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Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
RUM RUNNER
CAPTURED BY
COAST GUARD

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Dec. II UD
Coast guardsmen claimed their
first haul since prohibition repeal
today with the seizure of an al
legged rum runner after chase at
sea in which a dozen shots were
fired before the boat pulled up.
A cutter sighted the 36-foot
cruiser Dixie off the Coronado Is
lands inside the 12-mile limit. 1t
wheeled in flight when the cutter
fired across it's bow as command
to surrender. A dozen more vol
leys were fired before the craft
halted, officers said.
Raiders found no contraband
aboard but reported retrieving
several five-gallon cans of alcohol
from the sea. Guardsmen claimed
the cruiser originally had $50 cans
aboard when it left Ensenada, Low
er California, for Los Angeles.
Two men, who said they were
G.. j. McGarvine and George An
derson, were lodged in the city jail
here. Officers said they operated
as rum-runners during the pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
District Opposed To
Merger OF Offices

In a resolution adopted by the
irrigation district board of direc-
tors late yesterday afternoon, it
was the sentiment of that body that
in its opinion, the time is not op-
perfume to effect ac onsolidation of
the offices of district asSeSsor-col-
lect and treasurer with the county
offices handling this same work.
A recommendation to the effect
that such a consolidation might be
to the benefit both of the county
and district was made on Monday
by the county grand jury and not
ices to this effect were sent both
to the board of supervisors and
the district directorate. No action
was taken by the supervisors, Mon
day, on this matter outside of Or
EariItg the recommendation read
by the clerk and then filed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12

At a meeting of directors of the
Milk Institute of Imperial Valley
held last night, officers were elect
ed to serve for the ensuing year.
with Walter B. Havekorst of the
Bank of America as president. Vice
presidents elected were: j. D.
Thompson, inland; Sam E. Robin
son, Holtyille; D. V. Stewart, I'M
perial, E. E. Cavanah, Calexico.
Bylaws were adopted and meet
ing dates set, and at the same time
the membership committee, under
the direction of Fred Nebel-T -Thau,
met to make further plans for the
membership drive to be held on the
14th, 18th and 10th and which will
include a three hour radio program
TO be participated in by all Imperial
Valley communities.
jess Worley of CaleXico was cho-
sen as secretary and a committee
comprising Walter c. Macdonald
S. E. Robinson. Earl V. c. North
rop and D. V. Stewart was appoint
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
DAWES GIVES
FULL CREDIT
.TOPRES|DENT
BY EVERETT HOLES
United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, Dec. ~. - Charles G.
Dawes, former vice president of the
United States, announced today
that the depression should be
wiped out completely mot later
than next June or July"
That date, he said, will mark
the commencement of the year OF
full business prosperity in the
country" just as BLACK Thursday
marked the beginning of the crash
on October %, 1929.
Dawes, who headed the first gov
ernmental agency set up for relief
of the nations distressed indus
tries and banks, made his predic-
tion-he called it a definite pro-
phecy"-at a luncheon of the Chi
cago Association of Commerce.
The former official in the Repub-
lican administrations of Calvin
Coolidge and Herbert Hoover gave
full credit to President Roosevelt
for restoring the country's lost con-
fidence and paving the way for re-
covery.
II suggest" he said, that not la
ter than June or July of next year
should be the beginning of a great
sustained demand for durable goods
due to the accumulation of five
years of postponed demands.
THAT time also should mark the
commencement of the year of full
business prosperity"
He based his announcement on a
series of charts showing the up
swing in the mass demand for dur
able goods-pig iron and steel-in
the depressions of 1873, 1893 and
1929.
Dawes said he applauded Presi-
dent RooseveltS course despite the
views of some as to the psycholog-
ical effects upon confidence of this
or that event"
81 think it may be justly assum-
ed" he declared, that lost mass
confidence was restored by Presi-
dent RooSevelt'S bank moratorium
in March, 1888, and that after that
date the general course of business
in consumer goods reflected no loss
in this recovery of confidence"
Dawes is chairman of the City
National Bank and Trust company
and is internationally known as a
financier. He drafted the Dawes
plan for Preparations payments and
served as the first chairman of the
RFC.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
nkM!LL--o

BEVERLY HILLS, Dec. II.
tSpeciaD-The biggest news in
the papers today was furnished
by the japanese ambassador. 1t
was pretty strong medicine. He
just said that if England and
America made Japan mad enough
they would go take all of North
China. In other words, if Max
Baer, the worlds champion, does
anything to me, I am going to
jump onto little Shirley Temple
and give her a good spanking.
Well, if America is just even
half smart automatically, they
will laugh the whole thing off.
And stall things along till Rus
sia is ready, and just say "sic 'em,
Tige, this is your meat"
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
MORE BODIES
RECOVERED IN
HOTEL BLAZE
Death Toll May Never Be Defi-
nitely Known As All Records
Were Destroyed

LANSING, Mich, Dec. IL. U.P)-
The known death toll of the Hotel
Kerns fire rose slowly today as
firemen and police officers probed
the still smoking ruins.
Early today the searchers ven
tured a few feet into the hot bricks
and ashes and found the charred
bones of another victim.
Within a short time they found
two more bodies, making total of
Is.
The names of these victims prob
ably were listed among the miss
ing Estimates of the number
missing" varied greatly from 25
to IS, because hotel records were
in the building when it burned.
LANSING, Mich, Dec. u. = A
list of missing totalling almost 100
today marked the still smouldering
ruins of the Hotel Kerns as the
scene of one of the country's most
frightful disasters.
Thirteen were known dead in the
fire that swept the structure yes
terday, but authorities feared that
most if not all of the missing
eventually would be listed as vic
tins.
Authorities hoped the ruins would
be sufficiently cool by noon to per-
nit a search for bodies. Police be-
lieved the eventual list of dead
would be determined, not by re-
covered bodies, but by reports of
relatives. They feared many vic
Tins had been trapped in their
rooms and cremated.
Between 200 and 225 guests were
believed asleep in the hotel when
fire broke out yesterday morning
and spread swiftly. Police checked
off 100 who escaped d, uninjured.
Thirty-two were injured. If the
total number of guests was 225, this
would make the number missing
70, in addition to l3 now known to
be dead. This does not include the
injured, some of whom may die.
1t was feared that only small
percentage of the missing could be
alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
ICE INDUSTRY
OFFICIALS To
GATHER HERE
Executives To Hold Conven-
tion OF Association Friday
And Saturday

Upwards of 200 members and
their ladies are expected here Fri
day and Saturday for the 18th an
nual convention of the Southern
California Arizona Association of
Ice Industries, according to R. P.
Moore, president of the I'M
perial Ice and Development COM
pany, and director of the asSocia-
ton.
The association was formed 16
years ago, and includes practical
ly all of the ice industries in
Southern California and Arizona.
Recently, and following the adop-
ton of the NRA codes, it has also
included Nevada in its territory,
and it is expected several repre-
sentatives will be present from
that state.
Sessions of the convention will
be held at the Barbara Worth
hotel, and will open Friday morn
ing. At noon Friday the ice execu-
tives will be guests at a joint meet
ing of the Rotary and Kiwanis
clubs of this city. There will also
be a business session Saturday
morning. Trips to interesting
points are planned during the con-
vention and it is hoped that many
of the executives will remain here
for the canal celebration on Sun
day.
Several years ago the association
held its convention here and sew
eral members have written Moore
that they are looking forward to
another visit to Imperial Valley.
Officers of the association are:
r. M. Hagen, Associated Ice Indus
tries, Los Angeles, president; Al
Lundin. Standard Ice Corporation,
Los Angeles, vice-president; d. H,
Fry, Union Ice company, Los An
teles, secretary-treasurer. Direc-
tors include these officials and H.
D. Baker, Five Points Ice and Fuel
company, Phoenix; H. R. CopeS,
Home Ice company, Los Angeles;
E. F. Condor, National Ice COM
pany, Los Angeles; T. Paul Dalzell,
Puritan Ice company, Santa Bar
bara; B. H. Farmer, Long Beach
Crystal Ice company, Long Beach;
j. M. Neagle, Imperial Ice COM
pany, Ocean Park; R. P. Moore,
Imperial Ice and Development COM
pany, Ell Centre; Norman R. Rike,
Southern California Ice company,
San Bernardino; D. Hartwell, IN
ion Ice company, Los Angeles.
A radio program of interest to
the ice executives, will be broad
cast Friday afternoon at 4:45, over
Station KXO at the Barbara
Worth hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
Former Consul At
MexicaIi Buried

Funeral services for Charles w.
Doherty, n, formerly American
vice-consul at MeXicali, were held
this afternoon at HemS-Rugg fun
eral parlors, Calexico, under the
direction of CaleXico lodge of ElkS.
Doherty died in Phoenix yester-
day morning following injuries re-
ceived in a fall two weeks ago.
He was vice. consul at MeXicali
from 1921 until 1880, at which time
he was retired on pension. He
had formerly been in the consular
service in the Dominican Republic
and at Nogales, Sonora, and was
we'll known to many along the
Mexican border.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
T. B. SERUM
DECLARED TO
BE SUCCESS

DENVER, Colo, Dec. IL. (U.P) -
Experiments with a new serum de-
signed to prevent tuberculosis have
proved entirely successful, it was
revealed today as Gov. Edwin C.
johnson signed communication pa
pers for two life-term Colorado
convicts who submitted to tests of
the serum.
The two human guinea pigs" in
perfect physical condition after
tests which began last May and
have continued since, will be re-
leased from the Canon City peni-
tentiary on parole, on December 20,
in time to enjoy Christmas with
their families.
They are:
a. Mike Schmidt, 54, sentenced to
The prison for life on December l,
1922, for the crime of rape, from
Loyal county.
Carl Erickson, 62, sentenced to
the prison for life on October 26,
1915, for murder, from Denver.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12

Ex-President Herbert Hoover will
be unable to attend the Allan
erican canal celebration near Araz
and in Calexico on Sunday it was
learned here this morning. An in
vitation had been sent to Mr..
Hoover by Evan T. Hewes, chairman
of the irrigation district board of
directors, and in answer he received
the following telegram from Palo
Alto this morning:
81 greatly appreciate your kind
invitation. 1 regret that I had made
appointments here which I have
been unable to break. 1 hope you
will extend my greetings to those
present and my congratulations to
those men and women including
yourself, whose steadfast faith and
able leadership have made this
great project a reality
(Signed) Herbert Hoover.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
Plaintiffs Win
Damage Action

In judgment signed by Judge
Vaughn Thompson yesterday, D. P
Brooks and Agnes Brooks were
awarded damages totaling $8990.32
against R. M. Chapman for person.
al injuries sustained in an automo-
bile accident. The case had been
heard in superior court here last
month. The plaintiffs in their COM
plaint had asked damages of $751;
$50 for injuries sustained in an ac-
cident which happened five miles
north of Brawley, June 80. 1894.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12

Cochrane is the son of an oil COM
pany attorney.
Miss Betty Watson, 10, fiancee of
Kennamer and a student at the
University of Oklahoma, Norman,
revealed she had been warned" to
be careful. She did not say from
whom the warning came.
Student Leaves Glasses
Another student, Charles Bard,
10, who double dated" with Cor
rell the night he was slain, with
drew temporarily from classes at
Oklahoma A. and M. college at
Saltwater yesterday. He asked
county authorities for protection.
Ted Bath and Robert Thomas,
two more witnesses, were reported
in hiding. Bath told police Sunday
he was leaving Tulsa because he
feared for his life. Thomas, the
same day, asked permission to car
ry a gun.
Fear for the safety of these
youths, all from homes of the so
called best families, took on added
significance with the mysterious
death Sunday of Sidney Born, Jr.,
who was found shot to death in
his car. A short time previous he
had tried to call Kennamer at the
county Jail. He drove Kennamer
to his meeting with Gorrell the
night of the Staying.
City police insist Born ended his
life but deputy sheriffs hold there
is possibility he was murdered
One police official said privately
that he was certain Born was slain
and that at least two more youths
were marked for death.
Cause OF Fear Unknown
The basis for this widespread fear
of further violence has not been
clearly defined either by police or
the guarded youths. Earlier in the
Investigation, when Holly Ander-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
HOOVER UNABLE TO COME HERE
Former President Regrets Inability To Be
At Canal Celebration

w. w. Goodson, secretary of the
district board, was in Yuma today
to extend the valleys invitation to
the Yuma chamber of commerce
and officials of that city to attend
the celebration on Sunday. Plans
for this celebration are practically
completed and will commence with
a ground breaking ceremony near
the Potholes and Araz on Sum
day morning and thence the cele-
brants will move to Calexico where
a free barbecue will start at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon and the
festivities will continue until late
that night.
Governor Frank Merriam will be
present at both celebrations and it
is expected that other state officials
will also take part in the events
commemorative of the starting
OF this project.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
GROWERS SAY
LOSS WILL BE
IN MILLIONS
Extreme Low Temperatures
Reported Throughout Middle
West And Eastern Coast
LONGTIME MARKS FALL
Entire Atlantic Coast Area
Gripped By Winter With Snow
Reported In South
LONGTIME MARKS FALL

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Dec. u. U,P)
Florida IS fruit growers and truck
farmers counted their losses in the
millions today as below freezing
weather~spread destruction in the
tropical fruit groves.
The state department of agricul-
ture estimated SO to 60 per cent
destruction of the tangerine crop.
Losses to oranges ran as high as
35 per cent.
The grapefruit crop, state officials
were advised, escaped damage.
CHICAGO, Dec. u. UP)-Tem-
perature records of SO years stand
ing fell today before a cold wave
over Eastern United States which
threatened crops in the semi -tropi-
cal everglades and took a heavy toll
of life east of the Mississippi.
The midwest gained surceaSe
from the succession of blizzards
that have swept across the coun-
try for two weeks, but a weather
bureau bulletin warned of a new
blanket of cold air sweeping east
ward from the northern Rocky
Mountains.
Storms over the North Atlantic
delayed liners and kept air lanes
alive with calls of small vessels for
aid and directions. The steamer
Jean Jadot stood by the disabled
British vessel UsWorth in a mid
ocean gale. Ice-coated and surf bat
tered shipping hugged the coast
from HudSon'S bay to the far south.
Possibility of a thaw encouraged
1000 men still laboring to clear
Chicago streets of the heaviest De-
cember snowfall in 81 years.
New York and New England eX-
pected the coldest December II
since 1876. The mercury touched
5 above zero last night in Boston,
is below at Mount Washington, N.
H., 10 above in New York and 25
below at Adirondack mountain
points
New York City opened it's armor-
les to thousands of homeless men
and women and Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia announced plans to open
stations where coffee and dough-
nuts will be given away.
Residents of the eastern gulf
states dug forgotten overcoats from
the mothballs as snow rode in from
the north on 30-mile wind. Mia
mi, Fla, thermometers dropped one
degree below freezing. Smudge pots
burned in citrus groves. Snow fell
yesterday in Tampa for the third
time in 40 years and the first time
since 1906.
The snow was general over the
Carolinas, Virginia, northern Ala
bama, northern Georgia and east
ern Tennessee. Temperatures that
went with it were almost unprece-
dented-12 degrees at Louisville,
KY, 16 at Nashville and Memphis,
Tenn, and 18 at Atlanta, Ga.
Temperatures began rising last
night over the great plains region.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
Macarthur To Hold
Post Indefinitely

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. UP) -
President Roosevelt today sent a
letter to Secretary of War Dern di-
recting that Chief of Staff Doug
las Macarthur be retained in that
post until his successor has been
named.
The President explained that he
was having Macarthur continue in
order that he could handle war de-
partment legislation this winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
Burglar Hurried
To State Prison

Arraigned before Judge Vaughn
Thompson on a charge of burg
larry this morning, E. w. Salmon
pleaded guilty to the charge, waived
time for sentence and was sem
fenced to San Quentin prison for
the term prescribed by law.
Yesterday Salmon had been ar
raigned before Judge Mayfield
waived a preliminary hearing and
was held to answer in superior
court under $1,000 bonds. He was
arrested near INLAND by special Of
ficers of the Southern Pacific COM
pany on a charge of having broken
into a section shed belonging to the
company.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
AROUSES IRE
Of SENATE 8
COMM TEE
Capital Conference Seeks To
Assure Efficient Mobilization
In Case OF War
ACTION CAUSES SURPRISE
President Hopes To Have Ma
ton Benefit From Mistakes
Of Last Conflict

WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. U.P)-
Leading industrial and cabinet ad-
visers met with President Roosevelt
today to develop legislative recon-
mendations to take the profit out
of war and assure efficient mobili-
zation of men and machines in
event of future war.
The program was embroiled in
controversy before it was started.
Directors of the senate IS NUM-
tions investigation viewed the
Presidents action as premature.
They suspected an effort to thwart
further committee disclosures and
declared congress rather than the
administration will draft the new
laws.
Financier Bernard Baruch and
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, and the
secretaries of war, navy and state
were among those participating in
the initial White House conference.
The President continued Gen.
Douglas Macarthur in office indef-
inite as chief of staff so he can fol-
low through with the program this
winter ---..=...-.--
AS the conference started two
more officials were added to the
committee.
Undersecretary of Agriculture
Rexford Tugwell and Assistant
Secretary of Labor Edward F.. Nc
Grady went into the conference.
They strolled arm -in-arm across
the White House grounds with Ba-
ruch and johnson.
Calling of the conference was re-
vealed only few hours in advance,
with this statement by the Presi-
dent:
"The time has come to take the
profits out of war;
WASHINGTON, Dec. ~. U.H -
President Roosevelt called con-
ference today to map out legiSla-
tive program designed to take the
profits out of war.
Cabinet officers and Gen. Hugh
S. johnson were summoned by the
chief executive for the meeting to
prepare the program which he re-
CARDS as one of the most important
to be presented congress.
"The time has come to take the
profit out of war;" Mr.. Roosevelt
bluntly remarked as he .outltned in
his press conference today one of
the broadest programs he has yet
embarked upon.
The President made it clear that
everyone knows what munition
profits and other profits have been
and that the world is especially
alive to the financial gains of
those in the first category.
He explained that the hearings
conducted by the special commit
tee of Sen. Gerald Nye, CR) North
Dakota, into munitions profits had
made the nation conscious of the
subject. Furthermore, he added, he
believed the time opportune for le-
gislation in view of the fact that
there are no war clouds on the hor-
izon.
Mr.. Roosevelt indicated that the
whole discussion would cover a wide
range not merely from the profit
standpoint but from the economic
side as we'll, keeping in mind Bit
ter lessons learned in the last war.
Evils Cited
Some of these, he cited, deal with
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
ROAD GROUPS MEET

Joint session of the farm bureau
and chamber Of commerce commit
tees on roads was being held this
afternoon to discuss road projects.
Members of the farm bureau COM
mittee are G. O. Hoober, D. E.
Green, Scott B. FouldS, Mack Tren-
than and John Scott.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
ROOSEVELT STARTS AFTER WAR PR0F|TEERS
Florida Fruit Crop Damaged By Cold Weathe1
DATA ON RIVER

River readings for today posted
at the irrigation district head
quarters, shows a decrease of 100
second feet in the flow of the
Colorado river for the Grand Can
yOn station. No report was re-
ceived from the Topock station,
and the diversion reading re-
mains at 310O second feet.
No word was received early today
from the Yuma office of the wea-
ther bureau relative to weather
conditions in the upper basin or
along the watershed of the river.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-12
TRANSIENT CAMP PROGRAM

Seven members of the transient
camp here, will resume tonight the
radio programs which proved so
popular last year. The program
will start at Sis over Station KXO
and will continue for half an hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-22
Editorial Page
and
Features
DO WE WANT CWA?

Prompt and active protest against dis
continuance of the CWA, should be made
by every organization and interested in
dividual in Imperial Valley.
1t is generally believed that the an
nouncement made last week by the ad-
ministration to the effect that elimina-
ton of men from the CWA payroll at the
late of 100000 every two weeks, would
start on February Is, is in the nature of
"feeler" to sound out public sentiment
on the CWA program.
If no protest is made, the adminiStra-
ton will be justified in assuming that
the CWA is no longer desired. On the
contrary, if public sentiment is shown to
be favorable to the CWA, in all probabil-
ity its work will be continued as long as
possible
The success of the CWA is evident and
is not to be discounted by its failure to
function efficiently in every instance. In
Los Angeles, for example, scandal is un-
earthed in the CWA organization. This
does not prove the undesirability of the
CWA. 1t means rather that men and
women in whom the CWA placed its
trust, have been found wanting in hon.
esty.
Here in Imperial county the CWA has
functioned in a highly efficient manner
and has proved a Godsend to many men
and women who for so long had been un-
able to obtain work. 1t has helped the
businessman by increasing his trade and
the community at large by making it pos
sible to undertake many civic activities
which otherwise could not have been ac-
complished.
What is true here has been true in the
great majority of communities through
out the United States. The CWA has
been the first successful effort by the gov
ernment to put men and women to work
promptly.
There has been criticism in some in
stances of the type of work which is be-
ing done. To this the best answer is
that any work is better than idleness and
it is still to be proved that CWA work
so far as Imperial Valley is concerned
has been useless or unnecessary.
This community should give prompt
answer to the governments "feeler'.
kilograms or letters of protest should be
filed Immediately with the President,
with Senators McAdoo and Johnson and
Representative Burnham. If we want
the CWA we can have it, but we'll have
to put up fight for it.