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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
MAY-DECEMBER
COUPLE WE'D

LOS ANGELES, Aug. %. W.R -
DR.. Arthur S. Baker, 81, and his IA
year-old bride, the former Marjorie
returned from their hon.
eymoon today, confident that the
in their ages would make
for happy marriage.
Il feel that our chances of going
through with this marriage are bet
ter than those of people of the same
age DR.. Baker declared. Divorce
statistics bear me out, and have
the example of my own father, who
was 35 years older than my mo-
Their"
The couple married at Cedar
City, Utah. They will make their
home in Montebello, suburb of Los
The doctor declared his youthful
bride was "a lot older than her age.
Some people are old at 20, and
some retain mental age of when
they are IS" he said.
Mrs. Baker said her formula for
happiness was:
I'VE love each other and are in
terested in the same work"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
MEANSFLAYS
ECONOMY ACT.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. %. tU.P) -
A fiery attack by U. S. Senator
Rice w. Means of Colorado on the
national economy act which reduc-
ed veterans benefits sounded an
aggressive note at the annual con-
vention of the United Spanish War
veterans in session here today.
Extending the attack of William
j. Often, national communicating
chief, Means insisted the hardshipS
worked upon veterans formed no
integral part of the administlh-
ton IS recovery program. Moreover,
congress was deceived into passing
the economy act, he said.
"SiniSter, selfish interests, at the
time evading payment of their in
come taxes, convinced congress that
it was necessary to do this evil
thing Means declared. "The stain
upon the nation for abandonment
OF solemn obligations can never be
washed away until the dastardly
economy act is repealed
He pledged his entire support to
that end and expressed optimism of
results.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
STAR H0N0RED
BY ACADEMY

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 90. <U.PJ -
Helen Hayes, voted Hollywood's out
standing actress in 1882, is the Hell
en- of Troy of the new board OF
strategy" of the Academy OF Mo-
ton Picture Arts and Sciences.
She was the only actress chosen
at the annual election last night as
a member of the Academy's exc
cutive committee. Other new menu
berS include Warner Baxter, Dud-
ley Digges, Walter Huston, De Witt
c. Jennings, Robert Montgomery,
Edward G. Robinson, Cecil B. De
Mile, Henry King, Robert z. Leon
ard, Ernest Lubitsch, Fred Niblo,
King Vidor and Lloyd Bacon.
The Academy's electorate, COM
posed of players, writer's, producers.
directors and technicians, excluded
women from the board of govern
ors, appointed from the acting
group Digges, Adolph Menjou, and
Lewis Stone.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
Officers Guard
Strike Center

SACRAMENTO, Aug. %. up -
Deputy sheriffs, Legionnaires and
state highway patrolmen converged
on the Gridley strike center today
as strikers and employers attempt
ed to reach a compromise and thus
avert a serious labor crisis.
Hope of agreement lay in a pro-
posed compromise providing slid
ing wage scale. Fruit pickers had
demanded a wage increase from as
low as 3 cents per box to 512 cents
or 35 cents an hour.
Meantime additional deputy sher-
ifs were sworn in to handle the Sit
uation. State highway patrolmen
were on hand to prevent any dis
turbance on the highways and a de-
tachment of LegionnaireS prepared
to step into the breach if the sit
uation became critical.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22

After weeks of conferences with
heads of the county government
departments and much intensive
study, the board of county super
visors late Yesterday afternoon ap-
proved the final draft of the county
salary ordinance and returned it
to the district attorney with in
structions that the various changes
suggested by the board be included
in the new draft which later re-
ceived the official stamp of ap-
prevail
The county budget, which has
not yet been adopted. is still under
discussion by the supervisors. Yes
terday's action pertained only to
the county salary ordinance.
This ordinance, complement to
the county budget, fixes the COM
penSation of deputies, assistants and
employees as well as of each county
officer excepting the auditor, dis
trict attorney and the supervisors.
These latter have already been de-
termined by state law.
According to the final draft ap-
proved yesterday salaries of county
Officers and assistants who come
under the terms of the ordinance
are as follows:
Assessor: So, 400 per year; chief
deputy 81 $50 per year.
Agricultural Commissioner: $3.50
per year; chief deputy, $500 per
year; one stenographer, $3.50 per
year; three senior inspectors at ST.
$50 per year, each; three junior in
spectorS at 81 $50 per year, each.
County clerk: $4,000 per year;
chief deputy $l,920 per year; three
deputies, each, $3.50 per year; one
deputy for the great register, $500
per year.
Deputies of county auditor: chief,
81 $50; one deputy, $3.50; one dep
uty at 81, $50 per year and five as
sistants at 500 per month when
employed, not to exceed over $70O
in a year.
Deputies of district attorney
chief deputy, $4,000 per year; as
sistant, $4,000 per year; assistant
81, 100 per year; assistant $1,000 per
year; two stenographers, $3.50 per
year, each. -.....
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
JOHNSON MAY
FINISH COAL
CODE TONIGHT
NRA Leader Battles Industry
Chiefs To End Wage And La
Dor Troubles.
TWO MORE HEARINGS SET
Automobile And Retail Trade
Agreements Expected To Be
Ready Soon.
By HAROLD o. THOMPSON
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Aug. %. - The rapid
pace of the national recovery ma
chinery was maintained today with
the interests of millions involved
in developments on codes for coal
and the retail trade. A code draft
ed by the government and indeed
to end the competitive wage and
labor troubles of the soft coal in
dustry neared completion.
Administrator Hugh S. Johnson
expected to finish work on his coal
code by tonight. He conferred until
nearly last midnight with warning
factions, discussing various pro-
visions of the code separately with
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, j. A. r.
Morrow, Pennsylvania operator,
George A. O'Neill, representing an
association of operators, Edward F..
McGrady, deputy administrator, and
Donald Richbert. general MIRA
counsel.
The disputed labor provision of
the code was expected to be in the
language of the recovery act, with
out restrictions on collective bar
gaining, and leaving the company
union issue for later decision, pro-
badly on the basis of complaints to
the national labor board.
A. D. Whiteside, deputy admins
traitor, prepared for the nations
first public hearing on trade, as
distinguished from industry. 1t was
on a code for approximately $780,
900 retail concerns employing more
than 100000 persons.
Those affected included 429, 121
storekeepers whose investment is
less than $500. Most retail con-
Germs, except those dealing in food,
for which a code will be considered
later, would be governed by the out
come of today's hearing Scores of
witnesses were to appear
A third important code on which
conferences continued was one for
the automobile manufacturing in
dustry, but there was no doubt that
it would be completed today.
The labor board continued efforts
to settle the Hollywood movie
strike. General T. S. Hammond, in
, charge of the Presidents reemploy-
ment agreement, studied plans for
a nationwide investigation of vio-
lations of the blue eagle agreement.
WASHINGTON, Aug. %. U.P)-
| Hugh S. Johnson, recovery admin
istrator, promised the nation IS re-
tail store owners today that they
would be backed by the MIRA in
resisting undue wholesale price adj
| vanceS.
Speculative pricing is just
| sign of those old habits which will
ruin any plan for recovery, he
continued. 1T will nearly kill the
goose which lays the golden eggs.
"Such seasoned campaignerS as
you retailers know what price struc-
! lures should be. You should resist
advancing prices by manufacturers
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
Advice OF Chief
Justice Awaited

SACRAMENTO, Aug. %. WP;-
What the chief justice of the SUI
preme court would do if he were
governor, is just about the only
hope left for Jack D. Green, await
ing execution September Is for the
murder of Police Lieutenant Hugh
Crowley.
Governor Rolph said he would
ask Justice Waste to view the case
as an executive-not as judge
and give him his views on that pa
sis.
The chief executive merely wants
advice. The supreme court justices
views would have no legal bearing
on the case.
Rolph's determination to let
Green hang without further re-
prieves has been growing steadily.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
LAMS0N MAID
AIDS DEFENSE
Marriage To Athlete Explains
Her Disappearance Prior TO
Trials Opening.

SAN JOSE, Cal, Aug. %. W.P)-
Esther Roberts, pretty maid in the
residence of David Lamson before
the Stanford University writer and
ector was charged with the murder
of his wife last Decoration day.
came to his defense today and
Quoted ugly rumors.
She was married to Warren B.
Scrensen, San Jose high school ath-
lete and a schoolboy lover, as the
first day of Lamson'S trial ended.
San Francisco newspapers had
published the report that Miss Rob-
erts was an expectant mother. The
story explained the LamSon defense
staff's action in sequeStering the
ex-maid Immediately after Lam
son s arrest. But it started other
rumors, believed likely to reflect
against LamSon in the minds OF
the jury.
Miss Roberts and Sorensen used
a marriage license they obtained
at Fairfield, Cal, July 7. The Rev.
w. L. CASTOR performed the cere-
mony at his Vallejo, Cal, residence
Edwin Rea, chief defense coun-
sell was pleased at the wedding an
nouncement, although he had main
tanned throughout that Miss Rob-
ert IS condition had no bearing on
the murder trial. The girl mad
been subpoenaed by both defense
and prosecution.
"Her story will clear David Lam
son of any stigma said Rea as
he entered the courtroom today
Neither Allan Lindsay, whose COL
orless but incessant hammerlng at
the weak spots in the testimony OF
witnesses has brought him recog-
milton as a forceful prosecutor, nor
Rea, the vigorous colorful defense
ATTORNEY who went to Stanford with
Herbert Hoover, had exercised a
perempEory challenge during the
opening day of the trial.
Tentative Jury Picked
A tentative jury Of six men and
six women was seated, but few OF
them may be finally selected. only
three are from Palo Alto, where
the Lamson IS vine-covered cottage
nestles among the trees OF Stanford
campus.
Superior Judge Robert r. Syer'
benign-appearing jurist who de-
mands observance OF every legal
technicality of courtroom procedure,
excused three taleSmen during Ihe
tedious, day long examination.
Prosecutor Lindsay made 1t eV-
ident that the state would demand
the death penalty. g.,
Lamson' IS cheerful demeanor and
active interest in conduct OF his
defense continued today. He smii-
ed often. He insisted on imposing
his opinion upon that of Rea's on
acceptability of witnesses. 1t was
plain that the jury will have Lam
sons approval, if challenges hold
out.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
BY w. G. QUISENBERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 22.-Confronted
by a major crisis in German-Aus-
TRAN relations, France, Great Brit
ain and Italy sought by means of a
Danubian economic federation to
maintain Engelbert Dollfuss, Aus
trian chancellor, in power and halt
the Nazi movement endangering
his government.
So serious is the situation that
allied governments were talking OF
the possible necessity of invoking
against Germany penalties pre-
scribed by the Versailles treaty in
event it was blamed for any mis-
hap to the Dollfuss regime.
Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy
is trying to work out means OF
economic cooperation between Aus
tria and it's neighbors-excluding
Germany-which by bringing pros
perity will strengthen Dollfuss and
remove for the present the unwel-
come possibility of an Austrian
German union.
Easing of customs barriers as re-
CARDS each others goods and coor-
dination of national railway sys-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
CITY COUNCIL
REDUCES RATE
Approves Budget And Sets Levy
OF $l.6O Per $1OO For Ensu-
ing Year.

Approval of the city S budget for
the current fiscal year and setting
of the tax rate formed the chief
business of the city council at an
adjourned meeting last night.
Setting of the tax rate at SLIGO
followed approval of the budget.
This rate is three cents lower than
that of last year and represents a
10 per cent reduction on real estate
and improvements, the three cents
being on the total, including per-
Sonal taxes. 1t is Is cents lower
than the rate which obtained in
1892.
The budget for the current fiscal
year was set at 1921 1876 81 which
is divided among the different city
funds as follows: general fund, $7O,-
1887; street fund, $34,9085O; sew
er fund, $24,882 90; park fund, S.
$3.50; fire department fund. $780,
843.79; library fund, S11 900; and the
bond fund, $50, $685..
These figures are further divided:
General fund: administrative la
Dor, $9,l4600; administrative office
expense, $5,09300; administrative
supplies, $2,309.80; police depart
rlent, $31 ,300.63; health department,
81 $3.50; public health, ST. ,425, which
includes sanitation trash and gar
bage collection, prevention of dis
ease, and milk inspection; general
expenses, 100000, including tax
refunds, election labor, rent, insur-
ance and similar items; rest room,
$1,560.00.
Street Department: administra-
tive, $3,4l500; shops, $3.50; street
cleaning, $4,000; maintenance and
repairs, S9,925.00; lighting, $3.50;
and inspection, 81 1855.
Sewer Department: collecting sys-
tenn, S6650; outfall sewer, $15,970.
Park Fund: administrative, $3.50,
including salaries, automobile ex-
penses, insurance. Harding park,
SOS; Eastside park, SLOTS; Mckinley
park, 1924
Fire Department: $2O,84379, in
Guiding salaries, supplies, insurance
and similar items.
The net valuation of the city was
placed at $9,459, 6l4.4O, according to
the budget estimate.
| Resolution on Road
A resolution was adopted by the
council asking the state highway
commission to carry out the North
| Shore road connection in as direct
line as possible from INLAND along
the lockwood road to CSaleXico.
joining route No. &c at a point east
of Heber This, it is hoped, will
give the county a main central
highway from CaleXico to inland,
the1lce along The Salton Sea to
Mecca and Indio and Los Angeles.
This road has been included in the
secondary highway system of the
state.
The city attorney was asked to
draft an amendment to the city S
beer ordinance, eliminating the beer
sales tax. This ordinance, No. 1865,
had placed a tax of SO cents on
every barrel of beer sold in the city
in addition to the regular license
fee. 1t is this barrel tax that the
amendment would eliminate. The
amendment will be submitted to the
council at its next regular meeting,
September q.
Previous to the session which ap-
proved the tax rate and budget the
council had met as a board of
equalization and heard four petit
tons for tax adjustments.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
SLEEPING SICKNESS OUTBREAK
CLAIMS FIFTEEN AT ST. LOUIS

ST. LOUIS. Aug. %. U.H-The
outbreak of Encephalitis sleeping
sickness in st. Louis was described
here today as the worst epidemic
OF the disease. this country had ever
known by DR.. j. P. Leake, of the
United States public health service.
Three new deaths and % new
cases reported yesterday brought the
total dead to Is and the cases now
in confinement to 149, since the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
Baker Head OF
Pacific Group

BANFF, Alta, Aug. %. U.H -
Newton D. Baker, secretary of war
for the United States in the admin
istration of President Wilson, today
became general chairman of the
Institute of Pacific Relations.
Baker, long a leader in move
ments to better international under
standing, urged the conference to
intensity its efforts in providing
scientific data regarding the ma
tons of the Pacific.
Baker will direct efforts of the
institute to raise its unofficial status
as the chief source of accurate and
impartial material concerning the
Pacific.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
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GALE MENACES
EAST COAST.

NEW YORK, Aug. %. {U.PS-Coast
guard stations along the Atlantic
seaboard massed all available craft
today to save lives and shipping en-
dangered by tropical gale sweep
ing up from Bermuda.
Storm warnings were up from
Cape Hatteras to Boston. A 70-mile
gale was forecast by weather bu-
reau. The wind had not yet reached
gale velocity, but rain, low visi-
bility and moderate seas menaced
smaller boats.
Atlantic City, ~ j., felt the early
strength of the storm, with a 40
mile wind lashing the coast in the
vicinity. Rainfall reached 81 inches
for the "a hour period.
An off-shore wind was reported
at Rockaway Point, N. Y, at dawn,
with heavy rain. Word from other
stations along the Jersey coast in
dicated the storm was abating, or
its course was changed more to
seward.
The destroyer Hunt headed the
coast guard patrol off the Jersey
coast. Other craft remained closer
in shore as they patrolled wide
area sailed by small fishing boats
and cabin cruisers. Giant combers
hamemred the shore throughout
the night.
The gale sweeping in from Ber-
muda today came on the heels of
dry northeaster which took known
toll of eight lives, wrecked scores of
small boats and periled hundreds
of others. More than 200 persons
had been rescued by the coast
guard in the last 48 hours.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
FEWER AND LARGE Err BANKING
UNITS ADMINISTRATION PLAN
President And Advisers Working Out De-
tails Of Deposits Insurance Which Be-
comes Effective On January |, 1884
success for the bank deposit insur-
ance plan.
Banks Supply Guarantee

success for the bank deposit insur-
ance plan.
Banks Supply Guarantee
Under the 1888 banking act the
administration will create the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance corporation
to insure deposits of all federal re-
serve member banks and of all APP
proved non-member banks up to
July /, 1886. Temporarily from
Jan. l, until July l, deposits will
be insured in full up to $4,000. After
July l, deposits will be insured in
full to $4,000; rs per cent from
$4,000 to $4,000 and SO per cent
above $4,000.
Most of the guarantee funds will
DE supplied by the banks themselves
and the current trend toward few
er, and possibly larger and strong
er, banks is looked upon by many
observers as assuring the success Of
the plan.
Despite the billions of dollars in
credit tied up in the bank cloSingS
and moratoriums of the last IL
years most depositors have Jared far
better than they would have had
if they had their money invested
in stocks, bonds, commodities or
many other kinds of property in
which have DECLINED vapidly jim
price.
Including the SOS Mutual Savings
banks, a total of 14,5ll banks in
the United States are doing nor
NAL business and hold deposits OF
SAL ,38O,047 900. These deposits can
be withdrawn at will and provide
strong backing of public purchasing
power.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
Three Lose Lives
At Coast Resort

NEWPORT, Cal, Aug. %. W.P)-
The body of young girl was
sought in the ocean off Newport
today after she and two other men,
bers of a Sunday school outing
were pulled to their deaths by a
strong riptide.
The victims were Celeste Kerr,
10, Matilda Bennett, Is, and Joan
Gibson, IA, all of Chino. Three
girls were rescued by life guards
while three other companions and
their teacher, Mrs. T. j. KearnS,,
of Chino, fought their way to shore
unaided.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
States Thirst
Shows Decline

SACRAMENTO, Aug. %. up
If CALIFORNIA; July beer thirst were
spread equally throughout the
state, the average Californian last
month would have consumed ga
quarts.
The craving for beer dwindled
slightly in July, the board OF equal
ization announced. Thirsty citi-
zens consumed 3,544993 gallons AZ
compared with a 3,600.6 500 gallon
thirst In June.
Consequently the June tax OF
s7l,Ol2 dropped off in July TO s70.-
89e.
The board discovered that Call
fornia made beer commands 90 per
cent OF the market Demand for
Eastern beer has been steadily de-
Ginning.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22

malady was first observed here in
July.
"While there is little fear the
epidemic will assume the proper
tionS of plague, the situation must
be regarded as serious. as science
knows little about the disease DR..
Leake said. cit is not related to
African sleeping sickness, but it is
hy far the worst epidemic of En-
cephalitis this country has ever
Known
WASHINGTON, Aug. %. U.H =
The United States public health
service moved today to check
serious outbreak of sleeping sickness
in st. Louis.
Officials of the health service act
ed promptly and emphasized there
was no danger of national epid-
emic.
DR.. Charles Armstrong, long a
student of the malady, has been
sent to st. Louis to aid DR.. James
P. Leake. They will assist local
health authorities in efforts to 10
cate the source of the outbreak.
Seeking a preventative and cure,
the health service has authorized
the purchase of supply of mon
KEYS to be inoculated with virus OBJ
tanned from the bodies OF victims.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
Sugar Workers
To End Strike

OXNARD, Calf, Aug. %. iU.pi-
A strike of several thousand sugar
beet workers was to end today as
growers agreed to increase wages
and eliminate labor contractors.
The strike was called two weeks
ago but reached settlement when
employers agreed to the major
points of the strikers demands. AL
though only one instance OF
violence marked the strike, six al
legged agitators were detained for
trial next month on vagrancy char
geS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
Fire Threatens
National Forest

SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 90. U.Pi
Racing out of control in Indian
Canyon, a fire menaced a wide area
of the Santa Barbara national for
est today as 500 members of the
Citizens Conservation Corps bat
tied to check it.
The fire had swept over 500 acres
before the c. C. c. workers could
be modified and moved into the
threatened area. No casualties were
reported.
At the same time a second for
est fire was being fought by 100 c.
c. G. youths on Marble Peak, near
King City.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
German Apology
Giuen To ENJOY

BERLIN, Aug. % U.Pj-Ambas-
sador William E. Dodd today re-
ceived a formal apology from Com
mander Ernst, of the Brandeburg
storm troops, for the insult" to DR..
Daniel Mulvihill of New York, as
saulted when he failed to give the
Nazi salute to a Swastika flag.
Ernst visited the embassy and ex-
tended the governments and his
own apologies for the incident. Or
ders have ben issued exempting for
eigners from the salutes required by
citizens.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
SEVEN DIE IN WRECK

LUMBERTON, N. c., Aug. %:
aJp-Seven persons were killed and
five Others injured, four critically
when a tobacco truck from Deep
Run crashed into the side OF sea-
board airline passenger train az
Fairmont road crossing near here
today.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-22
Baseball Scores
National League

Cincinnati at Philadelphia, both
games postponed, rain.
st. Louis at Brooklyn, postponed,
wet grounds.
Chicago at New York, both games
postponed, wet grounds.
At Boston
Pittsburgh O0l 120 900 900 00-4 10 l
Boston POP 600 600 900 Obs 7 l
Smith, Hoyt and Finney; Frank
house and Spohrer.