
Winthrow high school in Cincin-
natl next year, said she hopes to
continue in motion pictures after
wards, although her parents per-
sistently object. Her favorite sport
is swimming.
I'm sorry we couldn't get Mr..
Wingold out in time" Miss Warn
said, but all of this attention to
me is just a bit OVERRIDING it."
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Guard Granted To
Indian Aviator

LOS ANGELES, Aug. Is. U.H-
Edward de Larm, Indian airplane
pilot, was granted an official guard
after he had appeal to authorities
for protection from asserted threats
he said he had received from Will
liam j., (Curley) Guy, young Welsh
soldier of fortune, who was acq.it-
ted of the murder of Capt. Walter
Wanderwell.
De Larm said Guy threatened
him because he refused to revise
his statements to federal authori-
ties in connection with their at
tempts to deport his as an allen.
Guy has until Sept.1 to leave the
country.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
NEAR SHOWDOWN ON FEDERAL
BAN AGAINST GOLD BOARDING

withdrawing orders and is I'M
perturbed over the jokes point
ed at his department for its
months of hesitancy.
"He who laughs last, laughs
best" Cummings says.
On the other hand, another
high federal official has told the
United Press that we're not
going after gold hoarders."
Cummings has set August II
as the Final" date for gold
hoarders to disgorge them
selves to avoid prosecution or
adverse publicity. Under Presi-
dent Roosevelt's gold embargo
proclamation, individual hold
ings of gold money in excess Of
500 are forbidden.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. W.H
With the "finap deadline
only 48 hours away, the admin
istration approached a show
down today on the question of
whether it will take punitive
action against individuals who
hold half a billion dollars of
gold in defiance of repeated
federal orders.
Some observers believed that
If only as a face-saving ges-
ture, the government would be
forced sooner or later to make
good on its threats against
hoarders. Attorney General
Cummings appeared convinced
Of the constitutionality of the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
To-
Be CHOSEN BY
STATE LEGION

PASADENA, Aug. Is. UE)-Six
men, from among whom four dele
gates at large to the national con-
vention of American Legion con-
Chicago will be chosen, were named
today at the state gathering of tie
war veterans.
The nominees are Walter s.. GOOD,
Stockton; Lee S. Davis, Pasadena:
Walter Hicks, Sacramento; Logan
E. Ruggles, San Diego; Mrs. Jeffer-
son I. Brown, Long Beach, and
Raymond I. Burr, San Francisco.
The delegates will be chosen at
the afternoon session. when the
convention city will be selected
Fresno and San Francisco are seek
ing the honor of entertaining the
Legionnaires next year. r
John A Sinclair, vice chairman
of the national rehabilitation CON-
mission of area E, which includes
the western states, advised the con-
vention to consider carefully all re-
Mobilization resolutions which may
come before the gathering
OPPOSITION to recognition of Soviet
Russia, and plea for further funds
for r. o. T. c., and C. NJ. r. C.
work was voiced by Homer Chail-
lauX, chairman of the Americanism
committee He warned the Legion
against attempts of Communists to
work their way into the organiza-
ton.
John T. Brennan, director of the
state veterans military affairs COM
mittee told of the states work in
providing jobs and home financing
Tor veterans.
A radiogram brought the regrets
of Assistant Secretary of Navy
Henry L. Roosevelt that he could
not attend the gathering.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Hitch-Hiking
Shows Profit

LOS ANGELES, Aug. Is. W.H-A
$500 mile hitchhike was at an end
today for Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott and
their five children, formerly of De-
troit.
Unemployed and with only S.
in money, the family left Detroit
June 16 for Los Angeles where the
father hoped to obtain work. Sym
pathetic truck drivers gave them
"lifts'' and once they rode a
freight train. They arrived with
$40 in cash.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
Wallace Approves
Peach Agreement

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. U.H -
Secretary OF Agriculture Wallace
said today that he had approved
the California cling peach canning
agreement and that he planned to
sign it as soon as it reaches his
desk
The agreement provides for the
payment of orchardists of $40 ton
for their No. l crop, an increase OF
about 200 per cent from what they
received last year.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
CUT FLYING TIME

SAN FFANCISCO, Aug. TO. NU'H
New speed reducing flying tire
among major Pacific coast cities
by one-third were put into effect
today by United Air Lines, accord
ing to announcement here. Fly
ing time between Seattle and San
Francisco will be six hours: be-
tween San Francisco and Los An
geles, two hours and San Diego,
three hours and II minutes.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
LINDBERGHS IN AIR

ANGMAGSSALIK, Greenland,
Aug. Is. U.P)-Col. and Mrs. Charles
A. Lindbergh started their flight to
Reykjavik at 2:20 p. M, today, con-
tinuing their exploration of North
ern Air lines. The weather was
reported good. :,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
CUBAN CAPITAL
ORDERLY NOW
Business Returning To Normally
As New President Takes Over
Government Control,

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. U.P) -
Reports to the state department to-
day from American officials in Gu
ba said that tranquility rapidly was
being restored throughout the is
land, even in cities like Santiago
and Manzanillo where recent dis
orders have occurred.
The new government of President
Cespedes, it was said, was rapidly
asserting its authority.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
FLEET TO GREET CHIEF

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Is. U.D
The Pacific battle fleet will re-
main in San Francisco bay until
August %, three days later than
originally scheduled, to await
visit by Harry l.. Roosevelt, assis-
tant secretary of the navy.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-15
mhM!LL-..

SANTA MONICA, Aug. IA.
(SpeciaD-Course I could talk
about "Our Warships Going
to Cuba. "Our Foreign Trade
Picking up, Sixteen Nations
Bought Moreo, President of
France Knocked Down by q
Police''.
That's not as bad as me the
night 1 landed in Yokohama,
Japan, and got run over by a
rickshaw. But the real bit of
news was some ingenious Swiss
from Switzerland who wanted
to smuggle some Swiss watch
es into Spain.
So this old "Yodeler'' drove
bunch of geese afoot from
Switzerland clear across France
to Spain and he had the
watches tied under the geese IS
wings. Think what a AAlow
could bring into this country
if he had himself good bunch
of trained whales.
Yours,
zH<& R1~
0,sas Mcknight Syndicate. Inc.