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La gaceta., 1934-05-10
INVESTIGATION DE LOS
SUCESOS DEL INSTITU-
TO

Habana, mayo 10.-Por ell
coronel Batista, jefe del ejerci-
to, Sc ha ordenado una investi-
gaci6n de los successes del insti-
tuto.
Estima ell coronel que los es-
tudiantes cuando Sc encuentran
fuera de la Uniyersidad y los
Institutes son como todos los
demas ciudadanos.
La gaceta., 1934-05-10
Alfredo EcheVerriG

ATfTedO EcNeOeF1lU
En- ~afectuosa carta este anna
BILE j6ven me comunica la tras-
mission que por la cadena de la
National Broadcasting hicieran
los cantantes Carlos Spaventa y
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
MRS. BARNETT
WINS DAT TIE:

LOS ANGELES, June 8. U.P)-
Successful in her battle to bury
Jackson Barnett, aged Indian, in
the section where he spent the de-
clining years Of his life, Mrs. Anna
Barnett today announced she would
carry on a last-ditch fight to OBJ
tain a Widows share of his $2,000,-
600 oil estate.
Barnett was buried in Hollywood
cemetery yesterday when federal
authorities abandoned their contest
to have the remains forwarded to
Oklahoma for burial. The widow
wept silently as she stood at the
grave where brief rites were con-
Quoted by the Rev. Frank Gibson,
pastor of st. Anastatius Episcopal
church. She then returned to the
handsome white mansion where
she and her husband lived for more
than a decade.
A contest over the distribution
of his wealth developed two days
after his sudden death last week
when five self-styled nieces and
nephews filed a petition for letters
of administration in a Long Beach
court.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
Tells OF Quarrel
Before Shooting

LOS ANGELES, June 8. U.P) -
Testimony that a quarrel between
Mrs. Nellie Madison and her fifth
husband, Eric Madison, preceded
the fatal shooting of the latter in
their Burbank apartment was Civ
en- today at Mrs. Madison's trial
on murder charges.
Phillip McGuigan, caretaker at
the apartment house where the
shooting occurred, testified that
on the night of Madison's death,
last March "a, Mrs. Madison ZAP
peared to have been very angry
when the two entered the building.
Shortly before midnight shots
were heard, but were attributed to
motion picture production at a
nearby studio. Madison later was
found dead
Mrs. Madison has refused to dis
cuss the shooting but attorneys
indicated a lf-defense case would
be constructed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
Mk R1~~
OIssJ. NsNsurh hf Sya aalesae. Ina
QUAKES FELT
IN CEN TRIAL
STATE AREA

LOS ANGELES, June 8. U.P)-
Two sharp earthquakes that dim
inished in intensity as they rumbled
southwark from central California
left only minor damage in their
wake today.
The shocks occurred II minutes
apart. The first was recorded at
1881 p. m. last night and the Sec
ond, of greater force, came at 8:48
Both were described as moderate"
temblors by seismologists at the
Carnegie laboratories at Caltech.
The quakes appeared to center in
the vicinity of Atascadero, Salinas,
Santa Cruz and Watsonville, 125
miles south of San Francisco.
Theatre patrons at King City, mid
way between here and the Bay
City, were thrown into a near
panic and rushed for the exits.
Houses swayed and plaster cracked
at Atascadero and in Fresno, fur
niture tilted sharply in hotel rooms.
Lompoc residents were alarmed by
deep rumblings that accompanied
the disturbance.
Clocks in the police station at
Bakersfield, inland town, stopped.
A few structures suffered minor
damage. The shocks were barely
felt in some sections of Los An
geles and in most escaped detec-
ton. They were slight also in
Santa Barbara, Ventura and Pasa-
dena.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
DIONNE GIRLS ARE GETTING HEAVY
Quintuplets Gain Total Of Four And One
Half Ounces In Day

third day after a baby was born, "
she explained.
Her disappointment was tempered
however, by optimistic reports of
the babies progress brought to the
bedside. Marie, smallest and weak
est of the infants, confined to a
special incubator, weighed one
pound, 91a ounces when nurses
placed her carefully on the scales
yesterday. The four others, rapidly
gaining strength and weight, lay
side by side in second incubator
sent from Toronto.
DR.. Dafoe, bobbing in and cut of
the Dionne home on his many Wis
its to other patients in this north
woods country, announced the five
had gained a total of Az ounces
over the previous day Yvonne. the
largest, weighed awo pounds 50
ounces; Annette, two pounds Al I;
Emile, two pounds, and Cecile, one
pound 14ia ounces.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
OU|JA BOARD
Staying CASE
NEARING END
Continued On Page 81

ST. JOHNS, Ariz., June Z. U.P)--
With cross examination into her
'private affairs drawing to
close, the trial of intent to murder
charges against Dorothea Irene
Turley, one time international beau-
ty contest winner, is expected TO
end late today or tomorrow.
For two days prosecuting attor-
ney's have pried into her "private
life" story based on an alleged
confession of her daughter, Matte,
l6, which concerned their reported
courtship with two cowboys over
a period of several months.
The charges are the outgrowth of
the death of Ernest Turley, re-
tired naval petty officer. shot last
November by his daughter, after
an ouija board seance. according to
the girls testimony. Turley died
in San Diego, Calf, naval hos
pital where he had been taken in
an airplane ambulance from his
ranch home near here.
Mrs. Turley continued to deny
the girls story that she had in
structed her daughter to shoot her
father SO she "could marry a
handsome cowboy She further
denied stories of all night "petting
parties" with the daughter and
two cowboys from this section. She
branded tales of midnight rides in
to the open country as malicious
lies" and at times rebuked prose-
cution attorneys questioning her.
She declared an everlasting love
for her husband from the witness
stand saying: Nothing ever oc-
Cured or ever will to disturb this
affection" between her and her
hVsband.
S1attie. the daughter. has been
the chief witness against her moth
er. The girl is serving a sentence
in the state school for girls follow
ing her confession OF shooting her
father
The case probably viii 60 70 the
jury late today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
STRICKEN BOY
NOT AWARE OF
HIS CONDITION

WILKES BARRE, Pa, June 8.
W.P)-Benny Hendrick, 7-year-old
Larksville boy whose body is turn
ing to stone, will pass the first
grade in school in few days and
turn to a carefree summer appar-
emily oblivious of the nationwide
publicity he received.
Crowded from the public spot
light when his mother refused
philanthropic offers to take him
to New York for treatment, Benny
also is unmindful that his body is
becoming ossified. His restricted
diet has been removed and he runs
and plays with other children just
as if nothing was the matter. His
step is a little slower than the
others and he is less nimble but
neither he nor hs playmateS no.
tice it.
Meanwhile his mother, brothers,
sisters and neighbors are wonder
ing whether he will astonish med
ical science and live to manhood.
The disease from which he is suf-
fering, myositis oSsificans, turns the
body into almost solid rock and
never is known to have been ov-
ercome.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
ROOSEVELT PLEADS FOR 'CREATER NEW DEAL
HURRICANE IN
Ell SALVADOR

SAN SALVADOR, Ell Salvador,
June 8. UP)-Martial law was de-
clared today in the wake of a de-
vastating hurricane which caused
great damage and possibly consid-
cradle loss of life.
Unofficial estimates were eight
dead and 500 homeless in the vicin-
ity of San Salvador.
The storm tore down power lines,
disrupted communications and bad
ly damaged many principal build
ings. Railroads and highways were
impossible because of landslides.
Property damage was estimated at
81 100000. No urgent need for sup
plies was evident, although Pan
American Always announced it
was ready to bring in relief from
Nicaragua or Guatemala if neces-
sary.
United Press advices from Mex
leo on Wednesday reported heavy
tropical rains drenching the coast,
with hurricane moving north
west from British Honduras.
Yesterday storm warnings were
issued for the southern part of
the Gulf of Mexico of Tehuantepec.
Heavy winds and rain lashed the
coastal states of Chiapas, Tobasco
and Campeche.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
SUCCESS Of
DISARMAMENT
PARLEY SEEN
u. S. Acts AS Mediator Between
France And England To Get
Germany Back.

GENEVA, June g. UP)-Norman
Davis, American representative at
the world arms conference, forced a
compromise upon the parley today,
saving it from dissolution and pro-
viding for a continuance of the in
ternational search for peace for
mula.
Meeting the threat of complete
abandonment of the conference and
the beginning of world armament
race, Davis presented resolution
which was adopted by the steering
committee, and the general COM
mittee, to which It was referred for
final approval.
The Davis resolution met the de-
sireS of the French delegates, and
Arthur Henderson, president of the
conference. Foreign Minister Louis
Barthou of France was apparently
satisfied, but made no comment.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
CRASH KILLS
PICTURE STAR
AND PHYSICIAN
Dorothy Dell And DR.. Wagner
Victims OF Fatal Accident AT
Pasadena.

PASADENA, Calf, June 8. W.P)--
Dorothy Dell, 20, beautiful motion
picture actress, was killed and her
companion, Dr. Carl Wagner, pro-
minent Pasadena dentist, fatally in
jured, in an automobile accident
early today.
DR.. Wagner died several hours Ia
ter in the Pasadena hospital.
PASADENA, June 8. W.P)-Dor-
othy Dell, beautiful motion picture
actress and former Ziegfeld Follies
star, was killed today in an auto
mobile accident.
The closed car in which she was
a passenger overturned, crushing
the stage and screen beauty in the
wreckage. DR.. Carl Wagner, prom
inent Pasadena surgeon. was in
jured critically. Police said he was
driving the machine.
Physicians said the surgeon had
small chance of recovering from a
fractured skull and internal in
juries.
Miss Dell was dead when extri-
Gated from the wreckage. Her
body was mangled.
The two were returning from a
party at home in fashionable AL
tadena, suburb. .
Although there were no witness
es, it appeared the car was, trav-
cling at a terrific rate OF speed
1t failed to make sharp turn on
Lincoln avenue here, struck the
left curb and collided with a tele-
phone pole. The 60-foot pole was
snapped off like match by the
impact and carried 20 feet before
it fell away from the car, which
careened another 80 feet before it
piled up, a mass of wreckage.
Miss Dell, whose real name was
Goff, was signed by the late Flor
enz ziegfeld after she was crowned
winner of the international beauty
contest at Galveston in 1880.
She came to Hollywood last Dec
ember and made her film debut in
Wharf Angel" She also played
in "Little Miss Marker and had
the leading role in "Shoot the
works. a production not yet re-
leased.
Miss Dell, beautiful blonde,
was born in Hattiesburg, Miss,
about 20 years ago. On her moth
er's side she claimed direct des-
cent from jefferson DAVIS.
DR.. Wagner figured prominently
in the investigation of the unsolved
mystery murder of DR.. Leonard
Siever, socially prominent dentist,
last winter.
He was a friend of Mrs. Frances
Coen Cooke, wealthy young di-
vorcee, who had an engagement
with Siever the night he was
slain from ambush as he left his
Pasadena office. Mrs. Cooke and
DR.. Wagner were questioned to-
gether but failed to throw any light
on the murder.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
SOCIAL ORDER
IMPROVEMENT
IS NEXT STEP
Message To Congress Urges In
surance Against Unemploy-
ment And Old Age Poverty.
SECURITY HELD ESSENTIAL
Development OF Natural Re-
sources To Fullest Extent Ad-
vocated In Statement.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 8. : The
pattern of greater new deal-a
social order promising security for
all through insurance against un-
employment and old-age and plan
ned use of natural resources-was
presented to congress today by Pre-
sident Roosevelt.
Regarded by the White House as
one of the most important docu-
ments ever transmitted to Capitol
Hill by this administration, the
message encompaSsed the whole ma
tional economic picture and charted
for the next congress the new re-
forms Mr. Roosevelt seeks.
To observers the message was
the follow through" to the San
Francisco Commonwealth address
made by the chief executive when
he was the 1882 Democratic candi-
date. In that speech, he erected the
framework for undertakings already
accomplished and for a return to
true social values.
Security for the individual, the
family, the home, was the tenor of
today's communication through
which the President skillfully wove
the pattern of his greater new deal.
He suggested guarantees for the
aged and jobless after reviewing le-
islation since 1888, calling attention
to necessity for additional emer-
ency measures at this session and,
finally, bluntly warning that the lid
on the pork barrel had been
nailed down to stay.
Next winter we may we'll under
take the great task of furthering
the security of the citizen and his
family through social insurance"
the President said.
This is not an untried expert
ment. Lessons of experience are
available from states, from indus
tries and from many nations of the
civilized world. The various types
of social insurance are interrelated:
and I think it is difficult to at
tempt to solve them piecemeal.
Whence, I am looking for sound
means which I can recommend to
provide at once security against sew
eral of the great disturbing factors
of life-especially those which are
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
FIGURES WILL
Be COMPARED
WITH DOWD' 5
Estimate To Be
Studied Before Any Recon-
mendations Are Made.
FOUR DIRECTORS PLEASED
Representative Of PWA Also
Declares Contractors Offers
Appear Fair.
FOUR DIRECTORS PLEASED

A detailed examination by the ir-
1igation district board of directors
of the bids opened in Yuma yester-
day for the construction of the ALL
American canal will not be made
until next Tuesdays meeting, it was
learned this morning.
1t had at first been expected that
the Board would take these bids un-
der consideration al today's meeting
but due to the fact that a full men,
bership of the board was not at
hand and also that it was impossible
for M. j. Dowd, district engineer,
to be present, this discussion and
examination of the bids will not be
until Tuesday. a,. ..
The main reason for the post
ponement, it is understood, is so
that Dowd will be able to explain
to the board the many details of
the estimate drawn up by his office
for the construction work and aid
the board members in their COM
parison of these figures with those
contained in the bids opened in Yu-
ma yesterday.
With the figures as compiled by
the district engineer and his explain
alton of the same to guide them, the
directors will then be able to more
thoroughly understand the offered
bids. 1t is then expected that they
will make some recommendation in
the form of resolution to the de-
partment of the interior relative to
the acceptance OF one of these bids
in order that construction work on
the canal might get under way at
the earliest possible moment
Director Ira Aten joined yesterday
with Hewes, Young and Kalin in
expressing satisfaction with the
general trend of the bids and the
belief that among those submitted
one would be found acceptable by
the reclamation service.
Their belief that the bids were
"clean bids" indicating no previous
agreements among the contractors,
was shared by Thomas B. Neuhau-
sen, investigator Tor the PWA, VINO
was present when the bids were op-
ened.
In conversation with Press rep
reSentative yesterday after his re-
turn from Yuma, Neuhausen ex-
planned that it is his duty to at
tend when bids on projects involv-
ing PWA funds are opened and to
protect the interests of the admin
istration, from any graft or irregu-
Iarity that might be attempted.
1.-The many variations in figures on
various parts of the schedules in
yesterdays bids indicates to me that
they were honestly arrived at by
the contractors Neuhausen said
land there is complete absence of
anything that would suggest collu-
sion. The bids, am informed, will
be checked by the reclamation SER
vice office at Denver, at which point
the award of the contract will be
made.
After the contract has been
awarded, the PWA will have its
agents on the job to see that the
contractor conforms to all regula-
tions of the administration concern
ing payment of labor, hours of work,
materials, supplies, etc."
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
Third Judge Will
Try Phoenix Case

LOS ANGELES, June 5. U.H -
Judge Paul j. Mccormick, veteran
federal court jurist, will leave to-
day for Phoenix, Ariz., where he
will preside at the trial of Henry
Sullivan, former city attorney on
income tax evasion charges.
Federal Judge George Cosgrave
presided at a previous trial of Sui
livan in which the jury disagreed.
Judge Cosgrave later disqualified
himself after an affidavit Of pref
udice had been filed against him
by attorneys representing Sullivan.
Previously Federal Judge Fred
Jacobs, assigned to the Arizona
court, had disqualified himself in
the trial of Sullivan, and former
Mayor Paddock because of his per-
sonal acquaintance with Paddock.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08

NORTH BAY, Ont, June 8. U.R)
Almost freezing weather and
country doctors caution prevailed
upon Mrs. Olivia Dionne today to
postpone the longed-for reunion
with her tiny quintuplet daughters
born less than two weeks ago.
AS the five mites collectively
they weigh but two ounces over 10
pounds-continued to show i'm
provement in their conditions, the
farm mother, anxious to be up and
about, decided it was "time to get
up and get to work.
Or. A. r. Dafoe, who brought the
babies into the world, persuaded
Mrs. Dionne she was not yet strong
enough to venture from her room,
and that to do so might endanger
the lives of her little ones.
Mrs. Dionne, mother of six other
children, ruefully agreed.
But I've always been up on the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
BY EDWARD w. LEWIS

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 8. U.P)-
Insurgent house members, angered
because initiation, farm relief and
labor aid bills have been side
tracked, secretly circulated a petit
ton today pledging house men,
bers to vote against adjournment
until the measures have been acted
on.
The petition, sponsored by Rep.
Joseph P. Monaghan, D., Mont
youngest house member, carried
40 signatures shortly before the
house convened today
If pledges of a majority of the
membership are obtained it will
be impossible for the leadership to
put through an adjournment res
olution until the various bills in
surgents consider necessary rem
edial legislation are voted on.
The petition pledges signers to
oppose adjournment until the
house has acted on such bills as
the Wagner labor dispute mea-
sure, the Mcleod bank deposit
pay-off bill, the Connery 30-hour
week bill, and the Frazier-L -Lamke
inflation-farm relief measure.
Failure of the conferees on the
bank deposit guarantee bill to leave
in the house permissive "bank de-
posit pay-off" provision spurred the
petition drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
SHERIFF GETS RADICALS PROTEST
Object To Making Comrades Work On Rock
Pile While Serving Sentences.

Sheriff George l.. Campbell is in
receipt of a telegram from the San
Diego office of the international
Labor Defense which protests
against putting Stanley Hancock
and other prisoners serving senten-
ces in the county Jail for their acti-
vities in the recent labor disturban-
ces on the county chain gang.
The wire says in part: 1--WE de-
mand an end to the illegal discrim-
ination against these workers.
Thousands of workers are holding
you strictly accountable for their
safety"
Yesterday the sheriff's office was
notified that Hancock had refused
to continue working at the Super
stition Mountain rock quarry and
also that he was inciting eight other
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
HOUSE INSURGENTS SEEK DELAY
in ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS
Start Petition To Remain In Session Until
Legislation Held Essential Is Given Nee
essary Attention.

Rep. Clarence j. Mcleod. R.,
Mich, sponsor of the $2,500,000,0 1000
initiation measure, charged that
banking and currency committee
leaders had promised to fight for
retention of the provision.
Enforce Gag Rule
AS a result of the gag rule
with which the leadership broke
Republican filibuster, all efforts
to bring the controversial mea-
sures to a vote by the petition
route have been frustrated. The
only alternative the signers of the
petition had was to sign the anti
adjournment" paper.
Lamke warned that Democratic
members from farm states were
in danger of losing out for re-
election because of administration
shelving of the farm-aid bill for
refinancing farm mortgages. He
predicted members would sign
rapidly.
An. adjournment resolution prob
ably could be defeated if 200 men,
bers pledge themselves to vote
against it, because more than 400
members are seldom present at the
close of a session.
The question of adjournment
meanwhile, was in virulent rumor
stage. Reports ranged from one
that it would be this weekend
to others that July looked more
likely.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08

prisoners, alleged agitators, to take
the same stand.
He was brought back to the coun-
ty Jail and may be placed in con-
finement for a few days until he
changes his mind. He was the only
one of this group brought back to
Ell Centro, the others evidently de-
Gliding that the open air even with
work was better than being locked
UP.
1t was learned at the Jail this
morning that General Glassford
with deputies from the sheriff's of
flee would visit the rock quarry
camp today in order to make an in
vestigation into the whole matter.
Glassford was a visitor at the coun-
ty Jail yesterday afternoon, but not
in connection with the Hancock
matter at that time, it was said at
the Jail today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
INSANITY To
Be DEF FENSE
FOR SLAYER

LOS ANGELES, June s. U.H -
Louis Rude Payne, 81. indicted by
the county grand jury yesterday
for the alleged axe murder of his
mother and younger brother, will
plead not guilty and not guilty by
reason of insanity when he is
arraigned next Tuesday, defense
attorneys said today.
The attorneys said neither they
nor the boys father were entire
ly convinced that he committed
the brutal Staying.
"It is not the simple open-and-
shut case it appears" defense at
torney Leonard Wilson said. "The
boys father and I are not actual
ly convinced that he did commit
this crime"
Indications that an insanity de-
fense will be set up were made
in the face of report of three
state psychiatrists that Payne is
now normal. The three experts
refused, however, to commit them
selves on the mental condition OF
the youth at the time OF the
double killing last week.
Funeral services for the victims,
Mrs. Carrie l.. Payne, 46, and
Robert, IA, were held yesterday
as Louis, forbidden to attend the
services, sat alone in his cell.
The services were attended only
by Lucius F.. Payne of st. Louis,
father of the accused slayer, who
has announced he will aid his
sons defense. The bodies were
cremated.