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Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
.NRA To BAR
PRICE FIXING
Economists Assert Permitting
Regulation Would Be Tendency
To State Socialism.
BY III. o. THOMPSON
United Press Staff Correspondent


Copyright, 1893. by United Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The Ma
tional Recovery Administration, 1t
was learned today, has decided not
to permit price fixing of actual sales
in NRA codes.
Also, it has been decided to ac-
cept no code provision which for
bids the reduction by distributors
of the producers stated retail price.
The decision not to permit fixing
Of sales prices does not pertain to
the listing of minimum prices such
as was done, most recently in the
code for the cleaning and dyeing in
dustry.
Fixing of minimum prices imposes
a barrier to chaotic price cutting
and its attendant evils of destruc-
tive competition. The fixing of ac-
tual retail sales prices would be a
tendency, according to NRA econ
omists toward state Socialism or ri
gid governmental control of bust
ness.
In code prices provisions based On
cost, the NRA policy board has rul-
ed that cost should be defined to
the extent OF indicating its princi-
pal elements in a general way Cost
of production would be permitted to
include q reasonable allowance for
depreciat on, but in no case for re-
turn on capital.
A limitation Of price based on a
sellers cost should be subject, the
board holds, to the exception that
the seller shall be permitted to
meet the price of a competitor
whose price does not violate the
code in question.
The board feels that open price
systems should he encouraged. They
attach the conditions that prices
under these systems:
|. Shall be effective within not
more than 10 days in complex in
dustries or five days in simple in
dustrieS.
2. Shall be capable of withdrawal
at the pleasure of the seller,
3. Are not subject to veto or mod
ification by any agency.
4. Are to be generally published
for the benefit of buyers as we'll as
sellers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
GENE TUNNEY
KNOCKED OUT
BY SOCIALITES

NEW YORK, Dec. /. U.P)-Gene
Tunney, who made the Social Regis
ter after his marriage to Polly Lau-
der, was dropped from the 1884 edi-
ton, publication of the new volume
disclosed today.
Prince Alexis Mdivani. who be-
came the husband of Barbara Hut
ton, Woolworth heiress, last sum-
mer, was admitted to the ranks of
the elite.
AS usual there was no eXplana-
tion of the omission or admission Of
names.
Among those dropped in the new
edition were Mrs. Rhoda Tanner
Doubleday, who recently brought a
breach of promise action against
Harold Mccormick, and William
Wilcox, Jr., who married his mo-
theirs maid.
Among the newcomers were two
movie actresses, Mary Duncan, wife
Of Stephen Sanford, and Dorothy
Jordan, wife of Merton C. Cooper.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
LAST HANGING
FOR COLORADO

CANON CITY, Colo, Dec. /. WP)
Walter Jones today awaited GER
tain death upon Colorado's strange
hanging machine.
Sometime between and 9 o clock
tonight the squat 2O0-pound mur-
derer will be jerked into oblivion
the last man 50 to die in Color
ado.
Lethal gas, under an act passed
by the last legislature, has replaced
hanging as the state s method of
taking life, but Jones, sentenced be-
fore the new law was enacted, must
die by the old means, said by most
authorities to be the most inhuman
used in any state.
While witnesses, sworn to secrecy,
look on, the Flint, Mich, slayer
will stand upon the black spot in
the death house at the state prison
here. The black cap will be pulled
over his eyes and face. The hang
mans moose will be adjusted.
Then trigger will be pulled, and
the 500 pound weight will drop,
tossing Jones into the air at the
end of the hempen death rope.
If his is the ill-starred fate of
more than half the a men who have
preceded him to this gallows, he
will dangYe, gasping, until strang-
ulation claims his life.
1t was one such death by strang-
ulation-that of Little Eddie Ives,
murderer of a Denver patrolman-
which gave impetus to the fight for
a change in the method of execu-
tion
Ives was hanged twice-and some
say three times-before death re-
lieved him of his agony. The rope
broke the first time as he was
jerked into the air.
1t was suggested to Jones today
that he should be glad to know that
he is the last man who will die ON
this grotesque machine.
"Hell," he said, "what good does
that do me?''
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
ONE Of TOUHY
GANGSTERS|S
JAIL SUICIDE.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. /. U.P>--
Willie Sharkey, one of tie four
Chicago gangsters acquitted here
this week on charges of kidnapping
William Hamm, Jr., hanged himself
in his Jail cell today.
The jailer found the body when
he made his morning round to no.
tify the prisoners to be ready for
breakfast
The rotund gangster hanged him
self with his necktie from the top
rung of the cell where he had been
held prisoner four months. He Yves
to have been removed shortly to
Chicago to stand trial on charges
of kidnapping John Factor.
A hearing on the request of Ill
inois authorities for custody of
Sharkey, Roger Touhy. Gustave
Schaeffer and Eddie McFadden,
who "beat the rap in the Hamm
case, was scheduled to be held to-
morrow. Factor has named the
four as members of a gang who
held him for $4,000 ransom last
summer.
The eccentric behavior of Shar
key attracted attention of court at
taches and guards at the Hamm
trial. Once he arose and started to
leave the courtroom when he awoke
from a nap during the trial.
William Scott Stewart, defense
attorney for the four, said Sharkey
had been muttering to himself in
his cell. The loneliness of his con-
finement. Stewart said, had driven
the gangster "jail crazy.
Another explanation offered for
the unusual behavior of Sharkey
was that he felt he and McFadGen,
former Chicago labor agitator,
had been double-crossed' in pre-
paration of the defense for the
Hamm trial. The defense stressed
alibis for Touhy and Schaeffer and
almost ignored Sharkey and Nc
Fadden.
During the trial Sharkey made
sudden move toward guns taken
from him and the others but was
overpowered by the guards. The
gun lay on a table in front OF the
accused men. A guard heard him
mutter, "Give me one of those
guns-Ill show EN-.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
WIFE MUST
STAND TRIAL.
FOR SHOOTING

LOS ANGELES, Dec. /. UP)-
Mrs. Billie Mangrum, pretty wife of
Ray Mangrum. acknowledgement
golf professional, was charged with
assault with a deadly weapon and
attempt to commit murder in a
complaint issued by the district at
torney's office today.
Mrs. Mangrum allegedly shot her
husband in the shoulder during a
quarrel over "another woman -,
and was herself shot in the knee in
a fight over possession of the wea-
pom.
A patient in General hospital
since the shooting Tuesday Mrs.
Mangrum was ordered held in SO 900
bond.
Mangrum himself refused to sign
the complaint. so Detective Lieu
tenant Miles H. Ledbetter swore tc
the document at the instance of
Kenneth Thomas, deputy district
attorney
Contrary to most legal cases in
which a husband or wife is not per-
mitted to testify against the other,
Mangrum must testify against his
wife when the case comes to trial,
Thomas said.
Mrs. Mangrum, through her at
torney, denied the shooting today
The complaint was issued after
detectives discovered a note alleged
ly written by Mrs. Mangrum in
which she declared her husband was
in love with another woman.
eff anything should happen tc
us or me, it is the fault of -,
the note read. EShe is the cause
of it all. love Ray and life with
out him doesn't mean a thing to
me- Please tell my mama that
love her and that this had to hap
pen, but Ray brought it upon him
self. He was lovely until ne met
that girl. I am sorry. Cod for
give me. Billie. -
Kiss Lost Match
Another note read:
'PleaSe call Father Bowers Of
the ST. Cecilia church if anything
should happen
Ledbet;er said he believed the
4AOtSo WClC "1IObtIl ny NilC lOi
Dallas, Tex, college girl before the
shooting.
In explaining the ''other wom-
an" in the case, Mrs. Mangrum re-
vealed that her presence first was
made known to her during a recent
golf match.
The match reached the 18th
green Ray sunk q long putt to give
him the hole. This girl rushed up
to him there, in front OF every
body and kissed him. It was the
first time I had suspected. 1 never
had seen her before. I thought she
was fat and 40
"After that kiss he lost the
match. / think he blew up because
he was worrying about that girl be-
ing there near him all the time. -
Mangrum declared his wife had
been drinking at the time of the
shooting.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
MEXICO MAY
PUT STOP TO
QUICK DIVORCE

MEXICO CITY, Dec. l. NU.P) -.
An end to the Mexican divorce sys-
tenn as now operated was threaten
ed today after supreme court de.
cision invalidating a decree because
both parties were not heard by the
lower court.
Four more such rulings, under
Mexican law, would establish a def
mite procedure to be followed in
all similar cases. 1t was believed
that numerous cases would be taken
to the higher court soon, and that
the DEGREES would be identical, in
asmuch as the justices, appointed
for life as in the United States, were
unlikely to reverse their own opin-
ions.
Many thousands of American di-
vorces are affected. 1t was esti-
mated that 5000 DEGREES had been
obtained at Juarez, in Chihuahua
state, during this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
FILIPINO is
EXECUTED AT
STATE PRISON

FOLSOM PRISON, Calf, Dec. l..
U.P)-Dick Villion, 29-year-old Fill
pino, was hanged today for the mur-
der of Wong Sun, proprietor of a
gambling house in San Jose. The
trap was sprung at 1904 a. m., and
Wilton was pronounced dead at
1915.
Wilton had no requests Or Other
remarks to make as he stepped on
the trap. Just as he left his cell he
turned in the direction of eight
other inmates of death row." and
said "adios."
Rev. P. j. Cronin, prison chaplain.
accompanied him to the gallows.
Villion walked with firm step, ap-
peared very cool and glanced disin-
terestedly at witnesses.
Wilton and four other Filipinos
participated in the robbery of the
gambling house on the night oi
Sept. 20, 1882. One escaped and ot
the four arrested, only Wilton was
sentenced to die.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
RFC LOANS
FOUND VALID

WASHINGTON. Dec. !. (UP) -
Chairman Fletcher OF the senate
committee investigating RFC loans
announced today that investigation
of advances to Texas mortgage
companies had abSolved Chairman
Jesse H. Jones of the RFC from the
charge of making loans to serve his
personal interest.
The committee inquired specifi-
cally about leans to the Bankers
Mortgage Company of Houston, of
which Jones was the executive
head when he was named to the
RFC board in 1882, the Midland
Mortgage Company, subsidiary of
the bankers company, and the
Southwest Investment Company.
The committee reached t h 2
conclusion that the loans were JUS
titled and adequately secured and
that jones had no personal interest
whatever,' Fletcher said. Jones
did not use the RFC to further his
personal individual interests. The
loans were amply secured,
In reply to questions, Fletcher
said he thought the Bankers Mort
gage Company now is operated by
Jones' brother. The mortgage in
quiry is not ended, however,
Fletcher explained, adding that the
committee has asked for further
information regarding the purpose
of loans made to mortgage COM
panies which were created after the
RFC act was amended to permit
mortgage companies to borrow. The
Midland company is in this cate
CORY.
Senators have been informed the
Midland company was organized
for the purpose of obtaining an
RFC loan, proceeds of which act
ually went to the parent Bankers
Mortgage Company.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
Reach Agreement
With CoachekEa

An agreement has been reached
between the Imperial and Coachella
Valley water district boards rela-
tive to tie withdrawal of the valid
alton suit and other matters of in
crest to the two boards it was learn
ed at irrigation district headquar-
ters this morning. Details of this
agreement are to be withheld, how
ever, until the matter is formally
presented to the Coachella board
and approved by them at a meeting
to be held tomorrow afternoon.
This agreement followed confer
ences between the two boards, one
here early this week and TIE other
in Riverside Wednesday night.
At meeting of the district
board this morning a resolution was
adopted endorsing the Central VAL
ley Water project.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
Indian Woman
Stays Husband

LOS ANGELES, Dec. /. U.R) -
Stociajly declaring she had got
enough" of her husbands alleged
abuse, Mrs. Bessie Alldridge, 20
year-old part-Indian girl, confessed
today 10 police that she had stab
bee her Negro husband to deati:
with an Indian knife.
Police Went with her TO their
home near Vernon, to find ALI
bridge dead Half a pint bottle If
whisky lay near the body to COM
bine with her bruises TO support
the girls story that her husband
had beaten her while intoxicated.
She was booked on a charge Of
murder.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
HOLDS
TOSTATEMENT
ABOUT SMITH

DETROIT, Dec. 1. U.P) = The
Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin
stood firm today on his statements
of relationship between Alfred E.
Smith and the j. P. Morgan COM
pany.
Advised of demands of John J.
Raskob, former Democratic nation
al committee chairman, for an apcl-
ogy, Father Coughlin authorized tie
United Press to carry the following
reply:
Father Coughlin does not change
the statement which he made over
the radio in any substance. Only
yesterday the bishop who rode with
Alfred E. Smith from the Empire
State building to the House of Moo
gan again reiterated to Father
Coughlin that what he said over
the radio was substantially true.
"On the word of this bishop, Fa-
ther Coughlin made his statement.
Mr.. Raskob evidently has jumped
to conclusions. Father Coughlin did
not say in his statement that M.
Smith obtained TIE loan or to-
he had seen Mr. Morgan person.
ally.
"If Mr.. Smih's memory serves
him well he can easily recall tie
trip which he made from the En-
pire State building to the corner OF
Broad and Wall street about foLr
years ago in December.
More than that it is very easy
for him to recall the name of the
cleric who rode with him. I will
stand by the statement as made
because the information came from
TIE bishop who was with Mi
Smith"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
BUYING POWER
CE: TS BE- I. I. 7ER

WASHINGTON, Dec. l. U.P) -
The growth of the nations buying
power checked by price rises in Oc-
tober, was resumed in November as
a result of price adjustments in
some lines and the fear OF still
higher prices, the American FEEDER
alton of Labor reported today in its
monthly survey of business.
Government loans to railroads
for equipment" the survey said
land the public works program, are
at last beginning to reach the
heavy industries which have been
called the key to recovery"
Uncertainty over the dollars fu-
ture and fear of fiat money retard
business advance" the survey stat
ed.
Employment was held up nearly
to October levels, contrary to the
usual seasonal trend, it was stated.
Although wages are down IL per
cent, increased employment was
said to have boosted the total buy
ing power of workers S600,000,000
above the March level.
Farmers buying power has in
creased by the gain in farm prices
in November and by government
payments OF more than Sl00,000,000
to farmers who agreed to reduce
cotton, wheat and tobacco crops" it
was said
These payments, together with
government hog purchases, other
bonuses, and the general increase in
prices, were calculated to raise far
mers' total income over 1882 by ST.
Oo,0O0,000 or 80 per cent. However,
farmers living costs are higher than
last year, reducing the percentage OF
gain.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
CWA PROGRAM
UNDER ATTACK
BY Al SMITH
Declares College Professors
Playing Anagrams With AL
phabet Soup.
MOLEY COMES TO DEFENSE
Erstwhile Roosevelt Aide Pre-
sents Six Point Monetary Pro-
gram For World.

NEW YORK, Dec. l. U.P)-Alfred
E. Smith fired a new broadside at
phases of the Roosevelt recovery
program today In his magazine, the
New Outlook, Smith charged that
the Civil Works Administration, de-
signed to give jobs to 100000 of
the unemployed, was created to
hide the failure" of the Public
Works Administration.
The new criticism was contained
in the same issue of the magazine
as the former New York governors
attack on the Roosevelt monetary
policy. The monetary attack was
made public in advance of publ
cation.
Another magazine editor, Ray
mond Moley, former assistant Sec
retary of state and brain trust"
member predicted an early steady
ing of the gold price, followed by a
period of initiation. Writing in the
magazine, Today, Moley criticized
opponents of the Roosevelt none
tary program, warning that con-
tinued criticism may swing the ad-
ministration "far to the left of its
reactionarieS."
The "nasJlly conceived" CWA
cannCt lead ultimately to anything
'but confusion" Smith wrote. De-
claring the program to be IAN alibl
for the incompetents in the Public
Works Administration, Smith sug-
gested that the CWA may be lille
gal" 80.
1T was set up because the PWA.
ton, has broken down. Smith said.
The current practice of identify
ing recovery agencies by their ini-
tials Smith ridiculed as "a game
which beats crossword puzzles"
Half way between lemon and
an orange is grapefruit he said
Half way between a public work
and relief work is civil work. UP
to now, the federal establishments,
only recently scheduled for consoli-
dation, have been increased to in
clude an AAA, and FCA, a PWA, an
FERA, an NRA, a CCC, a IVA, an
HOLC, and RFC-and now we have
q CWA.
"It looks as though one of the alb
sent-minded professors had played
anagrams with the alphabet soup
WASHINGTON, Dec. l. U.H-Al-
fred E. Smiths charge that the
public works system had broken
down brought a sharp reply from
Secretary of Interior Ickes, who is
charged with administering the
public works program.
Speaker Rainey also replied to
Smith, saying that "if Smith
doesn It want to join the procession.
the procession will move on without
him..
IckeS said:
"All I can say in reply to Mr.
Smith IS statement is that it is i'm
possible to satisfy any man who Is
nourishing a grudge as the result
Of disappointed ambitions. Mr..
Smith is permitting his resentment
against the administration to run
fContinue0 On page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
County Employees
Paid By Warrant

Registered warrants again greet
ed county employees as they were
paid this morning by the county
treasurer'S office.
Warrants, as far as the salary
fund is concerned, were registered
last month, but it is hoped that
upon completion of the tax returns,
these warrants may soon be taken
up. They may be cashed at a slight
discount or kept, bearing interest,
until the tax receipts are allotted to
this fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
MELONS BROTHER DIES

PITTSBURGH, Dec. l. U.R) >
Richard B. Mellon, rs, died at his
hcme here today from pneumonia.
He was younger brother of An
drew w. Mellon. former secretary of
the treasury.
Mellon took little interest in poll
tics, but his prominence in the in
dustrial life of the nation was equal
TO that of his brother.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
TOW SHIP TO PORT

SAN DIEGO, Dec l. U.P)-Tho
steamer CalmeX was expected to
reach Los Angeles harbor today at
the end of a tow line.
The steamer was taken in tow by
the tug Cuyamaca after it had lost
its anchor and narrowly escaped be-
ing beached in Tuesday nights
storm off the Mexican coast. The
tug went to the vessels aid in re-
sponse to radio distress signals.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-01
@s>IMlll-
~ QOGERS
w 'SOys:

BEVERLY HILLS, Nov. 30.
(SpeciaD -Didn It want to get
too enthusiastic about Thanks
giving till 1 saw how it turned
out. My old friend w. S. (BilD
showed up at my igloo with a
Fgobbler that he had shot
with two guns. Now if you will
bring everything, I defy any
body to give you a nicer party
than / will.
Homer Croy, the writer of
"They Had To See Paris" E." as
hungry as an author can be,
and Mrs. Florenz ziegfeld,
locking exactly % years old and
not reducing, came. Then an
outlaw dropped in. He was
only the crown princes son
and the kaiser S grandson,
Prince Ferdinand, While he got
no white meat as in his early
childhood, he seemed mighty
cheerful and fine young chap,
and was satisfied with the
wings. None of us had any gold
so we were in a receptive mood.
Yours,
zAse R1~<
G,s,, k,sasshs syae.sA.s. laA
Evening star., 1933-05-05
WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
By HERBERT pLusnsER.

Hurley. when he was Eecretary Of War,
became 50 incensed at the jibes he
suffered at the hands Of one that he
stalked out Of the committee room
vowing he would not return until they
could agree to treat him with what he
termed the proper consideration.
Ogden Mills, former Secretary of the
Treasury and Q former member Of the
House, also had his troubles with the
gentlemen ION the hill"
Under fire for the flrst time, Miss
Perkins emerged with flying colors
There are those who viii tell you that
she bested her congressional inquisitors
routed those skilled in parliamentary
practice and legal debates.
Direct In everything, precedapts aS
such mean nothing to her. For example,
when a metropolitan paper criticized
her policies In an editorial, she came
right back with letter explaining her
stand.
An influential member Of Congress
had been having dif1culty with i'm
migration inspectors In his district.
After repeated complaints, he appealed
to her. She picked up telephone, got
q line direct to the immigration once
in that section. and cleared everything
up within q few minutes.
That's how she works. They're al
ready saying around here that before
she gets through the Labor Depart
ment, the youngest division OF Govern
ment will be among the most important
and influential Of all.
Evening star., 1933-05-05

sp~ .rtAckeREL'
the great catches. Today the finest
vessels are built and the crews are
picked men, descendants of the famous
Colonial fishermen Of early days.
The mackerel holds first place as .
favorite fish food. 1t IS acceptable the
whole year round. Statistics show that,
whether lean or fat, fresh or salt, boiled
or broiled, the demand for this hsh on
the American menu has not diminished
one bit.
A mother mackerel is 4 years old be-
fore she spawns The number Of eggs
vary, some producing 10000, others
/ 000, 900. They are exceedingly small,
about one twenty-fourth of an inch in
diameter. The small ones, when about
Z months old, are spoken Of ~ Spikes,
blinkers or tinkers"
The mackerel feeds upon small crus-
taceans and other small things which
swarm In the sea. Being surface SWIM
mers, they are the victims Of other
fishes. birds and crustaceans. The
mackerel is especially fond Of herring
anchovy and the silversides. It's own
worst enemy Is the shark, with q close
second in the whale and porpoise.
The spawning season on our coasts Is
from May until July. The spawning
grounds are always In deep water along
the coast from Long Island to the Gull
of st. Lawrence. There are good years
and lean ones and there is q joyful re-
sponse among the fiShermen when the
report goes round that there will be IN
abundance.
The true mackerels have swift forms,
beautiful metallic coloration, the fms
are short and the dorsal fins are sepa-
rated. There are numerous species. The
Spanish mackerel is said to be one Of
the most exQuisitely colored fishes we
have. About 100000 barrels of mack
erel are salted yearly by the mackerel
feet Of Massachusetts,.
Copyright. 1887