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Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
SHOOTING At
|ND|O RESULT
Of FAKE CALL
Purported Request From Camp
bell To Watch For Car Not
Sent From His Department.
HINT AT MARTYR ANGLE
Good Will Tour To Valley
Was Complete Fizzle From All
Accounts.

Sheriff George Campbell today
reiterated his denial of having sent
any telephone message to sheriff's
deputies at Indio to stop car pur-
ported to contain several holdup
men wanted here for burglary job
Saturday night. He stated further
that he is seeking the identity OF
the person who did send the mes
sage and hopes to succeed in this
before very long.
Campbell's first denial of this
message came yesterday when he
said that the Indio deputies had
telephoned his office the night be-
fore and reported having fired upon
and stopped car, "in accordance
with instructions from your office
to look out for a carload of holdup
men in that type of car according
to United Press dispatches. The
local sheriff added that his opera
lives had traced the call to a public
telephone in Westmorland.
Still later yesterday it was said
there were indications the call was
placed by a representative of the
American Civil Liberties Union ito
trump up a martyr game" This was
denied by members of the visiting
delegation who stated that the man
who placed the call is known TO
them as a prominent valley vigi-
lante and, it was also added, the
Union would consider bring action
against this man, the United Press
dispatches added.
The cause of the present contro-
versy had its origin in Indio Sat-
urday night when several visitors
from Los Angeles, among them
Crane Gartz, son of a wealthy Pas
adena woman, escaped serious in
Jury when sheriff's deputies at In
dio fired upon the automobile in
which they were riding. The shot
blew a tire, and had not the ma
chine been a large, heavy car, ac-
cording to its passengers, the blown
tire might have overturned the ma
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
JEAN HARLOW
PREPARES To
GET DIVORCE
Continued On Page 81

HOLLYWOOD, May T. W.R -
Jean Harlow's third marriage has
failed, she revealed today.
The platinum blond film star ad-
mitted she has separated from her
husband. Harold G.. Rosson, ace
cameraman, with whom she eloped
eight months ago. She plans to seek
a divorce, she said.
'It is the only way out for both
of u.s." the actress told friends. III
is wrong for us to go on together
when we obviously are uncongenial.
We simply are not meant for each
other.
But I will say Hal is very fine
man"
Rosson, it was learned, has moved
out of their recently built Brent
wood honeymoon home and Miss
Harlow has gone to the home of
her mother and stepfather, Mr.. and
Mrs. Marino Bello.
Previously Miss Harlow has de-
MED the much-rumored marital rift.
The wedding of the film star and
the tpmera technician, quiet man
of Scotch descent, caused sensa-
ton in the film colony when they
eloped by airplane to Yuma, Ariz.
The marriage followed the suicide
in September, 1882, of her second
husband. Paul Bern, prominent di-
rector. Bern shot himself three
months after they were married,
and left only a puzzling note in ex-
PLANTATION.
A few days after Bern's death,
Dorothy Millette, said to have been
a former wife, committed suicide
by jumping from a boat into the
Sacramento river.
Miss Harlow's first husband was
Charles McGrew III, wealthy young
Chicagoan to whom she was mar
ried September 81, 1927. They were
divorced January 20, 1881.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
CHARGE HEAD OF ARMY'S AIR
SERVICE WITH LAW VIOLATION
Major General Foulois Accused Of Irregu-
larities In Connection With Contracts For
New Planes.

that after Woodring s insistence on
competitive bidding 1.-The action of
the chief of the air corps resulted
in violation of the law
'Your sub committee, - read the
report, "finds unanimously that
every action taken in connection
with this $7,5O0,00O allotment by
Assistant Secretary of War Wood
ring was deemed by him required
and fully justified, while the ac-
tions of the chief of the air corps,
Major General Benjamin D. Fou-
lois, are in our opinion and in the
opinions of the judge advocate
general of the army and the COMP
troller general of the United States
in clear violation of the existing
law
In relating the contract con-
troversy between Woodring and
the air corps, the report said
Woodring's demand for open
bidding came after he had learned
that the air corps chad definite
ly decided to spend this money
($7,500,000) by negotiation and that
it had already picked out the COM
panies from whom it intended to
purchase the attack, pursuit and
bombardment planes.
The companies were named as
the Northrop Corporation (35 at
tack airplanes; the Boeing Airline
company, go pursuit planes), and
the Glenn L. Martin company (55
bomberS)
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
MIDWEST IN
DROUGHT GRIP
Long Dry Spell Brings High
Temperatures To Large Area
OF Nation.

CHICAGO, May 7. U.P)-SWelt-
ering heat over the entire country
added today to the distress brought
by five rainless weeks.
Temperature records toppled ev-
erywhere yesterday as the mercury
scared to 102 degrees in Phoenix
Ariz., an even 100 in Sioux City,
Ia; SO in La Crosse, Wis; 80 in
Chicago and New York, and into
the SOS at almost all points re-
porting to the government weather
bureau.
Appreciable rains fell only III
the lower Ohio and Mississippi val
leys, with the clouds drifting to
t he southeast. The 100-degree
mark in Sioux City and 80 degrees
in Chicago were the highest for
that date since the weather bureau
was established in 1890
Little rain, if any, was in pres
pect for the great farm region be-
tween the Upper Appalachians
and Rockies. Wheat and corn
fields shimmered with heat waves
today, while even light breezes
carried topsoil away in choking
clouds.
Threat to milk supplies of mid
dleWestern cities was seen by Cliff
ford v. Gregory, editor of farm
publication here. Gregory said that
because of poor pasturage the nor
NAL milk surplus has been wiped
out and another fortnight Of
drought would bring an actual
shortage.
Damage already done to grain
crops has caused / to 3 cent rises in
prices of the principal grains on
the Chicago board of trade. Crop
experts predicted shorta a g e
amounting virtually to famine,
although government Off a S
secuted the idea that any possible
deficit could be dangerous.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
JAPAN FACES
TRADE BATTLE
WITH BRITAIN
England Serves Notice To Col
onies To Place Import Quotas
Against Nippon.

LONDON, May 7. U.P)-Great
Britain opened her long threaten
ed trade war on Japan today.
Walter Runciman, president of
the board of trade, announced in
the House of Commons that he
would ask the British colonies to
impose import quotas against Jap
an.
Regarding japanese competition
In the British Empire, RuncimaE
announced:
"The government has concluded
it would not be justified in longer
postponing action in the hope of
an agreement"
Britain is wasting no time in
getting into action.
"The actual quota regulations
will be effective today" Runciman
said.
Runciman's declaration was cal
culated to force a showdown in
the grave situation which was
brought to a head last week when
Runciman gave the japanese am
bassador a virtual ultimatum, de-
manding that Japan agree at once
to partition world markets on a
basis that would reduce japanese
textile exports.
The British Lancashire textile
interests have become so perturbed
by heavy japanese inroads into
their trade that Runciman did not
even wait for the japanese reply
! to his demands. Toxic had asked
for time to consider the matte,
before replying.
Means New Cash
Britain'S move presageS inten-
sification of British Japanese COM
mercial rivalry in markets through
out the world.
It also may possibly mean ag-
gravation of japanese : United
States competition in South Amer
lea, where Japan is likely to divert
much of her exports because of
barriers in the British colonies.
1t was recalled that Anglo-Jap-
anese textile industrialists began
negotiations last September in an
effort to avert the conflict, but the
negotiations broke down in Feb
ruary, after which the two gov
ernments vainly tried to find the
basis of an accord.
Runciman said he had informed
Tsuneo Matsudaira, the japanese
ambassador, last Thursday that
Britain was obliged to renew her
freedom to take such action as she
deemed necessary, although "such
steps as it is proposed to take
would be in no unfriendly spirit"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07

WASHINGTON, May 6. UP)-A
house investigating committee in a
special report today held that ac-
tions by Major General Benjamin
d. Foulois, chief of the army air
corps, in connection with a public
works allotment of S7,500,000 for
plane purchases were "in clear vi
olation of the existing law
One committee member said rec
concentrations for reorganization
of the air corps might be expected
to follow the report.
The report, signed by the eight
members of q military affairs sub
committee, made no specific rec
concentrations.
The committee said Harry H.
Woodring, assistant secretary of
war, was - fully justified" in efforts
to have the planes bought through
competitive bidding, but asserted
that actions by General F'oulois
prevented fulfillment of Woodring S
plan.
Woodring ''fully complied with
the spirit and the letter of the air
corps act the report held.
Purchase of the planes has been
held up pending the committee IS
inquiry.
Foulois violated the 1926 air corps
act requirements for competitive
bidding ON quantity purchase of
planes, the report asserted, by seek
ing to buy the planes through ne
gotiated contracts. The report said
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
DAIRY GROUP
MEETS HERE

The dairy committee of the farm
bureau met at the court house
Saturday with George L. Winright
dairy specialist. For the purpose
of attending a forthcoming meet
ing in Los Angeles to gain for I'm
perial Valley a place in Los An
geleS milk shed'' a committee was
appointed comprising w. A. Schen-
imam, Earl V. C. Northrup and H.
G. FarnsWorth.
In view of the attitude taken by
large consumers of milk regarding
the necessity of tuberculine test
for cattle a committee was ap-
pointed to interview local dairy
men to find out the sentiment on
this subject. The committee, COM
prising w A. Scheniman, Leslie
Mcconnell and Charles Brankamp
wishes to know if valley produc-
erS deem the test necessary here at
once.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
ACCOMPL|CES
HUNTED OVER
BORDER AREA
Police Holding Man At Nogales
While Posse Enters Mexico To
Get Comrades.
HOPE TO RECOVER GIRL
Noted Abduction Case Rushing
To Climax Which Is Expected
Late Today.
HOPE TO RECOVER GIRL

NOGALES, Ariz, May 7. U.P =
The confession" Of a suspect in the
kidnaping of June Robles, Tucson
school girl, today started an inten-
slve manhunt through the "Hua-
chuca wi!ds" on both sides of the
boundary between Mexico and the
United States today.
The suspect, arrested as the In
stigator of a hoax which United
States department of justice opera
tlVes believed was intended to lessen
! the WatchfulneSS of police, made q
detailed statement concerning the
kidnapping and named two alleged
| accompllces. He was held incom-
municado.
His statement sent department
OF justice men racing by airplane
from Tucson, stripped that city of
every available officer and deputy.
and caused an invasion of Mexico
by horde of possemen.
NOGALES, Ariz., May 7. (U.P)-
The kidnaper of June Robles was
reported to have been captured
today and to have confessed. nam
ing an accomplice and telling Of
flcers where they might find the
girl in Sonora, Mexico
The suspect, described as an
American, was held incommunicado
somewhere in Santa Cruz county,"
OF which Nogales is the county
| seat.
The suspect was captured, it was
reported by department of Justice
operatives on clue furnished last
Sunday by Mrs. Eva Coleman,
Fort Huachuca restaurant prophet
or. Mrs. Coleman, colored also
was in custody.
Department of justice operatives
led posse of % peace officers
into the wilds of the Huachuca
hills, across the border.
They had working agreement
with Mexican officials to cross the
| line.
The suspect, officers said, had
named Mexican as his accom-
plice.
The accomplice, according to the
confession, is holding the girl in
shack concealed in the bad
lands" on the Mexican side of the
/ border.
The 'wilds of Huachuca," a des-
olate territory of box canyons,
steep arroyos and rugged hills,
covered with sage brush and grease
wood, extends for miles on both
! sides of the border.
| An Ell Paso, Tex, department
of justice investigator, familiar
with the border country and the
difficulties of tracing criminals in
its vast, rugged extent, was said
to have captured the suspect.
When the confession was OBJ
tanned today, secret service men
| who had been concentrated in
Tucson flew Immediately to Nogales
to lead the hunt for June and the
Mexican accomplice.
Since u of the federal inves-
tigatorS flew from Los Angeles
shortly after June was kidnapped
April 25, their plane has been kept
warmed up for any eventuality.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
Bomb Rofties
Police Patrol

Poor Black Maria, she no sooner
gets over one ailment than some
thing else comes along and knocks
her pins-or plugs-out from under
her again.
This mornin< shortly after po-
lice court had concluded, Officer
Cox mounted to the drivers seat
and prepared to start out on a call.
His foot pressed down on the
starter and then things happened.
There was a Whistling sound, fol-
lowed by a cloud of black smoke
from her hood and then "bang"
which brought people on the run
from all directions.
Some jokeSter had planted a
bomb under Maria S hood which
made her develop a serious case Of
bees in the bonnet. outside Of
causing a slight deviation from her
regular routine and the application
of wrench to remove the remains
of the bomb, Maria suffered little
from her experience. Officer Cox,
however, appeared TO have lost n
few years growth and thought for
a few moments that his faithful
companion was about to go to her
final reward, this time for keeps.
Saturday morning Maria devel"
ored some interior ailment which
made it necessary to consult spe-
cialist and until noon private car
had to be conscripted TO act in her
stead. During the afternoon, how
ever, she fulfilled all her duties In
first class shape only TO be so rude
ly insulted this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
SCATTER GUN
WAS LOADED

While examining one of the riot
guns kept at the local police sta
ton Saturday, one of the officers
inadvertently pulled the trigger
while the "canon'' was pointed
toward the ceiling
AS a result a hole about two
inches in diameter suddenly ap-
peared in the otherwise clean and
and recently painted steel ceiling.
A group of fellow officers standing
near when the accident happened
were most grateful that the scat
tergun was not pointed in their di-
rection, after taking one look at
the ceiling.
Also-the officer got the infor-
nation he sought: the gun was
loaded
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
SUSPECT 'C0NFESSES' IN TUCSON KIDNAPPING
EMPLOYEES OF
MILL STRIKE

MANCHESTER, N. H., May T.
U.P)-A general strike was called
today in the cotton division of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing COM
pany, largest textile plant in the
country.
Strike leaders estimated that be-
tween 5000 and 5000 of Amos
keag's 10000 workers were out.
Horace Riviere, union organizer,
declared that the union was not
sponsoring the strike and was seek
ing to prevent the woolen division
from joining it.
The arbitration board at Wash
ington recently decided the Amos
keag employees should have wage
increases ranging from 5 to 10 per
cent. Strike leaders said the
walkout resulted because of dis
satisfaction over the increases.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
Sargent Seeks
Former Office

L. P. Sargent, public administra-
tor from 1920 to 1924, today an
nounced he will be candidate for
that office at the August primary.
During his previous term of OF
flee he installed a system of check
ing all accounts of the public ad-
ministrator's office through the Of
flee of the county auditor, the sys-
tenn which has since been used in
that office, he stated today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
Local Resident
Dies Suddenly

Frank Mitchelletti, known better
as Frank Mitchell, about 60 years
of age, died suddenly in a local
pool hall about O'Clock this af-
ternoon, from a heart attack.
According to a friend who has
known the deceased for a long
time he complained last night of
not feeling very well. This morn
ing he received treatment from a
doctor and seemed improved. Short
ly before his death he came to the
pool hall, sat chatting for while
and then toppled over, dead.
Mitchell, a former inspector
working out of the county horti-
cultural inspector IS office. had of
late been working for the Bruno
packing company.
Funeral arrangements are to be
announced later.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
Americans To
Be Presented

LONDON, May 7. U.P) = Hopes
of hundreds of American girls and
women we're rewarded today or were
dashed, to their despair, when the
American embassy announced the
names of 81 who are to be present.
ed at the first two royal courts of
the social season, May Is and 16.
Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, wife
of the American ambassador, will
present the debutantes-for the pur-
pose of London society, they are all
"debs'-to the king and queen at
Buckingham palace.
Those to be presented include.
Second court:
Miss Nancy Penoyer, San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Pryns Hopkins, Santa Bar
bara, Calf.
These were chosen from hundreds
of applicants. Presentation at court
is regarded as setting the seal of So
cial eminence of women.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
AIR CRASHES
KILL. ELEVEN
BY United Press

Eleven persons, three of them
women, were killed in five air.
plane crashes over the weekend.
An empty gasoline tank causing
forced landing, brought death
to four persons in the wreck Of
jitney plane at Houston, Tex.
The wreckage, with bodies of the
pilot and passengers, was found
after an all-night search.
The dead were Miss Gladys
Wood, 20; Fred Burnett, %; Bob
Glyn, 81, pilot, and Leroy Grandy,
%.
Three persons burned to death
near Fulton, NJ Y, when their
plane fell 300 feet. Victims were
Leon w. Holly, owner of the plane
and pilot; Miss Irene Clark, 90,
and John Parsons, %.
Two men died as their mono
plane lost a wing in midair near
New Market, N. j. The pilot, Lo-
well Markwith, 80, and George j.
Kuntz were the victims.
Mrs. Gene May Johnson, 18,
drowned after a plane in which
she and her husband were riding
fell into San Francisco bay mile
from Berkeley pier. Rather than
cling to the plane, waiting for
help her husband, Arthur john
son, and pilot Harold Christman
decided to swim ashore, supporting
Mrs. Johnson, who could not
swim.
Rising waves threw Mrs. john
son from the grasp of the men and
she sank. A skiff rescued Johnson
and ChriStman.
w. A. George, amateur flyer,
was killed at Pocatello, Idaho, as
he crashed into a railroad embank-
ment on a takeoff.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
M& R11~4
OissI, NsNaurht Syndicate. Ina
WILL DEMAND
EXTREME BAIL
FROM |NSULL
BY EVERETT r. HOLES
United Press Staff Correspondent


CHICAGO, May Z. U.?)-Samue
insult will find himself embroilee
in an immediate court fight fol
his liberty when he arrives back
in the city of his triumphs ano
tribulations, it was revealed today
A legal skirmish over the amount
of bond which must be posted fol
his release pending trial was prom
Used by his attorneys when they
were informed the government
would demand 100000 bail.
Joseph B. Keenan,, assistant at
torney general in charge of federal
criminal prosecutions, said here he
believed the government should ask
double that amount.
That's preposterous,' said FloyC
E. Thompson, former supreme
court justice and chief attorney
for insult. I'VE certainly will fight
such an outrageous demand.
He's no Dillinger. He won't
vanish into thin air."
Thompson, explaining that trends
of the 74-year-old fallen monarch
have arranged to provide money
for his release, said he would con-
sent to a bond of $4,000 or $780,
600.
Forrest Harness, special assistant
attorney general who said the
government has mapped a rigid
course" for its dealings with insult
was prepared to insist on 100000
bail
'In view of the trouble and heavy
expense insult has caused the gov
ernment, to say nothing of a delay
of two years in his trial, we feel
that it is only reasonable that SUBJ
stantial bail should be asked" he
said.
Closely Guarded
When the train bearing insult
back from his weary two year
odyssey to the far side of the
world arrives in Chicago tomorrow
he will be hustled into court with
out a moments delay.
He will be taken to the office
of H. c. w. Laubenheimer United
States marshall in the federal
building and forced to undergo the
humiliating procedure of being
finger printed.
He will be given a number a
permanent record for the govern
ment's crime gallery-and will be
escorted to a federal courtroom for
the legal fight over his bond.
From the moment of his arrival
guards will flank his movements,
not because of any fear that he
may attempt to escape but as a
precaution against any possible at
tempt upon his life by victims OF
the insult debacle.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-07
|NSULL DUE
IN CHICAGO
ON TUESDAY
Aged Fugitive Taken From His
Steamer And Placed Aboard
Train For West.
BY THOMAS COPE
United Press Staff Correspondent


ABOARD PENN YLVANIA
RAILROAD TRAIN CHICAGO
BOUND, May 7. Samuel insult,
heavily guarded and his route still
secret, was on the last stage of
his long journey from Turkey to
Chicago today in the custody of
federal officers.
The former utilities executive
said he was ready for the fight
of my life" for vindication.
The government kept up the
secrecy surrounding return of In
sull by limiting that the party in
which he is a prisoner might
change trains enroute to Chicago.
They boarded a Pennsylvania train
which made special stop at
Princeton Junction, N. j., at 1890
a. m.
In an amazing "a hours, insult
had been taken without ceremony,
from the steamship Exilona, lying
off sandy hook, and rushed by gov
ernment cutter to Fort Hancock,
whence he was transferred by mo-
tor to the junction point where
the train for Chicago was boarded
He faces charges of embezzlement
in Chicago.
With him was his son, Samuel
Insull Jr., who had met the one
time multi millionaire at sea to
offer him aid and comfort on the
last thousand miles of his 7,O0C
mile trip. Their meeting was the
| only moment of emotion shown by
insult upon his arrival.
The government still maintained
the atmosphere of mystery on the
maneuvers by which it intended
to deliver insult to Chicago for
trial without the interposition of
possible legal obstacles by the for
mer magnate's attorneys.
Conducts Ceremony
-Four automobiles, escorted by
state troopers, bounced the pris-
oner and the accompanying party
of government officials and COR
respondents, in rapid order, over
the At miles from Fort Hancock
to the junction. On the way, the
party passed the Great Freehold,
N. j., electric plant, once a part
of insults great possessions.
At the junction, insult maintained
his calm courtesy. and permitted
photographers again to take pic
lures. There was one stipulation,
however.
IF you are going to take my
picture" he commanded, you're
going to do it as I say. want
all these men taken with me-"
And he gathered around him the
little group of correspondents who
had accompanied him across the
ocean.
During the camera ceremony he
talked constantly. BE courteous"
he said. You'll get all the pictures
you want. Don't get in front of
each other and don't get in each
others way"
1t was insult who thus became
the real master of ceremonies. He
chatted with the correspondents
but not about his caSe-untll the
train, which had left New York an
hour earlier, rolled into the juno
ton.
Once aboard the train, insult
gazed from the window and held
up a newspaper bearing his name
in large headlines. He appeared in
a contented mood, much reassured
by the polite and considerate man
ner of the officials and that small
portion of the public with which he
came in brief contact.
Soon after leaving Princeton
Junction, he was ushered to COM
partment at the head of the spec
ial Pulliam coach attached to the
end of the train, and there he set
tied down to chat cheerfully with
his son and Berry.