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Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
WIFE SOUGHT
IN DEATH Of
ACCOUNTANT 7

HOLLYWOOD, March &c. UP
A statewide teletype message was
broadcast by police today, calling
for the detention of the widow OF
Eric D. Madison, 40 year old mo-
ton picture accountant, whose bull
let-pierced body was found in their
apartment nearly "a hours after he
was believed to have been killed.
Search for the widow, Nellie Mad
ison, was inspired by reports of a
neighbor that she left the apart
ment alone shortly after dawn yes
terday after pinning a do not dis
turb' sign on the door.
The sign was obeyed until Mrs.
Belle Bradley, apartment house
manager, became alarmed at the
prolonged stiffness in the Madison
suite and entered to find the huS-
bands body sprawled on the bed.
Death was caused by six bullet
wounds.
From other tenants in the build
ing, police learned that six revolver
shots exploded in rapid succession
late Saturday night. The disturb
ance created near-panic. Tenants
fled into the street but their fears
were allayed when they became con-
vinced the shots came from a film
studio which adjoins the apartment
house.
Mrs. Bradley told officers that
Mrs. Madison joined the others in
the hallway Like the others she
expressed beWilderment at the
source Of the gunfire, it was said
1t was hours later, the landlady
said, that she observed Mrs. Madi-
son leaving the apartment with a
package under her arm. She drove
away in her husbands coupe.
In the teletype messages calling
for Mrs Madison's detention, inveS-
tigatorS described her as an attrac-
tive brunette, about 80 years old.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
AUSTRIA WILL
TRY OUT NEW
FASCIST PLAN
BY ROBERT II. BEST
PreSc STAFF CnrreSnnnd

United Press Staff Correspondent
VIENNA, March 26-Austria to-
day entered its last week as re-
public.
Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss
planned next Sunday, on the occa-
sion of Easter, to promulgate the
long promised constitution to make
the country Fascist cooperative
state for which Prince Starhemberg
and his heimwehr followers have
been working and supporting the
little Napoleon
The constitution has not been
completed even now but its con-
tents are roughly known and the
semi-official Reichspost made a
forecast of some of its final features
which indicate the extent to which
Dollfuss and Starhemberg are pre-
pared to adopt Italian Fascist me-
thods.
Principally there will be a consol-
idation of power in the federal gov
ernment of what is to be the feaeral
state of Austria.
Now the country is the Austrian
republic.
There are to be two cooperative
bodies, one advisory, the other leg
iSlative. But as in Italy, where the
last chamber of deputies as such
was elected yesterday, the right TO
issue new laws will be vested in the
government, and the cooperative
bodies will have no real power.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
BRAIN TRUST
QUIZ PLANNED

WASHINGTON, March 26. W.P)-
Rep. Alfred L. Bulwinkle, Dem, N.
c., introduced in the house today a
resolution calling for a congress
sional investigation of charges that
members of the brain trust" were
plotting theoVerthroW of the gov
ernment.
The charges allegedly made by
DR.. William A. Writ, Gary, Ind, ed
ucator were read into the records of
the house interstate commerce COM
mittee by James H. Rand, Jr., dur
ing a hearing on the new stock
market control bill
The BulWinkle resolution author
ICES Speaker Henry T. Rainey to ap-
point five members of the house to
conduct a thorough investigation of
the truth or falsity of the state
mentS credited to Writ.
The statement, the resolution said,
contended that certain employees
of the United States or other indi-
vidualS were attempting or would
attempt to prolong suffering, deSti-
tuition and misery among the people
of the United States; that they were
attempting or would attempt to
thwart the program of national re-
covery in the United States: thai
they were attempting or would at
tempt to overthrow the social order
in order that a revolution might be
brought about in the United States,
and that. such employees or other
individuals were attempting to in
fluence the President of the United
States to take action contrary to
the general welfare and his consti-
tutional duties"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
JULIAN'S FUNERAL EXPENSES
TO BE BORNE BY HIS FRIENDS

made him one of the best dressed
men on the Pacific coast. Efforts
to recoup his finances here met
with setbacks. An attempt to tap
a supposed cache in the United
States failed. 9sRgTg
These circumstances, piling rap
idly one on top of another. de-
pressed the usually gay Julian.
Convinced he had lost the magic
touch" which had won him sew
eral fortunes, he turned toward
heavy drinking. Unable to rest, he
took to the use of sleeping potions.
Harassed and morose he took the
way out he had indicated once he
might choose, according to his
friends.
Courtney Charles Julian cut a
brilliant figure in the boom days"
of California and Oklahoma oil be-
fore his empire collapsed. He was
a drab worker in California oil
field when he made his first pro-
motional plunge and succeeded be-
yond his greatest expectations.
Twice more he erected promo
tional empires. The last was in
Oklahoma. Federal authorities
questioned the methods Julian had
used. A grand jury investigation
resulted in indictments. He was
arrested but he jumped his bail in
February, 1888.
The chase for Julian began. He
fled into Canada, his native land.
lCOntinue6 On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
NALKOUT Of
MEN AVOIDED
BY PRESIDENT
New Era In Relations OF Capt.
tai And Labor Opened By
Agreement At Washington.
NEITHER SIDE VICTORIOUS
Collective Bargaining Right
Acknowledged And Arbitra-
ton Board Created.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 26. - A
peace negotiated at the White House
out of the war clouds of threaten
ing strike and dissension reigned to-
day in the automotive industry.
1t was hoped by the President to
mark new era of relations be-
tween capital and labor
The settlement averted a major
industrial crisis involving the walk
out of $4,000 men and severe set
back to the Presidents recovery
program.
In the place of paralysis which it
was feared would spread to other
great industries, agreement was
reached in the words of President
Roosevelt to "a pioneer effort in
human engineering on a basis never
before attempted.
The terms of the settlement go
beyond immediate conflict over the
rights of employees to bargain COL
lectively. They contain the nucleus
of a system described by the Presi-
dent as "a kind of works council in
industry" and insert a human fac
tor as the first to be considered in
seasonal employee layoffs.
Principles of the agreement:
/. Non-discrimination by employ
erS in treatment of union employees.
2. Creation of board to pass on
questions of representation, discrim-
ination, and discharge.
3. Acknowledgement of labor's
right to collective bargaining with
representatives of their own chooS-
ing. Collective bargaining represen-
tation to be on a pro rata member
ship basis.
4 Board to have access to all pay
rolls and to all lists of claimed en-
ployee representation.
5. Principle of need for work to
be first consideration in reducing or
increasing plant forces.
No Victory Involved
Credit for settlement of the con-
troverSy was given by both sides To
President Roosevelt.
As the starting point in the set
tlement both capital and labor
agreed to a re-statement of the ia
nous Section Ia of the recovery
act clearly stating labor's right to
CONTINUED On Page g.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26

Through the generosity and un-
selfishness of officers and mem
bers of Yuma lodge of Elks, I'M
perial Valley Elks will have an
opportunity Wednesday night tc
greet Walter F. Meiser, grand eX-
alted ruler of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of ElkS in a joint
meeting to be held in the rooms of
Ell Centre lodge.
Exalted Ruler Meier was sched
uled to pay an official visit to
Yuma lodge on Wednesday, At the
suggestion of Judge R. I. Winn,
district deputy grand exalted rul-
er for Arizona, the grand eX-
alted ruler was requested to change
the place of meeting to Ell Centro,
thereby permitting the three I'm
perial Valley lodges to participate
in extending a greeting to the
highest official in Elkdom.
Yuma lodge will participate in
the local meeting its entire mem
beship having declared its in
tentlon to come to the valley for
the occasion.
Exalted Ruler Meier will leave
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
DR.. McCarty Dies
At Coast Home

Death, due to a heart attack,
claimed DR.. I. A. McCarty, IS, al
his home 1864 West Adams street,
Los Angeles, Friday afternoon &C
cording to word which reached here
today. Death occurred at 5 o'clock
as DR.. McCarty was sitting in his
chair. His wife had left him for a
few moments and upon her return
found him dead.
Deceased is a brother of G. T.
McCarty and uncle of Leslie Nc
Connell, both residents of El Gen.
tro. Funeral services will be held in
the McCaIty Memorial Christian
Church, Los Angeles. donated
through the generosity of the doc
tor and his wife, tomorrow morn
ing, with interment following in a
crypt at Englewood Leslie McCon-
mel is to be one of the pallbearers
at the funeral.
DR.. McCarty had visited in the
valley several times.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
JURY |ND|CTS
RECEIVER Of
OIL COMPANY
W. c. McDuffie Charged With
Numerous Violations OF NR.A
Petroleum Code.

LOS ANGELES, March 26. UP)-
The federal grand jury today re-
turned two indictments charging
William C. McDuffie, receiver for
the Richfield Oil company; the
Shell Oil company and an alleged
subsidiary with violation of the
MIRA petroleum code.
The indictments followed on the
heels of other true bills voted Fri
day which accused the Standard Oil
company, the Associated Oil COM
pany, alleged subsidiaries and Al Of
ficers and directors of similar Of
fenSeS.
McDuffie was charged, as receiver
for Richfield, with selling one grade
of its gasoline through its purported
subsidiary, the Rocket Oil company,
under a different brand at a lower
price.
The indictment, directed only
against the receiver, embodied 105
counts, one count for each day the
alleged offense occurred.
Inc Snel Oll company was
named in 1876 counts of an indict-
ment. Thirteen officials of the firm
were charged with selling Shell gas
cline under different brand and at
a lower price through its alleged
subsidiary, the Guardian Oil COM
pany.
Those named in addition to the
blanket indictment returned against
the Shell and Guardian company,
described as officers and directors
of the concerns, were j. V. Van Eek,
G. Leigh Jones, S. Felither, E. l..
Miller, d. Higgie, E. F.. Davis, John
w. Stair, A. E. Lacomble, A. r.
Bradley D. Tycel, Richard Arrey,
Continued On Page g.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
Voters Support
Mussolini Plan

ROME, March 26. UR)-Italian
voters, turning out in great num-
bers to register their support of
Premier Benito Mussolini elected a
chamber of deputies whose main
function will be to arrange its own
death.
The new chamber, reforming the
constitution as regards the parlia-
mentary system, will vote its own
death and the birth of the guild
economic legislature, in which cate
gories of sections of the national
life will carry on the work of the
state, substituting direct personal
interest and expert knowledge for
party politics.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
SPEED PROMISED ON CANAL WORK
Dr. Mead Says Construction Can Start Day
After Bids Are Accepted.

WASHINGTON, March 26. U.P)
Work on the $27,0OO,OOO ALL
American canal in the Imperial
Valley of California, can start
within one day after the contract
for initial construction is awarded
Commissioner of Reclamation DR..
Elwood Mead said today.
Bids for preliminary work on
the project will be asked "early
in April" Mead said, and ten
tative plans call for the opening
May Is, at Yuma, Ariz.
Everybody has been waiting for
this work." Mead said. "The con-
tractors who want to participate
have prepared their plans and
should be ready to start at a mo-
ment's notice"
The comptroller general recently
released $6,0O0,0O0 to the reclama-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26

ton bureau which had been allotted
by the public works administration
to help finance construction of
the canal. Previously, it had been
impossible to ask for bids due to
legal controversies.
Under revised plans the call for
initial bids will stipulate, Mead
said. that construction shall start
at short distance below the In
perial diversion dam and extend
through the sand hills, making
the canal considerably longer than
was contemplated in original plans.
Other conditions, Mead said will
be outlined by the chief engineer
at Denver. Contractors submitting
bids must post a bond and shall
have had sufficient experience to
justify their participation in the
work, Mead pointed out.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26

SHANGHAI, March &c. U.P) -
A grave in Chinas alien soil to-
day awaited the body of Courtney
Charles Julian, fugitive American
promoter whose suicide here led a
beautiful supper companion to at
tempt a similar death.
While friends of the Canadian
born farm boy who thrice in an
erratic career carved SiZebale for
tunes from promotional schemes
sought funds for his burial, doctors
labored to prolong the life of 10
year old Lenora Levy, Shanghai
girl who drained a draught of the
same poison which killed Julian.
The girl, exodic figure in Julian's
last hours, was believed out of
danger Prompt medical attention
was said to have saved her from
the death she sought when her
companion in an intimate midnight
supper in a Bund hotel uneXpect-
edly put an end to his own spec
tacular career.
British authorities took charge
of the body of the man whom the
United States vainly sought for
trial on charges of using the mails
to defraud in his last promotional
scheme. Friends indicated that
they would bury him here Tuesday
unless relatives from the northern
continent indicated other
wishes.
G. G. Julians last hours were
beset with increasing financial diff
ficulties. The man who once
thought little of spending $25,O00
for a single nights gaiety was
in debt, long past the
stage of his last dime" Hotels
held for unpaid bills most of the
elaborate wardrobe which had
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
County School
Funds Arrive

The county treasurer's office has
received notice Of the arrival of the
state school funds which will be
turned over TO George Varney. coun-
ty treasurer, on Tuesday, March 81,
placed in the school funds and then
apportioned by the county superln-
tendent's office.
From the state salary fund, S28.-
92796 was received for the elemen-
tary schools, and S7,0432l for the
high school.
From the state general fund. S28.-
927.96 was received for the clemen-
tary schools and Si408642 for the
high schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
Flax GroLDers
Will Organize

Study of proposed organization
setup relative to flax growers
cooperative association occupied
the committee of growers who met
this afternoon with c. G. Halliday,
deputy district attorney.
The set-up will be presented to
a meeting of growers at 10 a. m. on
April 3, when F.. r. Wilcox, extern
sion specialist in this line, will be
present.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
Roosevelt Plans
To Go Fishing.

WASHINGTON, March 26. U.P)
With the critical automobile sit
uation out of the way, President
Roosevelt will leave tomorrow night
for a brief fishing trip off the
Florida coast
The railroad wage question re-
mains to be settled but no acute
time element is involved and ne
gotiations were proceeding smooth
ly today in the hands of Joseph
B. Eastman, rail coordinator.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
VETS BILL UP
TO PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, March 26.
UR)-COngress passed the high
ly controversial federal pay cut
and veterans compensation
question on to the President to-
day when the house concurred
in miner senate amendments to
the independent offices bill.
There was no record vote.
Earlier the senate agreed, 48
to 80, to accept the Taber
amendments to the bill which
restored veterans cOmpensations
to within rs per cent of the
amount former service men re-
ceived before the economy act
of 1888.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
Giant Telescope
Glass Completed

CORNING, N. Y, March 26. U.P)
The glass reflector for the world S
largest telescope, by means of which
scientists hope to wiring new sec
rets from distant spaces of the uni
verse, was placed in an annealing
oven today to be cooled
Several minor mishaps occurred
during the pouring at the Corning
Glass Works yesterday, but DR.. John
C. HcStetter, who directed the pro-
cess, did not believe anything had
harmed the mirror. 1t will be 10
months or more, however, before
scientists will be able to say defin-
itely whether the glass was poured
successfully.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26

Much mystery and confusion sur
round jthe reported abduction OF
Dr. Alexander Irvine, Hollywood
and his niece, Miss Lenora Hardin
following a meeting which was to
have been held in Calexico yester-
day afternoon under the auspices
of the American Civil Liberties Un-
ion.
According to a report made to
the sheriff IS office last night, Ir-
vine stated that he and Miss Hardin
were at a meeting in Calexico yes
terday afternoon. Some vigilantes
told them to leave town so they
started walking north on the high
way. A Mexican picked them up
Just outside the CaleXico city limits
and took them to Heber.
Here, the report continues, two
cars stopped them and forced one
into each car Irvine was taken to
Dry Lake, between Kane Springs
and Julian and put out of the car
at that spot. Shortly afterwards
G. L. ConnerS, Santa Ana, came
along and gave Ervine ride to the
Brawley police station. The lat
ter refused to make a statement or
file any complaint against his alb
ductorS
Miss Hardin is said to have tele-
phoned him in BraWley and the
sheriff's office from an Ell Centro
drugstore at $50 O'Clock last night
and at 10:30 Chester Williams called
the sheriff's office from Los An
geles demanding that Ernest Bessig
who went to the CaleXico jail
should be protected from vigilantes.
He' aid that crowd had gathered
about the Calexico Jail and threat
ened to take Bessig from it by
force.
The sheriff's office called the
Calexico police and Guy Echols,
chief of the department, said that
Bessig was in the Jail there but
that there was no danger of his
being mistreated. The report states
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
Long Beach Judge
Found Dead In Bed

LONG BEACH, March 26. U.P)-
Stephen G. Long, SO, presiding
judge of the Long Beach municipal
court, was found dead in his bed
today, apparently the victim of a
heart attack.
Judge Long had been in poor
health lately, but occupied the
bench until last Friday, Deputy
Coroner Arthur 1. Donlip was in
formed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
State And County
Taxes Due NoLU

Second installment of state and
county taxes will become delinquent
after April 20 according to Mont j..
Reid, county tax collector.
Reid points out to taxpayers that
April 20 is the last date on which
current taxes may be paid and the
taxpayers avail themselves of the
1O-installment tax redemption plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
ABDUCTION Of IRVINE AND
MISS HARDIN BRANDED FAKE
BY bRAWLEY CHIEF Of POLICE
American Civil Liberties Union Pair Claim
10 Have Been Kidnapped By Unknown
Parties Near Heber Yesterday Afternoon.

Imperial Valleys latest "kid-
naping,' growing out of its Ia
Dor troubles, and which caused
numerous wild rumOrs to cir
oulate throughout the commun-
ity last night, was today brand
ed a fake, by Lon CrOmer, chief
of police at Brawley.
The supposed kidnapping of
DIR. Alexander Ervine, of Los
Angeles, and his niece. Miss
LeOna Hardin, reported by them
to Cromer and to the sheriff's
office, could not be substantial
ted today by inquiry among var
iOus peace officers, members of
the Imperial Valley Anti Com
munist association, or any other
responsible source.
CrOmer declared there were
too many discrepancies in the
stories told by the pair, who are
members of the American Civil
Liberties Union.
Points which appeared weak
were:
l. Irivine's refusal to make
any complaint, also his STATE
ment that he had not been
beaten or abused.
2. His assertion that he was
picked up near Dry Lake by a
man enroute from Santa Ana to
Imperial Valley, when the ma
tural route for such a trip would
be by way of Highway No. SO.
3. Miss Hardin's telephone
statement after $3.50 last night
that she was calling from a To-
cal drug store, when the drug
store in question closed at 8 o.
clock.
4. Statement of a Brawley
correspondent for news service
that he sent out no dispatches
from Brawley last night, al
though statements dated from
there were carried in morning
papers and credited to the SER
vice he represents.
5. Denial of all peace Off
GERS in the county and of men,
bers of the Imperial Valley An
ti-COmmunist association, that
any kidnapping" had been stag
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-26
@AMllL
R}S2e;

SANTA MONICA, March IS.
(SpeciaD-Been reading all the
Sunday articles by world known
writer's, and they all talk war.
Well, if there is any excuse
for anybody fighting at this
time, it's beyond me. The con-
sensus is that "so-and-so has to
fight so-and-so sooner or later"
Well, I believe if / had to
fight a man sooner or later" l
would fight him later, the later
the better. The only legitimate
reason I can see why Germany
and France must fight is, they
haven't fought in Is years, and
the only reason 1 can see why
U. S. and Japan has to fight is
because We haven't fought be-
fore.
Evening star., 1934-03-11

TOMORROW the Junior League of WASH
ington will place on view in the league
rooms, Connecticut avenue just above Dupont
Circle, examples of arts and craft work by
exhibition conducted by the national organiza-
ton. This local exhibit will continue until
March % and will be followed from March 25
to 81 by the prize winning works from IA dit
ferent cities in this region. Selection will be
made from this exhibition for the national ex-
hibition to be held later on.
A GROUP of drawings by Karl Knaths
u not previously exhibited in Washington
is being shown temporarily at Studio House.
1914 Twenty frs. street.
AN EXHIBITION of pictorial photographs
" by the Associated Bell Telephone Camera
Clubs will be on view during March in the
United States National Museums section Of
photography.
A MEMORIAL exhibition of paintings by
u Carl Melchers for the most part selected
from the exhibition held here early in the VIM
ter in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, opened in
the Telfair Academy in Savannah, Ga, March
2 with q private view and reception. Among
the paintings set forth is Penelope" owned
and lent by the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
T. time conducting 4 class In water color
HpAfltfhe ulf6gr tie aisspices Of theo Teff&ir
Academy. Mr. OHara has recently made
Evening star., 1934-03-11

THE washington Group which, for some
months, has had exhibition rooms and
headquarters in building on Fifteenth street
opposite Meridian Park known as the Seven
Arts Club, is moving at this time to 2633 Six
teenth street, and reorgani1ng. The annual
election and reorganization will take place at
a meeting called for o'clock next Wednesday
afternoon at the new address. Mrs. William
S. King. who is president will preside. Mrs.
George Oakley Totten is vice president.
IN WEDNESDAY evening, March IA,
George Biddle, painter and photographer.
under the auspices of the Washington Society
of the Fine Arts on Mural Painting in the
United States and Mexico" In the field of
art Mr.. Biddle is q unique personality, working
in not two, but several media and producing
not merely paintings, but sculpture, wood
stitchery, Autographs and wood blocks. He
has lived the life of cowboy in the West.
ridden broncos, taken part in rodeos, lived
abroad, copied old masters, came under the
influence of Mary Cassatt and Degas, and
rendered two years service at the front in the
World War. He is at the present time especially
interested in the subject of mural painting and
In the decoration of public buildings. This
will be the last of the series Of five lectures
given under the auspices Of the Warrington
'6Sciety6f the esLiIne tAtts dttink the edrifent
season.