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Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
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CHARGE RADIO
FAXED BATTLE

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Sept. 49,
U.P)-Captain Matt Leach of the
Indiana state police today said he
was contemplating protest to the
federal radio commission concern
ing broadcast by a radio station OF
a purported gun fight between po-
lice and the fleeing Indiana prison
convictS.
Leach arrested Steve Trumbull
an employee in charge of the broad
cast, and held him for several hours
while making an investigation OF
the affair. He said he asked the
station and a broadcasting system
to make retraction of the ac-
count.
Officials of the radio station de-
MED the entire affair. They said
Trumbull had been arrested due to
misunderstanding and that nc
retraction of the broadcast would
be made. They asserted the firing
which gave rise to the false report
of gun battle was done by police
officers.
The broadcast created a sensa-
ton throughout northern Indiana
Michigan state police called out
reserves to head off the convicts in
case they broke through the sup
posed Gordon of the attacking Off
GERS. Sheriff William D. Meyer.
ing of Cook county took the same
precaution upon hearing the radio
account
Gov. Paul McNutt of Indiana lis.
tened to the broadcast and imme-
diately telephoned by long distance
only to be told by police that moth.
ing whatever had occurred.
Leach said he found the broad.
! casters had set up portable equip.
ment at the farm of Fred Gustaf.
son where the convicts stopped {
few hours after their escape. Farm.
ers and others were armed witt
/ guns which were fired near thu
microphone and a lurid description
of the gun battle broadcast, Leacl
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Slight Rainfall
Visits Valley

Threatening clouds which hover
ed over Ell Centre for several days
carrying a promise of rain, at noon
today fulfilled the promise by pre-
cipitating light showers.
Other sections of the valley re-
ported slight rains yesterday and
the resulting humidity made last
night a difficult one for sleep.
At press time today the sky still
was overcast with additional rain
anticipated at any moment.
Total precipitation in E, Centre
at 2:30 o clock today was .02 of ar
inch, according to Howard Emmons
local observer for the United States
weather bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
FALL OPENING
PLANS DRAWN
BY COMMIT

Initial plans for Ell Centro's Fall
Opening and Merchandising Festi-
val were set on foot this morning
when the committee charged with
fostering this festival met at the
chamber of commerce office.
1t was determined by the COM
mittee that every possible effort
should be expended to make this
event success. It is to be real
community Celebration and will be
inaugurated by monster street
parade to be held ON Saturday morn
ing, october 81, starting at 9 o'clock.
All the schools in Ell Centre and
vicinity as well as other civic Or
CARNATIONS will be invited to par
ticipate in the parad. Each mer-
chant and industry in the city, it is
hoped, will enter a float in this
parade which is to be the best the
city has ever had.
A Festival Queen is to be chosen
from among Ell Centre school child
rem participating in the parade by
a committee of judges specially Sc
lected for that purpose and she will
be crowned that evening on pub
lie platform to be erected on Main
street. The GROWING of the Festi-
val Queen and distribution of mer-
chandise prizes will take place at
the same time. Prizes are also to
be awarded for the best turnout
made by schools taking part in the
parade.
Music for the parade and evening
festivities will be furnished by sew
eral bands.
Committees in charge of the pro-
gram plan to make the occasion
one of the most successful affairs OF
it's kind ever held in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
DENIES PARDON
FOR FUGITIVE

ATLANTA, Sept. 20. U.H--Rob-
ert Elliot Burns hopes of losing
the title of 81 am a fugitive from
chain gang' had faded today.
Governor Eugene Talmadge re-
Jected the application of the fam
Gus fugitive for a pardon. The APP
plication for the fugitive whose
story of alleged tortures in a
Georgia chain gang and his two
escapes from the prisons has been
told in a novel and picture, was
filed by an Atlanta attorney, Muir
ply Holloway, while Burns remain
ed in East Orange, N. j., where he
now has an electrical supply house
1T is a fast rule with me that ]
Will not consider the application Of
a fugitive for clemency,' Governor
Talmadge declared. "He cannot
gain consideration as long as he
remains a fugitive
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
WISE CRACK
NOT So GOOD.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30. UH =
Harry .. Voiler. suspected member
of Detroit's notorious Purple
gang "cracked wisely" but too well
today. and cracked himself back
into Jail.
The occasion was the hearing be-
fore Superior Judge Charles w.
Fricke on Voiler's application for
reduction of the $4,000 bail In
which he has been held under Los
Angeles emergency vagrant stat
ute. The application was opposed
by District Attorney Buron Fits.
Fits first question was
"What is your business?'
"'Minding my own business,
snapped the swarthy, elegant de-
PENDANT.
"That's ALL" sharply interrupt
ed Judge Fricke. "There will be
no reduction of the $4,000 bail and
the prisoner will be returned TO
jail
Fits created something OF a sem
sation during cross-examination OF
Voiler's wife, Louise Voiler. when
he limited that Voiler was Mae
West s bodyguard a year ago when
the actress was held up and robbed
of cash and $4,000 worth Of jewels.
The theme was not developed
beyond asking Mrs. Voiler If II was
true; she denied 1t.
Voiler has been held, along with
half a dozen other suspected gang
sters, since the beginning Of a po-
lice drive against dangerous vag-
rantSD two weeks ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
REBEL BANDS
ROAMING CUBA

HAVANA, Sept. 20. UPJ-Minor
rebel bands continued their acti-
vities in the provinces today. Gov
eminent troops were in pursuit.
In groups of Is or 20 the bands
operated in Matanzas, Santa Clara
and Camaguey provinces.
Workers at Matanzas seized the
Yumuri match factory, intending
to operate it communally. The
mayor of San Jose asked for gov
eminent troops to disperse band
raiding plantations in the area.
A group of 10 soldiers, headed by
II year old student, one of several
posses searching for arms in anti
government hands, sought yester-
day to search the American owned
Mather building. The American
consulate is located there, and FIRE.
derrick T. F. Dumont, consul gen.
eral, halted them.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Mother OF Three
Film Stars Dies

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20. up. -
Mrs. Margaret peg Talmadge, who
guided three daughters to motion
picture fame, died in Hollywood
hospital today after brief illness
of pneumonia.
The mother of Norma, Constance
and Natalie Talmadge was strick-
en- with influenza last week at her
Santa Monica beach home. She
was Immediately removed to the
hospital where physicians sought
futilely to check the illness before
it developed into pneumonia. Her
condition became critical Wednes-
day night and she grew steadily
weaker. Physicians abandoned hope
for her recovery yesterday.
Her three daughters were at her
bedside Norma, estranged wife OF
Joseph Schenck, motion picture pro-
Queer, arrived wednesday by plane
from the east. Constance likewise
cut Chicago visit short to rush to
her mothers side.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
MAIL STOLEN
At CALEX|CO

Believed to be the work OF anna
teurs, three mail pouches and two
parcel post packages were stolen
sometime between 4 O'Clock and
$50 this morning at the Calexico
Southern Pacific passenger station,
according to report made to au-
thorities today.
Entry into the baggage room
where the mail is kept, was maze
by prying open screen door, &C
cording to Arthur F. Clack, Calex-
leo agent for the Southern Pacific
company.
The mail sacks, which were OF
the lock type, were found about 2O
yards from the station. They had
been slit open and the contents re-
moved. The parcel post packages
contained 10 coats consigned to the
j. C. Penney company Calexico
store. Five of the coats were found
scattered around the spot where
the mail bags and parcels had been
opened.
Value of the mail has not been
estimated but it is believed to have
been confined to first class mail, OF
little value to any but the persons
for whom it was intended.
According to Clack S report, a
night man who divides his time
between the company's passenger
station and freight depot, left the
former place at 4:10 this morning.
Returning at $50 he discovered
the theft and reported it to his su-
periors.
Post office authorities were mott
fled of the theft and postal inspec-
tors were expected to reach the
border city today to conduct an in
vestigation. Special agents OF the
Southern Pacific company are also
| working on the case.
Burglars also entered the service
station of the Standard Oil COM
pany at First and lockwood, Cal
exico. Police of that city reported
$50 in cash was taken from the
safe. The burglars ransacked the
office, finding a key to ti.e safe
and helped themselves to the con-
tents.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
BLAME TOUHY
FOR ROBBERY

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30. up.
Federal officers today claimed
they had solved the bold $4,000
robbery of the Sacramento post
office last February.
United States Attorney McPike
blamed planning and direction Of
the robbery upon Roger Touhy, Chi
cago gangster, held under indict-
ment at st. Paul in the kidnapping
of William Hamm, Jr., wealthy st.
Paul brewer.
Touhy did not come west for the
robbery, McPike alleged, but direct
ed it from afar.
McPike charged that Touhy MAIN
tanned a nationwide criminal Or
ganization. Minor gangsters receive
$50 week, room, board and cigar
cites while not working" and a
share in the loot when employed
the attorney declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Teacher Missing
Enroute To School

VENTURA. CAL, Sept. 20. W.P)-
Mysterious disappearance of Rob-
ert StepSon, instructor in the fash
ionable Thatcher school at OJai
was reported to the sheriff's office
today by Morgan Barnes, headmas-
ter.
Stepson was en- route to Ojai from
Brunswick, Me-, for the fall semes'
ter, and notified Barnes from
Phoenix, Ariz., that he would arrive
here last Sunday No word has
been received from him since.
A graduate of Bowdoin college
Stepson always has been prompt
and reliable, Barnes said, in asking
aid of police and the U. S. mar
shal's office in locating him.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
coed SST0RY
NOT BELIEVED

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20. U.P -
Virginia Leihy, Oregon State Col
lege coed, was back in Jail today,
awaiting a probation hearing on a
charge of carrying concealed wea-
pom.
Municipal Judge James H. Pope
ordered revocation of her $1,000
bond which she posted two weeks
ago after being arrested by two
policemen who said she threatened
them when they were bringing her
to headquarters for questioning.
Judge Pope said he was dissatisfied
with evidence in her case.
At the time of her arrest, the
girl said the revolver was given her
by her brother for protection. She
had been halted while officers in
spected the bent license plates on
her machine.
cts a mystery to me why you
had your license plates upturned
and why you should attempt to
reach for your gun, as the officers
said,' Judge Pope said, in order
ing her back to Jail. 81 am rec
ommending an extensive investiga-
tion.'
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
BY RONALD G. VANTINE
United Press Staff Correspondent

ABOARD U.S.S. HENDERSON
AT SEA, Sept. 20. U.P)-A huge
building program designed to main
tain treaty strength of the United
States navy for a period of % years
will be submitted to congress by
the navy department in January,
the United Press learned today.
The program will be based on
the assumption of the navy depart
ment that London treaty provisions
may not be renewed by world pow
ers after 1896.
The average annual expenditure
until 1862 under the projected
building plan was estimated at $685.
100000.
The navy would be built to treaty
strength by 1899 through construc-
ton of large number of vessels
during that six year period.
Thereafter, the project involves
requirements in obsolete equipment
and average ships looking toward
maintenance of the navy at the
treaty limit.
The plan calls for construction
of 375 ships, to include 20 battle
ships, eight airplane carriers, %
heavy cruisers, Is light cruisers, 20l
destroyers and SO submarines.
The first ships would not be built
until 1885.
Present limitations of the Lon
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29

participated in any of it's business
operations.
They are not interested financial
ly in the company, Mrs. Samson
said.
Because Of Nevada's liberal in
corporation laws, many concerns
have Headquarters" with dun
my" executives here. Actual oper-
alton of the company's business,
however, Is directed elsewhere.
The Nevada California farming
company is controlled by Los An
geles interests, it was said.
Mrs. Samson and her mother
are prominent socially and polite
ally here.
The alien land law case, at pre-
sent before the superior court here,
is in recess until next Monday. Ten
days were required to obtain a jury
to hear the evidence, due to the
large number of defendants and
technical questioning conducted by
the prosecution and defense. TAX
ing of evidence in the case viii be-
gin when the hearing is resumed on
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
REPORT SPLIT
IN A. F. Of |.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. U.PN-
A split has developed within the
American Federation of Labor over
organization policies.
The question of continuation of
traditional craft unions or branch
ing out in organizations by indus
tries will be contested at the Fed
eration's national convention here
next week. ga.
The A. F. of L. has grown up as
a combination of craft unions bound
together through central unions,
and the national organization. Craft
unions are the unions of workers
doing similar tasks-steamfitters,
carpenters, bricklayers and the like.
There is feeling growing III
some sections of the labor move
ment that labor might be organ
lied more effectively along indus
trial lines. That is, workers in whole
industries, such as automobile,
steel or rubber manufacturing
plants, would be organized into
unions for their particular indus
tries without regard for craft diff
ferentations
The industrial unions are termed
horizontal unions. The craft unions
are vertical unions.
The A. F. of L., through organi-
cation efforts in automobiles and
rubber, already has taken up the
industrial union idea to some ex-
tent. Charters for 535 of these I'M
ions have been issued since June.
The federation has not relinquished
it's traditional craft union theories
however, and many of its officials
are vigorously opposed to further
extension of the industrial union
plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Admits Shooting
Wne's Annoyer

REDLANDS, Cal, Sept. 20. U.P)-
Elmer Gates, %. has confessed, po-
lice claimed today, that he fatally
wounded Emil Jure, 35-year-old
beer parlor operator, in quarrel
over the affections of Mrs. Gates,
20.
Police said he told them Jure had
forced his attentions on his young
wife while she was in his employ
Gates, who surrendered quietly af-
ter the shooting, was booked on
murder charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Youths Attempts
To End His Life

PASADENA. Sept. 20. U.P) - A
shattered romance was written on
police records today as the motive
for the reputed suicide attempt of
Alfred j. Spicy, 10.
Seating himself under window
of the police station at the hall of
justice, the youth shot himself
through the chest late last night,
according to police. In his pocket,
officers found a letter addressed to
H. E. Seeds, Abilene, Kansas, stat
ing the writer had no desire to live
because his marriage had been an
nulled.
The youth may recover. His for
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Arrest Couple In
Chinese Staying

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 49, WH-
David John Evans, SO, and his taxi
dancer wife, Delphine, %, were held
on suspicion of murder charge to-
day in connection with the Ratchet
murder of Leong You, aged Chi
nese.
The couple. was arrested on infor-
nation that both were allegedly
seen leaving the victim IS laundry
the night he was killed. Both de-
MED knowledge of the murder.
Leong was found hacked to death
the day he had planned returning
to China with $1,000 of his life S
savings. He had been robbed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
SEEK POISON CAJLiFLOWER

LOS ANGELES, sept. 20. W.H -
Health officers today search among
pushcarts for a consignment OF
cauliflower from an 1ngleWood
ranch. The vegetables were be-
lieved to have been sprayed with
an over-strong solution of arsenic
The cauliflower was sold to a down.
town produce market, it was learn
ed, and e-distributed among sew
en- peddlerS.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Lindberghs Will
Visit Esthoria

MOSCOW, Sept. 20. U.P) = Col
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh took
off from the Moscow river in their
seaplane at 11:44 am. today for a
525-mile flight to Tallinn (RevaD j,
ESthonia.
A Soviet airplane accompanied
them for the first stage of their
journey northwestward over Rus
STA to the Esthonian capital on the
south coast of the gulf of Finland.
A small group of officials and
aviators babe the Lindberghs fare
well. Col. Lindbergh said before he
left that his stay had been most
enjoyable. He expected to reach
Tallinn within five hours.
REVAL, Esthonia, Sept. 30. U.P
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh, returning from visit to
Russia, landed here in their sea-
plane at 1908 p. m. today.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
BY JULIUS FRANDSEN

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The
national labor boards decision to
attempt to mediate strike of
Ford Motor company workers at
Chester, Pa, today pointed toward
direct test of strength between
Henry Ford and the Roosevelt ad-
ministration.
Board members considered the
Ford situation delicate and serious.
1t was but one of a dozen major
strikes requiring the boards atten-
ton and involving more than 100,-
600 men. kilograms arrived by the
dozen asking the board to adjust
disputes.
Ford did not sign the automo-
bile code. A direct showdown be-
tween him and the NRA was av-
erted on that score when the NRA
held he would be considered to be
complying with its policies SO long
as he abided by the codes terms
The strike now has raised the issue
of whether he will deal with the
MIRA in any way.
Chairman Robert F. Wagner of
the labor board decided to under
take direct negotiations with Ford
officials in Detroit after Ford's &C
ton in shutting down the Chester
assembly plant blocked local me-
diation efforts there.
Wagner expressed confidence the
board would adjust the dispute and
get the plant reopened if Ford
would permit it to arbitrate. He
declined to say what his next move
would be if Ford refused, but de-
clared pOintedly that the board had
the full force of the NRA behind
it,"
Grave concern was felt over the
continued tie-up of Pennsylvania
coal mines owned by the H. c.
Prick Coke company, subsidiary of
the giant U. S. Steel corporation
Some MIRA officials expressed ap-
prehension over the spread of the
strike to the steel mills.
Code Not Signed
The Prick company has not yet
signed the bituminous code which
becomes effective Monday. The MIRA
insists the code will apply regardless
Of whether the company signs, but
miners fighting for recognition of
their union declare they viii not re-
turn to work until the company
agrees in black and white to the
provisions of the code guarantee
ing them freedom to organize.
Donald Richberg, MIRA chief
counsel, and Deputy Administrator
Kenneth Simpson have been en-
gagged in closely guarded negotia-
tions with coal company executives
for more than a week. Early this
week it was said developments were
expected momentarily, but the dis
cussions have dragged on. Mean
time a special committee named by
the labor board and headed by
Gerard Swope, chairman Of the
General Electric company, has been
striving to adjust the strike.
Despite increasing strikes, Wag-
ner said he did not regard them as
a bad sign" for the MIRA program
differences are bound to occur
in such a tremendous social reor.
ganization,' he said. 1--WE cannot
expect to perform a miracle ovel
night"
Wagner said both capital and la
Dor were making some unreasonable
demands, but that the great ma
jority of disputes were due to EN-
ployers' failure to recognize labor
right to organize and bargain col
1octivplv
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Burned To Death
In Auto Crash

RIVERSIDE, Sept. 30. U.H =
Trapped in his blazing automobile,
Paul B. Wilson, Monrovia, was
burned to death late last night fol-
lowing a head-on collision near
here.
r. G. Blocless, Los Angeles, driv-
or of the second car, was hurled to
the pavement, suffering head and
chest injuries and a crushed leg. At
Riverside community hospital to-
day Blocless' condition was said to
he serious
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
ACTRESS ILL

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 80. U.H -
Carole Lombard, blonde screen &C
tress, was confined to her home
today with an attack of influenza.
Although her illness was not con-
sidered serious, physicians ordered
her to remain in bed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Mckee Announces
Name As Candidate

NEW YORK, Sept. 49, W.P-Jos-
eph " Mckee, who achieved amaz-
ing popularity as successor TO Ma
yor James j. Walker after collapse
of the Walker regime last year, an
nounced today his candidacy for
mayor of New York City.
Mckee enters campaign In
which fusion forces already were
making the most determined fight
OF many years against Iammany
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
nkM!LL-.o

BEVERLY HILLS, Sept. 28.
(SpeciaD-With white mouse
rising up and knocking the ears
down on six rattlesnakes, 1t may
be the turning of a new era.
A taxpayer is liable to become
aroused and bump off about
half the political payroll.
Then, when kidnapers admit
where rs thousand bucks are
buried. and it was really there
and had been for several
months, why that shows we
have somebody in the country
that can live off their income
and not have to dig up their
principal.
But when it costs the gov
eminent &c thousand dollars to
hire steamship company to
carry one pound of picture post
cards across the water, why it
would be cheaper to cable at
government expense.
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-29
Baseball Scores
National League

Boston ............. 200 O1O 10OA-1l-1
At Brooklyn 900 100 000-l- Ga
Zachary, Farmhouse and Hogan.
Spohrer; Beck, Leonard and Outen.
Milford chronicle., 1933-08-18

was ideal for picnic and everyone
regorted good time.
Miss Frances Coulbourne'has been
visiting Miss Kathryn Clifton at
kenton for the past week.
Miss Naomi Ewing of Wilmington
spent several days of the past week
as the guest of Miss Gladys Thistle
wood.
Zack Johnson of New York is
spending some time with the home
folks.
Little Miss Doris Marvel spent
several days of the past week with
her aunt, Mrs. Helen Cordrey at
Harrington.
Lester Wilson of Brandywine San
atOrium has been visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Wilson.
Mrs. Charles Webb. Mrs. Edgar
Marvel and Miss Virdella returned
to their homes on Sunday after hav-
ing spent several days of the past
week at Riverdale.
Miss Gladys Thistlewood was the
overnight guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Everett Manlove in Milford on Mon
day
Mrs. Harvey Marvel spent a couple
of days the past week with her
brother, Joseph and wife, in Har-
rington.
MILTON F'tREMEN'S CARNIVAL
August 24-September 2 IT