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Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
Court To Settle
East Side RolU

That somebody was disturbing
the peace on the east side seems
certain. but it will be up to Judge
Lee Nuffer to decide just who when
he weighs complaint against COM
plant in the El Centro police court
tomorrow morning.
John Evans, SO, Negro, was the
first one arrested, on complaint of
j. p. and Mrs. Martha Jones, 76
and 81 years old. They said Evans
attacked Jones when Jones asked
him to move because he is behind
in his rent.
Then Evans signed a complaint,
telling Judge Nuffer that Jones
threatened him with a revolver
and Mrs. Jones hit him on the back
with a piece of automobile spring.
So Judge Nuffer released the
three on thir own recognizance,
telling them to appear in police
court at 9 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing, when the matter will be
threshed out to an end.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
Coolidge Will
Brief Document

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. Jan.
IL. U.p)-Calvin Coolidge'S will,
written in his own hand while he
was President, was filed for pro-
bate today in Hampshire county
probate court.
The actual will, pequeathing his
entire estate TO his widow, was
characteristically brief, requiring
only % words.
The will was written on White
House stationery and was in White
House envelope. In the upper
left corner of the paper were en-
graved the words THE White
House"
Below, in Mr.. Coolidge's own
handwriting, was the following:
will of Calvin Coolidge of
Northampton, Hampshire County,
Massachusetts,.
mot unmindful of my son, John,
I give all my estate, both real and
personal, to my wife, Grace Cool
idge, in fee simple.
Done at Washington, District
of Columbia, this Goth day of Dec
ember, A. D., Nineteen Twenty-six
Calvin Coolidge
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
BLOC
IN CONGRESS

One of the most sensational de-
velopments in Washington is the
organization of an open forum,
popularly termed farm bloc" in
congress, on non-partisan basis to
put through a constructive pro-
gram of farm legislation during
the present session of congress, ac-
cording to farm bureau officials.
The movement had its beginning
during the last session of con-
gress, when a number of represen-
tatives under the leadership of Rep
resentative Hatton w. Summers
of Texas, cooperating with Presi-
dent E. A. O'Neal and Chester H.
Gray, legislative director, of the
American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, held series of meetings to
outline plan.
During the present session, the
group has been considerably en-
larged and now claims a member
ship of approximately $50 men,
mers of the house of representa-
tiveS.
President O'Neal and other farm
leaders are invited to sit in with
committees of this bloc" to coun-
sci and advise on all matters per-
tanning to agricultural legislation.
Commenting upon this move,
President O'Neal stated: II regard
this development as tremendous
ly significant and indicative of
growing realization OF the nation
that the restoration of agriculture
must be the first step toward ma
tional economic recovery"
A similar, but smaller, group has
been formed in the senate. The
senate group is headed by Sena-
tor Smith of South Carolina.
These developments in congress
recall to many the thrilling days
early in the life of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, when it
organized the famous farm bloc"
back in 1920, which was SO power
full in putting through needed leg
islation for agriculture at that
time.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12

". Y. Stocks
BY ELMER C. Waller
United Press Financial Editor

NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-Furthei
weakness in wheat prices checked
rally in the stock market today
and prices dipped to losses of q
fraction to more than a point at
the close.
Stocks were moderately higher
through the first four hours OF
trading and turned downward CO.
incident with a closing break in
wheat. The latter closed Is to l
cent bushel lower. Other grains
were irregular and cotton was high
er much of the time.
Trading in stocks was exceeding
" dull in contrast to yesterdays
active turnover. Only few mdi-
vidual issues broke out of the gen.
eral trend of the market. These
furnished the principal interest.
McCrory Stores corporation is
sues broke badly, losing more than
so per cent of their open market
values. Proctor and Gamble was
weak on dividend fears, while spe-
cial strength appeared in such
SUOCkS dS DlOOhlJ JAl-9sAdAliAdbIo
Transit and Goodyear Tire and
Rubber.
Weakness in wheat was the prin-
cipal influence on the share mar
ket. Selling was light, however, and
observers saw little change in the
speculative outlook.
Principal industrial shares NOV
ed narrowly. Steel common was car
ried up to 31$ in the early trading
when the general market present.
ed a firm tone. Toward the close it
sold off until it dipped below the
previous close. Other steel shares
moved in a narrow range.
il. Case eased off with the
grain market. Mail order shares al
so made small declines. iKresge
sold off with the general mercan-
tile group which was influenced by
sharp reduction in sales recently
reported. Such issues as General
Electric, American Can, General
Motors and United Aircraft made
small declines.
Sales today totaled 1900 shares
against 100000 shares yesterday
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
Granted Diuorce
From 'CaUe Man

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II. WH-
The asserted "cave man" tactics
of Clarence R. Ficken, Ventura
business man, brought his wife,
Irene l.. Ficken, into divorce court
today.
She was granted a decree after
she had told Superior Judge lar
thur Keetch that her husband had
ordered her to take the children
and leave their home. .-
"On another OCCASION" she test
flied, "he took my diamond ring
from me by force and refused to
return it, and attempted to choke
me-"
Mrs. Ficken won custody of two
children, Clarence, 18, and La
verne, II, and Ficken was ordered
to pay s85 a month for the support
of his family.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
HOVERS
AROUND BABY

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. II. W.P)-
Libby Holman Reynolds, former
Broadway torch singer, may see
her multimillionaire baby for the
first time tomorrow, if her sons
condition continues to improve.
Physicians at the Pennsylvania
hospital said today. the mother
had not asked to have the child
brought to her. Miss Holman oc-
cupies a suite on the seventh floor
of the hospital Her baby, poten-
tial heir to a large part of the
s15,00O,000 fortune left by Smith
Reynolds, is being kept in an in
cubator a few rooms away.
Guarded by a uniformed police
man, the tiny child became the
center of what may be one of the
most bitterly contested fights for
millions in the history of the ma
tion's courts.
Circumstances will of the
child's grandfather, R. j. Reynolds,
the trust fund established for the
baby's father in which no mention
was made of possible widows, young
Reynolds two marriages, and the
uncertain legal status of post
humous child-conspired to pro-
duce a legal tangle in which the
judicial minds Of the country were
at variance.
1t is possible the United States
supreme court may be called up
on to determine how many of the
Reynolds tobacco millions will go
to the baby.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
Son OF Author
Asks Probation

LOS ANGELES, Jan. IL. U.p)-
Alton Tully, 21-year-old son Of
Jim Tully, noted hobo author, to-
day pleaded guilty TO a statutory
charge against 21-year-old Frances
Charboneaux, and asked for pro-
baton.
1t was the second time within 16
months the youth had admitted
such an offenSe. A little more than
a year ago he pleaded guilty to a
charge of attacking 17-year-old
Mrs. June Butler and was given
probation. The probation was dis
missed three days before Tully was
arrested on Miss Charboneaux
complaint.
Superior Judge B. Rey Schauer,
before whom Tully entered his
guilty plea, set the time for pro-
baton hearing and fixing of SEN
tence for February /. Tully then
conferred with Ben B. Lindsay,
former Denver juvenile court
judge.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
NeWly Appointed
Judge Inducted

LOS ANGELES, Jan. u. U.Pl-
Harry F. Sewell, Whittier attor-
ney, recently appointed to the su-
perior court bench by Governor
James Rolph, Jr., today was for
mally inducted into office in de-
partment 35. where he will pre-
side temporarily.
The oath of office was admins
tered by Justice Albert Lee Stepin-
ems of the district court Of appeal,
while Presiding Judge Hartley Shaw
of the superior court presided over
the courtroom. Sewell was named
by the governor to fill the vacancy
caused by the elevation of Justice
Stephens to the appellate court and
will serve the two years Of the lat
ter's unexpired term.
G. Randolph Miller, -presi-
dent of the Whittier Bar associa-
ton, extended to the attorney the
congratulations and best wishes of
the organization. Sewell is presi-
dent of the Whittier bar group.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
SAYS KREUGER
DID NOT DIE
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

ot<tAA
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-Doubt
that Ivar Kreuger shot himself to
death March II, 1892, in Paris and
thereby brought his match mono
poly tumbling about the ears of
the world and was uttered today
by Senator Reynolds, Democrat,
North Carolina.
Reynolds is a member of the
senate banking and currency COM
mittee which is investigating
Kreuger's fantastic finance. The
erratic Swede obtained and dissi-
pated millions.
II am not convinced he is dead
Reynolds told the United Press.
Il am convinced that prior to
his alleged suicide in Paris there
was an unloading of millions of
dollars worth of his securities up
on unsuspecting purchasers"
All available official evidence is
against Reynolds suspicious as to
Kreuger's death. French police
certified the suicide. Unsubstanti-
ated. mysterious stories have per-
sisted, however. A woman in
recently announced rff
ceipt of a letter allegedly from
Kreuger.
DR.. Max Winkler, regent of the
College of the City of New York,
before the committee to-
day the story of securities manip-
ulations by the bankrupt company
of Kreuger & Toll.
Winkler is a member of the
stock exchange firm of Bernard,
Winkler & Co., and president of
the joint protective committee of
Kreuger g. Toll debenture holders.
The committee is investigating sub
stitution, allegedly to the disadvan-
tage of American investors, of col
lateral behind S26,500,000 of Kreu-
ger & Toll match syndicate de-
bentures sold in the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
FORMER GRID
STAR ACCUSED

LOS ANGELES, Jan. ~. U.P)-
Police charges that he hired a
pseudo-gunman in a plot to kill
his wife were vigorously denied to-
day by Gerald Jerry Craig, 80,
former football and World war
hero.
Police arrested the former Uni
versity of Southern California grid
iron captain after a detective, rep
resenting himself as down-at-t
heel gangster, reputedly arranged
to conduct the assassination for
$500.
Craig was confronted by his 40
year-old socially prominent wife,
Ethel. He embraced her warmly.
do you believe all this stuff
about me,'' he asked.
Yes, I do she replied. She
choked with sobS and retired, leav-
ing her husband to face question
ers. He was charged with attempt
ed murder, planned, police charg-
ed, in an attempt to gain control
of a joint estate, valued at 100000
Stunned by details of the reputed
death plot, Mrs. Craig said she
had no intimation of anything so
serious. She said she suspected her
husbands affections were stray
ing several weeks ago. She be-
lieved he was interested in ano-
ther woman" The incident passed
off and she thought no more of
1t, she said. Mrs. Craig was at police
headquarters, being advised of the
charges, when her husband was
taken into custody.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
RECORDER PAYS VISIT

Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Logan of Los
Angeles were recent visitors in Ell
Centro. Logan has been county re-
corder for Los Angeles county for
a number of years.
During their stay in Ell Centre,
Mr.. and Mrs. Logan were enter
tanned by Mrs. Evalyn Boman
Westerfield, county recorder. They
visited the court house and the re-
corder's office in particular, that
office receiving high praise from
the Los Angeles recorder.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
L. A. Hay
l.. A. Stocks

LOS ANGELES, Jan. IL. (U.P)-
Inactivity and lower market DOM
mated conditions ON the Los An
geles stock exchange today while
bank stocks and oil issues led trad
ing.
Transamerica sold 1000 at 51a
down Il. Security First National
traded $50 at 44&, down u.
Standard Oils turnover of 200
was made OF 251s, down q. Union
Oil sold 100 at IL, up Is.
Southern California Edison A
sold 400 at 261s, down u. Edison
common sold 100 at 81, unchanged.
Pacific Western sold 100 at ga
unchanged
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
Halloran Hearing
Set For Monday

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. u. (U.P-
Justice Nat Mckee of the West
Precinct court. said today he be-
heved he would be able to hear
Monday the preliminary hearing
of John j. Halloran, lumberman,
charged as an accessory in the
Winnie Ruth Judd case.
Justice Mckee is suffering from
a slight attack of influenza. His
illness having caused postponement
of the hearing yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
DEVILS TOWER is FILMED

SUNDANCE, Wyo. W.Pg-News-
reel pictures of the famed Devils
Tower, a national monument near
Sundance, were taken for the first
time recently. A camera man from
Denver scaled the Tower to get
some shots and also pictures of
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
KELLOGG ON COAST

PASADENA, Jan. IL. W,R)-
Frank B. Kellogg, former secretary
of state, and Mrs. Kellogg, were
here today for a brief winter visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kellogg motored
1eisurely across the country from
their home in st. Paul.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
L. A. Butter e Eggs
L. A. livestock

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II. W.P)-
Hog receipts 100. Market steady.
Heavy locals 1856 to 3.45.
Cattle, 300. Market steady. Year
ling steers 4.35 to SIS. Few hei-
fers ATS. Cows 1.50 to 1865.
Calves 200. Steady. Medium to
good calves 500 to $50.
Sheep none. Medium to choice
lambs quoted AIS to $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
INSPECTS PRISONS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. IL. up
Judge Miguel Figueroa Roman Of
Tucuman, Argentina, left today for
San Francisco on tour Of United
states prisons. He plans TO visit
Folsom and San Quentin pcniten-
tiaries before returning to his own
country.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
WEAK WOMEN
Take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Have you ever felt that you were toe
weak to do anything that you did
not have the strength TO do your work.
Women who are weak and rundown
should take q tonic such as Lydia r.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Head
aches and backaches that are the result
Of a tired, rundown condition often
yield to this marvellous medicine.
9s out of every 100 women who report
to us say that they are benefited by this
medicine. Buy a bottle from your drug
eist today ;. and watch the results.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12
L. A. Banks

Bid Asked
Security First National. Az As
Transamerica ..............--..-. 5ss 5h2
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-12

the monument was taken from the
ground.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

the sum OF $4,000 per year would it
not be a reasonable standard Of liv-
ing to apply to actors and actresses?
Then since this is recognized to be a
good sized sum to spend on living ex-
penses 1t would seem that another
$4,000 or $4,000 would be sufficient
to lay away for a rainy day, to make
a total annual salary Of $4,000 to
$4,000.
Now If the salary basis could be
set at $4,000 per year or $4,000 per
month it would not only be gold
mine for the artist but 1t would also
help to spread the fat of the land
around in the Golfers of the masses by
means of less retail prices for the
products thus advertised.
We are not jealous. Far from 1t.
nor do we dislike the stars for re-
ceiving such wages. but our object
is to make things more equal and
certainly no one can call us a mig
gard just because we offer the sug-
gestion that a $4,000 per year sal
airy is enough for any one to get
along on
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
HOW PUBLIC OWNERSHIP is
FINANCED

The following clipping was
taken from the Chicago Tribune
by a reader of the Askov Amer
lean who requested it's publica-
ton:
Starting on September 1, the 3 per
cent tax on utility bills which now
is paid by the customer will be paid
by the utility company. That is the
latest addition to the long list of fed
eral taxes which are assessed upon
the utilities. Mr.. Philip Hampson
recently found more than 80 different
taxes which the power and light and
similar companies must pay to the
federal, state and local governments.
For the nation as a whole one dollar
out of every eight collected from util-
ity customers was snagged by the
government. The electric power and
light industry alone paid in taxes 225
million dollars out of gross earnings
of 1888 million.
"The substantial portion of the 225
million which the federal government
exacted from consumers of electricity
is spent in part for Boulder dam,
Muscle Shoals and other subsidized
power plants. The government, in
short, makes money out of private
operation of utilities in order to lose
it on public operation. If it is true.
as Is often claimed and seldom dem
onstrated, that the customers of the
governments power plants sometimes
get their power for less than the
customers of private plants are
charged, it is clear that whatever saw
ing is achieved is at the expense OF
the consumers of gas and electricity
in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Bos-
ton. and hundred thousand other
communities"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
REAL MEANING OF FLAG

The Mile Laos County Times ex-
presses in true words the real mean
ing of the flag as follows:
Outstanding above all else in the
recovery program of President Roose-
welt is the new idea that the flag of
this nation represents something more
to the people than a mere piece of
bunting symbolic of a political sys-
tenn. 1t now stands for the human
idea that the government is not an
impersonal thing, but an entity that
is inspired with diecrt interest in
the welfare of the people. Behind the
flag is the idea that the economic life
of the people is of first concern, and
that nothing must be left undone to
give those willing to labor the full
fruits of that labor. The old hocus
pocus that anybody has a right to rob
the people under cunningly devised
laws and schemes is definitely out.
The nation is taking a vast step for
ward in this idea so boldly advanced
by President Roosevelt"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
ABRIDGED NEWS
CLIPPINGS FROM
OTHER PAPERS

Onamia-An alarm bell connected
with the private telephone line Of
Glen Bloomquist who conducts
clothing store here caused the arrest
of two burglars early on the morning
of November 80. The alarm is con-
nected in such a way as to ring at
the owners house when window is
raised or a door is opened at the
store. The alarm came to Mr.. Bloom
quist at about $3.50 a. m. on the
morning of the robbery and he quickly
telephoned the sheriff and others who
went to the store and surprised the
robbers in the act of carrying out
merchandise to their waiting car.
Other robberies were cleared up also.
Pine City-C. R. Perkins, manager
of the Eastern Minnesota Power Cor
poration, has been transferred to
Amery, Wis.,, the change becoming eff
fective December 1. Mr.. Perkins will
have charge of the. merchandise and
new business for both the Wisconsin
and Minnesota companies. He came
to Pine City in 1917 where he entered
the employe of the Eastern Minnesota
Power Company and was appointed
manager in 1918. His family will
continue to live in the county seat for
the present as they own their own
home here.
Moose Lake.. o. Thrun, highway
patrolman stationed at Moose Lake.
received new gun as an award for
being the best pistol marksman at a
recent shooting tournament held for
the highway patrolmen at Fort Smell
ling in St. Paul. Mr.. Thrun was en-
tered with various other members of
the patrol throughout the state and
it is no little honor to emerge the
best marksman from such a lot of
sharp shooters.
Hinckley-M. Hale. father of Mrs.
Bert L. Williams of this village,
passed away at her home last Thurs
day morning. The cause of death was
enlargement of the heart. The body
was laid to rest at Allen, Nebraska,
the old home. Mrs. Williams and M.
D. Folsom, funeral director, accompa-
MED it there.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
WATCH RESULTS

u. S. Senator Norris of Nebraska,
has drawn up constitutional amend
ment to give Nebraska one-house
legislature of twenty-one members.
The plan will be for submission to the
voters next fall by initiative petition,
it is reported. 1t will be necessary to
get $4,000 signers to TIE petition before
the question can be placed on the
ballot. According to the announce
ment. the members would be elected
by districts on a non-pal tisan ballot
to serve four years and the salary of
each would be $4,000 per year plus
mileage. The governor would call
special legislative session whenever
a majority of the legislators re-
quested it.
This plan is wide departure from
the present system with two houses
and a multitude of members and it
will be we'll to watch results in the
cornhusker state.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
THIS is mo APPLE SAUCE

The following editorial clipped
from the Minneapolis Journal
brings back to many eastern born
people the memory of the happy
days of their childhood when the
apple played large part in the
environment which nodded their
lives. The true sentiment ex-
pressed in these lines is not only
interesting to those who have ex-
perienced a childhood in the land
of apple crops but also to those
who only see the fruit marketed
at the stores. We offer the edi-
torial in its entirety:
Keeping the doctor away with an
apple day still is possible, although
the commercial apple crop is short.
Down five millions from the five-year
average, there still is a crop equiva-
lent to 27,571,O00 barrels. and that's
the makings of some apple pie.
Nature knows no class distinctions.
The homely Down East farm orchard
product fated to be tumbled into
barrels, Jared no worse than the aris-
tocratic Western product, destined to
travel in fancy, paper lined box, to
city store.
The apple is a great civilizer.
When Father put couple of barrels,
always open, at the bottom Of the eel
lar stairs, and the boys filled their
p ckets On the way to school, and
again when school was out, it was
great. From such environment and
such munching came up many a boy
to be president of the United States,
village councilman, constable, oldest
inhabitant, or to attain other distinc-
ton. And when the young people
gathered on winter nights about the
big stove and ate apples, they never
thought of jazzing around, toting hip
TASKS or robbing banks or filling sta
lions, there being, of course, no filling
stations.
Those were the days. And that's
no apple-sauce either.