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Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
BOARDS NEAR
AGREEMENT ON
CANAL MATTER

Returning from Los Angeles yes
terday where he attended the con-
ferences between representatives of
the local irrigation district board
of directors and that of the Coach
ella district, Charles l.. Childers,
Imperial district chief counsel left
for Los Angeles again this noon
where he is to have another con-
ference with Arvin B. Shaw, attor-
ney for the Coachella district.
It was learned this morning that
the agreement between the two dis
tricts is now in the process of being
copied by stenographers and it is
this final draft which Childers and
Shaw are to consider at their con-
ference. 1t is possible that it might
be presented finally to the two
boards on Wednesday or Thursday
of this week..
A definite understanding on the
points under discussion has been
reached by the two boards as a re-
suit of the meetings between the
two boards which have been held
during the past few weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
COUPLE HELD
AS KIDNAPERS

BALTIMORE, Feb. IL. lU.H -
Basil Hugh Banghart, alleged jail
breaker and kidnaper was ques-
toned today in an attempt by
authorities to obtain confession
that he participated in the kid
naping of John Factor at Chicago.
Bsnghart was arrested here while
attempting to drive away in his
automobile after learning police and
federal agents were waiting for him
in his apartment. He refused to
talk.
Also arrested we're May Davis,
with whom he had been living
under the names of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. E. Stewart; Mrs. Jessie Touhy,
whose brother in law, Roger Touhy.
has been named as a public enemy
in Chicago; and Isaac CoStner.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
POLICE ORDER
CULT INQUIRY

LOS ANGELES, Feb. IL. U.P)-A
"temple of cult was being invest
igated today by police in response
to the complaint of a San Fran
cisco civil engineer that his wife
and four children were lured into
a weird trap of "'spiritual love. -
Mrs. Muriel Bertson Wallace, 33,
former chorus girl, who purported-
ly accepted three "husbands as
prescribed by the cult leader was
removed from the cult IS headquar-
ters and together with her child
ren placed in a county home.
Information leading to police
questioning of several members of
the group was supplied by San
Francisco police through Mrs. Wal
lace's husband, William M. Wal
lace.
The strange workings of the cult
according to police, volve q
speaking with tongues as inter
preted by young and bearded cult
I leader and promiscuouS soul-mat-
ing'.
Police said they we're told Mrs
Wallace was forced to accept three
husbands who adopted the terms
brothers, in their relations with
feminine members.
Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Thelma
Allen, also of San Francisco, were
said to have been induced TO join
the cult by woman evangelist -
who went to their homes and con-
verted them to the strange tenets
that women and children should
"be taken away from ungodly men
and placed with men who serve
Cod Mrs. Allen left her children
at home but Mrs. Wallace brought
hers to Los Angeles. They have
been here since January IL.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
Traylor Making
Fight For Life

CHICAGO, Feb. IL W,P)-Medical
science stood aside today and
watched Melvin A. Traylor, presi-
dent of the first national bank.
fight off the ravages OF a rare
and usually fatal form OF pncu-
monia.
Traylor was said to be so criti-
cally i'll that he was beyond the
help of his physicians. The banker
was rallying slowly from the sixth
relapse of a month long fight, In
which his life was despaircd of
several times.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
PETITIONS ASK
MORE LIBERAL
LIQUOR LAWS

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IL. U.H
Sponsors of initiative petitions
providing changes in the state liq-
uor laws claimed today to have
100000 signatures, 10000 more than
necessary.
Don V. Nicholson, manager of
the Northern California business
council, said that the petitions
would be filed Feb. 10.
The changes proposed under the
leadership of Nichols organization
and the Southern California BuSi-
ness Mems association, represent
ed by Byron Hanna, Los Angeles,
included Provisions to permit the
sale of Intoxicating liquors by the
drink in bona fide places with or
without meals.
Liquor by the drink was available
in many eating places at present,
due to reported confusion over the
state law. The state board of equal
ization, indicating that such sales
were illegal, repeatedly was with
holding rigid enforcement pending
a state supreme court decision.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
COAST PRIEST
NAMED BISHOP

ReV. ROBERT EmmeI Lucey, rector
of ST Anthony's church, Long
Beach, Calf, was appointed bishop
of Amarillo, Tex, today.
LONG BEACH, Caln, Feb. IL.
U.P)-The Rev. Robert Emmett Lu-
cey, named bishop of Amarillo,
Tex, today by Pope Plus XI, is
widely known in California for his
activities as a welfare worker.
Father Lucey, who is Al, was
named to the state board of char
tiles seven years ago by Gov. Friend
w. Richardson. He resigned last
year.
He was born in Los Angeles. In
1916 he was graduated from the
North American college in Rome
with the degree of doctor of sacred
theology. He returned and studied
for the ministry at Menlo Park,
Calf. In 1925, he was made chap
hahn of the Newman club of the
University of California at Los An
geleS.
Father Lucey came here in May
1929, from St Kevin IS church OF
Los Angeles, to succeed Rev John
j. Hegarty, now dean of the Sar
Diego and Imperial Valley dis
trictS.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
Insane Slayer
To Stand Trial

LOS ANGELES, Feb. II. U.P) =
Discharged as sane from the state
hospital for the insane at Ukiah,
Edwin Davis, slayer of E. Gail Pat
terson. newspaper executive, will be
brought back TO Los Angeles to face
a charge of murder.
Arrested after he had killed Pat
terson, general manager of The IL
lustrated Daily News, Davis pleaded
not guilty and not guilty by reason
of insanity. On motion of counsel,
he was declared insane before 60
ing to trial and taken to Ukiah.
With his discharge there. the
murder charge was revived
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
RHEBA LOSES
TRAFFIC ROW

LOS ANGELES, Feb. II (U.P)-
The oratory of Rheba Crawford
Splivalo that once SWayed New York
crowds failed TO impress police pros
ecutors when she faced a night in
Jail for refusing to sign a traffic
citation, police records revealed to-
day.
The one-time CANCEL of Broad
way' and present California state
welfare director was asked to sign a
traffic tag by Officer c. o. Harris
when he found her parking in "a
red zone near Angelus temple
where she is serving as temporary
pastor. She refused, declared she
was given permission to park there
by TIE secretary of the police chief.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
COCK FIGHTERS ARRESTED

LOS ANGELES, Feb. -. U.P) -
Twenty-eight men were under ar
rest here today in connection with.
a cockfight which was disrupted
when Sergeant Sidney Sweetnam
and his police vice squad invaded
back yard barnlot. More than
hundred spectators were shout
ing excitedly at two cocks, fight
ing with spurs, when the raiders
arrived. The officers seized 80
fighting cocks and 25 sets of spurs.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
Filipino Stabbed
During Quarrel

AS a result of a quarrel on the
Gillespie ranch, four miles south
east of Holtville yesterday, Leo San
tiago was treated at the county
hospital for a cut on the throat.
According to the report made the
sheriff office the wound was not
considered serious at the hospital.
The report states that Santiago
had trouble with George Gabina,
another Filipino who is alleged to
have stabbed him. 1t is expected
that complaint against Gabina
might be signed by Santiago charg-
ing assault.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
Two Injured In
Airplane Crash

LOS ANGELES, Feb. II. (U.P) -
Robert Weller, %, Alhambra Ii
oensed pilot. was reported in crit
ical condition today after his air.
plane struck power line anc!
crashed in a forced landing near
Sunland, local suburb. He suffered
a fractured skull. Miss Evelyn
Lawson, 21, of Los Angeles, Weller g
passenger, received a fractured leg.
In a second plane crash, two uni
Identified flyers escaped injury VIXEN
their ship struck telephone pole
in a takeoff near Whittier. They
fled before Investigators arrived.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
La.U Enforcement
Officer Named

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10. U,P)-
Michael Connolly, former chief in
vestigator for the state board of
equalization, was appointed today
chief in charge of enforcement Of
liquor laws in Southern California.
Connolly will be placed above
district officers as to liquor enforce
ment, it was announced, but sales
tax enforcement will remain under
the jurisdiction of district leaders.
The new office was created,
Connolly said, in order to coordinate
the work in the four Southern Cal
ifornia districts and insure uni
form enforcement of the law.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
STORK AHEAD
DURING MONTH

The new year got off to fine
start in the vital statistics field.
the report of DR.. Warren F. Fox.
;ity health officer, for January,
showing 18 births during the month
against three deaths.
Twelve boys were born during
the month. and only half that num-
Der of girls. Five of the girls were
white, and one was of Filipino birth.
The u boys included six whites,
three Mexican, two Negro and one
Japanese.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
FINE IMPOSED
ON CENTER Of
A|RMA|L ROW
MacCracken Held In Contempt
OF District OF Columbia Su-
preme Court.
REARRESTED BY SENATE
Filming Judge Grants New Writ
Of Habeas Corpus Which Is
Temporarily Ineffective.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL. U.P)-
William P. MacCracken, Jr., Toov-
er administration assistant secre-
tary of commerce, was fined $l00
today for contempt of court and
was arrested and taken before the
bar of the senate on charges of
contempt of its air mail investigat-
ing committee
The fine was paid and Mac
Cracker was Immediately arrested
en- the original senate warrant
charging him with contempt of tie
senate.
MacCracken efforts to keep
from being brought before the sem
ate came to naught when Justice
O'Donoghue found him guilty of
contempt of District of Columbia
court. This followed the judge IS
decision that MacCracken had OBJ
tanned writ of habeaS corpus by
Misrepresentation.
MacCracken, now an attorney for
several air lines, was accused of
permitting removal of records
wanted in the mail contract in
quiry. The senate chi,rged llim
Will COiltSIIlpt ldoU HCCh. ndC-
Crackcn defied the senate'S auth
ority and warrant was issued for
him.
MacCracken tried to have him.
self arrested while the senate was
in recess over the weekend. He
hoped then to obtain freedom on
the writ of habeaS corpus and thus
prevent the senate from getting
jurisdiction over him.
But Justice O'Donoghue held
that the fact he had presented
himself to senate sergeant alarms
did not constitute arrest and that
therefore the writ was invalid.
As soon as. the fine for contempt
had been paid, Jurney arrested
MacCracken in the marriage IL
ccnSe bureau at the courthouse and
took him to the senate before he
could obtain another writ.
MacCracken and his counsel,
Frank j. Hogan, appeared in ill
humor as they took seats in the
front of the senate chamber.
Republican Senate Leader Nc
Nary called attention to the all
sence of two Republican members
of the air mail investigating COM
mittee-Senators Austin, Vermont,
and White, Maine. Chairman Black
of the committee said he regretted
tteir absence but insisted the pro-
Ceedings be startel forthwith
Vice-PreSident Garner read the
senate citation against MacCrack-
en-. Hogan then presented state
ment in behalf of his client. Hogan
informed the senate his clients only
defense would be the contention
that TIE senate had no constitution
al authority to try the case.
This is proceeding beyond the
power of this honorable body" Ho-
gan said For that reason we make
no requests nor offer any sugges-
tions of procedure"
MacCracken stared glumly at the
green senate carpet while a clerk
read tie evidence against him. Oc-
casionally he leaned over to whis-
per to Hogan.
After Hogan made his statement,
all the testimony before the Black
committee relating to MacCracken
was read This took considerable
time.
While MacCracken was listening
to this, Justice O'Donoghue issued
a new writ of habeas corpus for
MacCracken. 1t was understood
However, that nothing could be done
to make it effective and free Mac
Cracken from custody of the senate
SO long as he remained in the SEN
ate chamber
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
OUTLAWS WidoU
Attends Funeral

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Feb. II.
UP) - Under heavy guard Mrs.
Verne Sankey was removed from
county jail today to attend funeral
services for her husband Verne,
outlaw who hanged himself in
prison here.
Mrs. Sankey, charged by federal
officers with aiding her husband
in tn kidnapping of Charles Boet-
tcher. II, of Denver, was to have
but a brief respite from her prison
life. AS soon as the services were
completed in a chapel here, guards
were ready to return her to her
cell
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
Lettuce Prorate
Rules Announced

This week. IS lettuce shipments
will follow the regulations laid
down for last week by the valley
pro-rating committee.
The number of cars to be ship
ped each day is not to exceed $50
and the same rules and regula-
tions governing the amount to be
shipped by the individual are in
force.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
BY ROBERT BEST
United Press Staff Correspondent

VIENNA, Austria, Feb. 12.-(By
telephone via Berlin and London)--
Machine guns and light artillery
blazed in Austria today when a
revolutionary general strike resulted
in sanguinary fighting, martial law
and a state almost of civil war
AT Linz. a city of 10000 and cap
tai Of upper Austria, between Is
and 25 we're reported killed when
troops turned machine guns against
Socialist headquarters. Rioters BAR
ricaded themselves and bombarded
police and troops with hand gre
nades.
Light artillery was used at the
Danube shipyards against workers
| barricaded there. Martial law was
effective in Vienna, Linz and all of
upper Austria.
The SCciaIiSJA, striking against
the government program of creating
a Fascist state along Italian lines,
boasted that they had plentiful
stores of arms and ammunition.
There was wild disorder in Vien-
| I'D. ollt pOilCCuldfi Wdo iShVA WV
fatally injured in fighting.
The Socialist strike threatened to
paralyze industry. communications
and power Electric current was
cut off in Vienna and the city was
without lights.
LINZ, Austria. Feb. IL. W.P) -
Hospitals reported between Is and
! 25 dead today in fierce fighting
among Socialist strikers and police
snd soldiers.
Soldiers and police, operating un-
| Ser martial law, fired with machine
| guns on strikers who bombarde1
| chem with hand grenades.
Fighting was general at three
points. Troops captured one head
! quarters of the strikers, the Arbi-
terheim.
Some Socialists retreated TO
nearby mountainside and eE-
trenched themselves for a finish
! fight.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
CITY OFFICIAL KILLED

INGLEWOOD, Calf, Feb. IL. (U.P)
-Arbal Sarles, veteran city coun-
Gilman was killed accidentally, po-
lice believed today when overc me
by gas in a room at his home.
Adria Latta, 35, a guest, was also
overcome but iegained consciousness
in a hospital The gas escaped
from a heater.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
BY RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN


Copyright, 1884, BY United Press
PARIS. Feb. 12.-Premier CASTOR
Doumergue believes that his coun-
try's problems soon will be solved
with the aid of united people.
In an exclusive statement to the
United Press, written as he sat at
his desk in the BRAND room of the
foreign office, the veteran states
man, called from retirement to
form a salvation' government,
expressed his optimism as to
Frances future.
The statement follows:
'Friends of France have been,
I know, painfully moved by the
events of recent days, of which GER
tain reports abroad have been re-
grettably exaggerated as to their
gravity.
~ am of the conviction that
after these difficult moments all
Frenchmen, placing common inter-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12

rioting Of between 100 and $50
VIENNA, Austria, Feb. II. U.P-
(By Telephone via Berlin and Lon
don)-Troops and police with ma
chine guns and artillery battled
Socialist mobs in Austria today,
killing and wounding scores in a
revolutionary general strike aimed
at overthrow of the government.
The death list was estimated un-
officially tonight to have reached
at least As, with an undetermined
number of injured. Official casu-
alties were not announced.
Of the dead, Is fell at Linz, a
city of 10000 and capital of upper
Austria, where Socialists and men,
bers of the banned Schutzbund
semi-military corps battled savage
ly with police. 1t was believed 20
or more fell in Vienna as authori-
ties raked the streets with machine
gun fire and stormed Socialist
strongholds.
Martial law was proclaimed in
Vienna, Linz and Graz, and the
government announced that those
resisting authority would be shot.
The uprising was due to the gov
ernment's drive for the suppression
of Socialists and Nazis in an at
tempt to create Fascist state along
Italian rather than German lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
COMPLETE TRADE PLANS

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL U.P) -
The United States government madc
'inal plans today TO finance pros
)ective heavy foreign trade with
he Soviet Union through organiza-
lion of its capital export-import
bank Of Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
DOUMERCUE ISSUES STATEMENT
French Premier Tells United Press He Is
Optimistic Regarding France

Editors Note: Premier Gas
ton DOumergue, of France, Sc
lccting the United Press as the
medium Of his first statement
since he took office, addressed
a message TO the world today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
mkMiLL-.o
w e.soys:

SANTA MONICA. Feb. II.
(SpeciaD-What's S all the hun
dreds of airplane pilots, and
the thousands of people who
make an honest living in the
airplane business. going to do?
1t IS like finding a crooked rail-
road president, then stopping
all the trains. You are going to
lose some fine boys, in these
army flyers, who are marvel
ously trained in their line, but
not in night country fly
ing, in rain, and snow.
I trust an air line for know
that that pilot has flown that
course hundreds of times. He
knows it in the dark, neither
could the mail pilots do the
army flyer stunts, and his close
formation flying.
I do wish they would prose-
cute the crook, but not make a
great growing industry (Where
80 per cent are hard working
and honesD suffer. I hope they
don't stop every industry,
where they find crookedness at
the top.
Yours,
Mx& Ro71~@
A1aaEMcNamaht SvnIicate Inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-12
SCORES DEAD
IN AUSTRIAN
REVOLU T|ON
Police And Troops Battle To
Check Outbreak Designed To
Overthrow Government.
PROCLAIM MARTIAL LAW
Vienna, Linz And Graz Center
OF Heaviest Fighting Rtsult-
ing From General Strike.

VIENNA, Austria, Feb. IL.
(U.P)-A United Press canvass of
hospitals tonight indicated an
estimated death toll in the days
rioting of between 100 and $50.
, 1934-11-22
FL
PIE. DE I'm
INSTITUTE

DALLAS, Tex, Nov. 22.-tF- II
Sr. Axtell j. Byles de Ia ciudad de
Nueva York. Presidente del Insti-
tuto Americana del Petroleo. quien
* dice que actuara hoy como tes-
tigo principal, en- Ia session final
del SubComite de Ia House Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee." que Sc encuentra investi-
gando las condolences de In Indus
tria petrolera. acerca de sd eS
~neceSaria Ia legislation Federal.
Las heterogeneous que sc hi
cieron a testigoS anteriores, indican
que Byles sera ~interogado acerca de
las razones en- que Sc baSaron las
r~ecientes declaraciones del Institu-
TO. para proponer un plan com
pacto entire los Estad0s para ei con
troll del petroleo. q faltas de una
legislation como Ia propuesta por
Ell Thomas-Disney Bill. NumeroSas
personals que representa- varias
actividades de la industrial. figuran
entire los testigos que Sc presentaran
en- las sesiones finales del SUBJ
comite.
, 1934-11-22
Opiniones Acerca
De Los Deportes

CIUDAD DE MEXICO. Nov. a.
por Ia alta Significacion social que
encierran, a continuation reprodu-
cimos lnJegramente las opiniones
Que los senores general de division
Apelardo L. Rodriguez, Presldente
de la Republica y LAzaro Cardenas
Presidente Electo para el proximo
sexenio emitieron Ell dia de aver al
margen del grandioSo desfile atle-
tico o~rganizado por el Partido Ma
cional Revolucionario para CONNIE
moran Ia proxiTa fecha en- que Sc
inicio nuestro m0vimiento de rel
v~indicacion social.
Dijo textualmente Ell senior Pre-
Eidente Rodriguez: "Opino que es
la primera vez que en- Mexico Sc We
una demonstration de 10 que verda-
deramente signitica ell deporte y
creo que es Ia lorna en que sc VEN
dra a alejar al pueblo de los vicioS
y a contrarrestar los p~rejuicioS del
fanatismo."
FL senior general LAzaro Cardenas
Presidente Electo de Ia Republica
Mexicana expreso por su parte:
mi impression es que los crecidos
contingencies que participaorn en- Ell
desfile Superaron en- realidad a los
que Sc esperaban y que este Sc de-
be al entusiasmo cue Se ha des-
petrado entire el pueblo por ell de-
porte. Me siento alt6mente salts
fecho por ello."
, 1934-11-22

I'm buen prUgrama de . haDra
en- esta ciudad Ell pr6ximo lunes,
q juzgar por FL programa que I'm
aunciado Ell Matchmaker" local,
Ramon Tex" Becerril.
En- Ell programa anunclado se en-
frentaran en- ell e~ncuentro estelar,
ell "Guero" Lopez, uno Gle los me-
joreS pesos "BantamS" de In Re-
publica Mexicana " Earl Lee Caps,
de Memphis, Tennessee. Lopez eS
bien con0cido de Ia aficion local y
del Vale, asi como de Los Altoona
dos de Matamoros. pues todos sus
~encuentros que Ia dado en- esta
region han Sido muy buenoS, sien-
do Ell ultimO uno que soStuv0 con
Kid" Barrilito. the San Antonio,
el cual gano por desicion.
Caps, Segun el record que trae,
e. uno de los "Bantamsp que mas
exito haya tenido en- las regiones
del Este del pals. donde ina ganado
La mayoria de sus encuentr0s. ha-
biendo venid0 a Texas. donde de-
rrot0 q Bobby Gaines v a Chief"
Perry Knowles recientemente. al
sIndi0' Knowles, Segun dice Bece-
rril, le do diez libras dc ventaia en
peso, y lie propino, no ObStante ESQ,
una tremenda golpiza recientemen-
te.
Caps y Lopez pelearan dies
rounds, debiend0 de resultar IN
teresantfstmo este encuentro. pues
Lopez sabe pelear. v p0See un fuer-
te golpe en- ambaS manoS.
Ell encuenfro seminal nos pre-
sentara N Nike Martinez, peso plu-
ma de Nueva Orleans. pero ahora
residente del Vale del Rio Grandel
W al "Zurdiko" Zepeda, de esta
ciudad en- I'M encuentro q ocho
vueltas. Este Is otro de los encuen-
troS que deben de reSultar tnterr-
santes, pues en- el ultino que tn
vieron. en- Ell cuadrilatero de Wes-
laco. Zepeda re vic obligado On dar
Ell e~ncuentro q su c~Ontrari0 debidc
q que este lie abri6 una fea Merida
sobre Ell ojo izquierdo con In cabeza.
Ell encuentro citado es uno Gle los
mejores que ell que escribe estas
llneas ha presenciado. pues ambos
puzzles sc entcontrahan bien, v Ia
pelea fue renidisima-
In Ell evento especial, q SETS
rounds. Sc enfrentaran Chef Houde,
de Donna, Texas y el "Chato" Con-
zalez. de esta ciudzd. Gonzalez v
Houde deberfan Dc presentar IN
1uen encuentru, pues H0ude en ST.
ultim0 pleito en- Wesiaco presento
bonita acci6n, mientras que el
"Chato." se ha conuuistndo TN buen
numero Gle slrnpatias desde que de-
rrot6. pur I'm via del "nocaut" a
Manuel Jaramillo. en- un ring de
Matanoro&. Ealos dos son pesos