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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
HOPES TO PROVE OUTLAW TITLE
Man Asserting He Is Jesse James Will Avoid
Jail If He Really Is.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July S. UP
The thin-faced old man who insists
he is Jesse James, the Missouri
outlaw who struck terror to the
southwest 40 years ago, was here
today seeking proof OF his claims
to keep out of Jail in Santa Mon
ica, Calf.
If he can prove he is the same
man who engineered the Lexing-
ton, Mo-, and Deerfield, Mimi,
train robberies in the 90's, he will
be freed of charges of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
If he is proved to be a law-abid-
ing citizen he will have to go back
to Jail on charges filed by mem
bers of the James family in Clay
county, Mo. James was in jail in
Santa Monica for a month and was
released on ST. 900 bond to return to
Excelsior Springs and st. Joseph to
obtain cspositions.
He is accompanied by the Cali
fornia lawyer who became interest
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
CITY LOSES !
MUCH WATER
Broken Reservoir Levee Sends
Nearly Two Million Gallons
Into Streets.

Approximately 1,750,000 gallons
of water were lost from a city wat
er plant reservoir early this morn
ing when a 20-foot section of levee,
IA feet in height, surrounding the
new storage basin south of Ross
avenue caved in, allowing the wat
er to escape. This happened short
ly before midnight.
The break was discovered by the
night levee patrolman maintained
by the water department and the
flow was stopped at about 2 clock
this morning after loss of four
feet in depth of water. Persons
coming into the downtown section
of town from the south on Eighth
street early today were surprised
to meet the flow of water which
had spread to adjoining streets as
well
Phil W. knights, city engineer,
stated today that this basin was
the large one built by CWA labor
and had originally been designed
for the storage of mud and silt and
not intended for the storage of set
tied water. The water shortage,
knights said, made necessary the
conversion of this basin to water
storage purposes and the rapidity
with which the basin had been
filled proved too much for the new
levees.
Necessary repairs are being made
today and it is expected that the
filling Of the basin will be resumed
tonight, according to knights.
knights said further, in connec-
ton with the present water short
age, that no orders have been is
sued by any city official or other
authority which would prevent the
irrigation of shrubs entirely. A
rumor has been circulated that
such an order had been issued by
Mayor Anderson but knights stat
ed this morning that such is not
the case-shrubs may be irrigated,
sparingly. This, however does not
mean that lawns are to be irri-
gated nor that hoses should be al
lowed to run continuously even in
the irrigation of shrubs.
The cooperation of all residents
is asked in this matter that they
use the present supply of water as
sparingly as possible. Normal con-
sumption of water in FL Centre
this time of the year, Knights said
is about 100000 gallons per day.
This has been cut to about 1,250,000
daily according to records kept at
the city water plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
To COOPERATE
IN EVERY WAY
WITH SWING
Senator Informs District And
Supervisors He Will Give All
Assistance Possible.
RAIN VISITS UPPER BASIN
Slight Increase In River Credit
ed To Slight Storms Reported
BY Weather Forecaster.

81 think you are wise in sending
Swing to Washington and will CO.
operate with him. is the text of a
telegram received from Senator
Hiram johnson addressed Jointly
to Evan T. Hewes, president of the
irrigation district board of direc-
tors and B. NJ Graham, chairman
of the board of county supervisors.
Senator Johnson had previously
wired to Graham stating that he
appreciated the crisis facing the
valley in the present water Short
age at present and that he would
do all in his power to aid in the
emergency. The board had sent
johnson telegram following their
meeting last Sunday asking him to
use his influence in obtaining fed
eral aid for the county
According to every estimate,
Swing was to have arrived in Wash
ington this morning and intended
to proceed directly to contact fed
eral officers in the interest of Sc
curing aid for the valley He was
taken to Yuma and Phoenix by
Hewes and boarded a plane in the
latter city for the east. While in
the county he obtained necessary
data from records at the court
house and irrigation district and
went over the ground at Yuma not
ing particularly the low level of
(ae river at that point.
Today a new hope was brought
to valleyites in the face of the
present water shortage. A tele-
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
Mrs. Insult On Way
To Join Husband

NEW YORK, July 5. U.P)-Mrs.
Samuel insult, wife of the utilities
magnate, was en- route to Chicago
today to join her husband, conf
dent he will be vindicated.
Mrs. insult, once leader of Chica-
go society, arrived aboard the Ma
lestic in $l26 tourist class cabin
She was met at quarantine by her
son, Samuel insult, Jr., of Chicago
A sister, Mrs. Esther Bird of Pitts
burgh, was at the pier.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
s. p. Names NeuU
Agent For City

Earl S. Allen is the new South
ern Pacific agent for Ell Centre,
succeeding B. L. Majors, who has
been transferred to the ticket Of
flee, it was announced today by
John w. Donahue, district freight
and passenger agent.
Allen has resided in Beaumont
but has been working in Indio for
the past year and assumed his new
duties here on July 1.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
Light Docket In
Ell Cenfro Court

In police court this morning
Belle Gersh pleaded not guilty to
charge of vagrancy and her trial
was set for Friday afternoon.
G. j. Bass pleaded guilty to
charge OF being drunk and dis
turbing the peace and drew a sem
tence of $40 or 10 days in Jail. Jose
Mazias was given a SIS or 2la days
in Jail sentence following his plea
OF guilty to drunkenness charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05

Cadet Horace Moore, %, of Aus
tin, Texas, is reported to be at the
Brawley hospital with a basal frac-
ture of the skull, a broken right arm
and broken left leg as the result
of an airplane crash which happen
ed at the Brawley airport about
1890 o'clock this morning Hospi-
tai attendants are quoted as saying
that Moore's death is but a matter
of hours.
Moore was one of six army fly
ers from March field, Riverside
county. flying in formation over the
valley this morning. The squadron
was commanded by Captain Ira
Eaker.
According to reports received here
the six planes had attempted to
land at the Brawley airport. Two of
them had landed successfully when
Moore's plane, a Boeing army ship,
went into spin and crashed to the
ground. Glenn Shelton, rancher
living near the airport witnessed
the crash and hurried over to pull
Moore from the wreckage which
had started to burn.
Shelton succeeded in getting
Moore out, and the gasoline tank ex-
ploded Immediately afterwards.
Moore was rushed to the Brawley
hospital where no hope is held for
his recovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
JUG OF WATER STARTED FIRE

SALEM, Ore, W.n)-A jug of wat
er set fire to H. o. Won Behren's
car. The water focused hot sun
rays on cloth in the rear of the
car. Won Behren saw th
before any damage was
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
WILL ON PRESCRIPTION BLANK

z WATERBURY, Conn, U.P) =
Samuel Weiselberg, on his death
bed, wrote his will on the back of
doctors prescription blank. 1t
was admitted to probate.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05

SACRAMENTO, July 5. U.P)
"A mobilization order was is
sued to national guard regi- +
ments in the San Francisco
bay area early this afternoon
tC stand by in uniform under
arms and be prepared for a call
to the San Francisco strike
area. s
Adjutant General Howard
instructed Colonel Mittelstaedt
in San Francisco to mobilize
guard units in various armOries
in preparation for an expected
call Cf the national guard by
Gov. Frank F. Merriam.
The men were instructed to
assemble at the armOries and
to stand by in uniform with
full equipment and arms.
A formal call was expected to
be iGsued by Governor Merriam
momentarily as result Of two
attacks on state property.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5. (U,p
rioting broke out on Sar
strike -beleaguered wa
terfront shortly before 10 a. m. to-
day.
Two freight cars were set on fire
Police rushed charging pickle
lines of marine strikers, flaying with
their clubs and firing gas guns.
Three men were shot. One, a spec.
tator named E. L. Hodges, wal
in the hand and stomach
Jerry Hart, a striker, was shot II
the leg. Police said both of thoss
men were shot by strikers supposed.
ly firing on police. w. j. Wilson wa.
shot in the thigh, allegedly by {,
police bullet. Numerous shots wer'
fired in the vicinity of Rincon Hill
and several houses were struck, bu
there was no general gun-fighting
The trouble began after trucks op
Grated by the San Francisco Indus
trial association, in an effort tt
break the strike, had made a tota
of about is trips from the McCor'
mick Steamship companys pier II
a nearby warehouse, carting awa.
coffee and general cargo.
Then a belt line switch engin'
began moving freight cars into th'
pier of the Matson Navigation com
pany, pier 80.
Approximately 1000 strikers ant
sympathizers were gathered back O
police lines near the Matson pier
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05

The supervisors of Moo
have been asked to
$1,000 for coyote contr'
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
M& R1~4.
OiDsL NsNaUsh5 sSsaissas. La
PLANE CRASH
At bRAWLEY
KILLS FLYER

Injuries received by Horace
Moore, U. S. army cadet flyer
of March Field, sustained in a
crash at Brawley this morning,
proved fatal this afternoon at
LAS in the Brawley hospital.
Army officials at March
Field advised that a govern
ment ambulance would be sent
to Brawley Immediately to re-
turn the flyers body to that
point.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
MORE R|OT|NC STAGED AT SAN FRANCISCO
AkMllL-.o


SANTA MONICA, July 4.
(SpeciaD-They say it takes a
big man to admit he is wrong.
Well, here is where I become
giant. 1 said yesterday that the
Republicans made their CAM
paign speech when the whole
u. S. was tuned in on Germany,
or Amos M Andy, and that
nobody heard it.
But I was wrong, from some
of the criticism I read of it
from Democrats. They must
have all been listening. I had
no idea they were even paying
any attention to the Republi-
cans.
Get these Democrats on the
defense and they are not so
hot.
A Democrat is a better
fault finder than he is an ex-
palmer, so there is liable to be
some excitement at this fall IS
election yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05
STRIKERS AND
| POLICE WAGE
| BITTER FIGHT.
Bullets, Tear-Gas And Missiles
OF Varied Descriptions Used
As Mob Attacks In Force.
MANY SERIOUSLY INJURED
Attempt To Transport Merchan-
disc Brings New Trouble And
May End In Militia Call.
MANY SERIOUSLY INJURED
FLASH,

SACRAMENTO, CAL, July
5. U.P)-The national guard
was called into the San
Francisco strike area at 3
p. m. today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-05

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Evening star., 1934-05-25
U. S. SEEKING TO END
CUBAN RUM SMUGGLING
Protest Sent Against Alleged Il
legal Traffic in Port
of Mariel.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA. May 25.-The United
States Government, through Consul
General H. s. Tewell, moved last night
Evening star., 1934-05-25
COLORADO GOVERNOR
RACE DRAWS WOMAN
Miss Josephine Roche, Oil Com
pany Head, Has Long Been Ac-
tive in Public Affairs.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, May 25.-Miss Josephine
Roche, widely known for her activities
in social and labor circles in Colorado,
has announced her aspiration to the
Democratic nomination for Governor.
Her decision was disclosed in tele-
gram she sent to James A. MarSE
Democratic State chairman. from
Washington. where she has been
visiting.
Former Gov. William H. Adams and
Gov. Ed C. johnson are among Demo-
Gratis who may oppose her in the
September primary.
Miss Roche has been head of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. since March,
1929. inheriting from her father his
holdings in the concern.
She was born in Nebraska and came
to Denver with her parents in 1906.
After her graduation from VaSSar and
receiving a masters degree at Colum-
bia University, she became probation
officer in the Denver Juvenile Court.
and worked there under Judge Ben B.
Lindsey.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
POLICE IN NINE STATES
UNITE TO FIGHT CRIME
Chiefs Consider Plan for Pooling
Information on Newest
Methods in Use.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TRENTON, May 25.-Chiefs of nine
State police organizatio today con-
sidered plans for pooling information
which will help permit them to cope
more effectively with criminals,
Col. H Norman Schwartzkopf. su-
perintendent of the New Jersey State
Police, said the purpose of the con-
ference was to provide medium for
the interchange of ideas.
He said questionnaires would be sent
to all members of the State Police
Association of the United States for
information on scientific appliances
found advantageous in dealing with
criminals, employment of radio, sys-
tens of records, operating costs,
methods of crime prevention and fin
gerprinting.
Those attending included Lynn
Black, superintendent of the State
Highway Patrol of Ohio: Commits
sioner Oscar G. Olander of Michigan,
and Al Feeney, director of safety, In
diana.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
CHILDREN TO GIVE
FETE TOMORROW
Large Number Will PartiCi-
pate in Community Gen.
ter Program.

Five hundred boys and girls will
participate in the ninth annual Chill
dren's Festival of Washington, to be
conducted by the Community Center
Department tomorrow at 2:30 pm
in Central High School Auditorium
Sixteen dance and game numbers
are scheduled, under supervision of
a Community Center Department
committee headed by Mrs. L. w.
Hardy and directed by the depart
ment's staff of dance leaders. Harold
Snyder is in charge of lighting effects.
The boys tumbling team of Con-
gress Heights branch of Southeast
Center will present an act under the
direction OF Joe Galasso. the team in
Guiding Chester Finagin, Paul Nc
Conahey. Jack Rogers. Guy Chandler.
Pete Carlo. Charles McGogney, Bill
Sharkey, Robert Reed, Dick Selby
and James Burgess.
Southeast Dancing Groups.
Southeast Center will likewise be
represented on the program by three
groups of dancers. the group from
Hine Junior High branch directed by
Miss Sara Bergling, including Betty
Baker, Barbara Clark. Patsy Everett,
Harriet Eudy Esther Harriotts, Doris
Lemfer, Esther Noll, Frances Pas
sagno, Clara Silver. Edith Werner,
Catherine Badger, Betty Kerr, Peggy
Kerr. Shirley Greevy and Lucille
Greevy
The Southeast Friday Evening Dane
ing Glass, led by Miss Evelyn Davis,
will offer dance games, the group COM
priSing Priscilla Amidon. Minette
Barnes, Jean Biegel, Dorothy Everett,
Patsy Lipscombe, Pauline Fuller, Mar
garet Gourley. Ruth Hullings. Marian
Rose, Margaret Thompson. Mary
Thompson. Sue Tice, Edna Voltz,
Martha Walker, Dolly Wood, Eleanor
Wise, Margaret Green, Vera Taylor,
June Jacobs, Calvin Kelly. Louise
Hottenkemmer, Shirley Mae Williams,
Joan Slattery and Mildred Watson.
Other Participants.
The children in Congress Heights
Branch. led by Mrs. Margaret Reed
Kincannon, will be Hope Dawson, Jane
Fairall, Virginia Halsted, Nora Jean
Cramer, Ira Wendell Marine. Lois
Peed, Ethel Poole, Ethel Reed. Jean
Read, Charlotte Voeder, Amelia
Xander, Charlotte Thrift and Alice
Leibrand
Accompanies will be Mrs Laurette
Marks Hullings and Miss Emily Ken
drick for the Southeast Center groups.
Other participating groups will come
from Columbia Heights, Chevy Chase.
East Washington, lexington, Park
View, Roosevelt and Thomson Com
munity Centers. The admission bee
to the festival will be 10 cents tickets
being on sale at Central High School
after 1870 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-05-25

zeal" Of Capt Larson. the War De-
partment stated, obstacles in the way
Of successful instrument flight and
landing were overcome, "and the way
was paved for the training of a num-
ber of Air Corps pilots in the tech
nique of this highly important art"
The time and place of presentation
of the trophy will be announced later.
The Mackay trophy was presented
to the War Department in 1912 by
Clarence H. Mackay, and since that
time, except during the war, 1t was
awarded annually to the Air Corps
officers for each years outstanding
flight or flights.
Evening star., 1934-05-25

MERCURY, DRIVER,
REGISTERED MOD
Ell "A, VANTAGE. IN
TERNATIONAL. and
NARRAGANSETT H.
and other models.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
MODELS DEATH HELD
DUE TO NATURAL CAUSE
Police Seek Relatives of Lucille
West, Once on Revue
Stage.

BY the Associated Press.
BRIDGEPORT. Conn. May 25.-
The death of Miss Lucille West, 33,
one-time fashion model in stage re-
vues and reported to be a member
of prominent Minneapolis family,
was attributed to natural causes by
DR.. H. r. Deluca, medical examiner,
last night.
Miss West was said to be the daugh-
ter of the late Thomas E. West of
Minneapolis, State Senator. She was
a divorce and had been living here
for about half year.
Andrew Seery, a boarder in the
apartment, told detectives she had
been i'll several days. The body was
being held in the city morgue here
as efforts were made to establish
her family connections and to notify
relatives.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
LETICIA PEACE PACT
Is OFFICIALLY SIGNED
Peru and Colombia Representa-
tives Lead in Ceremony in
Rio de Janeiro.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 25.-The
protocol providing for a peaceful set
tlement of the Leticia dispute between
Peru and Colombia was signed last
night in ceremony in the ball room
of the Automobile Club Building here.
President Vargas, members of the
cabinet, representatives of the diplo-
matte corps and other officials were
present as Roberto Urdaneta Arbelaez
signed on behalf of Colombia and DR..
Victor Maurtua for Peru.
Evening star., 1934-05-25

to break up activities of ALLEGED rum
srnugglers, aiming especially at trafic
In the nearby port Of Mariel.
Officials estimate l75,000 gallons of
rum have been smuggled into the
United States from this port since the
end Of prohibition, at an estimated
loss OF revenues exceeding 81 ,000. 900.
The consul sent a protest to the
Cuban secretary Of the treasury. who
presented a counter-protest against
what he said was illegal smuggling
Of American cigarettes into Cuba.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
HOTEL GREETERS ELECT
Wilfred Stead of Canada Heads
American Group.

American Group.
BALTIMORE, May IS tP.-Wilfred
A. Stead of Hamilton, Ontario, Can
ada, yesterday was elected president
of the International Hotel Greeters
of America. He is the first Canadian
to head the organization.
Martin E. Rowley of Denver, Colo,
and A. C. Pohl of Los Angeles, Calf.
were reelected secretary-tre
and sergeant at arms, respectively.
Evening star., 1934-05-25

A WARDING of the Mackay Air
n Trophy for 1888 to Capt.
~ WestSide T. Larson, Army Air
4 a Corps, lin recognition Of his
pioneering flights in connec-
ton with the development of methods
and procedure of aerial frontier de-
fense," was announced today by the
War Department.
The flights which won the coveted
military trophy for Capt. Larson in
volved instrument take-offs from and
landings both on land and water. pro-
ceeding to designated points at sea
and returning to the starting point
by instrument alone.
Through the efforts and untiring
Evening star., 1934-05-02
MarYland's Safety Laws.

In Washington there is nothing to
require taxicab operators to assume
financial responsibility for injuries to
their passengers, or damage to prop
erty, resulting from accidents. In
Maryland there is a law requiring
operators of commercial vehicles haul
ing passengers or freight for hire to
carry some form of liability insurance.
So Maryland has undertaken a test
in the courts to discover whether Dis
trict of Columbia taxicabs may be
prevented from picking up passengers
in Maryland for transport into the
District.
Marylanders or Washingtonians who
hail cab in Washington to go into
Maryland do so at their own risk. But
the State of Maryland seeks to protect
its citizens who hail cab in Mary
land to go into the District.
The situation emphasizes again the
desirability of having enacted, at
this session of Congress, the two bills
which have been pending in one form
or another for many years requiring
assumption Of financial responsibility
by taxicab operators, and requiring
q bond or liability insurance for
drivers of private vehicles convicted
of certain traffic law violations
Maryland has both laws. The COM
mercial vehicle law became effective
Evening star., 1934-05-02

peared. The railroads. cheap postage
the telegraph, the telephone, the auto
mobile, the movies, the airplane and
the radio have played their respective
parts in the promotion of an authen-
tic national culture in which even the
most obscure villages are included,
from the benefits of which no citizen
Is barred.
And a natural consequence of such
progress has been change in the
attitude of the people toward the Ma
tons Capital. A century ago the
Federal seat of Government was con-
sidered merely that-a meeting place
for Congress. the residence of the
President, the center of the excu-
tive and judicial machinery of the
country. Today no such narrow
view can be entertained. Instead,
the whole population is looking to
Washington as the focal point of in
dustry, science, art, letters, philoso-
ply and religion. The Library of
Congress, the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, the Bureau Of Standards, the
Naval Observatory, the Corcoran Gal
lery, the Freer Gallery, the Folger
Shakespeare Library, the National
Academy of Sciences, Washington
Cathedral, the Shrine of the Immacu-
late Conception, the several univer-
sities-all function toward the one
end in respect to the creation Of a
national spirit, a national char
acter.
The city founded by the Father of
His Country and proud to bear his
name, it seems clearly indicated, is
destined to be the Athens of the
Western World. the heart of West
ern civilization. The trend is mani
fest.
Evening star., 1934-05-02
Symbol of a Trend.

The beautiful new home of the
American Pharmaceutical Association.
Constitution avenue at Twenty
street, has significance exceeding
even the important scientific purposes
to which it will be dedicated 1t
represents a tide which is working
in the affairs of men. 1t is a symbol
of trend.
Historians furnish evidence to DEM
onstrate the primitive or pioneer
character of American culture at the
time Of the founding of the republic
The United States originally was a
Nation of "embattled farmers" pre-
occupied with the day-to-day tasks
of forcing a livelihood from the soil
and necessarily neglectful of aca-
demic interests. But very early in
the chronicle there was frank recog-
milton of the need to develop institu-
tions of learning and also to establish
processes of refinement independent
Of the limitations of school walls.
Harvard and Yale were products of
one phase of the aspiration. the
American Philosophical Society, the
American Academy of Arts and Sci
ences, the National Academy of De-
sign and other learned bodies were
expressions of another. An increas-
ingly alert and democratic press con-
tributed its full share to the cause.
But the Union remained a fedora
ton Of scattered and isolated COM
munities. Travel was not easy, COM
munication was expensive. People
were born, grew to maturity, labored
and died within circumscribed boun-
daries. The war between the States,
however, brought into existence new
psychology. From 1865 a more gen.
eral concept of nationhood has pre-
vailed. parochial barriers have disap-