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Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
HOLTVILLE MAN
ELUDES ARREST

Holtville's peace and quiet were
rudely shatteded last night when
officers, chasing suspected thief,
tired several rounds at the man
who finally made his getaway, ac-
cording to report on file at the
sheriff's office.
The report states that one Bill.
Roberts was caught trying to pawn
watch which was suspected of
having been stolen during recent
burglary pulled off in Holtville.
Chief Cornelison and Officer Coates
arrested Roberts and were pro-
ceeding with him to the city Jail
when the prisoner broke away from
his captors and started to run.
Coates fired after the fleeing man
but failed to register a hit. They
followed Roberts to his home but
he eluded them and they chased
him across an go acre field, firing
at him as they ran. Roberts sue
ceeded in getting away from the
Holtville officers who called on the
sheriff for help. Deputies Keating
and Gillett were sent out to hunt
for the fugitive but he has not as
yet been recaptured.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
S|X DEAD IN
MEXICAN ROW

GUALALAJARA, Mex, Sept. %.
U.P)-Six persons were killed here
early today in machine gun
battle between police and men,
bers of the Christero religious
group.
Five Christeros were moved
down as police charged them
through park after breaking up
meeting which police said was
held to agitate revolt in the state
of Jalisco.
Among those killed were Justo
Gonzales, Christero general and Al
fredo Ramirez, another Christero
leader. Other members fled, escap-
ing arrest.
Police asserted they seized hun
dreds of documents showing the
alleged agitators were bent on
stirring up an insurrection in jail
isco. They accused them of forcing
farmers and rangers to contribute
to the alleged revolutionary move
ment under threat of death. One
farmer who refused. was slain only
yesterday, police charged.
The Christero faction, although
not recognized by the Catholic
church has been active in oppos-
ing the states anti-religiouS laws.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
ELKS RITUAL
TEAM LOSES

1t NEEDED the services OF expert
mathematicians tC determine tie
winner of the ritualistic contest
during the Elks convention at Long
Beach Thursday, and when the
standings of the contesting teams
mad been considered and reconsid-
cred several times it was discovered
that the Bakersfield team had nosed
out the Ell Centlo group by the mar
row margin of .113 to take the
honors. The local team was the
defending champion.
The Ell Centro team had won the
valley championship and had top
ped that off with defeating the
San Diego Elks and felt confident
that they would again be crowned
state champions. The result show
ed that they made the winning
Bakersfield team exert themselves
to the utmost to win.
Members of the Ell Centro team
were: Fred Nebel-Thau, j. G. Neale,
Mark Connolly, Leslie Rogers, Jack
Polzine and George Kennedy. Nor
man Deaton, E. A. Nance and Lee
Nuffer were the coaches who &C
companied the local group.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
PIONEER DIES
At IMPERIAL

George w. Donley, pioneer resi-
dent of Imperial Valley since 1901,
and one of the incorporators of I'M
perial died at his home 1O9 North
G street in that city at 500 p. m.
yesterday, aged 76 years and six
months.
He came to Imperial when the
town consisted of only three tent
houses and took up 800 acres of
land He engaged in the real estate
and insurance business and was &C
tive in bringing settlers into the val
ley. At one time he served as a
member of the board of trustees for
the city of Imperial.
Mr.. Donley was born in Hanni-
bal, Missouri, and had been resi-
dent of California for AZ years.
He is survived by three daugh-
ters, Mrs. L. S. Koenig, San Ma
rina; Mrs. H. S. Capron, Santa Mo-
MICA; Mrs. Edna Alumbaugh, San
Diego; one son, Chester A. Donley,
Brawley; and two grandchildren,
Sanford Capron and Calvin Koe-
mig.
Services will be held Monday
morning at 10 o'clock in the funer-
al chapel of B E.. Lemons. Inter-
ment arrangements have not yet
been completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
VALLEY CITRUS
OUTLOOK GOOD

Prospects for the forthcoming cit
rus crop in the Imperial Valley are
looking rosy from the point of view
of the market situation, according
to 3. A. Harrigan, county agricul-
tural agent.
Word has been received at his
office that hurricanes have de-
stroyed about 80 per cent of the
Rio Grande valley grapefruit and
25 per cent of the Florida crop.
Everything on the Isle of Pines
was ruined with the exception of
100000 boxes already shipped.
All the crop from the California
coast counties is cleared up so that
undoubtedly the demand for Impe-
rial Valley fruit in the northwest
and midwest will be keeen this fail.
Florida probably will ship five and
a half million boxes but this will
no. overload the markets Of the ma
ton, it is stated, and good times
may be expected by valley citrus
producers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
ADJOURN ALIEN
LAND HEARING

AT The conclusion of yesterday
afternoons session of the alien land
law trial being heard before Judge
r. D. McPherrin in superior court,
adjournment was taken until 10
o'clock Monday morning at which
time the questioning of prospective
jurors will be resumed.
To the present % challenges have
been exercised by attorneys engaged
in the trial. The state has used
IL challenges while the defense has
exercised its 10 joint preemptory
challenges and one has ben used
for j. Labh Singh and one for Eu-
gene Kelly, two of the 10 defen-
dants in the action.
The insistence urged by attorneys
upon certain points and distinc-
tionS of law proposed to the jurors
in their questions, has served to
clarity the situation somewhat. It
has been pointed out to the jurors
repeatedly that the matter to be
brought up for trial is a conspiracy
to break the law, not the act by
which said law might have been
disregarded but the intention on
the part of the defendants to en-
gage in an act which would cause
this law to be broken.
With quite number of chal-
lenges still to be exercised by both
SIDES in this action it is highly I'M
probable that the jury Will finally
be empaneled until well into next
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
Of
COUNTY HOLD
MEETING HERE

County rural school teachers met
this morning in Wilson school to
hear talks by various heads of de-
partments. Superintendent c. B.
Collins opened the meeting with
remarks urging the teachers to seek
the individual good of the children
in their charge and to cooperate
with all available agencies to dc
this. He noted that radio bulletins
are available for the use of schools
equipped with radios and many
programs are especially given with
regard to educational work. He also
urged the teachers to use the Ma
tional Geographic society's weekly
bulletins in correlation with school
work. -.. E..
DR.. Warren Fox, county health
officer urged that health habits and
sanitation be taught, and that class
room inspections be frequent. He
outlined plans for immunization
for smallpox and diphtherla, urged
the study of food hygiene and es-
pecially OF dairy sanitation so that
the children may present the idea
of greater cleanliness to their ell
ders.
Miss Romaine Richmond, county
librarian, asked the teachers to or
der their books two or three weeks
in advance of their needs in order
that the librarians nay have time
to fill the orders.
Work Outlined
Pearl Brown England of Alamo
district outlined the work she did
with individual reading in the first
and second grades and Lucille Wells
told how to start cooperative Sto-
ry in the first grade. Hester Par
sons of Alamo spoke on the daily
school program emphasizing the i'm
portance of social opening OF the
days work.
Attendance laws were outlined
by Roger Walton, county attend
ance officer.
Attention was called tC the meet
ing October % in Los Angeles of
the elementary principals of South
ern California.
Grace Ferrell, county supervisor
of rural education, spoke of the
supply Of class room materials
available at her office in the county
court house and urged all the
teachers to avail themselves of the
facilities of her office at any time.
She also presented a letter from
Miss Helen Heffernan, state super
visor of rural education. thanking
Imperial county teachers for assist
ance in outlining new course of
study which is now nearing compile
tion and will soon be offered the
teachers of the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
PROGRAM FOR
RECOVERY IN
NEW CHANNEL
Purchase OF Commodities By
Government Speeds Up In
direct Initiation Plan.
TO RELEASE BANK FUNDS
Agricultural And Treasury De-
partments Assisting In New
Relief Measures.

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. UP.
Climaxing a week marked by the
most active initiation agitation yet,
the administration pushed its re-
lief and recovery drive into new
ground today.
The agricultural and treasury de-
partmentS assumed the aspects of
speed and high pressure hitherto
centered at the National Recovery
Administration as emphasis shifted
from codes to three new plans.
These, approved in principle by
President Roosevelt, involved di-
rect loans to cotton growers, gov
ernment purchase of farm surplus
eS for distribution to the needy, and
the release of deposits in closed
banks.
All three were regarded as indi-
rectly inflationary.
Details remained to be worked
out. T30
The President, on a weekend
fishing cruise, considered a fourth
new plan, involving government
purchase of from 100000 to 15,-
100000 tons of coal for the desti-.
tute
The project for releasing depos-
its in closed banks is favored by|
bankers as a desirable alternative
to outright initiation. 1t will be dis
cussed by Mr.. Roosevelt, upon hid
return tomorrow night, with Sec
retary of Treasury Woodin.
1t was indicated announcement
of the plan was imminent, but nd
hint was dropped as to what closed
banks would be affected.
Details of the cotton loans abb
SoTbed Secretary of Agricultural
Wallace, George N. Peek, agricul-|
tural adjustment administrator. and
officials OF the Reconstruction Fi-|
nance Corporation and Farm Cree
dit Administration. These loans
VII be made without lablty to the
borrower at ~ cents a pound on
the present crop in return for lin.
itations on next years acreage, ball
ancing the crop with effective de-
mand.
Secretary Wallace delegated to
assistants the gigantic task of set
ting up machinery Immediately for
purchase of beef, dairy products
and cotton seed surpluses in a two
sided plan designed to bolster pri-
ces and simultaneously provide sup
Elementary relief for the needy.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
EASTS|DE RES|DENTSF|RST To
COMPLETE NRA CONSUMER DRIVE

lie cooperate in the house to house
canvass which begins in precincts
of the city other than the East
side on Monday of next week. 1--WE
ask the public to remember that
the women making this house to
house canvass have donated their
time and energies to this work" :"
stated Dr.. Clemons today. There
is no pay for their time and their
only remuneration is the satisfac-
ton of knowing they have done
their part to help put the national
recovery act into effect and to
assist the government in the pro-
gram by which it hopes to break the
depression. These women will call
at each house which does not
display blue eagle insignia in the
window and merely ask that each
adult sign consumers pledge card.
This should be done courteously
and willingly as the patriotic duty
of every resident of Ell Centro. 1t
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
Cotton Contracts
Received Here

Imperial County Farm bureau has
received 80 cotton contracts from
growers enlisted III the U. S. D. A.
cotton reduction campaign. COM
pensation checks for the amounts
of the estimated reductions are eX-
pected any day as word has been
received that checks are being sent
out of Washington, D. c., at the
rate of $4,000 a lay.
1t will be recalled that growers
signing the cont, acts for crop re-
cuction will be given an option to
buy an amount of cotton from the
government equal to the amount
they have destroyed, at cents a
pound. They can sell this cotton
at the current market price and
benefit by the difference. Yester-
days cotton price was 945 cents so
it will be seen that the government
deal will be profitable one for the
farmers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23

With a long established rec
ord of being the first to complete
any community drive Ell Centro's
Eastside has again gone "over the
top first in the NRA house to
house consumers drive, according
to a report made today by the
committee in charge of this section
to DR.. R. c. Clemons, in charge
of the consumers campaign of the
national recovery program.
The committee in charge of the
Eastside, consisting of w. A. Payne,
r. j. Burleigh and Rev. H. Hay
ter, has reported that all mer-
chants in that section of the city
have signed the Presidents recov-
cry agreement and have received
their blue eagle insignia. Yesterday
Buileigh, assisted by two volunteer
workers, Miss j. Hall and Miss
Ouida Dixon, visited every residence
in his territory and completed the
consumers drive with report that
the Eastside is 100 per cent NRA.
DR.. Clemons urges that the pub
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
FOUR DIE IN
FARM TRAGEDY

FRESNO, Calf, Sept. %. ,U.Pr-
A well-thumbed family Bible, open
at passages describing how only the
pure of heart may enter heaven,
today provided the only motive au-
authorities could advance for the
murder of woman and two child
ren and the suicide of man.
Everett John Sweitzer, 43-year-
old prosperous dairy farmer, pois-
oned his wife, Elmira, 66, clubbed to
death his two step-granddaughters,
and shot himself to death during a
tit of temporary religious mania,
deputy sheriffs believed.
Sweitzer, according to notes left
in his comfortably furnished ranch
home. killed his wife Thursday
night, and then, after sitting beside
her body all night, frenziedly
crushed with hammer the skulls
of Ella May Goodwater, l3, and May
Eunice Goodwater, 10, his wife's
granddaughter as they lay in bed
He did his usual ranch work yes
terday, calling in Ace Boots, ID, a
neighbor youth, to help with the
evening chores. Then he called his
brother-in-la Robert A. Sherfey,
Were all dead in here" he re-
portedly told the man, get the
coroner"
/.erfey called the sheriff's Of
ficers. Deputies w. H. Collins and
Roy Lasders answered. They found
Sweitzer seated at a table, reading
his Bible. He refused to admit
them, insisting he wanted the cor
oner. According to the officers, he
drew a revolver and pointed it at
them.
II let loose with a gas pistol"
Collins told the United Press.
"Sweitzer staggered back, put some
thing into his mouth, then raised
his gun asd shot himself through
the forehead We crashed the door
and went in
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
JURY RETURNS
DEATH VERDICT

YUMA, Ariz., Sept. %. up -,
Louis S. Douglas, 47-year-old New
York City taxi driver, was under
sentence of death today as result
of the murder of an aged prospec-
tor in a futile attempt to rob him
of his fabulous fortune in boarded
gold.
A superior court jury found Doug
lass guilty in the first degree of the
Staying of Ralph Hart, So, at the
formers Good Hope mine near
Swansea, Ariz., last Feb. 7. Date of
execution will be set Sept. 30.
Douglass was unmoved when the
verdict was read. His composure re-
mained mistaken when he was eS-
corted back to the county jail. No
formal appeal has been announ-
ced by his attorneys.
A second charge of Staying Jack
Hayden, 73, Hart's partner, prob
ably will not be prosecuted, Off
cials said
Two alleged accomplices, Willard
Doughty and Dan O'Connell, face
separate trials on murder charges,
scheduled for Monday.
The jury in returning it's verdict,
concurred in the states contention
that Hart and Hayden were slain
for the immense fortune they were
said to have dug from the mine
When Douglass was arrested in New
York City, he had in his possession
a small vial of golden flakes which
authorities said were fools gold
or iron pyrites.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
CUBA NEARING
NEW TROUBLE
Student And Army Supporters
Of Grau San Martin Report
ed Split.
BY LAWRENCE S. HAAS
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1888, by United Press
HAVANA, Sept. ga split be-
tween students and army enlisted
men supporting President Grau San
Martin seemed imminent today. The
situation placed the revolutionary
government in danger.
Col Fulcenio Batista, army chief,
was reported angry because stud
entS refused to compromise with
political leaders and conferred sec
reilly with opposition leaders, pre-
limj.ary to deciding the armys
course.
The government life was saved
for the moment today when it ap-
parently outWitted sponsors of a
plan for a concerted revolt of rebel
bands planted throughout the is
land.
Indications were that the respite
might be brief, and that If stud
ents' refusal to compromise con-
tinued, a revolt of overwhelming
scope would begin.
BY waiting until it has suppress
sed a revolt in the Colon area, 10
miles east of the capital, before
rejecting the latest compromise pro-
posal, the government apparently
thwarted the major revolt that was
to have started yesterday.
Revolutionists under three influ-
entail leaders seized Manguito and
marched on Colon, important Mat
anzas province railway junction.
1t was learned today that this
was to have been but one of scores
of simultaneous uprisings.
Before the agreed hour, orders
from an unknown directing head
in Havana, rumored to be Mario
Menocal, former president and bit
ter government opponent, counter
| manded the plot.
The reason was revealed, appar-
emily, today when the government
rejected the compromise proposal.
| Circumstances of the rejection led
to the fear that the revolt on a
| national scale was merely post
poned.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
GERMANY To
MAKE ATTACK
UPON TREATY
Hopes To Persuade Nations To
Permit Building Up Of Her
Defense Facilities.
REPORT FRANCE SUSPICIOUS
Fears Construction Of Huge
War Machine If Versailles
Agreement Relaxed.
By X. ID. MCMILLAN


United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Sept. 23.-Germany has
begun her long planned direct at
tack on the military clauses of the
Versailles treaty in preparation for
the Geneva disarmament confer
ence next month, it was indicated
today.
Success may depend upon the de-
gree to which Germany can per-
suade France that she will not sec
reilly build up war machine such
as the treaty forbids. France is con-
vinced that Germany is heavily
armed now, despite the treaty pro-
visions.
Linked up with the German cam
paign is the plan for period Of
international supervision of arm
aments regarding which the United
States, France and Great Britain
concluded a series of conferences
yesterday. Norman H. Davis repre-
sented the United States.
The usually well-informed Echo
de Paris asserted today that Roland
Koerster, German ambassador, pre-
sented to Lord Tyrell, British am
bassador, a note outlining the ten
tative conditions under which Ger
many would accept the arms con-
troll plan.
Such note would mean that the
campaign of attack on the Ver-
sailles treaty was well under way.
The Echo de Paris said the note
declared Germany would accept the
plan provided:
/. That Germany be permitted to
build forts on her eastern (PolishD
frontier, comparable to those France
has built on the GermfI frontier
2. That she be permitted to equip
the forts adequately with heavy
guns and other armamentS forbid
den under the treaty.
3. That she be permitted to build
up a fleet of pursuit airplanes for
military use, with the specific un-
derstanding that bombing planes
be forbidden. Germany is permitted
no military planes under the treaty.
4. That the arms supervision plan
provide for general international
control, as proposed by France, with
heavy penalties against violators OF
agreements, but by series of trea-
ties between individual nations.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
BURNHAM TO
VISIT VALLEY
NEXT WEEK

Congressman George Buruhara
will visit Ell Centro next week, ac-
cording to letter received today
by Postmaster Jenkins, who invited
him to address the Lions club at its
meeting next Tuesday and .he
chamber of commerce at its weekly
dinner on Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnham will ar
rive here Tuesday noon and will re-
main over Wednesday, leaving for
their home in San Diego early on
Thursday morning.
This will be the congressman
first visit to Ell Centre since ho at
tended the special session of the
73ro congress, and he will discuss
activities of the congress particu-
larly regarding the recovery pro-
gram and efforts in behalf of ALL
American construction.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
JURY DECLARES
DAVIS INSANE

LOS ANGELES, Sept. %. UP)-
Edwin Davis, 51-year-old janitor
accused of the murder of E. Gail
Patterson, business manager of the
Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News
was removed to Mendocino hospi-
tai today after a jury had adjudged
him insane.
The jury decided he was crazed
when he shot down Patterson and
seriously wounded j. w. Mcguire,
purchasing agent, after quarrel
over his dismissal by Mcguire. The
shooting occurred in The News Of
fices last May "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
WIFE SLAYER
FOUND GUILTY

LONG BEACH, Calf, Sept. %.
,U.Pa-Lee Daniel Murphy, convict
ed of killing his young bride, Cor
nelia B. Murphy of Fresno, Calf,
will be sentenced to death or 10
live imprisonment next Wednesday,
Superior Judge Krask Collier said
today.
Acting without jury, Judge Col
lier found him guilty of beating his
wife to death on their honeymoon
here in 1926. The verdict was for
first degree murder.
Murphy wept as he pleaded for
his life, declaring he was intoxi-
Gated and could not remember
striking his wife. He was calm,
however when the judge proclaim
ed him guilty.
The defendant was brought here
tor trial last July from Pittsburgh
where he was captured after the :
year hunt.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
NEWSPAPERS
CODE FLAYED
Head Of Typographical Union
Makes Charges Against Pub
fishers Association.
By H. O. THOMPSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. %. - A
series of changes in the NRA code
for the newspaper publishing in
dustry was proposed today at the
public hearing by Charles P. How
ard, president of the International
Typographical Union.
Howard accused che American
Newspaper Publishers association
of failing to comply with the in
tentions and purposes of the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act.
Howard asserted that leading
metropolitan dailies which display
the blue eagle insignia still are
working mechanical forces at the
same schedule of hours as pre-
vailed before signing the employ
ment agreement.
Citing confidential note to ed
itors," Howard maintained that the
A. N. P. A. had shown itself un-
sympathetic towards the recovery
act. The confidential note" re-
ferred to meeting of the A. N.
P. A. board of directors and recon-
mended that the newspaper pub
fishers do not at the present time
prepare or subscribe to code un-
der the NRA
The association did not propose
code of fair competition until it
became secessary to do so for busi-
ness reasons Howard said.
Howard said the rules and regu-
lations of the International Typo
graphical Union, criticized yester-
day by a representative of the pub
fishers, was the result of more than
80 years experience in the printing
and publishing industry.
He said the proposed code should
be changed to include provisions
for dealing with unfair trade prac-
tices. He mentioned illustrations
of these practices, the alleged pre-
valence of newspaper throw
aways", which he said, constitut-
ed unfair competition to other
newspapers and commercial print
ing plants.
Reduced circulation and advertis-
ing rates given in suburban areas
by metropolitan newspapers were
said to be unfair competition
against the small dailies in the
smaller communities.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-23
SECRETARY OF
RACING NAMED

LOS ANGELES, Sept. %. U.R -
appointment of w. C. Buchanan OF
Los Angeles rs secretary of the
state horse racing board was an
nounced today by Carleton Burke.
chairman, at the END of the boards
two-day meeting.
Buchanan is real estate broker.
Without amour cirg its decisions,
the board during its meeting heard
applications from representatives of
several groups seking licenses to
operate tracks IN The state. These
included r. c. Macarthur of Tan
foran, William Nyne of San Fran
cisco, Hal Roach, motion picture
producer; Al Uniack of Los An
geles, and H. o. Comstock of Pasa-
cena.