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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
Curtaii States
Prohibition Squad

LOS ANGELES, June 30. up
The task of enforcing federal pro-
hibition in Southern California
rested today upon a sharply cur
tailed staff of agents.
The Southern California district
force was reduced to 10 agents by
A. V. Dalrymple. national prohibi-
ton administrator, who notified Is
agents they would be furloughed
indefinitely, effective tomorrow. A
number of special agents and a few
special investigators also will be
dismissed under the order. In ad-
dition, four women employees of
the local enforcement office re-
ceived notices.
The communication did not af-
feet the status of George H. Sweet,
acting deputy administrator, who
assumed charge of the district Of
flee June Is when c.. w. Walker
resigned to become state narcotic
agent.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
his Fish Yarn
Gets The Prize

Fish stories are classed as
good, bad and worse and it
is up to the reader to put the
following into its rightful cat
egOry. We cannot youch for
the veracity of this story but
repeat it just as it was heard
on the street this morning.
1t seems that out at the
city water plant there is
pool in which a salmon about
a foot long was placed some
time ago. Yesterday, attend
ants at the waterworks, seeing
that Sir Salmon was raven
ously hungry, fed him a large
number of live crickets. These
the fish gulped down hurried
ly and then retired to a Sc
Guided corner of the pool to
digest his meal.
Here comes the best part of
the story: About a half hour
later the attendants returned
to the pool to find their friend
salmon dead and all the live
crickets swimming about the
pool. Examination showed
that they had eaten their way
to freedom through the sal
mon, scales and all.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
SEEK To
|VULL|FY VOTE

LOS ANGELES, June 20. UP)-
Southern California prohibitionists,
vanquished in Tuesdays election,
moved their fight for retention of
the eighteenth amendment into SUI
perior court today with a suit to
nullify result of the California re-
peal vote.
Richard S. M Cannon. son of
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., noted
dry crusader, and the Rev. Frank
@. H. Stevens, pastor of the Santa
Monica Methodist Episcopal church,
obtained temporary injunction
preventing the Los Angeles county
board of supervisors from canvass
ing the vote cast for election of
wet and dry delegates. The re-
straining order will apply until
hearing is held July on their APP
plication for a permanent injunc-
ton.
The state supreme court several
weeks ago refused to hear their pc
tition, seeking to block a vote on
the ratification measure. The new
action contained the same allega-
tions, attacking the validity of the
election on grounds it violates both
the United States and California
constitutions by usurping the power
of congress which alone was said
to have the right or prescribing
the manner in which a constitu-
tional convention may be held and
delegates elected. The petition more
over challenged the validity of leg
iSlation, providing for the election,
by declaring it could not have be-
come effective until 90 days after
the legislature had adjourned. The
legislature has only recessed, sub
ject to reconvening on July II.
The action alleged that it was
illegal to bind the convention dele
gates as pledged in the ballots and
also characterized as illegal the
procedure of placing "A names on
the ballot, holding the voters thus
had no choice in selecting conven-
ton delegates.
The suit was filed by Attorney
Richard E. Candy of Santa Monica.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
Fl CENTRIC To
UPHOLD BONDS
City Will Not Default On Issue
Which Becomes Due Early
Next Month, Board Declares.

Refusing absolutely to default on
city bond payments which become
due early next month, the city
council at an adjourned meeting
last night unanimously voted to
transfer $4,000 from the general
fund to certain bond funds so that
these payments could be made.
Members of the council were
highly elated when City Clerk John
c. Neale announced that II per
cent of the city taxes for the cur
rent fiscal year had already been
collected and that in all probable
ity this percentage would be raised
somewhat through delinquent pay
ments later 1t was pointed out that
this was record of which the city
could well be proud of in times of
such economic and business stress
A telegram was sent by the board
to Harold Ickes, secretary of COM
merce, asking that official to con-
slider seriously the suggestions of
the California Municipal Utilities
association relative to the matter
of the state director to be appoin-
ted under the terms of the national
industrial recovery act.
A contract submitted by the Sou
thern Pacific Company governing
the use of the spur track on Orange
street property belonging to the city
was submitted to the board and
approved
Emory Girard asked permission
of the board to build an arcade over
the sidewalk for the new chamber
of commerce building on State
street which was granted.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
KAHN CLAIMS
FIELD AGENT
M|S|NF ORMED
Asserts Revenue Bureau Mans
Report In Error Concerning
His Income Tax.
STOCK SALE ADMITTED
Fnancier Also Testifies He
Paid Income Tax In England
But Not In u. S.

g WASHINGTON, June 29.-Sen-
a{e investigation into Otto H.
kahn's 1880 avoidance of income
TAX revealed today that the bureau
OF internal revenue was "misin-
formed regarding the manner of
the transfer of stock from Kahn
10 his daughter whereby the former
established a Silt ,534 loss.
Inc amount of tax involved was
mttee counsel, said. He read into
$4,000, Ferdinand Pecora, COM
The record a report by NJ. c. Shield
revenue bureau Held agent, con-
tanning a description of the stock
transaction in conflict with Kahn's
testimony and the banker said that
Shield was lin error"
Kahn readily admitted sale to his
daughter, Mrs. Maude E. Marriott,
OF five blocks of stock. He said the
sale was direct to her. Shield re-
ported to the revenue bureau that.
This loss resulted from an or
olnary sale on the New York stock
exchange" and that there were no
direct dealings between father and
daughter"
Wasn't the agent mistaken?
Didn't you sell directly to your
daughter?" asked Pecora.
so I understood. / have COM
plete confidence in my counsel"
Kahn said.
Shield also states" Pecora con-
1lnued, that there were no direct
dealings between the taxpayer and
daughter except mere gift by the
daughter to the father
UphOlds Lawyers
Il am inclined to feel that the
agent was mistaken" Kahn said,
adding that he preferred to believe
any error was the fault of the
agent rather than of his lawyers
from whom Shield obtained his in
formation.
Kahn insisted that neither he
nor his daughter derived any ben
eft from the transaction in which
he established 1880 loss of $117,-
584.
Didn't the transaction involve
the right of the United States gov
eminent to collect income taxes?"
asked Pecora.
mot that I know of" said Kahn.
II had no intention of dong any
thing or the remotest knowledge of
doing anything to the detriment Of
the government.
Kahn also testified that in 1890
when he paid no income tax to the
United States he paid $4,480.20 tax
in Great Britain
Assisted by his counsel, Kahn ex-
planned to the committee he had
not paid income tax here or abroad
in 1881 and 1882.
Il think the 1880 British tax was
deducted at the source on English
securities I owned" Kahn said
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
Woman Crushed
By Steel Casing

TEHACHAPI, Calf, June 80.
W.P)-A destitute Oklahoma City
woman. bent on beating her way"
to Shafter Calf, with her sister,
was crushed to death under sew
eral sections of steel castings on a
Southern Pacific flatcar, the cor
oner's office reported today
The victim, Mrs. Mable Pigman,
40, was killed as the freight train,
pausing at the summit of the Te-
hachapi Pass, gave a sudden lurch
as it started downward toward
Bakersfield. The pipe, dislodged
by the jerk, fell on her, investiga-
tors said. Her sister, Mrs. Robert
Holder, was uninjured.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
FORMER FILM
COMEDIAN DIES
Fatty Arbuckle Dies Sudden
ly In New York While At
tempting Comeback
BY JOHN r. BEAL
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press stan correspondent
NEW YORK, June 29.-Roscoe
tFatty) Arbuckle, once one of the
most celebrated personalities of mo-
ton pictures, died about a. m. to-
day of heart attack.
Arbuckle had peen slightly i'll for
two weeks, but continued his work
at Warner Brothers studios where
he was making two reel comedies
in a comeback attempt.
He was 46 years old.
Arbuckle was at the top of the
movie heap in 1921 WEN Virginia
Rape, show girl and actress,
died during drinking party in
San Francisco hotel. He was tried
but acquitted on charge of man.
slaughter, but the circumstances of
the girls death and the sensational
details brought out at his trial, bar
red him from motion pictures until
last year when Warner Brothers
agreed to repopularize the fallen
idol
He was we'll along the return road
to movie popularity at the moment
of his death, his manager told the
United Press. The picture COM
pleted yesterday HOWE You
Bean" appeared so we'll in previeW
that Warner Brothers agreed to
exercise their option and give him
a long time contract.
,,ioht Arhitnlr1o onI bic third
wife celebrated their first wedding
anniversary. They went TO the home
of Billy Lahiff, restaurant proprie-
tor and well-known Broadwayite,
where they played backgammon.
Returning to the hotel at midnight,
they retired Immediately. At 2:30 a.
m. Mrs. Arbuckle discovered he was
not breathing She summoned the
house physician, Dr. Kenneth l..
Hoffman, who said Arbuckle had
been dead a half-hour. He said spe-
cific cause of death was angina
pectoriS.
Blocked By Hays
Arbuckle had made six short
comedies for Warner Brothers in
the last year. They were well re-
ceived
He weighed in the neighborhood
of $40 pounds at the time of his
death. At the height of his fame
his weight was much greater. On
the screen he was a fully rounded
figure with charming, wistful
smile.
Until his forced retirement, Ar
buckles portly physique, his ex-
panSive smile and his natural tall
ent as a comic had made him one
of the most sought-after figures IN
the motion picture colony.
Arbuckle's fondest ambition was
to return to popularity as a screen
idol His attempted comeback, how
ever. was blocked by Will Hays,
motion picture head, by womens
clubs and other organizations
throughout the country. He appear
ed to be gaining ground with his
ambition when death interviewed.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
Sailor Slain In
Drinking BrauUl

LOS ANGELES, June 80. WP)-
Victor Kolek, As, was held in the
Los Angeles county Jail today on
suspicion of murder charges based
upon the findings of a coroner s
jury, investigating the violent death
of Joseph Wojick, 23-year-old sail
or from the U. S. S. West Virginia.
The jury decided Wojick was
fatally wounded as a climax to a
quarrel at beer drinking party in
Lomita Saturday night. One of
the witnesses at the inquest was
the seaman IS wife, mother of a IT.
day-old son. Her husband had
Geen granted a shore leave when
the child was born.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
BURNHAN SAYS MARKET NEWS
SERVICE WILL Be RETAINED
Congressman Advises Appropriation Re-
ceived which Will Enable Brawley Office
To Continue Operating In Valley.

Imperial Valley will retain its
Federal Market News Service.
This information was received
i'll FL Centre this afternoon i'm
a telegram from Congressman
George Burnham, reading as
follows:
"Glad to advise have been
successful in persuading agri-
culture department to spend
over half million dollars con-
tinuatiOn Market News Service.
While stations in California
greatly curtailed Imperial Val
ley station will be maintained
for cantalOupe and lettuce.
Please inform chamber of COM
merce.'
A. E. Prugh, in charge of the
Brawley office of the Market
News Service, advised that in
structiOns have been received
from the department of agri-
culture, cOuntermanding the
previous order to- close the of
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
Charge Violation
OF BARRIERS Code

Frank Fiore and c. F. Taylor
who were arrested by Officers
Smyer and Cox yesterday afternoon
on a charge of violating the state
barber laws appeared in police
court this morning. They pleaded
rot guilty to the charge and their
trial was set for July 6.
Fiore had been arrested on this
same charge May 6, was found
guilty in court and paid a $25 fine.
) According to police the men were
arrested because they did not have
a necessary license from the state
to. operate a barber shop located on
north Fifth street.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
BY RAY BLACK

SiltIu EItSo oldll SOfECSOiiuCht
CHICAGO, June 20. - President
Roosevelt S relation program is
the correct scientific way out OF
the depression, Prof. Irving Fisher
told the American Association for
the Advancement of Science today.
Professor Fisher, one of several
leading economists who analysed
the depression and pointed to pos
sible means of preventing another,
blamed recent depressions and most
other major economic cataclysms
to "too much debit.
That new explanation he gave in
brief in this form:
"TheSe excessive debts which,
by distress selling and liquidating
bank loans (thus using up much of
the deposit currency of the coun-
try), led to deflation of the price
level and this deflation proceeded
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
Colorado Flood
At PaIo Verde

A report was brought to this city
this morning that the Colorado Ri
yer in the vicinity of Palo Verde has
backed up to such an extent that
it overlooked its banks and has
inundated the surrounding coun-
try.
The report further stated that as
much as two or three feet of water
cover the ground near the Palo
Verde store and also that it is i'm
possible to get within a half mile OF
the store by automobile.
No official substantiation of this
report could be had here today.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
RoLph Refuses TO
Proclaim Holiday

SACRAMENTO, June 49, U.P)-
Acceding to opposition of merchants
throughout California, Governor
Rolph today declined to issue
proclamation making July a state
holiday.
The governor, however, in
statement to employers, urged that
the extra day of vacation be grant,
ed wherever possible, thus extend
ing the Independence day vacation
from Saturday until Wednesday of
next week.
Nearly all state employees will
be allowed the additional holiday.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
KiuUaniar,s Close
Their Convention

LOS ANGELES, June 30, U.P)-
The 18th annual convention OF
Kiwanis International closed today
with the election of six members
CT the board of trustees.
They are:
Charles E. Milliken, Los Angeles;
Harold c. Hippler, Eustis, Fla; c.
S. Hartley, Seattle; Claude A. Dock,
Detroit; George E. Smell, Billings,
Mont, and Charles S. Donley,
Pittsburgh.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
One ReprieUed
And Other Hangs

SACRAMENTO, June 30. UP
Governor Rolph today announced
he had gained 30-day stay of exc
cution to Harry Fuller Goold, un-
der sentence to hang June 80 for
the murder of William Eugene
Fuller at Los Angeles. The repriege
was granted in order TO determine
Goold IS sanity.
AT the same time the governor
refused to grant further rcpriegc
to Frank j. Paciga Goold s accom-
plice. Paciga is to be executed FRI
day.
Action in both cases, the COVER
nor said, was taken upon recon-
mendation Of Chief Justice William
II. Waste of the state supreme
court.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
COLONIZATION DENIED

MEXICO CITY, June 20. W.P)-
Reports that the Mexican govern
ment had authorized extensive col
onization of Lower California were
declared to be unfounded today by
the department of agriculture.
Spokesman said no such plans
are being entertained at this time.
The rumors emanated purportedly
from Texas and California.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
@NHIuLlL-,s
w ,Soys:

BEVERLY HILLS, June %.
(SpeciaD-California went so
wet Tuesday that they arrested
a guy today for bathing in
water instead of native wine.
West Virginia, which by geo.
graphy, breeding, dialect and
stills, should be southern, but
politically has never been any
thing, well, it reached for a
cocktail instead of a coke.
It's not a question of senti-
ment any more. It's just
question of "where can I get
ahold of a ballot, and where is
box to put it in?'
No wonder the Republicans
appeared SO dumb in there.
Anybody that couldn't judge
public opinion any better than
they did on this question. it's
little wonder they are unem-
ployed.
Yolrs,
MG R1~~
Sisn AsHsssht Syndicate. Ia
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
F Fourteen Aboard
Missing Vessel

WOODS HOLE, Mass, June
20. fUP;-Fourteen boys and
girls, missing aboard a 30-fOOt
power boat enrOute from Fla
mouth to Oak Bluffs, reached
the latter port shortly after
noon today after being fog
bound 15 hours with engine
trouble.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29

WOODS HOLE, Mass, June 20.
U,P) Fourteen Falmouth high
school graduates and children of
wealthy summer residents were re-
ported today to be aboard the 30
foot power boat O-4733, missing
since it left Falmouth harbor on
six mile cruise to Oak Bluffs last
might.
At first it had been reported that
the missing power boat, manned
by Joseph Josephs of QuisSett, had
only six passengers.
But calls of anxious parents to
coast guards and police indicated
there were IA young folk, includ-
ing two or three girls, aboard.
The parents told authorities they
were not alarmed previously be-
cause they thought their children
had returned late and stayed over
night at the homes of friends.
AS two coast guard craft searched
the waters Of Vineyard Sound for
the power boat, the heavy fog that
prevailed when it cleared from
Falmouth harbor at $50 p. m, last
night persisted, hampering tn e
hunt.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
National League

Boston at Chicago, rain.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-29
Baseball Scores
American League

Afee and Sewell; Rowe, Hogsett an
Hayworth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
Take Chester
fields, for Instance

COME cigarettes are made out of
~ only one kind of tobacco. while
others are made from several diff
ferent kinds.
And everyone can understand
that different tobaccos make a
difference in taste and aroma.
Chesterfelds are a good example
of this difference.
You see it's not easy to make
CheSterheld's milder taste. 1t takes
three distinct kinds of Domestic
tobaccos. Then these must be sea-
soned with the right amount of
Turkish. And they must be blended
and cross-blended until their avors
are welded together ;. to make a
cigarette that has character and yet
is not too strong !. to make ciga-
rette that's miIder, a cigarette that
tastes better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
Carl Truemper. s25 North Sherman
drive. reports larceny of Chevrolet cabrio-
lea 1859, from 1400 West Michigan
street
George w. Denehel 1926 Creston drive,
Ford coupe 95-4S5. from Senate avenue
and Market streets.
Ray Macarthur. Lawrence Ind. Ford
coupe. from Ohio street and Capitol
avenue.
w. J. Holiday Company, SAB West Nc
Carly stSeet, Ford convertible coupe. 1869,
from 543 West McCarty street.
John Murray. Sl4 North Meridian
street Ford tudor, from rear of Sl4 North
Georgia jefferson. 2ss West Fourteenth
street, Chevrolet coupe from in front of
2S3 West Fourteenth street.
William p Patton, 1884 Linden street,
Ford tudor, 54-29S from garage in rear
OF 1884 Linden street.
Gwendoln B. Dawson 7l3 North Del
aware street. Ford tudor. l00-l2S. from
in front OF 7lS North Delaware street.
Sergeant Chester Phillips, TT. Harrison,
Chevrolet sedan Fl. Harrison. tags 256.
state license 24-4s2, from Fl: Harrison.
Merle Cross. 70S South West street,
WHY'S Coupe, 9i-2S5 from in front of 1890
North Illinois street
Bernard F. Kelly. 1854 Blaine avenue.
Ford tudor 5l-sl2, from in front of 1854
Blaine avenue.
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tect labor in approving any market
ing agreements.
Food industries which believe they
can be relieved of the pressure Of
the antitrust laws without meeting
labor requirements as to wages and
hours cf work, will find themselves
mistaken.
Although the farm relief act con-
tains no labor provisions, there is
wide opportunity in the law for
writing regulations to be met by
those seeking marketing agree
ments, and it is the intention Of the
administration to write labor re-
quirements into their regulations.
But even if this were not done,
there is authority in the national
industrial recovery act permitting
President Roosevelt to delegate such
powers to the administrators Of the
farm act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
FARM ACT TO
Be APPLIED TO
CHAIN GROCERY
Preliminary Conferences to
Assure Protection of
Consumers Held.
BY MARSHALL M'NEIL
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June 26.-Pre-
liminary conferences to bring chain
grocery stores in under the agricul-
tural adjustment administration so
their price schedules may be ad-
justed for the benefit of producers
of foodstuffs are being held here.
Meanwhile, administrators of the
farm relief act have selected Fred
erick Howe, well-known economist
and former United States immigra
ton commissioner. to advise them
in protecting consumers in connec-
ton with all marketing agreements
under the new law.
These agreements are similar to
those proposed by industry to Gen.
Hugh Johnson, administrator of the
national industrial recovery act, and
plans have been made to have the
agricultural codes conform with the
industrial codes in all essentials, in
Guiding wages and hours.
Maintain Competitive Status
The course of the chain store
agreement still is in doubt, this be-
ing one of the most intricate prob
lens now confronting administra-
tors George Peek and Charles
Brand
But the latter intends that the
marketing agreement finally reached
shall be so framed as to not injure
the competitive positions of either
the chain stores or their independ-
ent rivals, and that more income
for producers and manufacturers of
foodstuffs will result
1t will be Howe's job to see that
in such agreements prices to con-
sumers shall not be raised to exor-
bitant levels. There will be a SINH
lar set-up under the national in
dustrial recovery act, to protect con-
sumers of industrial products.
Labor to Be Protected
AS the new week began, further
confederation was given of the re-
port that the agricultural adjust
ment administration intends to pro-
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Fair. resumed his automobile trip
to the coast after notifying police.
The fighter said he tried to reveal
his identity but that one of the
bandits replied:
Shut up. I'm not numbskull.
Corbett is dead"
Sitting on the front porch of her
home, Mrs Mary Morrison, SO, was
shot down by a gunman who drove
by in an automobile with a blond
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
AWAIT FUNDS FOR CAMPS
Reserve Officers Not Informed On
TT. Knox Period.

Approximately 100 reserve Off
GERS of Indiana and other states in
the Fifth Army corps area are
wondering today whether they will
obtain their customary training pc
Rod at FIT. Knox, Ky.
While a program similar to last
years has been prepared, there has
been no ALLEGATION of funds and no
intimation of when any will be
made, although the army fiscal year
begins July l.
Three hundred thirty officers now
are at Fl. Knox on this years funds
States in the Fifth corps area are
Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and
Kentucky.