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BANDIT ROBS
SCREEN STAR
Continued On Page 81

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 6. (U.H :
Betty Compson, glamorous motion
picture star, was reported recover
ing today from nervous shock suf-
fered when a jaunty bandit truss
ed and gagged her and a friend in
her luxurious home and escaped
with jewelry valued between $780,
600 and 100000
Miss Compson was playing cards
with E. D. Leshin, her former pro-
duction manager, shortly before
midnight when the bandit, mas
oueraded as a messenger boy, rang
the front bell. Answering 1t, the
actress became suspicious at his
manner and started to close the
door. He forced his way inside push
ing her into the living room at the
point of a revolver.
Don't be fresh," he warned hel
and Leshin. I'm experienced ano
] mean business"
The two were herded into the
actress bedroom where the bandit
bound them hand and foot with
piano wire and taped their mouths
with adhesive tape. Stripping Le-
shin of his wrist watch, the gun
man rifled the room, seizing jewel
box which contained costly dia-
mond rings, bracelets, wrist watch
es and other valuable gems. In his
haste to flee, he dropped $4,000
diamond ring.
The actress struggled from her
bonds and telephoned police be-
fore freeing Leshin. She then
tainted. Revived, she became hys-
terical and it was some time before
she could recount the robbery to
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
Doctor Explains
Autopsy Request

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. U.p) -
DR.. James F. Coupal, Calvin Cool
idge's former White House ply
sician who suggested an autopsy
of the body of the former Presi-
dent, explained today that he ad-
vanced the proposal solely because
he believed medical science would
benefit thereby.
He emphasized that he had no
thought that there was anything
unnatural about Mr.. Coolidge's sud-
den death.
Dr. Coupal said America Jagged
far behind Europe in the autopsy
branch of medicine, because there
is something in the American So
cial makeup which makes autop-
sizes unpopular. He believed this at
titude would change if doctors were
permitted to study the bodies OF
prominent persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06

the physical rigors of his position
if he keeps in good condition, takes
proper exercise and watches his
diet. But seldom can the Presi-
dent withstand the mental poison
invariably caused by the many and
constant bitter attacks upon him.
"This criticism did not effect Mr..
Coolidge so much because he didn't
take himself too seriously
Coupal said he understood Mr.
Coolidge's easy regime since he re-
tired from public life had an ad-
verse effect upon his health.
"He quit taking his proper ex-
ercise and he cut out his diet" said
the colonel. "He absolutely needed
them"
Cotpal's discussion Of the rigor-
GUS life of a President led White
House attaches to observe that
President Hoover appeared in
sound, robust health despite his
strenuous term of office. Mr.
Hoover has engaged in regular ex-
ercise- and taken excellent care OF
himself, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
7
ACT DEBATED
Supervisors And Grand Jury In
Heated Discussion Over Pro-
posed Changes.

Interest at the county court
house today centered on the grand
jury room, where the supervisors
and grand jurors continued to dis
cuss, apparently with some heat
and little hope of reaching any i'm
mediate conclusion, proposed chan
ges in the county government act.
Almost every officer, and depu-
ties in many offices, watched with
intense interest the struggle of the
grand jurors and supervisors to
reach some definite decision as to
the many proposed salary slashes,
and other governmental changes.
1t was learned from reliable sour
ces today thai tine proposed coun-
ty government act drawn up by
District Attorney Elmer w. Heald
at the instance of supervisors and
grand jurors has been subjected to
many changes since the beginning
of the heated discussion yesterday
morning.
Only one thing remained certain.
that almost all county employees
will be subjected to slash of ap-
proximately 20 per cent. Especial
ly the sheriff's and district attor-
ney's offices will be hard hit by
the proposed new enactment.
It was rumored today that the
grand jury and supervisors had
considered slashing $4,000 from
the sheriff's budget, and as much
or more from the district attor-
ney's budget, leaving both offices
with the necessity of doing away
with two or more deputies.
Although nothing definite is
known, it is expected that no joint
ly sponsored accommodation will
issue from the grand jury room
until tomorrow. at the earliest.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Jan. 6. U.P)
The South Bend News Times
said today in a copyright story
that it had learned from an un-
impeachable source" that govern
ment secret service men have as
certained that a gangster's bomb
caused the airplane crash in Kan
sas in 1881 that killed Knute Rock
ne and seven other persons.
The bomb, the News Times story
said in quoting secret service men
at second hand through man
whose name was withheld, was in
tended for Rev. John Reynolds of
the Notre Dame university facul-
ty, who had Deen witness at the
trial of Leo Brothers for the slay-
ing of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune
reporter.
The Times story said there
was information that Father Rey-
noldS had planned to take the same
plane as Rockne to the west, later
being unable to go. However, an
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
OutlatU Believed
To Be In Lamar

LAMAR, Mo-, Jan. 6. UR)--
Charles Pretty Boy Floyd. Okla
homa's famed outlaw wanted for a
score of bank robberies and several
murders, may have been a Lamar
visitor recently.
A man and a woman entered a
variety store here to make a pur-
chase. The proprietor was startled
by the similarity of the mans
features to those of Floyd's pic
lures.
The pair then entered a tire shop
and purchased an automobile tire.
A guarantee was written out by
the shop owner and given to the
man.
Before leaving town, obsesvers saw
the man tear up the guarantee and
then cut the number and label
from the tire with a pocket knife.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
BENEFACTOR OF
DESERT AREAS
DIES ON COAST

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6. U.D
Funeral services were being
conducted today for George
Whitewell Parsons, fam e d
throughout the southwest for
his work in establishing guide
posts in the desert to steer
thirsty travellers and cowhands
to the nearest waterhole.
Parsons died yesterday at
the age of 82, the victim of
heart disease.
A native of Washington, ID.
c., the veteran miner came
west in 1876, settling in San
Francisco. A few years later
he pulled stakes and went to
Tombstone, Ariz., where he
became a pioneer member of
the mining fraternity. For
years he remained with the in
dustry in Tombstone but lat
er returned to California as
chairman of the mining divis-
ion of the chamber of COM
merce. In that position, ne
conducted an energetic cam
paign in the legislature and in
congress, resulting in the erec-
ton of desert signposts to
guide travellers to waterholes.
Parsons was unmarried,
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fellow. 1t probably would be bet
ter to take the losses right where
they occur and be done with it.
''When business men become con-
vinced commodity prices will go
no lower they will begin buying
supplies" he predicted.
Comments On SelfiShness
Larger railroads, I told him, OBJ
jected to the interstate commerce
commissions proposal which would
require them to turn over proceeds
of rate increases to weaker roads.
Mr.. Coolidge observed:
Every one wants the govern
ment to go into the other fell
lows business but stay out of his
own"
He talked of tax problems.
"One of the difficulties I found
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
Fits NoU Has
NeU Bodyguard

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6. (U.H =
District Attorney Buron Fits, who
was mortified by two bandits break
ing up his dinner party and rob-
bing himself and guests of $112, had
a new personal bodyguard today.
His old one, William Skunk, was
dismissed-or resigned-because he
unwittingly admitted the bandits
through the rear door of his en-
ployer's home and then was hum
bled by being forced to part with
$40 as we'll as his revolver.
Fits was miffed at the bandits
insolence as was Police Chief Roy
Steckel, who said the city's press
ing needs is 1000 more policemen.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
THREE POINTS
To Be PUSHED
BY DEMOCRATS
Budget Balancing, Farm Relief
And Beer Bill Program Adopt
ed At Roosevelt Conference.
INCOME TAX TO INCREASE
Exemption For Married Persons
Will Be Reduced To $4,000
Instead Of $500.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES


United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. Jan. 6. Congress
will go to work soon on a budget
balancing program embodying in
creased income and excise taxes
on the average citizen and drastic
retrenchment in government costs
as drafted by President-elect Roose-
velt and his party leaders.
Democratic congressional lead
ers, at their conference with
Roosevelt which broke up early to-.
day, pledged themselves to press
enactment Of the budget balancing
program, farm relief and a beer
bill.
They further considered relief
for debt burdened railroads prob
ably through the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
The budget balancing program.
the major matter before the con-
ference here, calls for:
l. Increase of normal income tax
rates of per cent on the first
$4,000 of taxable income and 8
per cent above that to six and IL
per cent, respectively, rates which
congress rejected year ago.
2. Reduction of present exemp-
tions on married persons from
$500 to $4,000. (Revenue increase
estimated at from $130,000,000 to
100000, 0,000)
3. Continuation of the one cent
gallon gasoline tax for another
year beyond its expiration date.
next July l., estimated to raise
$137, 100000.
4. Reductions of s1OO,O00,000 in
appropriation bills below the esti-
mate of President Hoover.
S. The beer tax, estimated to
raise $125 100000.
Leaders Pleased
This fills up the gap of S4o2 ,OO0,-
600, which is the deficit at the end
of the 1884 fiscal year, ending
July l, 1894, which President
Hoover estimated This deficit ex-
cludes public debt sinking fund
requirements and includes debt
payments from foreign nations
which may not be forthcoming.
This program was evolved by
the Democratic leaders in WASH
ingtcn, when Roosevelt turned
down the manufacturers sales tax,
and was brought here for Roose-
velt's ratification. He placed re-
sponsibility upon them and then
approved their handiwork.
The IL Democratic congression-
al leaders smiled philosophically
over their nights work as they
emerged from the nearly five hour
conference in the comfortable Ii
brary of the Roosevelt home on
Sixth street here and set them
selves to the task which they all
had hoped to oid-increasing
taxes. The rates they decided to
levy on the average citizens poe
ketbook-and the rich man as well
are those of war time days, but
they emphasized that this is a Sit
uation akin to war.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
Einsfein ReUiseS
Relatively Theory

BERLIN, Jan. 6. U.H-Prof. AL
bert Einstein submitted to the
Prussian Academy of Sciences a
new paper revising and amplify-
ing the theory of relativity before
he sailed for the United States, it
was revealed today.
Prof. Einstein and his assistant,
w. Mayer, prepared the paper. 1t
alters the mathematical express
sions for those formulae which
under the name of Lorentz trans
formations, provide the founda-
ton for the relativity theory.
Prof. Einstein was understood tc
have revised his Interpretation OF
the Lorentz transformations after
his later intricate calculations con-
cerning the unified field theory.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
Would Abolish
State Bureau

SACRAMENTO Jan. 6. The
state bureau of commerce created
two years ago to find new domes-
tic and foreign markets for Cali
fornia's farm products would be
abolished under a bill introduced
in the senate today by Senator
Thomas Mccormack, Rio Vista.
I'VE have spent more than $780,
900 during the last two years send
ing so-called specialists to Europe
and as far as I know nothing has
been accomplished" Senator Nc
Cormack declared This is no
time to spend money on fads."
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
Army Flyer Unhurt
In Forced Landing

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6. U.P)
Crashing as he landed his burn
ing plane on freshly plowed field
near Kingsburg, Fresno county,
Lieut.. G. II. Murray of the army
air corps, narrowly escaped death
late yesterday, according to mes
sage to Crissy Field today.
Flames began shooting along the
fusilage as Lieut. Murray was en-
route from his home base at March
Field, Riverside, to Crissy Field. He
made a forced landing and the
plane nosed into the soft ground,
turning over twice. Murray was
thrown clear and hurt only slight
ly. He extinguished the fire before
it could demolish the plane.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
By HOMER L. ROBERTS
United Press Staff Correspondent


SACRAMENTO Jan. 6. - Ser
ious charges faced the. administra-
ton Of Governor James Rolph, Jr.,
today as the result of two separ-
ate Investigations ordered by the
senate. The action was the first of
it's kind in California history.
The inquiries represented the in
itial victory of anti-adminiStration
forces headed by Senator j. M. In
man of Sacramento, and will cover
every phase of the Rolph regime.
One will delve into charges of
extravaganza, incomptency, pa
tronage and other Irregularities
as voiced by Senator Inman, in
Guiding reasons behind the recent
shakeup in the governors official
family which cost the jobs of Wal
ter E. Garrison and James I. Herr
as director and deputy director of
public works.
The other probe will be in the
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
APPEAL WATER FIGHT

HANFORD, Calf, Jan. 6. U.P)-
Notices of appeal from a ruling in
favor of the city of Los Angeles in
lawsuit against the Owens VAL
ley Irrigation District, were filed
in superior court here today.
The suit, brought by the city
against directors of the irrigation
district to invalidate a bond issue,
was decided in favor of Los An
geles by Superior Judge K. Van
lante, who also refused the de-
PENDANTS a new trial. They ap-
pealed
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
Medicine Man IN
Clutches OF La,U

GLOBE, Ariz., Jan. 6. (U.I,-Sam
Lonebear, alleged Blackfoot In
dian medicine man, circus show
performer and sleight of hand ar
tist of Great Falls, Mont, per-
formed one too many tricks today
Apaches of the San Carlos res
ervation were disturbed by the Ar
rival of the medicine man, when
he supposedly detected the pre-
sence of worms in their lungs.
Suspicious indians notified
sheriff's officers VINO arrested him
when they found the worms in
a bottle. Authorities say he is
wanted at Great Falls, Mont, for
violation of the Mann act.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
TN IN THE Way COOLIDGE
TOLD UNITED PRESS REPORTER

Editors Note: The United
Press, in view of the death of
Calvin Coolidge, may with pro-
priety release today his last
major interview with Raymond
Clapper, chief of the United
Press Washington bureau.
Clapper talked with Mr.. Cool
idge in the Northampton law
office from $3.50 a. m. until
noon Of November 13, 1881.
The former President declined
permission for quotation of the
discussion at that time because
he "did not wish to interfere"
in national affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
nMILL
CWy|R@sS}!s!;;E'Rs R@s}!; j

BEVERLY HILLS, Jan. 5.
(SpeciaD-Mr. Coolidge, you
didn't have to die for me to
throw flowers on your grave.
have told a million jokes
about you, but every one was
based on some of your splendid
qualities. You had a hold on
the American people regardless
of politics. They knew you were
honest, economical and had a
native common sense.
History generally records a
place for a man that is ahead
of his time. But we that lived
with you will always remem-
ber you was with" your times.
BY golly, you little red
headed New Englander, liked
you. You put horse sense into
craftsmanship. And Mrs. Cool
idge's admiration for you is an
American trait.
Yours,
zAS& Ro7A~
@iesa McNausht Syndicate. Inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
ACTORS WIDOW WINS

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 6. W.Hl -
Doris Kenyon Stills, widow of Mil
ton Sills, was clear of liability to-
day in a suit for $8,778.91 brought
by finance company for delin-
quent note signed by Edwin Car
eve, motion picture director in be-
half of Cornelius Cole, grandson
of the late U. S. Senator Cornelius
Cole. A jury in acquitting the ac-
tress, ordered Carewe to pay the
note
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
DELAY WRITER'S FUNERAL

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 6. U.P) -
Funeral arrangements for Barry
Connors, short story writer and
scenarist, who was aspyyxiated in
a fire that started in his apart
ment, were held in abeyance today
pending word from his daughter,
Renee, expected here from her
home in Milwaukee.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
WEALTHY WOMAN DIES

BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Jan. 6.
U.Pj-Funeral services will be held
Sunday for Mrs. Carrie Guggen-
helm, IA, widow Of Isaac Guggen-
helm, New York multimillionaire
mining magnate, who died yester-
day at her home here from sud-
den heart attack. She is survived
by three daughters, Mrs. Helene
Glorney, Mrs. Clarence B Hewes,
London and Mrs. Beulah Spigel-
berg, New York. The body will be
cremated.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
GANG" SUPPORTS JUDGE

DODGE CITY. Kans., U.Pt -
Judge Karl Miller vii have the
full support Of the local "alimony
rang" II he ever runs for office,
He is aiding men who are out Of
work and "in' for alimony by re-
ducing allowances OF women 10
whom he has granted divorces.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
SIMPLE RITES
WILL BE HELD
FOR COOLIDGE
Funeral Services AT Northamp-
ton To Be Followed By Burial
At Plymouth, Vermont.
PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND
Well Known Aversion To Dis
play To Be Respected AS Final
Honors Are Accorded.
BY SIDNEY b. WHIPPLE
United Press Staff Correspondent

ny
United Press Staff Correspondent
NORTHAMPTON Mass, Jan. 6.
The body of Calvin Coolidge, 30th
president of the United States, will
lie in state tomorrow in the SIM
pie town church which he attend
ed in life.
For brief hour, friends, neigh
bors and distinguished visitors from
out of town will be permitted last
look at the man who led them
through their most prosperous
years.
The services at the Edwards Con-
gregational church, starting at l0:-
80 a. m. will be attended by Pre-
sident Hoover and other notables,
and by intimate friends and neigh
bors of the late President.
The body will lie in state from
$50 a. m, with a national guard
of honor on duty.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Jan. 6.
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th presi-
dent of the United States, will rest
tomorrow beside his father in Gra-
mite Hill.
His burial, on a cold hillside of
Plymouth, VT, where his ances-
tors were buried, will be as he
wished it, without solemnity, and
without pretense.
The former President, in death
as in life, was symbol of the sim
pie life which had been his code,
which had characterized his every
act, from obscure lawyer to the
presidency
Harry Ross, his secretary and
perhaps his only real confidante
outside his immediate family, said
he would be buried with all the
simplicity that marked his life and
the lives of his ancestors.
1t was Mrs. Coolidge's wish, Ross
said, THAT the usual grandeur be
absent from these rites. She would
have him buried as simply as was
his mother, his father and his son.
1t was his way
Calvin Coolidge might have been
buried in Arlington cemetery, to
rest alongside the great of the ma
ton. Mrs. Coolidge, who knew him
best, chose for his final resting
place the cemetery in the hills that
are white through the winter and
green through the summer.
His ancestors, "for generations
back" had been buried there.
Funeral services will be at the
Edwards Congregational church,
where the former President and
Mrs. Coolidge were regular attend
ants. They will be conducted by the
Rev. Albert j. Penner, pastor. The
church was named for Jonathan
Edwards, eighteenth century di-
vine, who made his home here.
The nations great and this lit
tie Massachusetts city's humblest
will gather in the church at 1880
a. m. After simple services, the
body will be taken by automobile
if road conditions permit, to Ply
mouth, VT, for burial, presumably
about 8 p. m.
Had Routine Day
Mr.. Coolidge's last hours were
much the same as those Of his
\ routine existence since his retire
Yment from the presidency and his
assumption of the duties of an or
binary citizen. He had insisted, ev-
er since he relinquished the cares
(Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06
.ROLPH SETS
PARDON MARK
,aaa MeNaush, Syndicate. Inc.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 6. W.H -
Governor Rolph broke all previous
records in the state by pardoning
248 prisoners during his first two
years in office, 1t was disclosed in
tn, governors pardon message to
the legislature today.
During the same period Il TN
victtd murderers were hanged, six
at II Il ON and nine at San Quen-
tin prison. This number would have
been considerably greater but for
the fact that the governor issued
81 reprieves and 33 communications.
Of the 248 pardons granted, 1877
were given to convicts actually in
prison, while 81 were to persons
who had served their sentences
and had been released on parole.
The amnesty" granted by the
governor to violators of the Wright
act, repudiated state prohibition
enforcement law, resulted il par
dons to ITS persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 6. UR) -
Thirty-two more pardons to Wright
act violators were issued by Cover
nor Rolph today, bringing the to-
tai to more than 200.
The new pardons included one
to Kenneth William johnson, Cr-
ange county jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-06

Continued On Page 81
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25
LENIN'S BIRTHDAY
IS HARDLY NOTICED

MOSCOW, April 25. CUP -
Onlv q few articles in the press
today marked the birthday of
Nikolai Lenin, the revered father
of Bolshcvism," whose embalmed
body lies in state on Red Square.
Curiously, Russians commemo-
rate the death-days. of their ma
tional heroes rather than birth
days. The annual outpourings Of
eulogics for Lenin come on Jan.
81, the anniversary of his death
in 1884, rather than today.
1Lenin was born as Vladimir
Ilyich Ulianox. in 1870, in Sim
brisk, which now carries his name,
Ulianovsk. The pen-name Lenln
he adopted, like many of the I'M
derground revolutionary leaders,
to conceal his identity from the
Czarist police. -. =,
When Lenin was II his elder
brother Alexander was arrested
end executed in connection with
the assassination of Alexander IL.
This event, unnoticed at the time,
proved perhaps the most Iateful
in Russian history, because it
turned the younger brother into
a flaming revolutionary.
With the victory of BOlShevism
in November, 1917, he became the
unuuestioncd leader of Russia
and his personal prestige increas-
cd from year to year.