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Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11

FOR FARMERS
To De SIGNED
Empowers Delinquent Irrigation
Districts To Assess On Ability
To Pay.
BOND OWNERS OPPOSED
Decision To Approve Measure
Is Reached After Lengthy
Conference Last Night.
BY THOMAS B. MALARKEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

DUlIeu fEeSS SCd1I Correspondent
SACRAMENTO, April 11.-Gov-
ernor Rolph early today announced
he would sign the Robinson .rri-
CATION moratorium bill, a measure
designed to afford hard pressed ir-
rigation districts a two year re-
spite.
The governors decision was
reached after prolonged hearing
which lasted until well past mid
night.
"The farmer should be given a
chance to pull out Of his difficult
ties and this bill aims at that OBJ
jective," the governor said.
Opponents declare the measure
unconstitutional. Then let them
take it to the courts"
The measure was introduced by
Assemblyman G. Ray Robinson,
Merced. 1t empowers districts with
20 per cent or more delinquency to
levy assessments on an ability to
pay basis. In no event would de-
linquency in excess of Is per cent
be permitted.
iiC I'LL WOdlo hCOOAliC
tically imperative in two years. It
is designed to bring relief to SO
districts already in default and
others which are on the verge.
Robinson declared THE COVER
nor'S choice is between Montgom-
cry street and Main street. This
measure offers real relief and pre-
vents inevitable tax pyramiding.
Opponents, mostly representatives
of bondholders, declared the meas
ure would depreciate the value of
irrigation bonds. They contend it
was reputation of bonds and held
the measure was unconstitutional.
The assembly led the legislative
economy march late yesterday. 1t
passed a proposed constitutional
amendment providing affected vot-
ers could consolidate counties, cit
les, or cities and counties, If they
so wished. Also passed was anoth-
er amendment empowering coun-
ties to form a judicial district for
two or more counties over which
one superior judge would preside
and form judicial districts within
q county
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
Lawyers Fight To
SdUe Mrs. Judd

PHOENIX, April II. W.H-Attor-
neys for Winnie Ruth Judd, con-
demned murderess, today made
frantic efforts to save her from
execution on April 81 through a
writ of habeas corpus.
They also were reported formu-
lating plans on the prospect of a
sanity hearing which may be called
by Warden A. c. Walker of the
state prison.
One of the few possible avenues
of escape from the gallows was
closed to the slender, pretty mur-
deress yesterday when Superior
Judge Howard Speakman denied
plea to set aside her death SEN
tence and grant her a new trial.
Mrs. Judd was visibly shaken
when informed that her plea had
been denied. She tried to accept
the gloomy news without any show
of emotion, but broke down in her
effort.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
Clearing House
May HoUe To Pay

NEW YORK, April IL. W.P)-The
United States treasury expects to
force the New York clearing house
association to make good deficit,
expected to be about. $6,000,000, in
the Hartman National banks as
sets, it became evident today.
Secretary of the Treasury Will
liam H. Woodin, in announcing
that depositors of the closed Har-
riman bank would be paid in full
was counting as an asset, it was
revealed, an understanding" last
July under which, the banks Off
GERS and the treasury believed, the
clearing house association agreed
to make good any losses to Har-
riman depositors if federal banking
officials would permit the bank to
remain open. Woodin believes this
understanding is a collectable as
set.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
SHAW DODCES
NEWS WRITERS
BY ]. A. MORRIS
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, April II. U.P) -
George Bernard Shaw, who had
promised he would shun New York
ship news reporters like the plague,
arrived with Mrs. Shaw today and
kept his word.
The irrepressible Irish playwright
and philosopher was chased, how
ever, from deck to deck. He was
harried by news photographers, who
used every willy strategy they knew
TO snap pictures of him as he ate
toast at breakfast in the dining
room of the Empress of Britain.
while ships guards tried to keep
them out.
The reporters were met by Off
GERS who informed them that "Mr.
Shaw will not be Interviewed" and
who passed out a printed "inter-
view" rehashing the scattering Gin
formation" Shaw already has given
during his. trip through the Panama
Canal.
Shaw finished breakfast, walked
rapidly to the elevator, turned and
waved to the newspapermen, say
ing Go home, gentlemen, go home"
He relented sufficiently, few
moments later, to send out the
following note, signed &c. B. S."
1.-THE New York press may retire
to it's fireside and nurse the baby
until tomorrow morning, excepting
the enterprising section which came
on board at Havana and discussed
everything with me for an hour
and 40 minutes.
To-day I am in training for the
metropolitan opera house tonight,
and may be regarded as deaf and
dumb for the moment"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
BY II. o. THOMPSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

LAKEHURST, N. j., April II. "A
conflict of opinion regarding emer-
gency action to save the Akron as
the great dirigible was falling to
her destruction was revealed before
the naval court of inquiry today.
Lieut.. Com. H. v. Wiley testified
that swiveling propellorS were not
used.
would it have been desirable?"
asked Judge Advocate Ralph G..
Pennoyer.
Eyes, if there was tirne," Wiley
replied
MY impression was that no order
was given to tilt. the propellors," b"
Wiley testified.
do you lose dynamic lift in tilt
ing the propellor?"
"Yes, the propellors must be
slowed down."
"Then it appears to have been
undesirable to tilt the propellers?
ut depends on circumstances" !"
Wiley replied, "how grave you con-
slider the emergency. 1t depends on
how you see it at the time"
Wiley testified that on prior oc-
casions the Akron had suffered
structural damage but that all in
juries had been repaired.
could these have caused pern1a-
nent structural defectS?" Pennoyer
asked.
Absolutely none. The Akron was
In fine structural condition"
Wiley said that the Akron could
have been struck by lightning dur
ing the storm without being injured.
The lieutenant commander SAID
he believed the shock which wreck
ed the Akron was caused by the
stern of the airship striking the
Atlantic ocean.
Wiley reported to Secretary OF
Navy Swanson last week that he
thought the shock was caused by
a sudden, terrific gust of wind.
"I desire to suggest to the court
now," he said, that am OF the
opinion that this shock was the re-
suit of the stern hitting the water"
If the Akron was wrecked by
breaking in midair with the stern
dropping into the ocean, no action
taken by the commander could have
saved the ship.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
Maxi Recruiting
In California

ALHAMBRA, Calf. April IL. U.R)
Numerous members have been re-
cruited to Adolf Hitler's Nazi move
ment during the past few weeks
in Southern California, George
Mueller, who served in the German
revolution, said today.
The members are being enrolled
as Brown Shirts" and must adhere
to the principles Of the Nazi chief
according to Mueller who is re-
cruiting members for the national
Socialist German working mans
party.
''No German Jews are eligible to
join" Mueller declared. But that
does not mean we are planning a
Jewish boycott or any aggressive
anti-Semitic campaign"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
TRUCK DRIVER
BADLY BURNED
Pete Lamison In Hospital At
Brawley AS Result Of Accident
On L. A. Highway.

Pete Lamisan is in the Brawley
hospital with severe burns on his
right leg and erm as the result of
an automobile accident which oc-
Cured OH highway No. 80 about A
miles north Of FL Centro at 3:20
o'clock this morning.
According to the report turned
in to headquarters by Traffic Pa
trolman Walter Walsh who investi-
gated the accident, Torrance H. Ed
misten was driving a truck and
trailer both loaded with ground al
falfa meal toward Los Angeles. AS
he passed a car stalled at the side
of the road he evidently got too
far over the center line for an
other truck coming from the oppo-
site direction Sideswiped him.
I When Ednisten reached bridge
No. 23, he stopped his truck to see
what damage mad been caused by
the sideswipe. Another truck stop
ped at the same time to see ii any
help could be given Edmisten. AT
this juncture Lamisan, headed for
Calexico In a truck, came on the
scene.
He did not see the other two
trucks until he was almost upon
them and tried TO pass between
them. AS he struck Edmisten S
truck his gasoline tank burst, spray
ing blazing gasoline over his own
car and the truck.
His clothing caught fire and 1t
was only after some effort tina.
the other men were able to get
him out of the blazing car. He
was Immediately taken into Braw-
ley where he received treatment for
his burns. Property damage to the
cars concerned III the accident is
estimated at $2400 as Lamisan's car
and EdlniSten's truck and trailer
are total losses.
Officer Walsh pointed out this
morning that the blaze was so
severe that some Is tank trucks had
to wait for three hours before pro-
ceeding on their way, being kept
back by the intense heat generated
by the burning alfafa meal.
The traffic officer further said
that he was forced to stop many
motorists vino did not approach
the scene of the accident with due
caution. He said that several
would have gone off the road
through the side of the bridge
which had been damaged by the
fire if they had not been stopped
in time.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
Estes Receives
Prison Sentence


w. E. Estes was sentenced to
serve not more than 10 years in
San Quentin penitentiary by Judge
Thompson in superior court this
morning.
This sentence was the outcome
of the trial which occupied the
courts attention all last week and
resulted in a verdict of manslaugh-
ter which the jury brought in
against Estes Saturday at noon
after having had the case under
consideration since o'clock the
previous day.
Estes had been charged with
killing Sam Stanley during a quar-
rel at a service station near Holt
vile on March 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
Adams Quarrel
Case Continued

Charged with disturbing the
peace and assault, the outcome of
quarrel with A. w. Pahnke ir
Brawley the night of March rs,
Burleigh E. Adams, director of
the Imperial Irrigation District APP
peared before Judge Griffin in
Brawley this morning to answer the
double complaint.
The case was continued for one
week by the court.
The alleged quarrel took place
in the club rooms of the Eagles
lodge in Brawley during which
Adams is said to have struck
Pahake on the neck with a pistol
It Is stated that the trouble start
ed when Pahnke became active in
circulating recall petitions against
the irrigation director.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
ROLPH GETS
TONER REPLY

SACRAMENTO, April II. U.P)-
The reply of DR.. j. M. Toner, di-
rector Of institutions, to charges
contained in the report of the In
man senatorial investigating COM
mittee, was in the governors hands
today.
DR.. Toner submitted his answer
to the report late yesterday after
Governor Rolph requested that he
make all haste towards completion
of his version of the committees
findings.
A similar request was made of
ROLAND Vandegrift, director of fl
nance. The finance director told
the governor his report would be
submitted within a few days.
The governor has clearly demon
strated he is anxious to end al
ministration unrest. His action in
requesting immediate replies Of his
two directors was preceded by a
message to the legislature request
ing the investigating committee to
submit the final installment Of its
report. He has repeatedly stated
he will not take action either for
or against Toner and Vandegrift
until he has received the final re-
port.
Content of Toner'S report was not
made public. Nor has Vandegrift
indicated what course he will pur-
sue in answering charges against
his conduct in office, particularly
with reference to his bond dealings,
the lease of the State Annex build
ing in San Francisco and the pur-
chase of the Ventura hospital site.
Charges against Toner were con-
fined principally to asserted faulty
administration of the Whittier le-
formatory in Southern California.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
Prisoner Turns
Trick On JaiIer

UPLAND, Calf, April IL. U.P)-
Patrolman G. S. Lehman ruefully
admitted today he shouldn't have
taken the jails lone prisoner, John
Charles Jarrett, out to breakfast.
Jarrett, "a, of Los Angeles, held
on burglary charge for Ontario,
turned the tables on Lehman and
locked the officer in his cell after
overpowering Lehman and taking
his gun and keys from him.
Lehman pounded on his cell door
for half an hour before he was lib
Grated by fellow officers. Jarrett
meanwhile had vanished like a
wrath in the desert.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
Federal Agents =.
Home Is Bombed

NEW YORK, April IL. W.P)-Po-
lice and department of justice
agents today were investigating the
bombing of the two-story, two-fam-
lily brick house owned and occupied
by William Gessler, department
If justice agent, Elmhurst, shortly
lfter midnight last night.
The bomb injured no one, but
wrecked the porch of the Gessler
home and damaged windows in half
a dozen homes in the neighbor-
hood.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
French Planes
Meet Disaster

BIARRITz, France, April IL. U.P
"A French tourist airplane fell in
flames today. Pilot Gellet used
his parachute and landed safely,
but three passengers wetn down
with the plane and were killed.
MARSEILLES, France, April IL.
W.P)-Flve members of the crew Of
a French naval hydroplane were
drowned today when the ship fell
into the waters of Etang de Berre.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
ACCEPT MUsSOLINI PACT

ROME, April IL. U.P)-The
MusSolini four-power pact for
peace in Europe has been ac-
certed in principle by the four
nations--Brltain, France, Ger
many and Italy, it was de-
clared authoritatively tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-11
mMlL1L-.o
w ,S0ys:

BEVERLY HILLS, April 10.
(SpeciaD-Beer brought on one
of the most quiet week-ends we
ever had, less accidents and
everything. People just got full
of beer and layed down and
took a good nap. I was play
ing polo, went to sleep, woke
up and found I had been beat
en-, but 1t was all right, I did
it for Roosevelt.
There amt nothing we can
do too much for Roosevelt
nowadays, 1 tell you we never
was living in a better time.
We got a smart man doing our
thinking for us. You see what
put this country on the bum
was dumb people thinking for
themselves.
Yours,
MG R1~r
0lsss MsHausht Syndicate. Lac
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
100000 HOGS
DIE IN DISTRICT
100000 More Are Likely
in Farm Allotment
Schedule.

Four million pigs and one million
ssowS are being slaughtered in this
district under the supervision of the
local aids in the department of ag-
riculture, DR.. G. L. Elliott, head OF
the indianapolis office, said today.
Local stock yard officers believe
that Agriculture Secretary Henry A.
Wallace will order an additional two
million pigs killed here in the near
future under the farm allotment
plan.
Although no arrangements have
been made as to the disposition of
the meat, Elliott believes that it
will be distributed to charity organ
izations for poor relief this winter.
The meat is being cured and pre-
served until orders come from
Washington providing for its dis
position.
Elliott revealed that the farmers
in this territory are reluctant to
bring in their sows to be butchered.
For that reason, the department of
agriculture may have some diff
Guilty in filling the quota.
1t is believed that the farmers are
keeping back their sows in hope
that the price of pigs will go up
next year. The bounty of 81 paid
for each SOW is believed not to be
sufficient to induce the farmers to
sacrifice their sows.
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Uncle joe Sees Good Times in Pawn Business Boom

threw in Madison Square garden.
But "Auntie" is optimistic about
the market in carpenters rules,
hammers, and the national re-
covery.
She adds one to 'Uncle's" good
times smile with. And they're
getting married, too. Unredeemed
wedding rings are selling"
In fact, the mechanic who buys
a monkey wrench in one breath
may be cycling a "ball-and-chain"
emblem in the next and trying
to haggle "Auntie" out of the
orange blossoms engraved on it as
well as plush box to put it in
for presentation to his "sweetie :"
And if Uncle" and "Auntie"
are to be believed, they'll both be
dancing ring around a rosie, poe
ketful Of pawn tickets" as their
world-cld three-ball signs glisten
in the sun Of new deal for the
'hockShop."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
FATHER, SON JAILED
FOR STEALING BUCKET

Father and son passed the buck"
Friday in the theft of a So bucket
and each was fined 81 and costs
with thirty-day Jail term.
Dan Acton, SO, and his son Ev-
erett, 80, of 2O3 Quill street, we're
sentenced by Municipal Judge Dew
ey E. Myers on larceny convictions.
The bucket was the property of
the Rev. D. O. Grove, pastor of the
Wesleyan Methodist church, Hoyt
avenue and Shelby street, and was
stolen from the rear of his home at
1875 Shelby street
The son said:
II stole the bucket because father
told me to-"
"We needed a water bucket; that's
why we stole the bucket" the elder
Acton explained.
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"Whatll you give me for this
brace and bit?"
But now Uncle" says they're
coming back to buy the tools of
others or their own if they can
find them to go out on a job
promised the other day.
y
DOOM in the pawn business is
- such that redemption of
articles is more common than it
has been in the last four years.
They're coming back for their
watches. This summers electric
fan is being traded for a winter
overcoat to hunt a job" he said.
why, even the guitars are sell
ing"
And believe you us when a gui-
tar sells. that means something
to Uncle"
1t mans, he says, that folks are
finding time to play and sing
again. instead of grump around
all day."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
MEET To PLAN
HOSPITAL FUND
OF METHODISTS
125 Committee Members in
Farley on 100000
Campaign.

Indiana Methodist hospitals new
deal in philanthropy" was inaugu-
rated Friday at conference of 125
committee members from every
county in the state at Methodist
hospital nurses home auditorium
here.
The new deal program, covering
period of five years, is intended
to raise 100000 to relieve the four
Methodist hospitals in the state of
bonded Indebtedness in order to
make it possible to provide hospital
iZation at less cost to the patient
Present hospital costs are too
high" said j. I. Holcomb, Indianap-
oils, campaign executive chairman.
Every hospital should operate so
it just barely is out of the red,
but it should not attempt to meet
building costs from patients fees. "
Several items enter into the new
deal' campaign, the most original
being that of service bonds, where
by contributors purchase bonds en-
titling theem to free hospital service
each year, the amount depending on
the size of the bonds, which in
crease in value each year.
Another is the life annuity plan,
whereby money is given to the hos
pital building fund, the contribu-
tor receiving interest the remain
der of his life.
The third major factor in the
campaign is that of requests. A
group of attorneys in various cities
has been organized to assist persons
who wish to leave requests to one of
the four Methodist hospitals in their
wills. The hospitals are located in
indianapolis, Fl. Wayne, Gary and
Princeton.
The program was explained by
the Rev John G. Benson, hospital
superintendent who said the cam
paign will be carried on entirely by
volunteers, no paid experts being
employed.
Honorary chairmen are Bishop
Edgar Blake and the Rev. Jean S.
Miner. Besides a central coEamit-
tee for the state, there will be
speakers bureaus in every county.
DR.. Benson announced two fifteen
minute periods weekly have been
donated by WKBF for radio talks
on the campaign.
Central committee members are
Arthur v. Brown, w. E. Mckee,
William L. Taylor, the Rev. William
G. Hartinger, Edgar Blake Jr., and
c. R. Kluss, Gary; E. L. Morgan,
Chesterton; the Rev. E. T. Frank
lin, o. U. King and the Rev. F. E.
Thornburg, Ft. Wayne, and the
Rev. Warren w. Want and the Rev.
Mr.. Benson, indianapolis.
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.HE dourest man in to-

THE dourest man in town
u smiles.
He is the fellow who can look
at a one-carat diamond and make
it seem just one carrot going into
a mating with some soupbone.
He is Uncle" Joseph, pawbrok-
er at Illinois and Ohio streets, or
maybe Uncle" Jacob, John or
Abraham.
Uncle smiles because business
is on the up-step and several
years of accumulation of monkey
wrencheS, bits, crowbars and
cross-saws are going so fast that
he can't keep in enough tools to
do his own handy man jobs
around his "hockery."
Uncle" has seen four years of
artisans file by his window or the
windows of other pawnshops in
the city and heard them come in
with wee in eyes to part with g
faveFite edze, maui or fendly say,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16

But the big news to Uncle" Is
that the heavy ice" (diamonds)
are being pawned.
Down to their last dollar? Is
that the reason?" Uncle was asked.
Nope. It's this way; they've
held on to that three or four
karat diamond through the de-
preston. It's their stake for good
times. Now, they're pawning them
to go into business.
Why, I've taken in two stones,
big ones, in the last week. One
fellow took his $500 loan and said,
I'm starting an insurance agen-
cy.'"
- %
JUST a few doors from Uncle"
- is "Auntie" Jack Werner, 234
Indiana avenue.
'.sAuntie" is "Uncle's counter
part in skirts. She wouldn't play
Pollyanna If you handed her
Broadway, the Ziegfeld show, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
CIGAR STORE CLERK
GETS LOTTERY FINE
Motion to Suppress Sustained, But
Guilty Finding Made.

Despite sustaining of a motion to
suppress evidence, Robert Wynn,
employed in a cigar store at 476
Massachusetts avenue, was fined $40
and costs Friday by Municipal Judge
Dewey E. Myers on a charge of
operating a lottery and gift enter
prise. Sentence was suspended.
Police said they caught Wynn in
the act of selling baseball pool
tickets to w. H. Drake, Az North
Alabama street. However, dollar
which Drake had laid on a counter
presumably in payment was not
taken by Wynn, and Drake replaced
the money in his pocket.
None of the tickets said by police
to have been seized could be offered
in evidence, due to sustaining the
motion to suppress.