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Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
CORNERSTONE:
ARRIVES HERE

Arrival of the cornerstone for
the new $4,000 post office build
ing in Ell Centre today renewed
interest in the cornerstone laying
which is scheduled for the after
noon of May 80
The large stone is Indiana lime
stone and bears the following in
scription--"Ogden l.. Mills, secre-
tary of the treasury. Perry K.
Heath, assistant secretary. James A.
Wetmore, acting supervising archi-
tect, 1882" The postal department
refused to permit an additional in
scription on the stone.
Permission was received from the
government to open the box en-
closed in the present post office
building 20 years ago. These docu-
ments will be placed in the new
cornerstone along with additions to
be decided upon later, according to
c. C. jenkins, local postmaster. The
new stone contains compartment
for the box of records.
The program planned for the
Memorial Day cornerstone laying
rapidly is nearing completion and
soon will be in readiness, the post
master said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
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Nisss AsNausht Syndicate. iaA
TOM MOONEY
IS ACQUITTED

SAN FRANCISCO, May "a. U.P)
Tom Mooney, convicted Prepar-
edness day bomber, was acquitted
of an old murder indictment today
when Superior Judge Louis H.
Ward directed the jury to return a
verdict of not guilty.
The acquittal does not affect
MONEYS life imprisonment SEN
tence, given after he was convict
ed of planting the bomb which
killed 10 persons during the Pre-
paredness day parade. July %, 1916.
1t merely provides him with new
argument on which to base his
continued fight for. pardon.
Judge Ward advised the jury
after an hour had been devoted to
attorneys arguments.
The trial proper lasted barely
one hour and 20 minutes. I'm
mediately after the jury of six
men and six women was selected,
Prosecutor w. w. Murphy rested
the state IS case.
Mooney thereupon insisted he be
given the right to defend himself
against the old murder charge.
Murphy, however, argued the way
had been cleared for a directed
verdict of acquittal, since the de-
tense, having nothing to rebut,
could rest.
There were several sharp clashes,
with Mooney acting as his own at
torney and Judge Ward criticizing
the prosecution for not offering a
case, before the jury was instruct
ed. The verdict, acquitting Moon
ey of the old charge of numbering
Arthur Nelson, one of 10 victims of
the 1916 bomb, was returned a few
minutes later.
The states refusal to prosecute
was based on the argument so much
time had elapsed since the bomb
ing that a conviction would be i'm
possible, due to lack of evidence
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
NOTED NAMES
INCLUDED IN
STOCK DEALS
McAdoo, Lindbergh, Pershing,
Adams And Woodin Listed As
Morgan Friends
BOUGHT SHARES CHEAPLY
Senate Investigation Brings Out
Another Sensation For Sec
ond Day OF Hearing.

WASHINGTON May "a. U.P)-A
financial transaction by which men
high in the nation IS official and
business life were permitted to
realize thousands of dollars in pro-
fits without risk or delay was re-
vealed today into the senatorial in
quiry into affairs of J. P. Morgan
& Co.
Such names as Secretary of
Treasury Woodin, General PERISH
ing, former Secretary of Navy
Adams, Charles Lindbergh and
many others whose regulations are
known in every hamlet of the
country were included in "select-
ed list of those permitted to pur-
chase Allegheny Corporation stock
at $40 while it was selling on the
New York stock exchange at $31
to $35.
The second day of the Morgan
inquiry was replete with sensa-
tions. 1t started off with j. P.
Morgan testifying for the second
successive day. Early in the day IS
session list of Morgan borrowers,
including Charles G. Dawes and
Norman H. Davis, was interviewer
into a picture of the frenzied ef-
forts to halt the 1929 stock market
collapse by pouring out millions
of dollars in loans,
Allegheny Corporation common
stock closed on the market yester-
day at 21s. But in February, 1929,
when 3,500,000 shares were issued,
$40 was regarded as bargain
price for it. OF this issue, 1850, 900
shares were sold at that figure,
which was represented as the cost
price.
A purchaser at that price could
sell it in the open market for a
quick turnover OF from $11 to $14
share. A person as George F.
Baker, director of the First Nation
al bank, of the First Security Co.,
and of the New York Central,
could turn an overnight profit of
from $4,000 to $4,000. He took
10000 shares.
Charles A. Lindbergh, who flew
to fame by the first nonstop air.
plane trip to Paris, was on the
''ground floor list. He bought
500 shares, making possible a mod
est but swift gain of $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
A|RMA|L MAY
BE ABANDONED

Unless American AirwayS is COM
pensated by the governments for
carrying airmail on the Phoenix to
San Diego leg of the Southern Air
mail route since February, the SER
vice will be discontinued May %,
and Imperial Valley left without
direct airmail service.
The airways company carried the
mail without compensation since
February, according to c. c. Jen-
kins, local postmaster, and reports
operating at great loss. No Off
cial notice concerning discontinue
ance has ben received here from
the post office department, Jenkins
said today. 49,.
Airmail from Imperial Valley
doubled as the result of a cam
paign to increase the daily pound
age. Airmail from the valley totals
between Is and 20 pounds daily,
jenkins said.
The total would be more than
doubled, in the opinion of the local
postmaster if it were possible to
arrange the schedule two hours la
ter. Valley businessmen post their
airmail after p. m. and thus lit
tie benefit is derived from the ser
vice.
: Plans are underway for making
Imperial county airport a junction
on the southern route from Atlanta
to San Diego and Los Angeles, Jen-
kins said. The junction is Phoenix
at present. The route from Phoenix
to Los Angeles was not lighted by
the department of commerce but
tn line between Phoenix and San
Diego via El Centre was lighted by
the government. The only cost for
the route over Imperial Valley
would be maintenance.
The plan for making the Imper-
ial county airport the junction on
the line is believed to be so logical
that eventually it will be adopted
by the government, the postmaster
said. ..#....
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24

all Chinese troops today TO evacu-
ate Peiping forthwith, leaving po-
lice responsible for order in the
great North China commercial CEN
ter.
The Peiping zone thus was de-
militarized by the Chinese as the
japanese armies hammered almost
at the gates of the capital.
japanese artillery banged away
20 miles north and IL miles east
of Peiping, and Japanese bombing
planes droned over the city drop
ping propaganda leaflets, while re-
ports from Toxic and elsewhere
spoke of an armistice between
Japan and China
Here, the military rather than
the diplomatic phase seemed up
permost.
A United Press correspondent
visited General Ho at his head
quarters. Nine Japanese planes
roared overhead, and Hos body
guards were ready, along with their
officers, to go to dugouts if bombs
were dropped. But leaflets came
down instead.
eve seek truce, not an armis-
tice,' General Ho said. .'Thus
far we have been unsuccessful. II
an understanding is reached it will
be purely local.
Ho deplored the reports of a
general armistice, characterizine
them as deliberately misleading.
Twenty japanese legation guards
proceeded today to the southeast
ern corner of the Tartar city quar-
ter and ordered the Chinese garri-
son to evacuate defensive positions
taken up in preparation to meet a
japanese attempt into the city
The Chinese refused, pending or.
derS from Superiors.
japanese artillery was shelline
Changping, Shunyi and .TungchoW
and Japanese airplanes bombed
the Chinese lines 20 miles north Of
! the old capital. 4'.E#s.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
CHAMBER WILL
PLAY HOST TO
SPARTAN FOUR

Central Unions championship
four man track team will be guests
of the Ell Centro Chamber of Com
merce tonight at dinner to be served
in the Barbara Worth hotel at 6:45.
Myrel Gillett, Leroy kirkpatrick,
Leo Maiden and Ebert Berry, the
team members, will be accompanied
by Coach Robert Armstrong and by
Principal John L. House, who is
president of the G. I. F.. under
whose auspices the meet in which
the team won the championship
was held.
w. H. Tyler, Jr., new president of
the chamber, will preside and Mark
Munson will act as program chair
man.
Those who have not as yet made
reservations for dinner are asked
to GO SO before The time for din
ner.
Members of the team will give
short talks and others to speak are
Coach Armstrong, Professor Rouse
and representative citizens of the
city.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
1EWES AND YOUNG GUARANTEE SWING SALARY
HULSE AND ROBINSON GREETED
BY LARGE GROUP AT DINNER

Under the auspices of the Bet
ter Government League of Imperial
County, a representative gathering
of men and women from all parts
of the valley filled the main dining
room of the Barbara Worth hotel
last night, to extend a welcome
home" to Senator Ben Hulse and
ASsemblyman Sam Robinson.
Both legislators were greeted
with applause when they entered
the dining room and took their
seats at the main table. flanked
by directors of the league.
Attorney Ray d. johnson, pres
ident of the league, acted as chair
man and after extending a well
come to the honored guests, read
the objects of the Better Govern
ment league and invited any who
wished to do so to sign membership
cards at the table.
Assemblyman Robinson recount
ed the incidents of the closing
hours of the assembly session,
which he likened to happy fam
lily indulging in play after several
months of hard work, and asserted
the pleasant atmosphere created
by the human side of the various
assembly members was one of the
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
CASE
At BRAWLEY
Richard Scoble Held Following
Fatal Stabbing OF Floyd Pax
ton OF Salt Lake.

Floyd Paxton, 81, of Salt Lake
City, was fatally stabbed in Braw-
ley this morning and Richard SEQ
BILE, Los Angeles, is being held by
the police of that city as a sus-
pect in the crime. Both are fruit
workers and had been in Brawley
about two or three weeks.
According to police officials the
killing was the result of a quarrel
which took place near a G street
restaurant at 4 o'clock this morn
ing. 1t is said that Paxton and Sco-
BILE had quarreled while in the res
taurant and had left together, walk
ing down G street to an alleyway
in which they both disappeared.
Shortly afterwards, Scoble is said
to have left the alleyway and en-
tered an automobile driven by Le-
land Felshaw, a partner of Paxton,
who lives at 912 G street, Brawley.
They drove around the block and
when they again approached the
alleyway, Paxton's body was seen
lying on the sidewalk near the res
taurant. He had walked from the
alley to the front door of the eat
ing place after receiving the fatal
wound before collapsing.
1t is alleged that Scoble tried to
run away after the discovery of the
body but was brought back by Eel
shaw and handed over to the po-
lice.
No one actually saw the killing,
it is stated, but Scoble was identi-
fled as the person seen entering the
alleyway with Paxton and again
leaving the place, alone, both by
Felshaw and by Negro whose
name has not been learned.
Bert Underwood, county coroner,
will hold the inquest tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock in Brawley.
The delay is to give police Off
cials plenty of time to investigate
the killing in an effort to place the
blame for it before the coroner's
jury meets.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
WIFE SHOOTS
FIRE CHIEF

LOS ANGELES, May "a. U.P)-
With six bullet wounds in his body,
Frank o. Edwards, At, assistant
chief of the Los Angeles fire de-
partment, fought for his life to-
day while authorities debated pos
sible action against his eStranged
wife, Mrs. Beulah Edwards, who
shot him.
Edwards had been separated from
his wife for two months. Late yes
terday their son, Raymond, 20, tel
ephoned his father Mrs. Edwards
was i'll and wished to see him.
The fireman went to her home.
Sobbing Historically, Mrs. Edwards
snatched up pistol and began fir
ing, according to the story Edwards
and his son told police.
II don't want her arrested" Ed
wards said. She's sick. She didn't
know what she was doing
won't prosecute"
The fire department executive
was in general hospital, while his
wife was booked in the hospitals
prison ward on suspicion of assault.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
JAN|TOR KILLS
PAPER CHIEF

LOS ANGELES, May "a. UP
E. G.. Patterson, business manager
of the Illustrated Daily News, wide
ly known through newspaper cir
cles on the Pacific coast, was shot
to death in the daily news office
late today.
J. w. Mcclure, building mana
ger of the Daily News, was shot
through the leg and the abdomen.
A disgruntled employee, Edwin
Davis, janitor, was said to have
done the shooting. 1t was under
stood that Davis was discharged
from his position during the day
Patterson was killed and INC
Guire wounded in front of Nc
Cures office, directly under the
office occupied by the Los Ange-
les United Press bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
Origin OF Blaze
Not Determined

Firemen were unable to deter
mine the origin of the fire which
ocurred at 654 Holt avenue yester-
day Afternoon and resulted in dam
age of between $1100 and $780,
according to Fire Chief Tom ReamS.
The building, duplex, was full
ly covered by insurance but the
furnishings which belonged to the
tenants we're uninsured.
No one was at home in the apart
ment occupied by Mrs. Myrtle Nc
Keighan in which the fire started,
either on rear porch or in a rear
bedroom. The McKeighan boy re-
turned from school and discovered
the fire. Slight damage occurred
to small house in the rear which
was occupied by j. B. Washburn,
owner of the property.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
DRYS LAUNCH
STATE FIGHT.

LOS ANGELES, May "a. {U.pJ-
A fight to elect dry delegates to the
state repeal convention on June 81,
was launched here today by 200
protestant ministers of various de-
nominations and representatives of
the w. c. T. U. and Anti-Saloon
league.
The ministers were pledged to ask
their .parishioners to vote for the
| dry slate, and to use the telephone,
radio and every instrument at their
command to aid in keeping the
eighteenth amendment in effect.
DR.. Jesse Lee Corley, secretary OF
of the board of education of the
Southern California Methodist con-
ference, is chairman of a commit
tee which will prepare and distrib-
ute authoritative literature on the
effect of alcohol on the human
system.
DR.. A. H. Briggs, superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon league of Cali
fornia, and a delegate-at-large on
the dry repeal ticket, declared the
greatest need today was to inform
the public of the special danger to
California if the 18th amendment is
repealed.
IF the amendment is repealed"
DR.. Briggs said, cit means that pro-
position No. 2, which carried by
big majority last fall, automatically
will become part of the state
constitution, and would bring the
return of the saloon in its worst
form"
The temperance convention con-
cluded late yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
Agrees On Need
OF Bank Reform

PASADENA, May "a. U.P)-A re-
cession from the highly competitive
banking practices of the 19l8-28
decade was advocated today by j.
F. Sullivan, Jr., retiring president
of the California Bankers associ-
alton.
Sullivan, president of the
Crocker First National Bank of
San Francisco, told members of the
association, in annual convention
here, that though he considered
basic economic and political chang
es more Immediately necessary,
there still was an obvious need for
banking reform.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
RichfieId Trio
To SerUe Terms

LOS ANGELES, May "a. U.PI -
James A. Talbot, Clarence M Full
Ter and Raymond w. Mckee, for
mer Riehfield Oil company off,
cials must serve prison terms on
grand theft charges, the district
court of appeals held today.
The men are under sentence OF
from two to 20 years each in San
Quentin prison. Talbot has begun
serving his sentence, while Fuller
and Mckee have been at liberty OH
bail pending decision OF the district
court.
In considering pleas OF the trio.
Judge Garry r. Archibald ruled on
each case separately.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
Pioneer DroLUns
In Open Canal

John Cooper, 74-year resi-
dent of the Holtville area drowned
in an irrigation canal near his
ranch home when his automobile
overturned while he was crossing a
bridge yesterday afternoon, after
passersby noticed the overturned
automobile.
He was pioneer in Imperial
Valley as he came to Holtville in
1908. His ranch was situated six
miles north east of Holtville.
AS far as has been determined
Cooper had no relatives in the
valley. Funeral arrangements await
attempts to communicate with rel
atives believed to be living in Ok
lahoma. The body is at the Ar
mold funeral home here.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
Local Resident
Called By Death

Robert Wilson Hughes, 54-year-
old resident of this community,
died this morning at the family
home at 1925 Hamilton street. He
was we'll known in Ell Centro as
he had made his home here for
the last eight years.
He was deacon in the First
Baptist church for seven years, and
was employed by the state divis-
ion of highways. He was born in
Hamilton county, Tex, August 26,
1873.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the First Baptist church
at 2:30 O'Clock tomorrow after
noon with Rev. Carl C. Harwood,
pastor of the church, officiating.
Interment will follow at Mountain
View cemetery. .ysliAi
His survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Ida A. Hughes and a son, Luther,
II.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
Passenger Plane
Makes Fast Time

CHICAGO, May "a. UPl-A new
speed record for mail-passenger
planes from Cheyenne, Wyo., to
Chicago, was claimed today by the
United Air Lines.
Carrying nine passengers, mail
and express, a United plane flew
here from Cheyenne yesterday in
four hours and As minutes. 1t av-
eraged 100 miles an hour for the
906 miles.
The 476 miles from Cheyenne to
Omaha, Neb., were flown in two
hours and 10 minutes by Pilots G..
H Willingham and j. w. Camp
bell. The 430 miles from Omaha to
Chicago were flown in two hours
and 35 minutes by Pilots Ralph
Johnson and l.. r. Schram.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
White WidouU OF
Negro Liberated

LOS ANGELES, May "a. U.P)-
Mrs. Suzanne Meyer Greer, white
widow of Richard o. Greer, for
merly her Negro chauffeur, today
was freed of possible murder char
ges arising from the Staying of her
husband, when the county grand
jury had refused to vote her indict-
ment.
Mrs. Greer, wealthy resi-
dent of Asbury Park, N. c., was
said to have shot Greer because
he struck her when she remonstrat-
ed with him for drinking. A cor
oner'S jury previously had held the
homicide was excusable.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
Hartman Under
Close Watch

NEW YORK, May "a. U.P}-Jo-
seph w. Hartman, indicted banker
who attempted suicide Saturday,
was under close supervision at a
nursing home today while his at
torneys were reported to be con-
sidering the possibility of an in
sanity defense. Recovered from self
inflicted knife wounds, he was
brought back from Mineola, L. l.,
yesterday.
Hartman is scheduled to go to
trial Monday on charges of falsify-
ing the books of the Hartman Ma
tional bank, of which he was pre-
sident, to conceal deals in its stock.
A postponement is expected.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
REPEAL WILL
REDUCE TAXES
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May "a. = En-
ergency taxes will be eliminated if
the 18th amendment is repealed,
President Roosevelt said today
This means the automatic abol-
ishment of those levies that now
are in effect and are contemplat-
.ed, such as the proposed $220000,-
900 program for financing of the
huge public works program, Mr..
Roosevelt explained
The President believes sufficient
revenues will accrue as the result
of repeal to enable the government
to accomplish this reduction in the
tax schedule.
Mr.. Roosevelt declined to dis
cuss the vote for repeal in New
York state except to remark "My
home district went wet"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
TO HONOR EX-GOVERNOR

MADISON, Wis, U.P)-The late
Gov. jeremiah Rusk, one of Wis
consin's greatest agricultural ex-
ponents, will be honored at a
Farmers Field Day at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, June 3, Rusk
was farm hand, cooper, railroad
construction engineer in Ohio, a
sheriff, coroner, innkeeper, legisla-
tor, soldier in Wisconsin.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24

NOT GUILTY

WASHINGTON, May "a.
U.Rl-The senate today acauit-
ted Harold LOuderback. San
Francisco district judge, of the
five charges on which the house
voted to impeach him.
The vote ended nine-day
senate fight for ex0neration
which the impeached judge
carried personally to the bar
yesterday in a three hour JUS
tificatiOn of his conduct.
WASHINGTON, May "a. <U.pl-
The senate today acquitted Har.
old Louderback, San Francisco dis.
trict judge, OH rrie first of the five
impeachment charges on which thu
house asked his removal from of.
flee.
The first count was based or
Louderback's action in the receiver.
ship of Russell-Colvin Co., Sar
Francisco brokerage house.
The vote for conviction on coun,
one was: guilty-34, not guilty AZ
A two thirds majority on any o.
the five counts is necessary fol
conviction.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
GANDHI WEAKER

POONA, India, May "a. W.P)-
The Mahatma M. K. Gandhi en-
tered the 18th day of his three
weeks fast today SO weak that for
the first time his wife had to wash
his face and brush his teeth for
him.
Gandhi was cheerful, however,
and told her:
Il have more reserve powers than
you seem to think"
Spring water was administered to
him every half hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
DRY CHIEF COMING

LOS ANGELES, May "a. tUa1--
Major A. v. Dalrymple, national
prohibition director, Is expected 70
arrive here Friday on an inspection
tow: u. s. Attorney Pierson NJ.
Hall said today. Dalrymple an
nounced a 40 per cent cut In pro-
hibition force personnel on his ar
rival at San Francisco Sunday,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
SAYS BUSINESS BETTER

LOS ANGELES, May "a. dU.P} =
Here on an inspection tour, Harvey
S. Firestone, veteran tire manufac-
turer, today said the month of May
would show the largest general
business returns of any month in
recent years. There has been a
distinct change of attitude on the
part of the people, and they are re-
placing goods worn out during the
past few years." Fhestone said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
DRIVE ON GRAssHoPPERs

Thirty men are out today in all
parts of the valley in a campaign
to eradicate the grasshoppers
which have caused so much trouble
this spring and in order to prevent
a second brood appearing next fall.
BY tomorrow 8. A. Harrigan, ag-
ricultural commissioner, will have
80 men in various parts of the val
ley working on an determination
drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-24
HAWKS IN AIR

BLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT,
BROOKLYN, N. Y, May "a. W.P)-
Frank Hawkes., noted speed flyer,
left for Los Angeles today with
stops at st. Louis, Kansas City,
Wichita or Denver, planned.