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Evening star., 1934-05-24
REPORT REVEALS
HOUS|NGSHORTAGE
Department of Commerce
Study Shows Nations
Crowded Conditions.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The fact that 20 per cent of the
Nations families are living under
crowded conditions-pointing to a
serious housing shortage"-was dis
closed today by a private govern
mental study.
This and other facts on American
housing, revealed by the Department
, of Commerce real property inventory,
were characterized as striking COM
mentary on what We are pleased to
call our standard of living"
Repair Need Shown.
More than go per cent of all dwell
lings in tire country were shown to be
. in need of repairs, and 282 per cent
were listed as unfit to live in"
The report was based on statistics
from 20 cities, but Government ex-
perts said it was indicative of the
pattern for the entire Nation.
A preliminary to full report on 100
cities, the compilation was made for
the information of the administration,
. in connection with the housing bill
now before Congress.
Hearings on the measure continued
today, following prediction by Frank
c. Walker, chairman of the Presi-
dents National Emergency Council.
that the bill will be passed during
this session.
Walker said he had been informed
the House Banking Committee ex-
pected to complete consideration
within the next few days.
The Senate Banking Committee
heard an enthusiastic" Endorsement
of the bill yesterday from Charles A.
Miller, former president of the Re-
construction Finance Corporation.
Sees Recovery Aid.
Miller said this bill strikes me as
having elements extremely useful in
bringing about the program of recov-
cry"
He said in his opinion the national
mortgage associations provided by the
bill to help finance building would not
compete" with building and loan as
sociationS
Representatives of building and
loan institutions had opposed that
feature of the measure.
Orrin c. Lester, vice president of
the Bowery Savings Bank of New
York, also approved the principles of
the bill, as did spokesman for the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards, Walter S. Schmidt, of Cincin-
natl. Schmidt, however. proposed an
amendment to create a $4,000 900 900
Federal corporation to rediscount
urban mortgages.
Evening star., 1934-05-24
POLICEMAN DISARMED
IN PAY ROLL ROBBERY
Three Bandits Escape With
$4,000 Within Block of
Brooklyn Jail.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, May 24-Three
men went into an Office building within
a block of the Raymond Street Jail
yesterday, disarmed policeman
guarding $4,000 pay roll and escaped
with the money
The men forced the elevator opera
tor to take them to the fifth floor
office OF the Upper Slipper Corpora
tion in the Law Building.
There they held up 10 girl en-
ployes, two man workers and Arthur
H. Tupper, president of the firm, while
they disarmed Patrolman William
Walsh.
The robbers escaped by way of the
elevator and were believed to have fed
in an automobile
Evening star., 1934-05-24
Vicar Asks Burial
On Path That Foes
May Walk on Him
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COVENTRY. England. May "a
R-Rev. Frank Melville, vicar
OF Hall near here, was buried yes
terday on a churchyard path.
He selected the burial spot
shortly before his death.
Il choose this place so people
who weren't allowed to walk over
me during my lifetime may do so
hereafter" the vicar observed.
Evening star., 1934-05-24
Extortion Plot Foiled.

BOSTON, May "a P.-Federal au-
thorities last night claimed to have
frustrated a plot to extort $4,000
from an Essex County official by the
arrest anad arraignment yesterday of
two Salem men, James ]. Foye, "a,
and Stanley F. PSiuk, %.
Evening star., 1934-05-24

too! And the smartest new trimming touches !!
Drawnwork. pastel embroidery. scalloping. applique
designs and bordered self materials WHITES in
every conceivable style! Also soft pastels Also navy
and black Sizes 36 to 46 and l64 to 241!.
Evening star., 1934-05-24

And dotted prints, pin-wheel prints bright multi.
colored prnts Solid pastels with hne tuckings and
pleatings with embroidery and hand-drawn work, OF
with contrast button trimming. Jacket styles and one
piece dresses. Sizes II to TO-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
IRISH PRESIDENT SENDS ME- ESSAGE
And Ye Have To Be A Real Irishman To
Read The First Paragraph Of 1t.

But our problem has difficulties
of its own. Since 1890 emigration
has virtually ceased. In 1926, 10000
of our young men and women left
to seek a livelihood in other lands.
In 1882, and again in 1888, the num-
Der was below 1000 immigration
last year exceeded emigration by
1882. The stoppage emigration has,
in the last two years alone, added at
least 10000 TO the number of per-
sons entitled to be enrolled for en-
ployment.
BY substituting for a policy of
drift an active policy of economic
reconstruction, like the National
Recovery Administration in the
United States, we have in the past
two years laid the foundations OF
an economic system designed TO pro-
vide work and a decent standard OF
living for all our citizens.
Our policy is already being justi-
fled by results, and know that in
going ahead with that policy we can
count on the moral support of all
friends of Ireland in the United
States.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
M& R1u>4,
OissS, NeNausht Syndicate. Inc
FRENCH BANK
SCANDAL HAS
Ne v VICTIM

PARIS, March IT. U.P)-Emile
Blanchard, director of the service
of agriculture, sought for completely
in the Stavisky banking scandal,
was found in a dying condition
in Fontainbleau Forest today His
throat was cut and he had taken
poison
1t was the latest in a series of
crimes and attempted suicides as
the government unravelled the ugly
skeinS of the career of the sui
eide banker Alexandra Stavisky,
whose failure led to the fatal Paris
riots.
Soldiers on their way to the
nearby artillery proving ground
found Blanchard lying at forest
roadside and, finding that he was
alive, sent him to hospital 1t
was said that he had a slim
chance to live.
Blanchard left a letter at his
/ home indicating he would try
suicide because he had learned
police sought him.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17

rural areas, stranded population
and urban population.
Relief IS also to be extended to
aged and needy Individuals in their
own particular states. WHO will be
admitted to camps as are tran
sientS at the present time This is
TO prevent shifting of those who
under the present set-up are pre-
vented from getting relief in their
own states and go to adjoining
states to obtain it in transient
camps.
R. C. Branior, lead of the state
CWA, will be in charge of SERA,
with Captain MacCauley in charge
of the Works Division under Bran
ION.
Schottland emphasized the fact
that the broader program will ELI
inmate many of the undesirable
features which prevail under the
CWA because of the speed with
which it was organized and started
to function. and which permitted
many abuses to creep in.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
Dillinger Aide
Declared Guilty

LIMA, Ohio, March II. U.P) -
Charles Makley today was found
guilty on charge of first degree
murder in the Staying of Sheriff
Jesse L. Sarber and will be SEN
fenced to death.
The jury did not recommend mer-
cy.
Thus Makley became the second
Dillinger gangster convicted on
murder charges growing out of a
gangster raid on the jail here last
fall to liberate Dillinger. Last week
jury which deliberated barely an
hour convicted Harry Pierpont, al
legged trigger man" in the raid.
Russell Clark, the third gangster
facing the same charge, will go on
trial Tuesday.
Pierpont will be sentenced to
death next week by Judge Emmit E.
Everett.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
ARIZONA MOSQUITOES TRAITORS
Cause Two Casualties In Ranks Of States
Army On Colorado River.

PARKER, Ariz., March IT, U.H
High treason was suspected of
Arizona mosquitoes today as sing
ly, in platoons and battalions they
attacked and harassed band of
national guardsmen, entrenched
here on the banks of the Colorado
River to guard Arizona shores
from the hobnails of California
dam workers.
No respecter of international law
that compels one foe to recognize
the white flag of another, the in
sects ignored a surrender sign and
proceeded to whittle down the
ranks of the troopers.
Two casualties already have
been inflicted Both guardsmen
were reported suffering from severe
wounds The casualties reduced to
four the number of militiamea who
were sent here by Gov. B. B. Moeur
to keep workers from extending
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17

WASHINGTON, March II. U.P)
-Industry's ability to govern itself
was put to the test to-day as auto
mobile manufacturers sought some
means of averting crisis with Ia
bor The situation held implications
of major import to the entire NRA
setup and the Presidents recovery
program.
Upon the shoulders of the three
man code authority of the automo-
bile industry was placed response
bility for settling its long fostering
labor dispute which reached the
point where the American Fedora
ton of Labor had ordered $4,000
men to strike Wednesday if no
agreement is reached.
1t seems likely, however, that some
manner of a solution would be
reached, probably on the basis of
appointment of mediation board,
the findings of which would be
agreed to by all parties. Though no
direct word came from the PreSi-
dent, it was believed he was taking
a hand in the situation behind the
scenes.
The serious nature Of the crisis
lay not alone III the effects the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
CWA To Be REPLACED BY NEW
PROGRAM AFTER MARCH 31ST

With the dissolution of the CWA
scheduled for March 81, a complete
new set-up for emergency work and
relief has been mapped out, accord
ing to Charles I. Schottland, field
representative CT the State Employ
ment Relief Association, known as
SERA, who was here yesterday con-
ferring with DR.. N. E. Dupont,
chairman of the Imperial County
Federal Relief committee and other
officials.
The Emergency Relief Admins
tration will take over supervision of
the new set-up, Schottland said, and
the CWA will become the Works
Division of the SERA.
No emergency employment such
as has been given by the CWA is
planned, and all those aided under
the SERA must be able to show
that they are actually in need of
relief.
The county CWA will become the
County Works Division and in con-
ployment bureau will be conducted
where those seeking relief under the
SERA will be registered for work
Branch offices will be opened in Ell
Centro, CaleXico and BraWley, and
advance notice of the opening date
will be given IL the newspapers.
All registering for employment
will be classified and those needed
for work on projects under the
Works Division will be drawn from
the lists at the emergency employ
ment bureaus.
Wages to be paid those working
under tie SERA will be based on
the wage scale adopted by the
county wage board and applying IL
The community served by the board.
All funds required for the SERA
will be federal funds, Schottland
stated.
To Prevent "Chiseling"
Workers will be given a maximum
Of 26 weeks work year and the
maximum work week will be "a
hours, The SERA will budget all
relief extended. baSing it on the re-
quirements of the individual or on
the number of dependents he has.
Additional case workers and in
vestigators will be employed to in-
vestieate each case seeking relief
and to prevent any "chiseling" on
the part of those who do not re-
quire relief.
The new program is designed to
follow the outline recently given by
President Roosevelt for nation wide
relief work, divided into those in
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
HOPE To AVOID THREATENED
TROUBLE IN AUTO INDUSTRY
Manufacturers And NRA Officials Seek
Means To Settle Dispute With American
Federation Of Labor

Walkout might have on the revived
business of the specific General
Motors and Hudson Motor Car
plants involved. Once started it is
feared labor's direct action tactics
rapidly would affect the entire auto
industry and possibly spread to the
steel industry and other fields.
Nucleus of the trouble is the bit
terly- contested section IA of the
automobile code detailing the rights
of workers to organize.
The Interpretation and carrying
out of these rights has been the
subject of constant conflicts over
company unions. Indicative of the
deep-rooted antipathy of the auto
industry toward the A. F.. of l..
type of union was the induStry'S Bit
telly expressed opposition to the
bill of Sen. Robert F. Wagner, Dem,
N. Y, which would outlaw company
unions entirely.
Equally fundamental in the pre-
sent case is the whole question OF
the Workability of NRA. Informal
negotiations through NRA officers
have failed to settle the issue. The
National Labor Board has been SIM
ilarly ineffective.
Now the issue has been put up to
the cot authority itself, the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, represented by Alvin Macau-
ley, Packard president, Alfred T.
Sloan, General Motors and Walter
P. Chrysler. This organization has
denounced the Wagner bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
Roilroaders Reject
Roosevelt Proposal

WASHINGTON, March II. W.P)--
Railway labor unions today flatly
rejected President RooSevelt'S pro-
posal for six months wage truce
and announced they would insist
that basic wage rates be restored
upon July /, 1884.
The announcement, by A. F..
Whitney, chairman of the Railway
Labor Executives association, came
as a shock to railway operators. who
already had accepted the Presidents
proposal.
President Roosevelt had requested
the railroads and their employees to
put off wage negotiations for at
least six months more in the hope
of averting what the President said
might develop into a bitter dis
pute."
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
MOB On TRAIL
Of D|L[|NCER
BY KENNETH r. MCDONALD
United Press Staff Correspondent

Omttu fTeSS StaII correspondent
PORT HURON, Mich, March II.
Both sides of the international
boundary were blockaded today in a
new manhunt for John Dillinger,
notorious outlaw, following the gro
Gerry store gun battle in which his
Negro companion, Herbert Young
blood, and Undersneriff Charles
Cavanagh were killed.
Nearly 500 peace officers were
concentrated in the surrounding
section of Michigan, blockading all
roads and stopping and searching
each automobile within a SO mile
radius of the city.
The intensive vigil was maintained
after YoungDlood, dying from seven
bullet wounds, said that Dillinger
and three other men accompanied
him here following the wooden pis-
tol jailbreak at Crown Point, Ind.
Dillinger's Negro pal died shoot
ing it out with three officers in a
small grocery store, owned by Mrs.
Pearl Abraham, on the outskirts of
Port Huron. Youngblood mortally
wounded Cavanagh, and shot two
other officers and a Negro store en-
ployee.
A search was being made for Roy
Parks, a white man, who was re-
ported to have accompanied Young
blood into the store shortly before
the gun battle Parks slipped away
when the peace officers appeared.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
AIRMA|L WILL
Be RESTORED
SUNDAY NIGHT

WASHINGTON, March II. U.P)-
Army airmail operations will be re-
sumed at one minute past midnight
Monday morning in all three zones,
Tie war department revealed today.
The resumption was recommended
by Maj. Gen. Benjamin d. Foulois,
chief of the air corps, following a
personal inspection and observation
OF conditions
All army mail flights were sus-
pended last Sunday after the Presi-
dent ordered the service curtailed
and placed on safety first" ba-
sis. The President acted after a
score of crashes in which. 10 men
of the army air corps were killed
in three weeks.
During the weeks total Suspen-
sion of service army personnel and
equipment have been redistributed
Foulois now feels the army is ready
to carry on again.
The routes over which airmail
will be flown upon resumption OF
service were not announced by the
war department but it was under
stood they would be the nine trunk
lines previously agreed upon by
post office and army officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
SWING WILL
AID DISTRICT
Former Congressman Willing To
Work In Behalf Of Appropria-
ton For Canal.

That Phil D. Swing lost little
time in starting action toward
securing the elimination of the
valuation clause in the All-Amer-
ican canal contract and also the
release of the $6,000,O0O previously
appropriated for construction OF
the canal is evident from the fol-
lowing telegram received by Evan
T. Hewes, irrigation district presi-
dent, this morning.
Swings telegram states: "Pur-
suant your request, saw my form
er colleague Elliott, assistant con-
troller general. Learned no action
had been taken on the canal. Con-
tacted attorney who held the file
and secured a promise that prompt
action will follow up. Have seen
Finny, cooperation by preparing
a brief on elimination confirma-
| ton requirement"
From a telephone conversation
with Phil D. Swing who is now in
/ Washington, D. c., it appears that
the San Diego contract with the
government relative to the ALL
American canal is in such a con-
dition that it is practically ready
to be placed before officials of the
! Interior department for their ap-
proval. This is taken to mean that
! Swing will now be able to devote
! all his time to securing the release
of the S6,00O,000 appropriated by
the Public Works Administration
for the construction of the canal,
Swing was contacted late yester-
day afternoon following action au-
! thorizing this by the irrigation dis
trict board of directors. This ac-
ton was taken by the board be-
cause it is realized that the most
important thing to be considered
at present is to secure the release
of this money, since the further
ance of the contracts entered into
by the Imperial district, by Goa
chella and San Diego depend upon
this entirely. The fact that Swing
is now present in Washington and
! has practically completed his work
there on the San Diego contract
gives assurance that he will now
be able to go to work on securing
the release of this money, district
officials said.
Swing stated that he will be in
| close contact with an old Washing
ton friend, Richard Elliot, who is
! now connected with the comptroller
generals office and work with him
TO the end that this money might
, be released as soon as possible.
DR.. Forbes, attorney for the Goa
chella district, advised Evan T..
Hewes, chairman of the local board,
yesterday morning that Swing is
most agreeable to CoacEella as an
aid to work with Judge Finney who
is the Washington representative
of the Coachella district.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
WEATHER On
WILD CAREER
Midwest Gets, Heat, Hail,
Dust, Blizzard And Heavy
Winds For Extensive Variety.

CHICAGO March II. U.P)-The
midwest changed from its shirt
sleeves to fur coats today as a
wild equinoctial storm lashed about
with a heat wave, dust storms,
hail and a blizzard in rapid sue
ceSSion.
Freaks of weather ranging from
so degree temperature changes to
destructive Windstorms, blowing
successfully from the south and
the north were recorded.
The storm was brewed just east
of the Rockies, where Denver to-
day received snow in the wake of
the blow. The storm swept into
Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota
with a variety of manifestations,
then spread east and south.
Temperatures mounted into The
70S in the van of the storm. In
Sioux City. and the neighboring
sections of Nebraska, South Dakota
and Minnesota the south wind sent
the mercury soaring, blew in plate
glass windows and carried away
store signs.
The gale swept up heavy pillows
Of dust from the dry fields and
whipped it into residences and
buildings. The wind from the south
was followed by a lull The air
cleared. Then a northwest wind
set in.
Before housewives completed
sweeping up the dust of the first
storm, the north wind was bring
ing in new dust storms. More win
dows broke. Thunderstorms ac-
companied the gale in some sec
tions. Hail fell. Rain splashed
down and as the mercury dropped
in jumps, snow descended.
A temperature of 81 at Sioux
City at 7 p. m. dropped 20 de-
grees in an hour and another 80
degrees by II p. m. Similar chang
es occurred to the east through
out the night, the storm moving
into Wisconsin and Illinois by
dawn. To the south Kansas City
caught the edge of the storm
early today.
Weather bureau forecaSters pre-
dicted temperatures of 10 above
zero to follow the snow.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
Local Orchestra To
Play On Steamer

Through the efforts of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Kenyon, of Kenyon's
Desert Plunge, members of a local
orchestra which played at the
plunge last season, have been Of
fered employment on the Dollar
liner President Wilson, and plan
to start their new engagement on
May l.
Members of tie orchestra, which
IS known as Leonard Smiths, In
clude Earl OFT, Hamilton Geary.
Arthur Hughes and Gordon Ra-
leigh.
Their engagement on tire Presi-
dent Wilson will take them for an
extensive trip though Hawaii, Ja-
pan, China, fhe Philippines ana
otter places in the far east.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon recently re.
turned from world cruise, part OF
which was made on the President
Wilson.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-17
GREECE WILL
GIVE |NSULL
HIS FREEDOM
About Face By Government To
Permit Fugitive To Depart As
He Prefers.

ATHENS, March II. U.P The
Greek government, surrendering to
the amazing resistance of Samuel
insult, fugitive Chicago financier,
against efforts to deport him to
America, agreed today to give him
his travelling papers and let him sail
away on tie steamer Maiotis.
The governments decision in q
complicated international situation
was materially influenced by a
strong public opinion which had
viewed insults battles for liberty
with admiration.
ATHENS, March 17.-Charges of
bribery and of an American kidnap
plot brought bitter recriminations
today as Samuel insult, frenzied
and railing at fate, returned to Pi-
raeus, the port of Athens, in the As
year old freight steamship Maiotis
insults new lawyers, George Pop
and George Xiros, said that he was
obliged to flee Greece as he did to
avoid kidnapping by American de-
tectives, here to take him forcibly to
the legation in the event that he did
not leave openly.
They said also they would de-
mand damages from the Greek gov
ernment in insults behalf because
the recall Of the Maiotis in which
he fled Wednesday was unjuStified.
The lawyers seemed prepared for
a bitter fight to the last to prevent
insults open deportation by route
that would permit him to be trap
ped with an extradition warrant al
ready waiting in some country along
the route of the Orient express
train.
Newspapers openly charged brib-
cry of government officials. The
owners Of the Maiotis. pressed by
the government for details of the
charter of the ship by the aged util-
tiles magnate, intimated strongly
that M. j. Mountsouridas, who was
dismissed as minister of interior,
acted as intermediary.
Premier Tsaldaris, anxious to end
the months of uncertainty was for
deporting him aboard the liner
Aquitania Tuesday. The liner, on
a cruise, is due at New York April
6 after making several Mediterran-
can haltS.
However Demetrius GiannapolouS,
the new minister of interior, an Of
ficial in charge of insults case as
the general director of all police and
deportation activities, said today
that insult would be permitted to
leave the country within "a hours
after the Maiotis' arrival by any
route he chose-even by the Maio-
tbs.
Thus, with ample funds appar-
emily available and two keen witted
lawyers fighting for him, it was in
dicated that insult had a fighting
chance still TO avoid, or to defer, his
extradition to the United States to
face federal trial for fraud in con-
nection with the collapse of his util-
tiles enterprises.
1t was learned definitely today
that insult, on the Maiotis, was
bound for Abyssinia, in the African
interior. when the government wire
lessed the Maiotis to halt and sent
speeding after it the new torpedo
boat destroyer Admiral Kondourio-
tbs, which has made 4O.75 kIiCJs in
trials and so can steam five miles
to the MaiotiS one.