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Milford chronicle., 1934-10-19

NoTE While membership does not obgqte the payment of
tUoud Uelcome contribution [enove
supported entirely By voluntary contributions Please make
checks payable American Liberty League of Dea:yare Tc
There classes Of membership FIRST is the regular
membership embracing all those ho believe in the principles
enuncdted and to this American citizen is eligible io
financial contribution Second there contributing
ship embracing those 0ho in addition able willing to
give monetary help for the Leagues support
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
STUDY RULING
OF COURT IN
LAMSON CASE

SAN JOSE, Calf, Oct. IS U.H)
Santa Clara county officials to-
day began a study of the state Su-
preme court decision ordering a
new trial for David A. Lamson to
determine what course to follow
in the case of the young Stanford
intellectual convicted here on a
charge Of Staying his wife.
Three courses were open to Dis
trict Attorney Fred Thomas. He
may appeal to the states highest
court asking the tribunal to recon
slider its decision. He may make
arrangements Immediately to bring
Lamson to trial a second time. Or
he may decide to drop the case
entirely.
mo decision will be reached on
whether Or not second trial Will
be held until we have completed
the study of the court ruling
Thomas said.
Meanwhile Lamson must remain
in the condemned row of San
Quentin prison for the next 80 days.
At the expiration Of that time he
will be returned to the county jail
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
CLAIMS DEAD
DOC REVIVED.

MOSCOW, Oct, Is. U.P)-The IRE.
surrection" of a dead dog was claim
ed today by Prof. S. S. Brjukhan-
cn.c of the Central Institute of
Dermatology and Blood TRANSMISSION
after an amazing experiment here.
Although his experiments so far
have been confined to animals, he
sad he believed the technique might
be perfected to a point where it
would be applicable to humans.
The deg was anaesthetized and a
chemical injected into the blood TO
keep it from congealing. The sur
geon then made an incision in the
dogs chest and placed a clamp over
the heart valves, causing death"
The doctor then connected an
artificial heart of "auto injector" TO
the arteries.
Within 80 seconds the dog sighed,
blinked, sneezed and showed noe
m,> reactions A few minutes later,
the artificial heart was disconnect-
ed and the clamps removed from
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15

A move is to be launched in Los
Angeles this week to secure cooper
alton of the veterans welfare board
and the SERA in California in
which the $30Oo0,O0O veterans bond
issue to be voted on the November
ballot will be combined with federal
resources to lift thousands of veter
ans from the relief rolls and place
them on small farms of the best
soil to make them self sustaining.
This plan is the outgroWth of a
conference held here Saturday with
w. j. Sterrett, county SERA direc-
tor, in which officials of the veter-
ans welfare board obtained details
of a plan for rural rehabilitation OF
persons on the relief rolls in I'm.
perial county.
John r. Quinn, former chairman
of the veterans welfare board and
supervisor of Los Angeles county
and Richard j. Welch, Jr., of River
side, present member of the veter-
ans board, head the move with the
enthusiastic support of John F. Kill
foil. state director Of veterans
farms and Jere G. Hille, manager OF
the Los Angeles offices of the board
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
JOHNSON ENDS
REGIME TODAY
Former NRA Leader Expected
To Return To Capital In
Business Capacity

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is. - Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson today leaves the
national stage of public affairs
where for l8 months ne has been
in or near the "neW deal' spot
light.
In the wings, he will await a
call to give President Roosevelt and
congress an account of his accom-
plishments as administrator of
NRA.
Johnson greeted the day of his
resignation from a hospital cot
which he will leave in a day or
two to rest at the North Caroline
estate of Bernard Baruch, New
York capitalist and Johnson's IS for
mer business associate.
With an administrative board in
charge of the blue eagle organiza-
ton which johnson made a lone
man show the clustering recov-
cry officer does not plan to retire
from the national capital.
After a thorough rest he will
come back to occupy an office in
a business building not far from
the teeming government structure
which houses the NRA. His closest
NRA associate, Miss Frances Rob-
inson, has charge OF Johnson's new
office.
What JohnSon's business will be,
he has not announced. He will
spend considerable time in New
York where his autobiography soon
will come off the presses. He plans
to submit to President Roosevelt
before long a detailed report On
the NRA-past, present and future.
When congress conVeneS, John
son will be awaiting a call for his
counsel is suggesting permanent
legislation to replace the recovery
structure.
who else,' argue his friends,
"can give congress a real and
true picture Of the recovery ad-
ministration?'
Despite the scepticism of Johnson
himself, his entrance into the po-
litical field is rumored persistent
ly. His closest friends suggest that
he has political following second
only to that of the President. Ok
lahoma newspapers discuss a posi-
BILE johnson candidacy for the
senate in 1886 for the seat now helJ
by Sen. Thomas P. Gore, Demo-
crat.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
M& R14>~
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RUSS KL|EGEL
TRANSFERRED
To SAN DIEGO

After five years as Imperial Val
ley manager of the Southern Cali
fornia Telephone company, Russell
j. Kliegel has received an appoint
ment to district headquarters in San
Diego where he will assume new
responsibilities after this week. it
was announced today by A. E. Scott,
district manager. Kliegel is being
succeeded by George R. Jenner, now
telephone manager at Brawley.
During his years as telephone
manager here since January, 1890,
Kliegel has been ACTIVE in civic and
fraternal organizations. He has been
head of the Red Cross drive. has
been chairman of the Imperial
Yuma Boy Scout Council, and last
January was awarded the Junior
chamber of commerce medal for
having rendered the most outstand-
ing service to the community OF
any young man during 1888. In his
new position, Kliegel will be instru
mental in the supervision of tele-
phone business throughout San Di-
ego and Imperial counties.
Jenner is well known locally, hav-
ing been a member of Kliegels
staff for the past two years. His po-
sition at Brawley will be filled by
R. N. Dalrymple. Jenner has had
several years experience in the tele-
phone industry in Los Angeles and
San Diego before coming to the
valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
MAN ADMITS
HAVING SLAIN
SMALL GIRL

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, Oct.
Is. U.P)-Lawrence Stone, "a to-
day signed a confession that he
killed five-year-old Nancy Jean
Costigan in the basement of a
fashionable apartment house and
stuffed her body into the white
hot firebox Of the furnace.
The child's pody was found in
the fire box yesterday. 1t had been
reduced to charred bones and would
have been consumed entirely if dis
covery had been delayed five min
utes.
Carl Hutchinson, building SER
want followed q. trail Of blood that
ended in a large puddle Of blood
in front of the furnace. An hour
before he had noticed Nancy play
ing with a rubber ball on the
apartment lawn and had seen her
talking to Stone.
He called police who came in an
automobile that collided with ano-
ther a block from the building.
When the ambulance arrived to
take three slightly injured police
ment to the hospital Stone appear
ed from nowhere, his hands and
clothes covered with blood. He first
said he had been in the accident
and when that was diSproved. said
the blood was that of injured po-
licemen whom he had helped from
the wreck.
After nine hours of questioning,
Stone confessed he had put the
child's body in the furnace, believ-
ing her dead at the time. They
had been playing with her rubber
ball in the basement he said. He
threw it, 1t struck her head He
said she dropped heavily her head
hitting the concrete floor. She was
blue. He detected no sign of life
Panic stricken, he told police, he
carried the body around several
then thought Of the fur
mace.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
OVER
CHURCH SLAM

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. Oct.
Is. U,P)-Harmony was restored to-
day to the 51st triennial general
convention of the Protestant Epis-
copal church after Bishop Paul
Matthews Of New Jersey, as host,
apologized for criticism by a dele
gate of the Russian Orthodox
church.
InaSmuch as a close and friendly
relationship exists between the Orth-
odox church and the Episcopal
church and the fact that the Rev.
Sergius Bulgakoff, dean of the
Russian Orthodox Theological acad-
emy in Paris, is present at the con-
vention, there was considerable re-
sentiment.
The criticism was made by the
Rev. Gardiner M. Day, Episcopal
chaplain at Williams college, Will
Jamestown, Mass. In addressing
the Church League for Industrial
Democracy, he characterized the
Orthodox church in Russia as
"Pagan and reactionary and run
by ignorant and dirty priests.
Dean Bulgakoff, who protested in
dignantly to the chairman of the
discussion, was more indulgent to-
day.
He seems a sincere man." the
Russian churchman said, speaking
of the Rev Day, "but he was in
Russia only short time and came
back thinking he knows something
about it,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
@. O. p. Cancels
Rally At Bra,Uley

There will be no Republican rally
at Brawley tonight, despite earlier
announcement to the contrary, it
having been found that both Re
publicans and Democrats had stag
ed rallies in Brawley city park for
tonight at o'clock
In order to avoid any ill-feeling
and in the interest of fair play,
county Republican leaders today Of
tered to withdraw from the field
and permit the Democrats to have
the meeting place, the offer being
accepted.
The Republican rally will be held
in BraWley city park on Wednesday
night, starting at 8 o'clock. EX-Sen-
ator Nathan w. Hale of Tennessee
will speak at o'clock and will be
preceded by several other speakers
in behalf of Republican candidates.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
DISCUSS PLAN TO PLACE VETS
ON SELF-SUSTAINING RANCHES

Under the plan as tentatively an
nounced by WEIGH, the veterans
beard would purchase the farms.
Veterans from the relief rolls would
be placed on these and SERA would
provide housing, SuStenance, feed,
seed and operating equipment un-
Ger the relief administrations new
rural rehabilitation program.
Sterrett informed the veterans
welfare Representatives that any
definite indication of SERA attitude
would have to come from Vernon D.
Northrop, acting state administra-
tor. j. B. Porter, SERA engineer,
although present at Saturdays
meeting offered no comments.
Will Solve Problem
Both Welch and Quinn hailed the
program planned as meeting every
requirement for the solution OF
problems which have been plaguing
the welfare board. the American
Legion and other veterans organ
izations for the past two years.
Its the most constructive plan
for general rehabilitation, veterans
relief and restoration to elf-suffi-
cheney and respect I've heard of dur
ing the entire emergency said
Quinn, a former national command
er of the American Legion.
IT shall ask the welfare bureau
of Los Angeles county to make
study of the veterans on the relief
rolls with a view to a conference
with the rural rehabilitation de
partment of SERA and the veter
ans welfare board to see if We can
not work out this cooperative plan
to get the veterans off relief and
onto these self sustaining farm
units. Also I shall urge a conference
of the welfare board looking to-
wards securing tracts of excellent
agricultural land at agricultural
not ndustrial-priceS, so that a
reasonable return may be expected" 3"
Although the rehabilitation prob,
lem in Imperial Valley is more vital
and pressing, Welch indicated, the
same problem exists for veterans
and others in the San Joaquin and
Sacramento valley and elsewhere in
the state.
Charles A. Bratton, commander
of the local American Legion post
is talral rehabilitation director for
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
LIGHT RAIN IN
UPPER BASIN

Rainfall is reported i'll the up
Per Colorado river basin over
the weekend with indications
that the same will continue un-
til tomorrow, according to a
telegram received here from the
Yuma office of the weather bu-
reau.
This states that some light
rain fell over the extreme upper
basin during the past "a hours.
Further showers are indicated
over tcnght extending to west
eIn Colorado.
River readings posted at irri-
CATION district headquarters to-
day show a decrease in the flow
Of the river at the Grand Can
yOn station of so second feet,
the mark today being $500
against yesterdays 2,690 read
ing. Infor nation concerning
ether stations along the river
were not received in time for
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
DUCK HUNTERS
MUST OBTAIN
NEW STAMPS

First of the migratory bird !"
stamps, required by all who plan to
hunt ducks this fall. was sold today
by Postmaster Frank Richmond, to
l. A. Thomas OF this city.
The law requires that all who
plan to hunt migratory birds must
have the government stamp in ad-
dition to their hunting licenses
The stamps are sold for ST by
postmasterS in cities of more than
$500 population.
AS the duck season opens on
October 20, prospective hunters are
urged by the postmaster to obtain
the stamps without delay to avoid
being arrested for law violation.
Incide sally, the postmaster, who
has something of reputation as
duck hunter, or at least as one
who goes out to hunt ducks, has to
dig down in one pocket for dol
lar with which TO buy his stamp
and then must put it into the other
pocket to be turned over to his
boSS-Mr. Farley.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
District Officials
Back From Lindsey

Evan T. Hewes and Ira Aten, di-
rectorS, with w. w. Goodson, sec
retary, George r. Kirk, assistant
counsel, NJ. j. Dowd, chief engineer,
and Miss Winnie Barry, assessor
collector of the irrigation district,
returned yesterday from Lindsey
where they attended a meeting Of
the Irrigation Districts Association
Of California on Saturday.
The tax situation, particularly
the 10 payment plan was discussed
thoroughly during the business ses-
sions Of the meeting and it was
decided that an effort should be
made to revamp the law as at pres
ent and then ask the legislature at
its next session to clarity the law.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
WILL INHERIT
QUARTERS Of
SERA OFFICES
Mayor Anderson Announces
Plans For New Building To Be
Erected Opposite Court House.
ESTIMATE COST 100000
Structure To Be Used Jointly
By City And County To House
Departments.

Ell Centro's long awaited and
much needed city hall appears to
be on the verge of reality and with
out cost to the city, according TO
an announcement made by Mayor
Charles E. Anderson this morning.
This announcement follows a spe-
cial meeting of the city council on
Saturday during which the whole
question was discussed and ap-
proved by the board.
The new building which will
contain all city offices and also
some county offices which have
until the present found crowded
quarters in the court house, will be
sponsored by both the county and
city and funds for its construction
are to be supplied by SERA.
At Saturdays special meeting
the council was informed that the
government has set aside about
$24000,000 which is to be used by
the SERA to pay for labor and
material for building purposes in
California this winter. 1t was fur
ther indicated that each city in
the valley is to share in this build
ing program with city halls or other
needed public buildings being erect
ed.
The building fer FL Centre is to
be located on property directly
across from the court house on
Main street. This property belongs
half to the city and half to the
county and it is proposed to erect
the building in such a way that
the offices occupied by the city
forces will be on the city's proper
ty while the county offices will be
on county property. Both the
county and city will join in ex-
penseS attendant upon the upkeep.
Plans at present call for a 200
Continued On Page ~
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
SAYS he WAS
IN NEW YORK
MAR. |, 1882
Wife Supports Sworn Story He
Was Not In New Jersey When
Lindbergh Baby Stolen.
ESCORTED HER TO HOME
State Hints 1t Has Witnesses
Who VIII Break Down Claim
OF Accused.

NEW YORK. Oct. Is. WP)-
Bruno Richard Hauptmann and
his faded blonde wife, Anna, swore
in supreme court today that Haupt-
mann was at his home in New
York en- the night the Lindbergh
baby was kidnapped and murdered
in the Sourland mountains Of New
Jersey.
The man charged with murder
ing the baby testified in his own
defense at hearing before E. L.
Hammer, supreme court justice
who was asked by defense counsel
fer writ Of habeaS corpus 70
prevent eXtradition of Hauptmann
to New Jersey.
Pale and sometimes confused by
questions, the prisoner said he
spent March /, 1882, looking for
work in New York and in the eve
ming he called for his wife at the
Bronx bakery where she worked
and they went home and to bed.
Mrs. Hauptmann swore to the
same story. Defense Counsel James
Fawcett intimated he might intro
duce still another witness to testl-
ty that Haupmann was in New
York at the time the infant son OF
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
Was kidnapped.
Attorney General David 7. Will
entz of New Jersey also limited that
he had an ace IN the hole and that
the appearance of his witness would
depend on what was teStltled IN
behalf OF Hauptmann.
All of the morning session wit
nesSeS were called by Hauptmann's
attorney and Wilentz was reluctant
to call any who would disclose
his evidence, unless such action be-
came necessary to his demand for
eXtradition.
The only other witnesses at the
morning session were Christian
Frederiksen, who ran the bakery
where Mrs. Hauptmann worked
and his wife, Kate Frederiksen.
Hesitantly, and frequently con-
fused by Wilentz' rapier-like ques-
tons, both Frederiksens sought to
support the Hauptmann alibi but
we're unable to say positively that
Hauptmann called for his wife on
the night of the kidnapping.
They insisted that he usually
called for her on Tuesday nights
when she was working, but they
could not say positively that he
called on Tuesday, March /, 1882.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
CAP0NE LOSES
COURT DAT TIE
Continued On Page A.

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is. (U.P) -
Al Capone today lost probably his
last plea for liberty from tle fed
eral penitentiary where he is sery-
ing 10 years of the IL years of SEN
tence imposed on him in Chicago
for failing to pay his income taxes.
The supreme court, to which the
premier of Chicago gangdom car
ried his fight for release, turned q
deaf ear to his habeaS corpus fight
which was begun while he was still
in Atlanta penitentiary and which
he lost in two lower courts. Capone
was recently transferred to Alcatraz
prison in San Francisco bay.
Except for a petition for rehear.
ing. a generally futile gesture, the
ruling closed any possible avenue
which Capone has left to gain his
release until he becomes eligible for
parole.
The plea which Capone presented
TO the court today is based on le-
gal technicality involving the sta
tute of limitations as applied to in
come tax cases.
In ordinary federal offenses, the
perpetrator may not be indicted
more than three years after the al
legged crime; in cases of fraud ON
the government however. the sta
tute has been extended to six
years.
The alleged offenses which sent
Capone behind the bars Of the fed
eral penitentiary grew out OF his
failure to file an income tax return
for the years 1925. 1926 and 1927.
The government claimed that be-
cause he failed to make a full in.
come tax return for those years,
Capone had defrauded the govern
ment and the six year limit on pro-
secution applied.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
NOTED FRENCH
LEADER DEAD
Brief Illness Fatal To Raymond
POincare, War Time President
Of France.
By RALPH HEINZEN
United Press Staff COrresp0ndeI

OHlteu fFesS StdII correspondent
PARIS, Oct. 15.-Raymond Poin-
care, Frances war time president
died today.
He had been i'll since he resigned
from his third tenure of office as
premier in 1929, but death came
swiftly. 1t was announced yesterday
that he was slightly i'll. Last night
he slept fitfully, became worse
around midnight and died at a.
m. today.
The death of Poincare, called the
savior Of the franc for his stabili-
2ation of the currency when he was
called tC the prime ministry for the
third time in 1926, deprived France
of a second great statesman within
q week.
Louis Barthou, foreign minister,
who was assassinated at Marseille
with King Alexander, was buried
Saturday.
Poincare served his country for
more than so of his IA years. He en-
tered the chamber of deputies, al
ready prominent as an editor, in
1887 and from then on was CEN
trail figure in politics.
In 1929, honored and III even
higher esteem than when he was
president, he was forced to resign
as premier because of illness.
He returned 10 Paris in Septem-
Der after spending the summer at
Sampigny. He seemed greatly i'm.
proved, and resumed work on his
long awaited political autobiog-
raphy in which he had reached the
early postwar stage. This book was
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
FL CENTRO TO GET CITY HALL WITHOUT cos
1auptmann Offers Ahbi AS Proof Of Innocence
SUCCESS OF FALL OPENING FIESTA
ASSURED BY CHANGE IN WEATHER

Of these establishments and mer-
chandise tickets are given cut with
each purchase in the Cox Bros.
store in addition to the stores
Of nearly every other downtown
merchant. Another addition 20
this list is the California Frock
Shop.
Parade Growing
Bob Marshall S parade commit
tee of the Junior chamber of COM
merce is holding meeting to per-
feet last minute details for the
parade, this will be in conjunction
with the regular Junior chamber
meeting to be held this evening.
The different divisions of the
parade will form Friday night on
the short streets west of Eighth
street and facing on Main. The
parade will form at 7 O'Clock and
move promptly at tbs o'clock.
According to Marshall the place
of each group of the parade will be
announced by him in day or two.
This mornings new entrants in
Fall Opening parade are:
Imperial Valley Chiropractic as
sociation.
Ell Centro Beauty Shoppe
Paul Pace
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Co.
Pioneer Storage & Service Garage
Puritus Distilled Water Co.
r. L. Palmer
Ritz Flower Shop
Desert Oil Co.
C. r. Cheney Co.
Siler Typewriter and Adding
Machine agency
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15

"Good fortune always smiles on
Ell Centro,' said w. T.. Tyler, Jr,
president of the chamber OF COM
merce. ''In 80 years, from time
to time, Imperial Valley has been
beset with difficulties. Always she
has come through smiling and tri-
umphant.
Merchants of Imperial Valley,
making preparations for Friday IS
Fall Opening, were little dubious
about showing fall fashions and
fall styles and winter furs with the
high thermometer which prevailed
last week. Tyler said, 'yet a
beneficent providence realizing the
plight of Ell Centro business men,
sent us a strong west wind, and
without a doubt in Ell Centro win
ter has come, and our 1884 Fall
Opening is an assured success. "
Each day new entries come into
the chamber of commerce for the
Fall Opening parade, particularly
from the schools. Many clever
ideas will be introduced in the
floats which will convey the can
didates for the Queen of Autumn
contest
Daily the receiving departments
of the downtown stores are over
burdened with packages of new
merchandise to be placed on ex-
hibition Friday. 1t is certain that
Ell Centro IS show windows and the
interior of its stores will be sur
passingly beautiful en- that night
Almost every retail establishment
in the city is giving out tickets for
merchandise. The name of Cox
Bros has been added to the list
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-15
Planes Prepare
For Long Race

MILDENHALL, Eng, Oct. IS. U.P)
Twelve airplanes were at Milden-
hall airdrome today for the Eng
land-Australia air race which
starts Saturday An additional II
plane crews were granted extension
of time in which to get planes here
for inspection. The time limit eX-
pired Saturday.
Col. Roscoe Turner, Clyde Pang-
born, Miss Jacqueline Cochran and
Lieut.. Col Hutchinson. American
entrants, were granted extensions.