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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Another Hindu
Mystery Staying

SACRAMENTO, June 20. U,P) -.
Another mysterious Hindu murder
confronted authorities today after
the bullet-ridden body of Durham
Singh, prominent in the Hindu col
ony here, Was found on Ryer island
in the Sacramento river near Rio
Vista
Police sought Lachman Singh. a
companion of Durham, after the
slam mans widow told them he
could furnish information regarding
the shooting. Lachman repeatedly
made his way to the mainland and
fled in an automobile. The two
men were not related.
Sirgh's death brought to % the
number of Hindus slain in Califor-
mia in recent years. Few of thi
s]ayers have been captured. U. S.
immigration officials have SAID
every victim was linked with the
Ghadar party, East Indian politica!
faction opposed to British rule in
India.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Files Damage Suit
OUer Oil Fields

LOS ANGELES. June 20. up
The Pacific Western oil company
was defendant today in an $1,000
900 damage suit filed as a new
chapter in the long waged dispute
over ownership of a strip of rich
oil land on the coast near Santa
Barbara.
The latest action was filed by
Mrs. Paula E. Den. acting for her
minor children, Marion A. and
Alfred E. Den, whom she repre-
sented as lawful heirs of Nicholas
Den, one of the original settlers of
Santa Barbara county. Den died
in 1852.
The suit alleges the children are
entitled to 100000 damages as
rightful owners of the property and
So 100000 in rents and profits as
sertedly collected by the Oil COM
pany.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
HE|RESS AND
PRINCE MARRY

PARIS, June 20. - Barbara Hut
ton, heiresS to millions of the Wool
worth five-and-ten fortune, became
the Princess M 'Divani in a simple
civil ceremony today at the 18th
district town hall of Paris.
She and Prince Alexis M 'Divani
of the Georgian republic, will be
married again on Thursday, how
ever, in a splendid religious cere-
mony at the Russian cathedral
where some of the glitter that ap-
pertains to the bride IS great wealth
will be in evidence.
The only display of wealth SC
far has been the wedding presents
including diamonds, jade, silver and
gold, closely guarded by detectives
This was Prince M 'Divani IS Sec
ond marriage, his previous bride
having been Louise Van Allen, great
granddaughter of John Jacob AS
tor. They were divorced.
The bride and bridegroom arriv-
ed at the town hall this afternoon
accompanied by eight attendants
WHO'D IlutColl WOIG Blcy ClllllOIl
dress, without coat, a silver fox fur
over her shoulders and grey chif-
fon hat
Her witnesses we're her father
Franklin L. Hutton and her aunt
Mrs. James Donohue. The prince
had for his witnesses his brother
in-law, j. M. Sert, Spanish mural
painter, and M. Chenkaly, Georg-
ian minister in Paris.
Miss Hutton was a happy bride
She smiled as she arrived at the
hall. The groom wore white spats
silk hat and morning coat.
Instead of the expected crowds
only about 20-idlers ewere aroune
the town hall. There were alsC
about 200 newspapermen and pho
tographers, herded by six police
men.
Daniel Marin, deputy mayor, per.
formed the ceremony.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Robinson Talks
At Lions Club

Amendments placed on the bal
lot for the special election we're
discussed by Sam Robinson, assem-
blyman from this district, at a
meeting of the Lions club at noon
today. He expressed the thought
that this special election should
not have been called because the
amendments do not fulfill the
plans on which they were original
ly founded. Robinson discussed
each amendment in turn and gave
his listeners his ideas on how they
should be voted.
Rev. John Spencer spoke for a
few moments on the Hipass camp,
telling what had been accomplish
ed there during the past year and
what it's sponsors expected to do
this summer. He asked the COOP
Grafton of all interested persons in
this project.
L. D. House, E. H. Gibson and
j. Reynor were visiting Lions.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Recovery Bill
To Aid Films

NEW YORK, June 20. W.P)-
The greater part of 1000 Clark
theatres in the United States will
be reopened as a result Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt IS industrial recov-
cry act, the Motion Picture Daily
said today
A fair practice code now being
drawn up by the motion picture in
dustry, acting with other industries
under the recovery bill, will elm
mate factors which forced the clos
ing of most of the theatres, the
publication said, among them price
cutting and monopoly of film pro-
duct.
Reopening of the theatres will
give employment to thousands, it
was said, not only in operation of
the houses, but in the production
and distribution ends of the motion
picture industry.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
.Shortridge To
Defend Accused

LOS ANGELES, June 20. U,P)-
Samuel Shortridge, former U. S.
senator, will defend Jerry Acalin,
fishing boat captain, and two mem
bers of his crew from murder
charges growing out of the death
of Pedro Pineda, Mexican customs
guard, it was learned today.
The former California senator
Will serve formal notice within a
few days that he will replace Jerry
Geisler and Charlie P. Johnson, as
defense counsel, it was said. He
intimated he would ask for a week s
continuance of the trial. scheduled
for July 10.
Acalin and his two crew members
are accused of throwing Pineda
into Ensenada bay when he sought
to arrest them on a charge of vio-
lating Mexican fishing regulations
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Yuma Not Worried
By Grasshoppers

YUMA, Ariz., June 20. U.D -
There is no apparent danger 10 the
fertile areas of the Yuma and Gila
river valleys from a dense swarm of
grasshoppers 30 miles east OF here,
j. L. E. Lauderdale, district cnto-
mologist, said today.
He described the insects as the
blue wing variety which chiefly in
habits the desert regions. The
swarm was found last week in the
Muggins mountains near Dome.
A daily watch is kept on the
grasshoppers, Lauderdale said, but
the swarm, about two miles by sew
en- miles in extent, has not moved
materially towards the valleys dur
ing the past four days.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
SAYS
MEXICAN WAS
REAL SLAYER

Charges that Sher Singh SAITH
and Amelia Valdez, believed to be
victims of a murder and suicide
near Holtville last week, were in
reality murdered by a Mexican, are
contained in a letter received by
Chief of Police Oswalt, from anoth-
er Mexican whose name the chief
is Withholding pending inveStiga-
ton of his charges.
The letter, written in Spanish
from Holtyille on June Is, charges
among other things that forced
marriages between Hindus and
Mexican girls are arranged and
claims the dead girl had been forced
to marry the Hindu with whom
she died.
Another Hindu, asserted to have
brought the murdered man into
Imperial county, is charged with
being one of group forcing mar
riages between Mexican girls and
Hindus.
The writer of the letter names a
Mexican as the actual slayer of
SAITH and the Valdez girl and
claims the latter was only Is years
old.
Authorities are reported to be
checking up on the contents of the
letter but place considerable doubt
on the genuiness of it's charges, be-
ing more inclined to the belief that
they were inspired by spite and a
desire for revenge.
The theory of murder and sui
eide is still maintained officials
said today.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
SEEK HAUNT.
Of KiDNAPERS

S'r. PAUL, MIMI, June 20. UP
The region of the hideout used by
the kidnapers of William Hamm,
Jr.. multi millionaire brewer, has
been discovered, William Dahill, po-
lice chief, told the United Press
today. Rewards totalling $50
spurred a triple hunt for the abb
ductors, who freed Hamm after
collecting ransom.
City police, Ramsy county auth
critics and the state bureau of
criminal investigation joined in
search for the kidnapping gang,
which officials believed was head
ed by Verne Sankey. Department
of justice agents announced they
were cooperating though there
was no evidence the kidnapers took
their victim out of the state.
Sankey, portly cattleman, gam
bier and liquor runner, is wanted
in connection with the kidnapings
of Haskell Bohn here last summer
and of Charles Boettcher II in Den
yer several months ago. Bohn was
released after payment of $4,000
ransom and Boettcher was freed
after payment of $4,000.
Dahill forecast that the gang S
hideout would be found "within
"a hours''. He believed it was
within two hours driving distance
of st. Paul, on a well Travelled
highway, near Pine City, Mimi,
and near the place where a pack
age of ransom money was thrown
from Hamm Brewery truck late
Saturday night. The kidnapers de-
manded 100000 but the ransom
paid was considerably less, it was
understood.
Hamm, who said he was treated
politely and with respect by his
kidnapers, tentatively identified one
of the men as Sankey.
The reward for capture OF
Hamm IS kidnapers was offered by
a secret group of st. Paul business
men, aroused by series of abduc-
lions in recent months.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY PROGRAM
DESIGNED TO BALANCE PRICES

this provision of minimum OF Sc
curity still remains conspicuously
lacking. the answer must be dis
covered in the kind of economic
and political organization which
dominates our industrial machine.
The system of unregulated business
enterprise has failed us in this re-
spect: it must be modified and reg
ulated to repair the failure. The
question is, whether this is to be a
governmental task"
The Roosevelt administration is
acting for the present on the as
sumption that the answer is yes.
(Tomorrow-the answer 10 the
brain trust.D
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
18th Commandment
Closes Tonight

Tonight is the last showing of
1.-The Seventh Commandment" at
Herb Norris airdome and also the
last time this uch-discussed pic
ture will be seen in Imperial VAL
ley.
A packed house witnessed the
two presentations last night and
were impressed by the we'll acted
picture. 1t concerns a subject so
often tabooed but a knowledge of
which is of such Importance today.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
DAMAGES
IN 'FRA|NEUP'

LOS ANGELES, June 20. U.P)-
Damages totalling 100000 are
sought from Mayor John c. Porter
Police Chief r. E. Steckel and three
other police officers in a suit on
file tooay, growing out of the IA
nous "Walkup frameup" case, storm
center of Los Angeles politics three
years ago.
The action was filed by Edward
S. Ward, who alleged he was falsely
imprisoned after his return from
San Antonio, Tex, where he spent
two years in exile, assertedly at the
expense of Wells j. Mosher, Por-
ter's former confidential secretary
! Neither Mosher nor Thomas Walk
up, police commissioner, purported
target of 'frameup plot" vert
mentioned in the petition.
The suit named as co-defendant;
Joe Taylor, chief of detectives; F
L. James and W. L. Robertson, de-
| tective lieutenants, and two anony'
nous persons identified only a;
John Does"
Ward, a former city investigator
was taken into custody on June 20
1882, and again on June %. HI
had just been returned from Sal
Antonio. At the time he charged
Mosher paid him 5000 month TO
nearly two years to remain in hid
ing. #ea.
Walkup claimed to have been APP
prised in advance of the allege'
'frameup," which he attributed t
political enemies. He claimed h
was to have been tricked into ;
morals charge.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Hollywood Bowl
Concerts Sure

LOS ANGELES, June 20. U.P)-
The Hollywood Bowls world-fa-
nous symphonies under the stars,
threatened for a time with aban-
donment, will be held this summer
as before, beginning July II.
The announcement was made by
the Hollywood Stars Foundation,
newly formed organization. Spokes-
men said salary difficulties among
members of the orchestra had been
adjusted.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

Copyright, 1893, by United Press
WASHINGTON, June 20. - One
of the delicate problems troubling
those active in the Roosevelt re-
covery program is that of balancing
prices so that they will not run out
of reach of the buying public.
The first instinct of businessmen
called upon to increase their pay
roll expense under the industrial
control act is to run up prices. Fur
thermore, they are operating a ris-
ing commodity price scale. They
are hungry for profits after sew
eral lean years. The throttling of
cut-throat competition gives them
welcome opportunity to charge more.
Yet administration officials fore
see that unless this tendency is
held within bounds, the high cost
of living will cancel all of the gains
in the form of increased purchasing
power sought from wage and labor
expansion. They realize a difficult
and delicate adjustment is involved.
Administration officials active H..
drafting the control legislation en-
phasize in this connection with a
new conception of profits is needed.
One of those responsible for the
new legislation, DR.. Rex Tugwell,
now assistant secretary of agricul-
ture and a member of the Roose-
welt brain trust" devoted much
thought to the problem of protect
ing the consumer in his recent
book, Industrial Discipline" He
noted that the federal government
has the recognized right to inter-
fere with the making of impure.
misrepresented or adulterated foods
and drugs. He suggested equal pro-
lection in the matter of prices.
Competition Injurious
He and many of his colleague 5
feel that free competition has work.
ed great injury and fails in many
respects to give the automatic pro-
lection to the public that numerous
theorists claim for it.
His discussion gives an illumi.
mating picture of what some of
President Roosevelt's advisers are
driving at.
workers suffered under it (frec
competition), DR.. Tugwell says in
his book. Hours we're long, con-
oitions bad, wages low. 1t made
shoddy goods, contrary to the theory
that in order to sell in competition
they must be good. But what is
most paradoxical of all, 1t LED
straight to combination and mono
poly.
Men and women do not ask much
from this world, but more at Least
than ought to be guaranteed then
by our resources and achievements
They ask security, security of ac'
cess to the goods of simple living
security of employment, security il
ill health and old age, security o
maintenance and training for thei
dependents.
eff we ask why it is, with al
equipment adequate to this purpose
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20

Junior Chamber To Meet - The
regular weekly breakfast meeting
OF the Junior chamber of commerce
VIII be held tomorrow morning at
the California hotel.
Tax Payments Good - Today is
the last day of grace for payment
OF county taxes as they become de-
nnquent at midnight. Inquiries at
the tax collector office this
morning showed that during the
past two days especially, payments
= nave been very brisk and 1t is exA
pected a large portion of money
due for taxes will be in before the
dead line is reached.
Storage - Household furniture.
pianos, trunks Be sure they are
safe during vacation. Reinforced
concrete warehouse. Rates reason
able. Phone l, Pioneer Truck and
transfer Co. 24tf
Announce Birth Mr.. and Mrs.
Lyle Kinnaird of Woodward ave-
hue are the parents of an eight
pound, six ounce son, born at the
Leblanc Maternity home Sunday.
Inc baby was named Donald Reed
Battery Case Continued - Felipe
r. Quetevis, 25, charged with bat
terry had his case continued in DO
ice court until tomorrow when he
appeared before Judge Lee Nuffer
This morning. H. L. Williams drew
sentence of $40 or days in the
city Jail on a drunkenness charge.
Auto Loans -Jno. X. Robertson,
TIT Main. Lowest rates, 15ti
Crash Damages Cars-CarS driven
by Ring Wishere and Antonio Leo
nor of Mt. Signal collided at Co
nant Corner, three miles southwest
OF Ell Centre yesterday afternoon,
according to a report at the sher-
lifts office. Neither driver was IN
jured but both cars were damaged
in the accident.
Home Cooked Meals Csc - Room
and board, reasonable rate. Casa
Rey Hotel. 9tt
Reports Counterfeit Coin John
Labucherie of the McCabe store re-
ported to the sheriff's office that a
Mexican whose name he does not
know, gave him a lead nickel and
a half dollar of the same material
for goods purchased within tho past
week. Deputies are investigating.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Thief Hopes For
Cool Summer

There is one person in Imperial
County who intends to keep cool
this summer no matter how high
the thermometer might soar and
he will also be we'll informed as
to the condition of the weather at
all times.
This person, according to a re-
port filed at the sheriff's office
early today, stole complete re-
frigerator car pre-cooler from the
Gerard company's plant in Braw-
ley. Not satisfied with this haul
the unknown included a complete
set of tools and 10 thermometers,
according to Dalton Ross who sent
in the report.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Sidy1leSe Revolt
Bloodless One

BANGKOK, Siam, June 90 U,P)
During the absence of King Pra-
jadhipok from the city, the govern
ment was overthrown in another
bloodless revolution today.
1t was similar to the coup of last
June, when a constitutional MON
archy was established The pres
ent conservative leaders were re-
placed as government heads by the
leaders of last June's overthrow, who
had since stepped down.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
ShaU Will Not
Resign Just Yet

LOS ANGELES, June 20. U.H -
Mayor ELECT Frank L. Shaw con-
tinued today to deny that he plans
to resign from the Craftsmanship of
the board of supervisors before the
preliminary county budget for 1888
"a is approved possibly not before
July 3.
There had been rumors tL3t Shaw
planned to resign in favor OF Super
visor John Quinn.
A straw vote of the boald irdi-
Gated Quinn was favored for the
craftsmanship, a post that tradi-
tionally follows seniority ranking.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20

Yesterdays ShipmentS-The to-
tai of perishable shipments rolling
from the valley yesterday was COM
posed of liz carloads of canta-
loupes, 40 of watermelons. 80 of
mixed melons, Is of honeydews
and five of honeyballs, according
to B. A. Harrigan, agricultural COM
missioner.
Delicious ice Cream 15c pint; 30c
quart, c. e. E. Root Beer Stand, 1876
Main. 1872
Roof Repairs Planned-H. Ritter
took out a building permit yester-
day for repairs on a roof at 854
Vine street. Estimated cost of the
work is set at $40.
DIR. A. B. Hanson, dentist. New
Professional Bldg. Phone 88. Off
Hearing On Charge - Olevia
Thomas, Seeley, had hearing be-
fore Judge Mayfield yesterday af-
ternoon on a charge of having is
sued a forged check. The court
continued the case until June 20
for further evidence.
Denies Rent Due-In an answer
by Ring Wichers to the complaint
of G.. L. Pulliam it is denied that
the defendant still neglects or re-
fuses to pay any rental for the
property in question for the reason
that none is due.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Spanish Flyers
Off For Mexico

HAVANA, June 90 UP)-Captain
Mariana Barberan and Lieutenant
Joaquin Collar, Spanish flyers who
flew nonstop from Seville. Spain,
to Havana, took off today on a
1000 mile nonstop flight to Mex
leo City.
The flight, financed by the Span
ish government, was intended to
express the good will of Spain to-
ward Mexico. Barberan and Collar
were detained in Cuba for over a
week by continuous round Of
fiestas.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
MORLEY GOING
To LONDON

WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
AT SEA, June 20. U.P) - A navy
plane roared over Inc sea today
bringing Raymond Moley, assistant
secretary of the state. for a sea-
going conference on world econom-
les with President Roosevelt aboard
his schooner Amberjack II.
With dramatic suddenness, Moley
dropped down at Nantucket, boarded
the destroyer Bernadou that was
waiting for him and which steamed
at full speed for the presidential
yacht beating northward through
the long Atlantic swells off Cape
Cod for Provincetown.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who was at the
wheel, when a motor launch from
the Bernadou put Moley aboard the
schooner did not relinquish his
place at the tiller in spite of the
fact Moley, his chief economic ad-
visor brought him the latest It'd
ings from the London conference.
At the conclusion of the confer
ence, Stephen T. Early, the Presi-
dents secretary, issued the follow
ing statement:
Assistant Secretary Moley is
sailing tomorrow for London at the
request of the President. He will
act in sense as a messenger or liza
ison officer giving the American
delegates first-hand Information of
the various developments congress
sional, etc., in this country since the
delegation left, and conveying the
Presidents views of these develop
ments on the original instructions
given the delegates before they
sailed.
Secretary Moley will stay in
London only about a week and will
return to give the President full in
formation on the conference, etc.
up to that time :"
WITH PRESIDENT 2OOSE-
WELT, AT SEA, OFF HARWICH-
PORT, Mass, June 20.-President
Roosevelt IS trim schooner-yacht
Amberjack II, tossed in the heav-
ing SWellS off Cape Cod today,
bound from Nantucket for Pro-
vincetown, Mass.
Mr.. Roosevelt put out from
Nantucket, where he had sought
shelter overnight at 5 a. m. (EST)
with a north wind retarding his
ships progress.
1t was not until Cape Cod was
sighted that he shut down the
auxiliary engine of the Amberjack
and ordered full sail hoisted.
Numerous ships passed the little
schooner as she turned her bow
northward. All dipped their colors
in salutes which were answered by
the destroyer Ellis.
The sea had Gained today and
the weather was fair, with only
rollers attesting to yesterdays blow
which forced Mr.. Roosevelt to seek
the shelter of Nantucket s harbor
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
Drop Employee
AS Undesirable

SACRAMENTO, June 20. U.R)-
DR.. j. M. Toner, state director of
institutions, today announced he
had received word from DR.. Olive
Walton, superintendent of the Ven
tura state school for girls, that an
employee, Thomas Chisholm, had
been discharged
Chisholm recently was found
guilty in Ventura courts of charges
of selling beer without a license
and operating a GiSorderly house.
An investigation was ordered by
DR.. Toner
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
PERSINGER RETURNS

Jimmy Persinger of the Bank of
America is back at the bank to-
day after an absence of three
weeks. He underwent a sinus op-
Grafton in San Diego and is great
ly improved in health as a result.
He returned from the coast last
night.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20

EDITORS NOTE: Following
is the second of several dis
patches dealing with various
aspects of the Roosevelt re-
cOvery plan. This presents
typical view of the problem
from the brain trust" side.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-20
WAGES INCREASER

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, June 20.
| W.P)-A five per cent wage increase
for all $4,000 employees of the Gen
eral Electric company, effective
July l, has been ordered, it was re-
vealed today.
Evening star., 1933-05-14

Brazil claims that its new airport at
Rio de Janeiro viii. be the most COM
plete In the world.