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Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
REPORT URGES
Gas TAX USE

SACRAMENTO. March 2. U.H-
PAYMENT of interest and redemp-
ton on outstanding highway bonds
from gasoline tax funds is rec
commended in report of the senate
fact-finding committee today. The
report opposed diversion of the gas
tax money for other purposes.
Other recommendations in the
report which covered the depart
ment of public works were:
Reduction in administration ex-
penses of approximately 25 per cent.
Appropriation for the division of
architecture be reduced from $234,-
78O to a sum not to exceed 6 per
cent CT the cost of new conStruc-
ton during the biennium.
Reduction in the number OF
highway districts from 10 to 5.
Discontinue publication of the
monthly bulletin of the department
of public works.
In a report covering the activi-
ties of the board of state harbor
commissioners the committee rec
commended:
All employees of the commission,
except the executive secretary be
placed under civil service.
Cost of operation of the port of
San Francisco reduced from ST.
100000 to $1,750,000 per biennium.
Employees of the commission be
subjected to general salary reduc-
tion plan recommended for state
employees.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
FILMS GIVEN
RAK|NC OVER

HOLLYWOOD, March 2. U.E-
Making of the motion picture in
dustry a wall Street plaything'
has caused M. G. Levee, well known
motion picture producer to resign
from the board of directors of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences.
A scathing statement that the
film industry has been "milked
dry by parasites and incompe-
tents, was given out by Levee last
night as he quit the directorate of
the colony's most noted organiza-
tion.
The stockholders, said Levee,
have been left holding the sack"
The depression is only an Incl
dent--just a convenient alibi for
those responsible for sending one
of Americas greatest industries in
to wholesale bankruptcy, declared
the producer. who formerly was
president of the academy.
He charged that hundreds of
Hollywood's finest creative workers
had been deprived of their jobs
through the ''sheer incompetence"
of those in control who made a
wall Street plaything' of the in
dustry.
"There is not enough money in
the country to save an industry
which is mentally and morally
bankrupt said Levee.
"The New York bankers can
pour millions into Hollywood from
now on and the industry will con-
tinue to stagnate unless the brains
and personalities actually respon-
sible for the successful pictures of
the past are given honest oppor-
tunities to perform their tasks in
the future"
Levee denounced growing
practice" of clarifying smut and
immortality on the screen. 1--WE
must either disinfect the master
minds who select our film themes,
or displace them entirely he said.
Levee is now an associate pro-
ducer for Mary Pickford.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
Pair Struck DotUn
By Hit-Run Auto

LOS ANGELES, March 2. U.P)-
Victims of a hit-run driver who
shot through the intersection at
Eighth and Normandie, George
Myers, so, of Huntington Park, was
dead today and Mrs. Myers was
not expected to live.
Crossing the street on foot, the
Myers were struck squarely by the
speeding car. Myers was dragged
more than a block, and was dead
when his body hurled free.
Mrs. Myers was thrown across
the street by the impact.
She was taken to Georgia Street
Emergency hospital, where she was
found to have both legs broken
fractured pelvis and internal in
juries. Physicians held out little
hope tor her life.
Police were conducting an extern
sive search for the death car. a
large, powerful black sedan.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
Arizona Farmers
InUade Capital

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 2 U.P)
Five hundred farmers, incensed
over failure of the legislature to
grant them aid, today invaded the
state capitol, demanding passage
OF two-year mortgage relief mea-
sure.
They stormed through the capi-
tol corridors, some shouting and
demanding the senate report from
committee a bill designed to pro-
vide two-year extensions on fore
closure actions.
Armed deputy sheriffs and police
officers, rushed to the scene after
frantic appeals by state officials
for help, paEolled the building,
maintaining order and subduing
the more boisterous' farmers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
Optimistic Vielu
Taken By King

M. o. King today sounded
the general opinion of El Cen
trO business men in an Opti-
mistic statement relative to the
three day barking holiday de-
ciared by Governor James
Rolph, Jr.
THE M. o. King store will
continue to do business as us
ual, receiving checks on LEGAL
banks in payment of accounts
or in payment for merchan-
disc" King declared. land to
carry on business in every way
as though there had been no
holiday declared.
I'VE feel that at the end of
the three day period normal
banking conditions will be re-
stored, and that there is no
need for alarm" -
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02

Imperial Valley dug in today
against the rigors of Governor
Rolph's banking moratorium = and
grinned
Business men, farmers, clerks
and laborers took stock of the
bankless situation, thumbed collec-
tive noses at gloom and grinned as
they went about business as usual,
making the best of the situation
because they could do nothing else.
BY a queer quirk of law which
made it necessary TO declare a le-
gal holiday in order TO close the
banks for three days, The county
court house, city hall and other
governmental agencies also were
forced to close, as they were in ev-
cry section of California.
To county business the forced
closing was Just as diSconcerting
as it was unexpected Superior and
Justice court procedure was in
terrurted. County offices closed in
the middle OF the weeks business.
The grand jury, with two Witness
es summoned from Los Angeles for
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
WALSH DIES
SUDDENLY On
WEDDING TRIP
Veteran Montana Senator Dies
On Train Enroute To Capital
For Inaugural.
WAS TO BE IN CABINET
Selection For Attorney General
By Roosevelt Preceded By
Marriage To Cuban Widow.

ROCKY MOUNT, N. c., Mar. 2.
IU.P.-Senator Thomas j. Walsh, 73
year old political veteran who was
Attorney General-designate in the
new Roosevelt cabinet, died sudden
ly aboard an Atlantic Coast line
train today while enroute to Wash
ington with his Cuban bride.
Physicians attributed his death
to "heart condition or a hem
orrhage of the brain.'
Senator Walsh was taken i'll at
Daytona Beach, Fla, night before
last, when he suffered an attack
OF indigestion, but his condition
had not appeared serious.
Mrs Walsh awakened about 6:30
a. m. today to find the senator ly-
ing on the floor of their drawing
had arisen to take medicine or
drink of orange juice.
Mrs. Walsh called train attend
ants, who stopped the train at Will
son, only few miles away. DR.. M.
A. Pittman of the Moore Herring
hospital Wilson, boarded the train,
but found that Senator Walsh was
already dead.
Mrs Walsh, who was Sonora
Maria Nieves Truffin, widow of
Cuban sugar nagnate, until her
marriage to Senator Walsh in Ha-
vana last Saturday, became hyster-
ical. DR.. Pittman gave her seda-
tive.
The body was taken on to Rocky
Mount 18 miles away, the next stop
on the Atlantic Coast line.
Mrs. Walsh rested at the Kicks
hotel, where she regained her COM
posure though she remained very
emotional" DR.. Pittman said.
The body was embalmed here.
A nurse, Miss Leona Boswell, was
attending Mrs. Walsh. Mrs. Walsh
was also attended by her Cuban
maid
Funeral services probably will be
held in Montana, Dr.. Plttman said
Mrs. Walsh intimated to him in a
brief comment on future plans,
which as yet were not definite.
Senator Walsh had been taking
medicine under direction OF Dr..
Merryday. Daytona Beach, Fla, as
prescribed there yesterday.
DR.. Pittman said he and Miss
Boswell probably would accompany
Mrs. Walsh to the capital.
AT Mrs. Walsh's request, the body
was attired in the late senator's
wedding clothes.
Capt. Guger, Son-in-law OF the
late senator, now stationed at the
navy base, Hampton Roads, Va,
advised Mrs. Walsh he would meet
her there and accompany her to
Washington, where final funeral
ARRANGEMENTS will be made. The
body should arrive at Washington
at 10 p. m. tonight.
WASHINGTON, March 2. W.P)
The senate adjourned for the
day immediately after convening
today out OF respect for Senator
Walsh (Dem) Montana, who died
today in North Carolina.
Important emergency legislation
was laid aside until 9 a. m. tomor-
row when the body will reconvene.
The adjournment resolution was
offered by Minority Leader Robin
son. a close associate of the late
senator
"Senators have been greatly
surprised and shocked to receive
information that one of our absest
and most beloved members has
passed away" Robinson said. "Sen-
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
British Budget
GiUen Increase

LONDON, March 2. UP) = The
British war department today pre-
sented tentative budget calling
for an increase of 1,462,00 pounds
sterling over it's 1882 expenditures
Presenting the estimate. Lord
Hailsham, secretary Of state for
war, pointed out that the economy
measures of the past year have
involved a definite loss of effici-
ency and could not be repeated
without serious consequences"
Today's estimate calls for 1885,
900 pounds sterling. as compared
with 36,4880O0 appropriated for
1882.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02

| ly asked whether or not the legis-
lature could convene, even if it SO
Willed, during legal holiday.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 2. <U.D
Legislation placing Withdrawals
from California banks on limited
basis was being drafted by banking
and state executives today after
Governor James Rolph, Jr., pro-
claimed a three day banking NOR
atorium.
The proposal was to be placed i'm
mediately before the state legisla-
ture, in session at Sacramento.
Governor Rolph promised to rec
ommend immediate passage.
Seated around a long oak table
in the executive office of the state
building here were Governor Rolph.
Ed j. Rainey, state superintendent
of banks; Jared Sullivan, vice pre-
, sident of the Croker National
bank of San Francisco and presi-
dent of the California Bankers as
socia ton; Edward Elliott, vice pre-
sident of the Security First Nation
al bank of Los Angeles and chair
man of the legislation and taxa
ton committee of the bankers as
sociation and W. R. Williams of
Los Angeles, vice president of the
Bank of America and member OF
| the bankers association legislative
committee.
They were present when Rolph,
who had flown here from Sacra-
mento, issued his proclamation late
last night.
Nationwide financial unrest had
resulted in unnecessary Withdraw
al of funds from banking institu-
TONS in California, the governor
said
To protect depositors and pre-
serve public welfare, he decreed
that today, Friday and Saturday
be legal holidays.
The proclamation expressed con-
tidence legislation to limit with
drawals could be enacted during the
three days
Rainey said the moratorium was
declared for the protection of all
depositors.
Text of Proclamation
Governor Rolphs proclamation
Of the holiday follows:
Whereas, financial unrest ex-
lists throughout the United States,
the adverse effect of which has
been reflected in the state of Cali
fornia with consequent unneces-
sary withdrawal of funds from
banking institutions in this state,
deem 1t necessary in the public
interests and for the preservation
OF public welfare, peace, health and
safety, and for the protection of
depositorS whose interests it is es-
sential to safeguard, that a period
OF public holidays be proclaimed
until the legislation necessary
thereto may be enacted, which, in
my judgment, will not require a
period longer that that hereinafter
specified.
Nov, therefore, I, James Rolph,
Jr., acting in my capacity as gov
ernor of the state of California,
under authority by law in me in
vested, dc hereby proclaim each of
the following days, to-wit: Thurs
day, March 2, 1888, Friday, March
8, 1888, and Saturday, March 4,
1888, to be public holidays; said
days to be recognized, classed and
treated and to have the same eff
feet as other legal holidays under
the laWc 0f the state
In witness thereof, I, James
Rolph, Jr., governor of the state of
California, acting in my capacity
as such, have hereunto affixed my
hand at the executive office in
Sacramento, California, on this first
day of March, 1888, and have like
wise caused the great seal of the
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
Roosevelt Aides
Planning Economy

WASHINGTON, March 2. U.P)-
Speaker of the House Garner re-
vealed today that President-elect
Roosevelts advisors have complet-
ed a federal government reorgan-
ization plan designed to save be-
tween $150,o00000 and 100000, 900
annually.
The program would be put into
effect by executive order under au-
thority granted in the treasury
post office appropriations bill yet
to receive final congressional ap-
proval.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
Young Boettcher
Returned Home
BY CLYDE G. BYERS
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff correspondent
DENVER, March 2. <U.P)-The
torment to which Charles Boett-
cher. II, was subjected during is
days as the prisoner of kidnapers
today spurred hot pursuit of the
abductors who fled with 100000
ransom after releasing the young
millionaire here last night.
Western justice was aroused. The
relentless spirit of early day vigil
antes asserted itself as incensed
ranchers near Eaton organized pos
ses to join forces with Colorado
and Wyoming sheriffs' officers to
track the outlaws.
Less than two hours after Boett-
cher was released a hot trail was
picked up near Barr where Deputy
Sheriff Charles Williams of Adams
county and two volunteers battled
: two men believed to have been
the fleeing kidnapers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
Expect Early Vote
On Utility Taxes

SACRAMENTO, March 2. U.P)--
IN early vote on the assembly on
the utility tax equalization bin was
indicated at noon today when q
call of the house was ordered to
obtain enough members to vote on
motion TO suspend the rules.
The first vote on the motion was:
yes, So, no %. Two more votes were
required for the necessary two
thirds majority.
The assembly was locked up and
sergeant-at-arms sent out "a
slinmon absentee members.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
German Monarchy
Flag Permitted

BERLIN, March 2. UP) = An
edict regarded as the first official
move toward abolition Of the Ger
man Republican flag was expect
ed today, the News Service Tele-
graphen Union said.
The edict, by the Prussian gov
ernment, would relieve all Prussian
state officials of the obligation to
display the Republican black, gold
and red colors.
Besides permitting use Of the
banners of the German states, 1t
will also empower Prussian author
tiles to fly the black, white and
red flag of former imperial Ger
many, the report said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
Walsh Death Not
To Change Plans

WASHINGTON. March 2. U.P)-
Inaugural plans will be carried out
as originally contemplated despite
the death of Senator Thomas j.
Walsh, who was to have been the
Roosevelt attorney general.
1--WE are all grieved at the loss
of Senator Walsh and we all had
the greatest admiration and re-
specC for him said Rear Admiral
Gary T. Grayson, chairman of the
inaugural committee. $50 far as
our plans are concerned, Senator
Walsh died as q member of the
senate and thSre is nothing we can
do bat continue as he would have
wished us to-
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
MOTHER VISITING HERE

Mrs. T. H. Boals of Solana, Tex
as, is in Ell Centre visiting her
sons, Harvey and George Boals of
this city. George Boals is recover
ing from severe attack of pneu-
monia and Mrs. Boals has come to
be with him during his GONZALES
cence.
This is Mrs. Boals' first trip to
Imperial Valley and she is enjoy
ing the delightful spring weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
Transomerica Drops
On Neuv York Board

NEW YORK, March 2. U.P)-
Proclamation of bank holiday in
California today brought selling
into Transamerica Corporation and
the issue broke to 25S off III and
new low for the year on the
New York stock exchange.
Several other Pacific coast stocks
were depressed with Pacific Gas
down 2h points to 22l3. Standard
Oil of California and Pacific
Lighting were down fractionally.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
VALLEY ACCEPTS MORATORIUM
WITH DISPLAY OF GOOD HUMOR

This afternoon vernon
Rclph made himself solid with
the school pupils by declaring
the moratorium also affects
schools and they will be closed
tomorrow, The Press was ad-
vised.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02
AWILl-
gigs

BEVERLY HILLS, March /.
tSpeciaD-I hear the inaugur-
alton is to be put off three
weeks on account of the bud
get.
Every time Detroit outgrows
Henry Ford, he has to go in
and save EN- again. He is 60
ing to have bank where you
can leave your money and
come back and find it before
the banker does.
AL Smith told exactly what
his ideas were on every import
ant question. No wonder he
can't be elected. Imagine a
man in public office that ev-
erybody knew where he stood?
We wouldn't call him a states
man, we would call him a cur
iosity.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-02

ly asked whether or not the legis-
lature could convene, even if it SO
willed, during a legal holiday.
Evening star., 1933-08-25

guest house. SO. They have parties
there every night.
Fourteenth-and Last Day.
WHAT a day-Sunday again-or Is
w it Saturday? A little bit of both.
Very nearly time to 60 home. I'm
press;ons of things done and seen:
Katherine Hepburn-interesting face
"a vital, curiously immobile personal
ity. She won't be talked to when she's
working. She's doing Little Women"
now She raises trouble If any one
comes on the set. We are sneaked
in to watch her and sneaked out BY
all odds, the nearest thing to Garbo
ELISA Landi. Met her at a party
given for Nina KoShetz's daughter
miss Koshetz sends her regards to
Washington-most particularly to DR..
Kindler). Miss Landi is almost i'm
possibly beautiful. She is just what
you have always thought she should
be- Gold hair, blue eyes and a smile
which knocks you silly. She is quiet.
dignified and very much Of lady. Left
the party early.
Phil Holmes took us to it. When
he walks into room dozen girls
come flying He has one in every port
Down at the Beach Club his life is very
complicated. Here you see Hollywood's
best The girls are all blondes. Heigh-
no! 1t has become the thing to do"
for young girls now to 60 in the pic
lures" Blue blood mothers no longer
frown at the idea. In fact. they cheer.
Final things noted and accomplished:
A swimming party at Ramon Navarro's
curious custom, no bathing suits
allowed. Dinner there given for Laura
Hope Crews remember her in Tho
Silver Cord"O; she IS going back
East to do a play; a most charming
and amusing lady. A visit with Dick
Powell, who has q dramatic critic
from Pittsburgh. Harold Cohen. staying
with him. A short trip to the Roman
Evening star., 1933-08-25
A Sad Tale, Is This Newest
Film Starring Miss Dietrich
Song OF Songs" Shows the Beautiful Marl.ne in
An Her Glory. But the Story Has Its
Very Weak Moments.

make her Q baroness and . great lady,
mold her IN life as you have IN clay"
Displaying fOrtitude, the hero pro-
ceeds to do just that. He dis
appears The baron marTies Lily at
probably the grimmest wedding ever
screened. They 60 to live on his estates.
She learns music, French, dancing, rid
ing. The young farm manager falls in
love with her. She refuses his atten-
tions. Then the baron invites our hero
to behold the wonders that have been
wrought with Lily. That, Of course, Is
q painful scene Finally, Lily cannot
stand it longer, and she runs from the
dining hall. Her ex-lover comes after
her, pleads with her to return to him.
Her reply Is, Il am the baroness. You
would be the last man on earth for me-"
Whereupon she marches to the cot
tage Of the farm lad In his haste he
knocks over an oil lamp. The house
blazes. Fortunately, Lily escapes before
are baron is able to find and kill her
She goes to Berlin, IS discovered by
the sculptor in night club. He takes
her back to his rooms. So far as Miss
Dietrich is concerned, there is nothing
lacking in that fipal scene where she
stands. swathed in the gaudy garb of
her profession, bitter and despairing.
and looks upon the statue Of the girl
she had been. Even the melodramatic
smashing of that gracious marble figure
she manages to make reasonable But
when she has Splintered the statue and
fallen sobbing to the floor, what line
Is given the hero? He says, Let 1t 60,
Lily"
Alison Skipworth appears rs Lay's
aunt, role played with some unneces-
sary groans. but withal, amusing enough.
Short subjects and the news reel
complete the Palace program
r. B. p, JY.
Evening star., 1933-08-25

~ ESPITE an undeniable pictorial
beauty and the basic intensity
of the story it has to tell,
Song of Songs the new
Marlene Dietrich picture at
Loew's Palace this week, does not
achieve the success which might have
been expected from a filming of Her
man Sudermann'S romantic novel.
A sad tale of country girl who goes
to the city, progresses from her passion
ate first love to cruel and unhappy
marriage and thence to the streets OF
Berlin and what is commonly known
never arrives at the status either Of
complete tragedy or pure romance. Its
general befuddlement cannot, neverthe-
less, obscure the virtues OF two occa-
sionally brilliant performances by Mar
lene Dietrich in the title role and Lionel
Atwill as brusque PruSsian baron, who
is intended to be the ogre of the piece.
Starting slowly and with considerable
waste motion. the film relates the ex-
periences Of Lily. rustic lass who goes
to Berlin after the death of her father
to reside with her aunt. Scarcely has
she begun work in her aunts tiny
bookshop when in gallops young
sculptor, who has his atelier across the
SLIEet, dIlQ DclhOlOo tIlC iONSly Adiy Po0SA
gracefully atop a book ladder.
Gentle Lily goes to the artists quar-
ters that hight and after filing per-
functory demurrer, poses for him.
At this point in strolls the baron. A
bluff and brutal fellow, he Is instantly
excited by the sculptor's sketches OF
Lily, and in answer to his queries Is
informed that the artists interest m
the girl is purely academic.
Thereafter comes perhaps the finest
incident in the drama. laid In an out
door setting, perfectly photographed
and directed. The lovers are boating
on a lake, they come ashore and climb
a hill and lie on the grass talking.
In those moments Lily has the richest
lines Of the play, and she makes the
most Of them-but Mr.. Brian Ahearne,
the hero, instantly clinches the sus-
picion that he was never, never meant
for the part he is playing. In his first
scenes he Is often much too frenzied,
and when he is not that he is wooden.
But here, when Lily has said to him
things which would make the heart
of any man turn somersalts. he seems
to bite his lip with the regret Of one
who has just remembered he forgot to
put out the fire under the coffee pot
that morning
When the sculptor tells his friend.
the baron, that Lily's talk OF eternal
fidelity and all that" strikes him as
a sour note, the baron says: Why
don't you give her to me? I am
a wealthy fellow, will marry her,
Evening star., 1933-08-25
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Earie-'Captured," at 1l:15 am,
1:50, 4:3O, tbs. Stage shows at l, $40,
6:25 and 9:05 pm.
Palace-"The Song of Songs" at
11:15 am, l:20, 1925, $50, 7:35 and
GAS pm.
Ioew's Fox-"Turn Back the Clock, "
at IL am. l45. 4:50, 7:20 and 1905
pm. Stage shows at 1890, 3;l5. sos
and $50 pm.
Columha-"Iife In the Raw" at II as
am, 1:20. 3, 4;45, $50, e:l5 and 10
pm.
Metropoli.an-"Dou Harness" at
11:3O am. ITO, 2:55, 4:4o, $40, 8
and GAS pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Morning Glory" at
1l:59 am, 1859, 3:59, $50, 7:59 and
9:59 pm.
Tivoii-"Her Bodyguard," at 2:40
4:25, $40, and $50 pm.
Ambassador-"Ga Ship" at
6:l5 am. 8 and GAS pm.