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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
BANK DEPOSIT
INSURANCE To
FACE BATTLE
Commercial Financial Lnstitu-
tons Prepare For Vigorous At
tack In Congress.
PRESIDENT URGES DELAY
Relaxation OF Securities Act
Also Under Fire As Being I'm
practicable And Unjust.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. - A
= double -barreled attack on admins
tration banking policies was devel-
oping today on the eve of the Will
ter session of congress.
Commercial bankers urge major
amendment Of tie bank deposit
insurance bill which becomes CT
fective January l. Investment bank
ers are organized in a campaign to
obtain relaxation of the securities
act.
Both efforts have received abrupt
disbursement at the White House
President Roosevelt has recon-
mended an examination of the Sc
curities act to determine If there
is justice in the investment bank
ers' complaints. But he is repre-
scented authoritatively as insisting
on retention of provisions outlaw
ing securities practices which Fave
cost American investors billions OF
dollars in the last 10 years.
Mr.. Roosevelt has suggested that
the deposit guarantee experiment be
tried before its provisions arc
changed materially. He prefers that
amendments be written in the light
of experience if at all.
OppOsitiOn Aroused
Problems of liability are arouS
ing banking opposition to both acts.
Investment bankers complain 1t is
neither practicable nor just 10 hold
themselves and directors OF cor
porations civilly and criminally un-
. qualifiedly liable for material mis-
statements or omissions OF fact
from security advertisements. There
. is talk OF a strike of capital if the
severe restrictions of the bill are
!, maintained in force.
Large commercial bankers, whose
Spokesman here has been Wlnthro.;
w. Aldrich Of the Chase National
bank, object to the liability provi-
sions of the deposit guarantee act
The guarantee is in two parts. The
first. effective January l, provides
that until July l, 1884, deposits no
to $4,000 shall be guaranteed
against loss.
After that date permanent plan
would become effective, guarantee
ing deposits in full up to $4,000;
rs per cent of deposits from $4,000
to $4,000; and SO per cent of de-
posts over $4,000.
The large New York banks have
Joined in proposing that the per-
manent deposit insurance or guar
.antee plan be abandoned. Instead
they would continue reluctantly the
$500 temporary guarantee after
' July /, 1884.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
McAdoo Endorses
Water Project

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18. UP
Sen. William Gibbs McAdoo swung
his support behind the proposed
$170,000,000 Central Valley Water
project today in public statement,
urging voters to ballot for the prof.
ect at tomorrow special election.
McAdoo characterized the project
as necessary to halt the "destruc-
ton by salt water of thousands
of acres of fertile land below
Stockton.
eff promptly undertaken he
said, "the project will give employ
ment to large numbers of men aside
from saving the threatened farms
and investment of many thousands
of California IS best citizens.''
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
FORD STRIKE
DECISION UP
TO PRESIDENT

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. Is. U.P)-
Strikers at the Ford Motor COM
pany plant in Edgewater. N. j..
sought a showdown today on labor
differences which they charged
had kept them out of work for II
weeks. An appeal was sent to
President Roosevelt after $50 strik-
ers met here.
1.-THE Ford Motor company" the
letter said in part, has persistently
flouted the provisions of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration by
refusing to bargain collectively with
us through representatives OF our
own choosing. The Ford Motor
company has continually defied
the national government by refus-
ing to accede to the provision of
the legislation which you SO cour-
ageously fostered.
Nov, Mr.. President, we ask you
does the government OF the
United States exist to safeguard
the property rights of one insur-
gent industrialist, Mr.. Henry Ford,
or does the government of the
United States exist to promote the
general welfare of all?"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18

the fierce account method WIS
strictly out of the question and
that work was to be done by cor
tract. He had previously told E. T
HeWes, board chairman and M. j
Dowd. district chief engineer, tie
same thing in a conference in
Washington the week preceding
the Los Angeles meeting.
Meanwhile Charles L. Chllders
and M j. Dowd have left for Wash
.ngton, D. c.. where they will be
when the bids for the canal con-
structiCn are opened in Yuma
Wednesday, prepared to protest to
tie government should these bios
he too high and, if necessary, carry
on the fight to have the district dc
the work at cost. The board will
be present at the opening OF these
bids in Yuma, wednesday.
The board held an informal meet
ing at the home of A. j. Kahn
Brawley, Saturday afternoon to dis
cuss matters relating to the police
of board in the matter of canal
construction. Before this meeting,
resignation Which had been pre-
sented to the board some time age
by Childers as chief counsel, was
withdrawn and Childers will re-
main as attorney for the district
after his return from Washington
The resignation had never been for
mally brought up at board meet
ing and therefore no action was
taken on it.
Confer With Coachella
Saturday evening Directors Hewes
and Rose met with DR.. Forbes and
Lee Anderson OF the Coachella dis
trict board at Coachella for a fur
ther discussion of problems affect
ing the two districts, especially the
distribution OF water and power
from the All-American canal ard
valuation suit now on in the
courts. Owing to differences OF
opinion existing among members
of the Imperial board, the negotia-
tions are held up further no deci-
sion being reached at Saturday S
conference.
It had been hoped that the ne
eotiations which have been pend
ing during the past 80 days might
have been satisfactorily concluded
at Saturdays meeting so the vallda-
ton suit could have been dismissed
A meeting Of the board sched-
uled for Ii,is morning was adjourn
ed by Chairman Hewes until to-
morrow morning due to the lack
of a quorum to conduct the meet
ing.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
Three Polling
Places In City

With polling places located in the
court house, the city hall and
Lincoln school, Ell Centre is ready
to vote in the special state election
called for tomorrow. This is for
the acceptance or rejection of the
Central Valley Water Project, call
ing for sl7OOOO,OoO in bonds for the
construction of a water conserva-
ton system in the San Joaquin
valley. Polls will be open from 6
q. m. until 7 p. m.
In line with other voting days
tomorrow will be a holiday here
with the banks, court house bust
ness offices and city hall being
closed for the day. Being a state
holiday it does not affect govern
ment offices and the post Office
will be open tomorrow as usual.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
FATHER SIERRA
RELIC FOUND

CARMEL, Calf, Dec. Is. U.P)-
The ablution bowl used by Fra
Junipero Sierra in the early days
of Carmel Mission was uncovered
during excavation work amid the
historic ruins, it was revealed to-
day.
The masonry bowl, in an excel
lent state of preservation, was found
between what had been the kitchens
and dining rooms of the padres who
with Sierra worked among the In
dians in California S early days.
The public will be permitted to
see the relic and other historic
finds during the annual Christmas
pilgrimage to Fra Serra's tomb.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
CUMMINGS MAY
RESIGN POST

NEW YORK, Dec. 10. U.P)-Re-
ports in political circles today were
that Martin Conboy, newly appoint
ed U. S. attorney for this district
would replace Homer Cummings as
attorney general in the Roosevelt
cabinet.
The reports, which sprang up at
ter the return from Washington OF
Edward j. Flynn, federal patronage
dispenser here, said that Cummings
was about ready to take the post of
governor of the Philippines to
which he was originally designated.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
QUIZ SUSPECT
IN SHOOTING
At PASADENA
Son Of Caretaker AT Scottish.
Rite Cathedral Arrested In DR..
Siever Case.
CLAIM STORY SUSPICIOUS
Accused Found To Have Pair
OF Guns Though First Admit
ting Only One Weapon.

PASADENA, Dec. 10. U.P) - The
formative case against Thomas
Bennett, 35, arrested in connection
with the death of DR.. Leonard
Siever. was struck a damaging blow
later today by a ballistics experts
report that the bullets found in Or.
Siever s body could not have been
fired from the pistol found in
Benefits room.
PASADENA, Dec. Is. U.P)-Thom-
as Bennett, 35-year-old hotel en-
ployee, was arrested today on a
charge of suspicion of murder in
connection with the killing of DR..
Leonard Siever, aesthetic dentist,
social figure and friend of many
women.
Bennett is the son of Peter Ben
nett, caretaker of the Scottish Rite
cathedral, near which Siever was
shot during a driving rainstorm
Tuesday night.
PASADENA, Dec. 18. U.P) a
solution to the murder of DR.. Leo
nard Siever appeared lost today in
a myriad of love affairs that pre-
coded his death on a rain-splashed
parking lot last Tuesday night.
Almost hourly some new femi-
nine figure crept into the investiga-
ton but only to confuse the chief
theory that jealousy or anger lay
behind the mystery of the dentist S
violent death.
Cathryn Noodle, young socialite,
introduced 1.-the woman scorned
in the case by declaring Siever once
told her of Jealous woman who
resented his attentions to other
women. Miss Noodle, who said she
had been a friend of the victim be-
cause of their mutual interest in
music, said she did not know her
name
The middle-aged dentist whose
feminine admirers were legion, was
closely pursued by this woman who
often met him at his office and
watched his numerous incursions in
TO the social whirl of local society,
Miss Noodle said.
There were many times when
DR.. Siever would mention her in
our conversations, she related.
"He said he was extremely glad
he had never married her because
her insane jealousy would have
made his life unbearable. -
Miss Noodle said she had not
seen Siever for two months before
his death.
Police Baffled
New contributions were reported
by police in the array of love let
tiers found among the victim s per-
sonal effects. Like the others, the
letters disclosed additional feminine
conquestS the dapper dentist count
ed among his amours.
Despite the mass of correspond
ence, police failed to find single
author whom they felt harbored a
spirit of revenge against the incon-
slant lover. In consequence, they
still entertained another theory that
some maddened husband dealt death
in reprisal.
Police definitely abandoned a rob-
berry theory by declaring only one
pocket of the victim had been riff
led. His wallet and wrist watch
were missing but police believed
they were stolen to cover up the
real motive.
Investigators hopsd to unearth
some clue in a safety deposit box
Siever rented at a local bank when
they opened it today to examine
his personal papers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
TODAY'S GOLD
PRICE $34.O6

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, UP
The government today raised its
price on newly mined American gold
to $3406 an ounce, an increase of
five cents an ounce.
Today's Washington price was
81 40 above the world price set in
London.
Jesse Jones, chairman of the Re-
construction Finance Corporation,
revealed that tie government UP
to yesterday had purchased ass, 491
ounces of newly mined gold in the
domestic market at a total cost of
SIS, $4,000.
Jones refused to reveal the eX-
tent of foreign purchases.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
To Raise Price
OF Grain Bags

Word has been received at the
local farm bureau office that the
price of grain bags made at San
Quentin presently will be advanced
from 2h to 31a cents per bag.
This rise in price is due to the
processing tax placed by the federal
department of agriculture and
which amounts to approximately
three cents on each pound of Jute
or jute products.
This information was received in
a letter from r. A. Leonard, head
of the sta:e board OF prison direc-
| tors.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
Preparing For
County Fair

Dates for the Imperial County
Mid-Winter fair are announced as
March to II, inclusive according
to the premium list now being
mailed out by D. V. Stewart, sec
retary-manager.
The attractive premium list is be-
ing given wide distribution and
many entries in all classes are eX-
pected from outside the valley.
Copies of the list may be obtain
ed by addressing the fair secretary
at Imperial and general informa-
ton can be obtained from any
chamber of commerce in the coun-
ty, also the Yuma and Mexicali
Chambers of Commerce.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
Norton Returns
From Carolina

j. B. Norton, plant pathologist
and originator of the Valleys Mary
Washington asparagus, is back. in
the valley again and plans to spend
some time here.
He has been investigating the as
paragus seed harvest in Huntsville,
South Carolina, and also been stu
dying various problems of grains.
Already he is busy with his odd
pets at the agricultural commits
sioner's office which so far num-
Der only two, lizard and taran-
tula, the latter being the gift of a
group of school children.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
Women Die In
Double Tragedy

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IS. U.P)-.
Police closed an investigation into
a murder and suicide today by iden-
tifying a middle-aged mother and
daughter as Mrs. A. E. Eddy and
Dorothy Eddy, %, formerly of st.
Paul and st. Louis, Mo.
Despondent over lack Of funds
and the i'll health of both, accord
ing to police, Mrs. Eddy shot her
daughter through the head and
then swallowed a dose of poison.
The tragedy occurred in the room
they occupied i'm a downtown hotel.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
Crash Fatal To
BratUley Trio

BANNING, Calf, Dec. 10. UP)-
Three persons died in the flaming
Wreckage of an automobile yester-
day when it swerved off the desert
highway east OF here, struck a tel
egraph pole after overturning and
caught fire.
The dead are Andreas Morales,
Nellie Sawett and Mrs. E. Mulda-
nado, all of Brawley Three other
occupants, Dora Recio, Joe and
Antonio Agurre, were seriously in
jured. The party was enroute to
Los Angeles with Morales driving.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
@NHlnLaLzoe

SANTA MONICA, Dec. II.
(SpeciaD-You sure got to give
it to this administration for
trying to do something for the
down and out. Over in Phoe-
nix, Arizona, the other day, 1
run onto something that I had
not read about, but 1 under
stand there is quite a few in
southwestern states.
It IS called a government tran
sient camp. I went out to see
'em. There was about seven
hundred men and boys QotS of
'em very young, and they kept
'em there and fed 'em, and
gave 'em clothes. They received
no money, good food, good cots
and blankets. All had to work.
Lots of 'em were making
wooden toys for the children
in Phoenix for Christmas. A
taxpayer can't kick on his
money being spent if it's on
good.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
Citrus Growers
Meet Wednesday

Citrus growers are reminded of
the meeting on Wednesday, Dec
ember 20, to discuss the citrus code
under the AAA.
The meeting will be held at 2 p.
m. in the farm bureau office at the
court house and has been called
by the farm bureau and the agri-
cultural extension service.
F. r. Wilcox, extension specialist
in marketing and who has had con-
siderable experience in aiding grow
ers draw up codes, will discuss the
subject.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
TORNADO KILLS -FOUR

SHREVEPORT, La, Dec. ID. lU.p
An off-season tornado which cut
swat hthrough two Caddo parish
communities over the weekend
killed four persons and injured
score of others. One Of the victims
was a white woman and three wsrs
Negroes.
Approximately 20 persons were in
iured at Grayson, and four at Soda
Fount.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
PRAISE JUDGE
FOR POSITION
ON LYNCHING

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Dec. ID. tU.R)
Messages variouSly congratulatory
and condemnatory OF his stand on
lynching were piled high today on
the desk of Judge V. V. Gaddy.
His charge to the grand jury
preparing to investigate the lynch
ing of a Negro here brought let
tiers from far and wide.
From Chicago. Amelia Earhart,
the flyer, sent a telegram congrat-
ulating Judge Gaddy on his con-
demnation of mob violence.
An unsigned message from Los
Angeles said: "Lynching is too
good for any Negro or white man
who attacks or murders. If some
one dear to you were kidnapped or
murdered, your attitude would
change
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 10. U.P)-Bishop
Arthur j. Moore, San Antonio, Tex,
attending the mid-year conference
of the College of Bishops, Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. described
Gov. James Rolph. Jr., of Califor-
mia the "moSt pitiful spectacle that
may be found in American life to-
day
The Methodist bishop paused in
his Sunday sermon to make the re-
mark about California IS governor
who has been severely criticized fol-
announcing he would pardon any,
one convicted for lynching two
San Jose kidnap-murderers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. IS. U.P) -
Speeding home to spend Christmas
with their young son, Jon, Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh left
here at 9:54 a. m, EST, today in
their 'gloge- trotting" red and
black monoplane.
1t was assumed the couple was
intent on making the final 1,400
mile flight to New York today, hut
they were secretive as usual about
their plans and destination, and the
possibility was they might make
one stop enroute.
The Lindberghs, who left New
York last July on an aerial survey
of the North Atlantic air routes.
progressively extended their leis-
urely flight until it embraced p
countries on four continents. They
arrived here Saturday after an
880-mile hop from San Domingo.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
LENDRERGH IN
CHARLESTON

CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. 10.
W.R)-Col. and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh landed their red and
black monoplane at 2;35 pm. (EST
today.
They landed at the navy yards
on the Cooper river here.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-18
Air Lanes Bring First Sight Of Son

I t. S pref t y
tough when the
width of this
C o n t / n e n t
S t e tches be-
tween a proDd
papa and the
first sight Of
his only son, so
when the doc
tor in n e W
Yori. said it
was S a f e for
David Kenneth
Donohue (he's
six weeks old,
now to travel,
mother and the
| babe hoped a
United Air lin
err to arrive in
San Francisco
20 hours later
W h ere Papa
| D. B. was wait
| ing at the air.
| port.
| - :"
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! Curtis 70 be careful of her diet and
drink a great deal Of fruit juice. He
promised to look in next day and
! then departed.
SO TO Janet's duties as secretary
were added those Of nurse. The
shades in the big front bedroom
we're lowered. Janet sat near the
bed and saw that Mrs. Curtis had
her medicine at the right time
She brought hot pads and removed
them and rearranged pillows TO
make them more comfortable.
1t was on the second day Of this
regime that the maid, arriving with
Mrs. Curtis luncheon tray, handed
Janet several letters.
The postman just came" Lucy
explained.
Janet glanced at the letters. Two
of them were bills and another was
on club stationery. The fourth was
undoubtedly personal and she hand
ed it to Mrs Curtis.
The woman looked at the en-
velope, recognized the handwriting
and exclaimed with a little cry Of
pleasure, oh, it's from Betty! Read
it to me, will you, Miss Hip?
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BY BRUCE CATION

"(LEN HAZARD" by Maristan
NJ Chapman, is in its essentials
q murder story But it is unlike
any murder tale you ever read be-
fore, and its chief interest lies, not
in the element Of mystery, but i'll
the setting, the characters that are
presented and in the authors
quaint, subtly pleasing use of the
English language.
Like this authors other books,
this story is set in the Tennessee
mountains. among those isolated
mountaineerS who are the spiritual
descendants both of Daniel Boone
and of the sturdy women of
Queen Elizabeth's England.
Bill Woody has been killed Since
Bill was hated violently. the ooro-
ner's jury insisted on reporting
that he came to his death "acci-
dentally at the hands of persons
unknown"
But Sheriff Joe Marks resolves to
puzzle the matter out. to find
whether Bill was killed for his
money cor out of plain diStaste"
and to lay the guilty man by the
heels.
His investigations serve to in
ftroduce us to all the mountain
folk; and in the story which fol-
lows the author takes us straight
back into the remote mountains,
whene men bear such names as
Wait Still on the Lord" where a
mans cabin is his home place"
and people tramp far for the fun
of "neighboring." where a noun
taineer who diSagrees with a radio
broadcaster tries to climb into the
loudSpeaker and do him violence.
1t all makes a quaint, dehcately
amusing, and soidly interesting
tale. Published by Knopf, the book
retails for $3.50.
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SOW 90 Of WIN TIE STORY
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT Con
tlnued)


TIE didn't mention meeting ia
II net at noon. AS matter Of
fact Jeff had forgotten about it,
but to Janet the omission was sig
nificant.
She stole a quick glance at him.
To think that jeff could care for
such a cheap. obvious little crea-
tme as that GIRL SO she was the
type he admired, the girl for whom
the selection Of gift was so i'm
portant
Janet assured herself that it was
not jealousy she felt OF course, it
was nothing like that She
wouldn't for the world have him
think that she cared or was even
interested If that was the sort of
girl jeff Grant cared for she was
disappointed i'm him That was all.
And so the evening was some
what Of a failure. Mrs. Silvani and
the two children were we'll and
happy and delighted to see their
guests.
jeff and Janet stayed for three
quarters of an hour while Rosie
talked about the squirrel she had
seen in the park, and Tommy
, showed jeff the new puzzle he was
working ON.
Mrs. Silvani had been sewing and
she sat by the lamp, making button
holes while she talked. 1t was a
pleasant enough visit, but after
Janet and jeff had said good-by and
gone back to the car the GOODNESS
they had felt before persisted.
II
TN a few more nights the moon
L would be a complete golden
sphere. It shown down brightly and
n warm breeze was blowing. There
was time enough for a drive through
one of the parks or out on the hill
road jeff looked at Janet and then
his face set determinedly.
All right If she didn't want to
talk to him, she didn't have to!
Maybe it was because she was living
out on the west side now, because
she rode around in a limousine and
knew a lot of rich people that she
had become so changed.
This was a new idea and because
Of it, jeff drove with his eyes
straight ahead on the road. When
Janet spoke, he answered with mon
osyllables, and when the roadster
drew up before the brick house, he
said goodnight and drove away
quickly.
IVES. in spite of the bright moon
L light and in spite Of the warm
breeze it was an evening that, on
the whole, was a failure.
4 The sky was clouded over next
morning and then for three sue
cessive days it rained. The first
day Mrs. Curtis was caught in a
shower and came home to sneeze
and complain of a head cold. A
little later she developed a fever
and Janet telephoned for DR.
Roberts.
The doctor ordered his patient
to bed Her ailment was grippe
She must take the best of care OF
herself. There was a great deal
of grippe around, he said, and some
of it was serious.
DR.. Roberts wrote out a prescrip-
ton to be delivered later, told Mrs