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Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
FLYER FACES
DEATH CHARGE

HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. 20. U.P)-
Charged with murder in connection
with the death of his alleged para
mour, H. NJ. Edwards, aviator who
gave his address as Reno, New, to-
Gay was held in Jail here.
Edwards was arrested in his bed
in a Houston hotel room from
which, a few moments before, Ivy
Young, 32-year-old New York di-
vorcee, former actress, jumped or
fell to her death seven stories
below.
The tragedy climaXed a quarrel
begun at a night club party early
Sunday. Police said that Edwards
became angry at attentions paid to
the former actress by an "old
friend" whom she met.
AS the couple returned to the
hotel where they had registered as
man and wife, police said Edwards
ordered Miss Ivy from the car, to-
gether with married couple who
accompanied them.
Later, it was said, she reached
the hotel alone, summoned por-
ter with a pass key to open the
locked door of Edwards room, and
entered.
w. E. Wells, parking station at
tendant, was outside the hotel. He
told police he saw the young wom-
ans body burst through the screen
of the window and fall to the
ground below. A man, he said,
stood at the window from which it
fell.
Hotel employees said they heard
a commotion in the room. Enter
ing, they said, they found Edwards
getting into bed,
The aviator refused to make any
statement.
The dead woman was divorced
at Reno recently, according to po-
lice information, from Herbert
Griffinhagen of New York.
Mrs. AL B. White, Freeport, N.
Y, sister instructed that the body
be sent to Gloucester, N. j., where
it was said another sister lives.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
MRS. JUDD :
STORY TOLD

PHOENIX, Ari, Feb. 20. GU.P)-
Six Arizona state legislators today
considered the plea of Winnie Ruth
Judd, condemned murderess, that
they aid her in her fight to escape
hanging. The committee, appointed
by the state legislature, heard Mrs
Judd's story of the killings of Agnes
Ann LIE Roi and Hedvig Samuel
son, her friends, at the Florence
state prison yesterday.
"We have not made any plans
as to whether we will aid her,
Rep. r. r. Pryor of Phoenix, said
I'VE even may call her to Phoe-
nix for a public hearing and then
decide if we shall recommend that
her death sentence be commuted. y
All six committeeman declared
that they would like" to help her
and expressed the opinion she had
told the truth.
During the hearing in the war;
den's office, the legislators inquired
about the fight leading up to the
killings, Of the shootings and OF
the events following.
Mrs. Judd maintained she shot
in self-defense after the three had
quarreled.
Sammy and I were wrestling,
she told them. Il grabbed the CUR
she had and shot her. Ann (Mrs
LeRoD come at me with an IRON
ing board and started to swing.
shot and she fell"
Asked about the dissection oi
Miss Samuelson's body Mrs. JUDD
denied performing the operation
herself.
Il transferred portions of the
body of Sammy from the trunk
before shipping the bodies to Los
Angeles" she said.
The state board of pardons and
paroles will consider Mrs. Juddis
plea for Communication of sentence
March 6. An eight week reprieve
granted by the board, postponed
her hanging from Feb. II to April
Ia.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
PAIR SLAIN IN
GANGSTER WAR

NEW YORK, Feb. 20. U.P) - A
newsboy found the bullet torn bod
les of two men and a woman in
"Porky's' Speakeasy, in the Mid
town theatrical district, today Each
had been shot through the head.
The bar mirror and a stack of
glasses had been broken to frag-
ments by bullets.
One OF the men was identified as
John Egan, 33, an escaped Sing
Sing convict. The woman, about
26 years old. an expensively dressed,
good looking brunette, was not
Immediately identified.
There we're no clues to the slay-
ers beyond a fedora hat and two
peacils found beside a fence ad-
joining a nearby auto parking lot.
Both the front and back doors
of the speakeasy were unlocked,
something unknown in the usual
routine at Porky's, and police as
sumed the slayers had divided,
some fleeing by each door.
Egans escape from Sing Sing
was one of the most spectacular in
its history. Last December he and
william Austter broke out of the
escape proof cell block, overpow-
cred and tied q truSty, and escaped
over the wall with prison ladders.
He was well dressed and appeared
prosperous Underworld reports
had said he was back in ''stick-
ups"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
CHINESE LEADER SAYS NATION
LIKE GIGANTIC KEG Of POWDER
Huge Army And Immense Amount OF Mill
tary Stores Gathered To Resist Contemp-
lated Advance Of Japanese Forces.

United States citizens and proper
ty in North China.
Heavy explosions, resembling ar
tillery fire from the region of Nam
ling, Northern Jehol, led to a be-
lief that hostilities might already
have started
Tie league in Geneva awaited
unofficial reaction from Washing
ton before proceeding with adop-
ton of its Manchurian report, pos
sibly today or tomorrow.
CHINCHOW, Manchuria, Feb. 90
U.Ps-Recurring rumbles of an ex-
plosion heard today near Nanling
northwest of Chaoyang, Jehol pro-
vince, caused residents of the vicin-
ity to seek refuge in the belief hos
tilitieS between Chinese and jap
anese troops had been started.
The noise of the blasts could be
heard at frequent intervals at a
distance of Is miles. 1t sounded like
the rumble of heavy cannon fire.
Troops of both armies are massed
in the vicinity of Chaoyang.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
mMlLL
EW3R!So}ee;ERs R!S}e;

BEVERLY HILLS, Feb. 10.
(SpeciaD-Jim Corbett, "Gen-
tleman jim, truly a title
earned and maintained through
life. My acquaintance with
Corbett has been near 25 years,
as he was a great friend of
Fred Stones who is a great
friend of mine.
Fred was a great boxer. Cor
bett always said he would have
been middleweight champion if
he had taken up that line.
Corbett brought boxing out of
the saloon into respectability.
He would have been a credit
to the ministry, to industry, to
teaching, to anything, tn c
same as he was a credit to box
ing, a great credit to the stage.
He was a splendid actor, per-
hapS the best straight man
that any comedian ever worked
with. He never spoke i'll of
any man. A career lived in
goodwill. and ended in glory.
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
MI& R1~~
0lss, heNaush, Syndicate. Inc
TAX ON
POWER FIRMS.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 20.
gUPA-Reply to the latest charge
of Fred E. Stewart, member of the
state board of equalization and di-
rector of the state tax research bu-
reau, that California power COM
panies were attempting to fool
the public" was awaited today
Stewart, in Stinging statement
issued yesterday, declared the claim
OF utilities that increased taxes will
bring increased utility rates, is a
deliberate attempt to mislead the
public"
Statistics compiled by the state
tax research bureau reveal that
gas and electric utilities can pay
increased taxes and still earn the
seven per cent allowed them by the
state, Stewart said.
1--WE can prove" Stewart said,
by citing examples of the P. G..
and E., and the Southern Califor-
mia Edison company, that the in
dustry is earning a net income far
in excess of seven per cent
In 1881, the state official said the
P. G.. and E. earned $l0,985, ,290 in
excess of the seven per cent al
lowed by law
"All we propose" Stewart ex-
planned, ''is to make the company
assume the same tax burden as a
property owner. In the case of the
P. G. & E., based on the 1881 fig
ureS, this will be done by adding
So, ,202,0 to the tax bill"
Still referring to the 1881 figures
Stewart said that payment of such
tax would still permit the P. G.
& E., an earning OF $7,778,O0 in
excess of its seven nercent
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
NOTABLES At
CORBETT RITES

NEW YORK, Feb. 20. U.p)-
Thousands stood in a pelting rain
outside st. Malachy's Roman Cath
olic church today as funeral SER
vices Of the utmost simplicity were
held for James j. Corbett, Gentle
man Jim" of the boxing world.
Old-time prizefighters who re-
membered Corbett's famous victory
over John l.. Sullivan, actors who
knew him on the stage and prom
inent figures of sporting and the
atrical circles crowded the church
as the Rev. John Hays, Corbett' S
pastor, intoned the Latin phrases
of the requiem mass.
The only decorations were six
candles at the head and foot of an
unadorned bronze coffin.
st. Malachy's is the Actors
church" and the streets outside
were jammed, despite the inclement
weather, with persons unable to
crowd their way within. Mrs. Cor
bett, dressed in black without a
veil, was accompanied into the
church by John and Dennis Kelle-
her of Northampton, Mass, friends
with whom she will stay for the
next few days.
Corbett was buried in the Cypress
Hills cemtery, Brooklyn.
Among others who attended the
church services were Charles Stone
ham, owner of the New York
Giants; Fred Stone, Edward G..
Robinson, Mike Jacobs, fight pro-
moter; Police Commissioner Edward
P. Mulrooney, Jack Sharkey and
his manager, Johnny Buckley; Will
liam F. Carey, president of Madi-
son Square Garden; James j..
Johnston, promoter, and Grantland
Rice.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
Former Convict
Commits Suicide

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20. UP
Asher c. Bennett, ex-convict, had
kept his promise to police today
that he would never return TO
the big house"
Bennett was arrested, suspicioned
of robbery.
While being questioned by police
he declared:
"You coppers will never send me
back to prison"
"Why?" demanded officers.
This is why he reported, un-
folding a piece of paper and toss
ing the contents into his mouth.
He died of poison on the floor
of the station house.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
JAPAN SH|F IS
LEAGUE BREAK
Places Responsibility Up To
Nations By Adopting Resolu-
ton On Manchuria Report.
BY MILES w. VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent


TOXIC, Feb. 20.-Japan placed
sQuarely before the League of Ma
tionS today the necessity of de-
Gliding whether to precipitate To-
kio'S withdrawal from the league.
The cabinet voted definitely to
withdraw from Geneva if the
league officially condemned Japan
ese action in Manchuria. This ac-
tion, expected to come after the
league adopted the report of its
committee of 10 condemning the
Japanese course, was a surprise
coming before the league voted on
the report. Toxic, by moving in ad-
vance of the league itself, appar-
emily sought to shift responsibility
for the break onto Geneva.
Premier Saito and Foreign Min
lister Uchida visited Emperor Hiro-
hito Immediately after the Japan
ese cabinet meeting to obtain i'm
perial approval of the break with
Geneva, which was considered GER
tain.
1t was understood the cabinet
planned to continue japanese par
ticipation in the disarmament con-
ference.
The cabinet not only decided to
leave Geneva if the committee of
10 recommendation were adopted
but also approved a counter -propo-
sal to be submitted to the league
This will be telegraphed to Yusoke
|. .Matusoka, chief delegate at Gen.
eva. The Japanese delegation was
expected to start home immediately
after Matsuoka made his final
speech and presented the counter
proposals to the assembly.
A meeting of the privy council
was expected shortly to receive the
cabinets decision and to advise
the emperor to approve it. The de-
cision to withdraw was understood
to have been unanimous, indicating
that it was approved by Prince
Saionji, last of the "elder states
men" and advisor to the emperor
who had been especially consult
ed by the premier.
WASHINGTON Feb 20. sU.P}-
The American government expects
to withhold comment on the re-
port of the League of Nations COM
mittee TO 10 condemning Japan
ese activities in Manchuria at least
until the league assembly has VOt-
ed, it was learned today at the
state department.
GENEVA, Feb. 90 U.Pi-Yosuke
Matsuoka, Japanese delegate to the
League of Nations, was authorized
by Toxic today to return TO Japan
via the United States.
He hoped to sail on the Olym-
pic March from Southampton,
and take the Tatsuta Maru from
San Francisco on March %.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20

defunct Arizona bank and asked
to change their vote, was received
vociferously.
The two members of the lower
house attacked the moratorium
bill last week because they claimed
it allegedly halted sale of assets of
the bank by which depositors would
receive so per cent dividend.
The crowd, except for few out
bursts, was quiet and orderly. Most
of the farmers trooped to the gall
lerieS of the legislature after the
speakers left.
A public hearing will be held
Wednesday by the senate judiciary
committee, now considering the
measures. Senate leaders have pro-
missed farmers it would pass.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
Louisiana Mob
Lynches Negro

RINGGOLD, La, Feb. 20. W.P)-
Nelson Nash, "a, a Negro, was
hanged and shot last night by q
mob of 500 persons who abandoned
an attempt to burn him at the
stake because brushwood was too
wet.
After he was hanged to a tree,
SO shots were fired into his body.
Nash was alleged to have killed
j. P. Bachelor, so, banker, and to
have assaulted Mrs. Bachelor. He
was taken from the sheriff's forces
after his capture.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
Ballplayer Noses
Ouer In Airplane

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 20.
U.Pj-Stanley Hack, third baseman
with the Chicago Cubs, had an ''er-
ror" chalked up against him today
as the result of his effort to field"
his new airplane at Sacramento
airport
Hack and his two passengers es-
capped unhurt when his plane nosed
over in landing. The craft was
slightly damaged.
The baseball player received his
private pilots license last month
and purchased the new plane two
weeks ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
Gets Long Term
For Auto Death

MADEIRA, Cal, Feb. 20. U.Pt
John r. Lemos, MADEIRA ranch
laborer, today was to be taken to
San Quentin prison to begin serv-
ing sentences of from three to 80
years for running down an eight
year old schoolboy with his auto
mobile.
Admittedly guilty of running
down and killing Manuel Ozcoidi
as the child and two companions
walked home along the highway
lemos was sentenced by Judge
Murray to maximum penalties on
each of three counts, the SEN
tences to run consecutively.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
Opera Star Loses
Valuable JeUels

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. 90.
lU.nt A gang of soci<ty jewel
thieves was blamed today for the
theft of 100000 to $4,000 in gems
from the hotel suite of Grace
Moore, opera singer.
Miss Moore returned to her
apartment yesterday and found it
had been ransacked. Police discov-
cred that man who posed as a
clergyman telephoned the suite and
discovered that Miss Moore and
her husband, Valentine Parera,
were out.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
Automobile Horn
Saves Mans Life

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20. U.P)-
An automobile horn and irritated
neighbors were credited today with
saving the life of F. H. Clogget.
Clogget had inhaled carbon mon
oxide fumes in the garage at the
rear of his home. He fell forward,
unconscious, with his face press
ing the horn button.
The continued blasts of the
horn aroused irate neighbors and
Cloggett was taken to a hospital
for treatment.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
Pershing Reported
In Tucson Hotel

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 20. GUP)-
Gen. John j. Pershing, wartime
leader of the American army, was
living in a local hotel today, but
was not registered under his name.
A report that he was here to
undergo an operation at the vet
erans' hospital was denied by DR..
S. H. James, chief of staff. Gen.
Pershing arrived here last night
from Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
ARIZONA FIRST IN LINE

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 20. UPI-
A resolution asking that a con-
stitutional convention be called to
ratify the Blaine resolution to re-
peal the 18th amendment was in
troduced in the lower house of the
Arizona legislature today by Rep.
Frank w. Beer of Chandler.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
zANGARA GETS
SENTENCE Of
EIGHTY YEARS
Roosevelt's Attacker Receives
Twenty Years On Each Of
-Four Charges Against Him.
REGRETS ATTEMPT FAILED
Additional Charges Held Open
In Case Death Should Claim
Any OF Other Victims.
By E. w. LEWIS
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

United Press Staff Correspondent
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 20-Giuseppi
Zangara, who fired a volley of
shots at President-elect Roosevelt
and was Sorry he failed to kill
him, was sentenced to 80 years
imprisonment today after he had
defiantly told why he attacked the
President-elect.
zangara, who had told from the
witness stand how and why he at
tempted to assaSSinate Mr.. Roose-
velt, was sentenced to 20 years i'm
priSonment-the maximum on
each of four counts of assault.
The prisoner calmly pleaded gull
ty to each count as the prosecutor
went down the list of four, in
cluding one involving the Presi-
dent-elect, and then, in state
ment from the witness stand, said
he was ready to go to the electric
chair if the judge wanted to send
him there.
Then the judge recounted the list
of charges, sentencing the little
unemployed bricklayer to 20 years
on each of the four counts.
The sentences will run consecu-
lively, the judge said, making the
sentence equivalent to life term
as the assassin is SO years old.
Zangara tried to smile. His teeth
showed white and glistenine
against his dark face.
1T is fair" he said. Il am sat-
isfied.'
The judge replied:
There may be some more later.
Towering deputies pulled Zan-
CARA away and led him out of the
room. He laughed loudly, almost
Historically, as he was pushed
through the rear door of the crim-
inal courtroom and taken to his
jail cell on the 22nd floor.
Zangara, wearing checkered
shirt and light trousers, was calm
when arraigned In the crowded
tense courtroom.
After the defense had been re-
fused a delay, the charges were
read.
Counsel Makes Pleas
To each charge Attorney Lewis
T. Twyman formally announced
MY client pleads guilty"
When the Roosecelt charge was
completed, Attorney Twyman ask
ed zangara how he wanted to
plead.
Just like the others zangara
said.
Twyman then announced that
Zangara's counsel had statement
to be read explaining some of the
background of Zangara's life and
the impulses which caused him to
hate the wealthy and powerful.
Twyman then declared that Zan-
gara's one regret was that the vol
ley of bullets he fired wildly into
a crowd last week had failed to
kill the President-elect.
The attorney said this determin
alton of Zangara to kill Mr.. Roose-
velt was "a gruesome one. but one
to which he held unwaveringly"
The defense counsel has come to
the conclusion that zangara whom
alienists described as social mis-
fit" is sane Twyman added. He said
Zangara "scoffed at theidea that
he was insane and considers him.
self perfectly sane"
Zangara watched the proceedings
attentively. and his only comment
after the guilty pleas was an out
burst of English and Italian.
Zangara was then motioned to
the witness box and told in a cool
, and unhurried voice why he had
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. (Uf
The house today approved repea
of the 18th amendment, by a vot
of 289 to 121.
The action sends the prohibition
issue back to the states for ratifi
cation or rejection of repeal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 U.P)
The text of the Blaine repeal
resolution follows:
Resolved by the senate and
house of representatives of the
United States of America in
congress assembled two thirds
of each house mourning
therein,)' that the following
article is hereby proposed as an
amendment to the constitution
of the United States which
shall be valid to all intents and
purpOrses as part of the con-
stitution when ratified by con-
ventions in three-fourths of
the several states:
Section l. The eighteenth
article of amendment to the
constitution of the United
. States is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transporta-
ton or Importation into any
state, territory or possession of
the United States for delivery or
use therein of intoxicating liq-
ors in violation of the laws
thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3. This article shall
be imperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an am
endment to the constitution by
conventions in the several
states, as provided in the con-
stitutiOn, Within seven years
from the date of submission
hereof to the states by con-
gress."
More than the necessary two
thirds vote was mustered in til
house as the Blaine repeal resolu
tion-passed last week in the sen
ate-was driven through to victor
by a coalition of Republican an
Democratic vets.
Presidential approval is not re
luired for submitting the propose
new amendment to the states. -
three -fourths-or 36-of the =
states must ratify the amendmen
before it becomes effective.
Under the terms of the resolu
tion, congressional action will re
suit in the equivalent of a grea
national referendum on the con
liquor question. Fac
state must summon specially elec
ted state conventions which wi
pass on the proposed amendment.
Anti-prohibitionists, while jubi
iant at the speedy congressions
action, realize they are just EN-
barking on a bitter struggle
win ratification. Thirteen state
can block ratification, either by a
vote or failure to act.
AS Speaker Garner announce
the vote, the house burst into
roar of applause lasting sewers
minutes.
Despite the strict rules of tn
house against demonstrations fror
the gallery. the cheer which wen
up from the floor was reechoed il
the galleries.
Garner, realizing the hopelessnes
Of any attempt to keep order
stood smiling as he surveyed tn
scene of a victory in which h
played such prominent role.
1t was the speaker who has twic
during the present session forced
reluctant congress to vote on out
right repeal. The first time he wa
defeated in the house by marrow
margin of six votes. but today tn
resolution swept through trium
with AZ more Favorable
votes than necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20
PROHIBITIONS
FATE PLACED
UPON STATES
Repeal Measure Passed By
House This Morning Referring
Matter To Conventions.
VOTE SHOWS 2S9 TO I21
Rules Of Congress Broken When
Result Of Balloting Is Greet
ed With Cheers By Gallery.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. UP)
The house today approved repeal
of the 18th amendment, by a vote
of 289 to 121.
The action sends the prohibition
issue back to the states for ratifi-
cation or rejection of repeal
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-20

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Evening star., 1933-10-06
TWO men INJURED
AS CAR HITS PILLAR
Both Are Treated at Casualty Hos
pital for Severe Head
Hurts.

Two men were seriously injured early
today when the automobile In which
they were riding crashed into a Naduct
pillar at Third street and Florida
avenue northeast.
Both were taken to Casualty where
Clarence E. Smith, 30, of 2l24 P street,
driver Of the car, was treated for Sc
we're cuts about the head and face.
It also was thought he may have a
skull fracture. Smiths companion,
Leroy w. Parsley, %, of It's Newton
street, also received severe head in
Jurles and X-rays were to be taken to
determine whether his skull was frac-
tured. The condition of both men was
pronounced undetermined.
traffic accidents early today and late
yesterday.
In collision between two automo-
b1es at Fifth and Cedar streets yester-
Gay afternoon, Isabelle KerRAl SO, and
Henrietta Menger, 73, living at the
Washington SanitariuM, suffered bruises.
The drivers Of both machines were ar
rested by police Of No. precinct on
charges OF reckless driving. They are
William L. Guthrie, 26. of Takoma
Park and Charles E. Richards, 73, Of
the 7l0o block Of Chestnut street.
A colored woman received minor in
juries this morning in a collision be-
tween a truck and automobile at Thir-
teenth and @ streets. The injured
woman, Florence Houston. 81, driver Of
the automobile, was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital. where she was taken by
the Fire Rescue Squad. The truck was
driven by Joseph Wayman, 32 of the
14o0 block Of Fairmont street, police
said