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Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20
Civil Service
Position Open

The United States civil service
commission has announced an open
competitive examination as follows:
Master mechanic, aircraft engine
manufacture, $1104 to $17.04 a day,
naval aircraft factory, Philadelphia,
Pa. Specified experience required.
Closing date, January S, 1895.
The salaries named are subject
to deduction of not to exceed S
percent during the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1895, as a measure of
economy, and also to deduction
of 31s percent toward a retirement
annuity.
Full information may be obtained
from Elmer E. Keltz, secretary of
the United States civil service board
of examiners, at the post office in
this city.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20
Dairy Control
Legislation To
Be Considered

Legislation to enable the dairy
industry of California to make ano
enforce marketing agreements in
the state, is to be proposed in the
Forthcoming session of the legisla-
ture by the dairy control legislative
committee of which w. j. Kuhrt OF
Los Angeles, is chairman. To pre-
pare the proposed laws, an advisory
drafting committee has been named,
with F. H. Abbott, of the dairy in
dustry division of the University of
California at the Branch of the Col
lege of Agriculture here, as chair
man.
Other members of the committee
are: A. A. Brock, director of the
state department of agriculture; F.
T. Robson, chairman of the Cali
fornia Farm Bureau Dairy depart
ment; G. E. Gordon, dairy special
ist of the University's Agricultural
Extension Service; M. r. Benedict,
acting director of the Giannini
Foundation of the College of Agri-
culture; j. H. Kagler, of the Cali
fornia Milk Institute; Stewart
Westover, of the Evaporated Milk
Agreement; and j. w. Pauluchi,
dairy producer.
The bill, according to Abbott, will
be prepared in two parts, one cover
ing market milk and the second
covering the various other dairy
products. 1t will be based on con-
sumers' areas, rather than on pro-
duction.
When drafted this legislation will
be submitted to the statewide dairy
committee of 26 of which L. E. Sim
clair and Joe Enz, Imperial County
Farm Bureau Directors, are men,
berg
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20
Grand Jury Will
Quiz Robes Case

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. co. (U.R)
The federal grand jury will un-
dertake an investigation of the
June Robles kidnapping January 7,
1t was learned today.
IN s. District Attorney Clifton
Mathews said the jury will receive
evidence against Oscar Robson, un-
der arrest here on charges of at
tempting to extort ransom money
from the girls father, Fernando
Robes, Tucson merchant.
Robson, former Tucson night club
owner, has been held in Jail here
Tor several weeks in lieu of $780,
900 bail.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20
BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1884, by United Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 U.P)-When
the soldiers of the village of Ka-
menz marched to war in August,
1914, Bruno Richard Hauptmann
was IA, and too young to wear the
German field gray. Two years
later, however, when the Father
land was calling youths to the
colors, he joined a machine-gun
company and fought, unscathed,
through the war.
He went back to Kamenz, when
the war was over and he was 10, to
become the towns bad boy" Some
thing seemed to have shattered his
morale and, with a youngster NAM
ed Fritz Petzold, he appeared to be
embarking on campaign of ter
rorism.
From March, 1919, until June,
1923, when he disappeared over the
Atlantic horizon, his life consisted
of a series of clashes with pro-
vincial police.
First Offense
On the night of March 1916,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20

Germany to live. He couldn't so
long as the threat OF jail hung over
him.
Mrs. Hauptmann failed to achieve
her objective, but Hauptmann's
aged mother, few months later,
succeeded in having all charges
against her son quashed, by invok-
ing the statute Of limitations.
Hauptmann was therefore free to
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20

the following spring, he toured the
South with his wife, spending some
three months in Florida. Then, in
the summer, he sent Anna Haupt-
mann to Germany for a vacation.
The real purpose back of Anna
Hauptmann's trip to Germany
however, was to attempt to wipe
the slate clean with the police. Her
husband wanted TO go back to
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20

return to Germany, and actually in
tended to take ship in the late fail
of this year. He told friends he was
tired of America, and that he was
continually quarreling with his
landlady over Naziism. I'm going
to get away from all this" he said.
Before he got away, however, he
was seized by the police.
TOMORROW: Extradition.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20
UNITED PRESS PRESENTS INSIDE
STORY ON LINDBERGH TRAGEDY

Editors Note: Following is the
tenth of the Sidney b. Whipple
series on the Lindbergh crime.
TOday's dispatch relates the dis
covery of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann's criminal record in Ger
many and his illegal entrance in
to the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20

ing he participated gaily in what
the Germans call "ein bummel," /"
and was the life of the party at
all fresco picnics on Hunters Is
land.
Hunted In Autumn
In the autumn, Hauptmann DON
ned sportsman's garb and went to
the Maine woods for hunting. In
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Strong Medicine

Strong Medicine
LADY, want wart removed.
Hardware Clerk-But, lady, Tn
not doctor.
LADY, know It. want to buy 4
revoIveri
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

Passage of the stock market regu-
lation bill In at least as drastic
form as 1t was reported by the senate
banking and currency committee As
the strong probability. Actually the
measure seems to most impartial OBJ
servers to be pretty stringent even as
1t stands, although the radicals and
progressives insist 1t was "emasculat-
ed" In committee by the amendments
proposed by Senator Carter Glass.
Incidentally no one was as sur
prised as Glass at this charge OF
"emasculation." He still thinks the
revised form OF the bill Is just as
harsh on the stock exchange as the
Ariglnal-from the standpoint of critl-
cisms made OF the exchange and Its
practices
The real objection of stock exchange
operators to the measure no longer
centers on the margin requirements.
In the bill before the senate, these are
now left to the discretion Of the new
commission Of five to be appointed by
the President.
But the provisions Of the measure
still remaining, which In effect deal
with regulating Ill corporations whose
securities are listed on the stock ex-
change, Is something else again. The
net effect of that portion OF the bill
will be to decrease enormously the
amount of business done on the ex-.
change. 1t will cut down the COM
missions earned by the exchange
members.
This Is no mere Idea. 1t is def
nitely known fact. Officials Of scores of
corporations have told their friends
on Wall street that they VIII not sub
NIT to the amount OF governmental
regulation and supervision implied In
these paragraphs Of the stock ex-
change regulation bill. The answer Is
that when the bill goes into effect
these corporations will withdraw the
present listings OF their stocks Those
stocks no longer will be bought or
sold on the New York Stock exchange.
They will change hands thereafter
only In private dealings.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

Attorney General Cummings inter-
est In the Dillinger hunt has not been
Just that of patriotic American who
wants to see law defying murderer
caught or killed. Nor has 1t been
merely the interest of the head of a
department whose men are on trial 80
to speak, and who wants to see his
own force function properly. On the
success Of the Department OF Justice
operatives In this pursuit may easily
hang, az Mr.. Cummings sees II, the
fate OF his twelve anti-crime measures
now pending before congress.
Mr.. Cummings knows perfectly we'll
that his measures for federal policing
for that is what they amount to-
would normally not have chance In
the world of passage. Too many SEN
ators and members of the house are
opposed to any more federal intrusion
into state affairs than they can pre-
vent. Actually congress has always
been suspicious OF federal detectives
anyhow.
That is what happened to the old
secret service. President Roosevelt
had some OF the operatives OF that
service looking into questions, which
certain members OF the house and
senate did not want looked into.
There were 80 many of these congress
slonal DIRECTORS, as matter of fact,
that In the very next appropriation
bill they were able to add a clause
restricting the operations OF the secret
service to two functions-protectIo
OF the person OF the President and
running down counterfelters.
Actually the government has an
army Of gumshoe men outside the Sc
cret service, the restriction ON that
service placed In a moment Of con-
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
FASCIST PLAN TO
KEEP WORKER ON
FARM A SUCCESS

Under the Fascist farm authorities
a social revolution gradually is TAX
ing place In agricultural Italy. BY
the reclamation Of swamp lands, ex-
tension of credit, easing of rental
conditions and breaking up of large
holdings, the italian government
hopes to convert the traditional day
to-day farm laborer into an owner,
or long-term renter.
In 1922 there were 2,822,922 day
laborers, 71z per cent of the king
dom's population, hired by the day
for 80 cents a day and discharged
the next. BY 1881, through the Wig
orous campaigns Of the agricultural
authorities, this number had de-
creased to 1,59s,s79, and 1t has con-
tinued to diminish. Also, owner-cul-
tivators, straight renters, farmers
renting on shares and laborers hired
on long-term contracts have In
creased materially until, today, the
day-to-day laborers comprise only
24.6 per cent of the total agricultural
workers, as against 800 per cent a
decade ago.
Supporters of this agricultural rev.
olutlon, according to a Rome Asso-
ciated Press dispatch, believe the
postwar migration to the cities from
farming districts, which cut down the
farming population by 8.5 per cent
In the decade up to 1881, will be
stopped. By eliminating the uncer-
tainty Of his existence, the laborer's
contentment and ability In his work
Is increased immeasurably. II sue
cessful, the anchorlng Of these rowing
millions to steady farm work will
curtail labor dIssension and disturb
ances among the agricultural dis
trIcts, which, otherwise, might be
harmful to the economic status of
the country at large.-Literary d.
gest
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

gresslonal fear being the reason that
the detective agencies are scattered
through all the departments instead
Of being under one head as was orig
inally intended.
The Post Office department has
quite an aggregation. SO has the
State department which incidentally is
really the most secret" Of all,
though 1t Is not entitled to use the
word. Labor has many operatives,
some Of whom are assigned to tricky
attempts to evade the immigration
laws But the one that has had the
most publicity for many years now Is
that of the Department of Justice.
This is the force which worked on
neutrality violations before the United
States got into the World war, and on
sabotage and treason cases after
wards.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

ment, and when he saw Fletcher leave.
admitted himself and turned the place
upside down."
"Then 1t must have been Rylle Car
mody instead of Spears" growled Kill
day. "He fits into all our clues. Peter"
''If." declared Cardigan. "Callls Ship
ley Is the woman In blue. then Rylie
Is our man. Somehow, I can't picture
her in an Illicit relationship with
Franklin, and having a key to his
apartment Yet. II Ryle is guilty. he
obtained the fourth key from some one.
And what other woman Is he interest
ed INF OF course, that's taking 1t for
granted that the other key belonged
to q woman. Who else would haze
had such a key7" He subsidized into
another reverle
There's one thing you're overlook
Ing. Peter said Kilday. .sWhy won't
young Carmody talk? He says he had
an- appointment In Westport at nine
o'clock. But he won't say who he was
supposed to meet there, and he won't
tell us why he gave our detective the
slip. Obviously, he never met anyone
at Westport. He claims 1t was on ac-
count of the accident. OF course,
think otherwise. But If he were as
innocent as he pretends, wouldn't he at
least tell US these things? believe he
would"
"Why not have him over here" sug-
gested Peter. you said before that
you wished ! could have questioned
him. Give me a chance"
The sergeant reached for the tele-
phone. Now you're talking" he said.
Talk to him for five minutes and
you'll be as sure of his guilt as am"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Hard on Stockholders

This will work a severe hardship
on the stockholders Of those COM
panIeg. This the officials admit 1t
will be such hardship that certain
other companies. which would like
very much to withdraw their listing
II the bill passes, may refrain from
doing so. For 1t would mean that
those stocks could no longer be used
to anything like the present extent as
collateral for loans, not only because
OF legal restrictions imposed in the
bill, but because, as there would no
longer be constant record of the &C
tual selling price OF the stock. lenders
would not be willing to advance as
much on those stocks as security.
But a great many corporations
would far rather deprive their stock
holders Of this very important advan-
tage than to submit to the govern
ment scrutiny OF their business that
the bill proposes. They have never
objected very vlolently-though they
did not like ito the inquiries occa-
sIonally made into their returns by
the income tax division Of the treas
ury. But ON the other hand they
point out that there was no object in
this Inquiry except to make sure on
behalf of the government that the
,1Yoper amount Of tax was paid.
The objects OF the new measure go
far afleld from that. They are linked
In with the New Deal Idea OF regulat-
Ing business, prices, profits, salaries,
wages, and every detail connected
with business, and as many corpora
ton heads said privately on recent
visits to Washington, the difference
between the internal revenue bureau
type of investigation and that Of the
federal trade commission Is horse
of a very different color
CopYright.-wNU Service.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

He telephoned instructions to bring
Rylie Carmody to the hospital imme-
dIately.
But If Peter hoped to CLEAN more In
formation from the young man than
had the detective, he was doomed to
disappointment.
II don't see that 1t matters who I
was going to meet" declared the young
man impatiently my accident pre-
vented me from keeping the appoint
ment."
"Still sticking to the accident story,
eh?" Kilday commented derisively @If
you haven't anything to hide, why
don't you tell us who 1t WASP"
Rylie maintained stubborn silence.
Perhaps" suggested the detective
doubtfully. ''you can explain why you
were so anxious to give my man the
slip. Was there anything about this
mysterious meeting at Westport that
you were afraid for the police to
see?"
"Of course not" Indignantly.
why were you going all the way
out to Westport for the meeting? Why
didn't you meet this person In New
York;
"You can save yourself a lot of
trouble" declared Rylle slowly, III
you'll understand, once and for all,
that I'm not going to tell you anything
about that appointment at Westport."
WAS 1t woman you planned to
meet there?" This question from
Peter.
The young man laughed shortly. III
just said wasn't going to answer any
more of these questions"
Kilday leaped at the suggestion. "A
woman, eh7 What If he did meet her,
Peter7 Had you thought Of that7 Per-
haps he doesn't want to answer our
questions because he did meet a wom-
all at Westport. What about 1t, Car
modyl And she gave you key, didn't
shea key to FranklIn's apartment.
"You went to Westport, all right.
but you went there earlier In the after
noon. You gave my man the slip, kept
your appointment with that woman
and got the key. Then you returned
to Franklln's apartment, searched It
and, not finding what you were after,
went on to his office. That's where
Cardigan surprised you and where the
struggle took place After that you re-
turned to Westport and returned the
key TO the woman who was still wait
Ing there. Then you drove out into
the country and turned your car
over, In order to account for your
battered-up appearance. How's that,
| Peter?" He turned to his friend,
smiling grimly. THAT accounts for
the only flaw in our case against
| him. That's how he got possession of
that fourth key"
From whom?" asked Peter.
II don't know yet. But I'll find out.
Maybe 1t was this woman In blue, and
maybe she is Calls Shipley. I'll soon
know. ! told them to bring her here.
At last I've got few facts to 20 on.
| 1t won't take long to shake her story
now"
The timely arrival of the girl they
were discussing seemed to bear out
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Illegal Liquor Flood

Yet the consumption of legal liquor
In the United States Is only about 20
per cent of what 1t was In those years.
This is not, the doctor points out,
due to any decrease In drinking.
There is no such comfort for the drys
In the picture. 1t is due to the tre-
mendous food of Illegal liquor.
Gin gives the solution to the ques-
ton. In December there were 333,703
gallons withdrawn and tax-paid. In
January this was 335,6O2 gallons and
in February 2s5,166 gallons.
Bearing In mind that gin Is the
base for most cocktails, 1t Is the opin-
ion of most experts here that the
legal tax-paid gin would not supply
the consumption In New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia alone, let alone
for the country. The answer Is bath
tub gin. The bootlegger starts with a
profit of $3.50 a Casa very fair
profit.
But 1t Is not just taxes alone. For
CAuilpiE, luC carly NtUaiHk uUulo. x GU
pie giving parties run short after nine
o'clock, which is closing time In most
states. SO they call up the bootlegger.
In New York wholesaler cannot de-
liver case to customer. The drink
err must 60 to the retail store, In many
instances pay cash, and carry his
goods home. The bootlegger Is right
ON the Job, eager to deliver, and at
price lower than the legal store can
meet The same thing goes for Sun
days and holidays
March figures indicate consump-
ton OF 100000 gallons year, but
Doctor Doran figures the government
will be lucky II 1t collects revenue on
100000 gallons.
what LIS the answer" he was
asked
"Strict enforcement and more In
telligent local regulations" he an
swered.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
SEEN and HEARD
around the
National Capital
- BY CARTER TIELDi

Neutrality-suspicious. than 1000 fed
eral agents are shortly to be turned
loose In an effort to round up Illicit
distllllng and bootlegging. This is
President Roosevelt's answer to the
March revenue figures. which indicate
4 consumption of distilled spirits Of
only 100000 gallons a year. WHERE
rs the lowest estimate made before
repeal was 100000 gallons, and
government experts figured 05.0O0,0O0
gallons In estimating revenue.
AT present there are only TOO agents.
AS matter OF fact these have just
been put In the field. Director Choate
of the Federal Alcohol Control admin
istration wanted S110O0.000 for en-
forcement. Director of the Budget
Lewis Douglas wanted only s5,500,000.
The President, when he saw the March
figures, decided against Douglas.
Actually there Is more Illicit distill-
Ing and bootlegglng now than there
was during prohibition, In the opinion
of Mr.. Choate. DR.. James VI. Doran.
head OF the distilled spirits institute,
who during prohibition was director
OF the bureau of industrial alcohol,
believes there Is at least as much.
Some months ago Doctor Doran, and
the liquor trade generally. were much
concerned over the tremendous over
capacity of the dlstilling industry.
But no one In the business thought
the pinch would come until next win
ter at the earliest. 1t was thought the
distilling Of whisky, for example, to
put into storage, would take care of q
considerable fraction OF the capacity.
But the penalties for overcrowding
the field have arrived already. They
have arrived because the consumption
of legal distilled liquor is running at
only 10 per cent Of the expectations
Of even the most conservative.
Doctor Doran pointed out to the
writer that actually the wet territory
In the United States today is about
the same as 1t was In the years 1910
and 1911. while the population OF that
wet territory is at least 10 per cent
greater than 1t was In those years
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Efficiency Test

1t is this force, part of which,
trained In the special school OF the
bureau here In Washington, Is chasing
Dillinger. All are asserted to have
demonstrated their ability to shoot
straight under the most intense ex-
element, :. always remembering that
while it Is Important to hit the per-
son aimed at, 1t Is even more impor-
tant not to hit your fellow operatives
or innocent bystanders.
Mr.. Cummings knows that Ii his men
make a good showing In this spectac-
ular case there may come wave OF
public sentiment for federal law en-
forcement, which may sweep his IL
pet measures through congress despite
the states rights objections to prac-
tlcally every one Of them. A bad per-
Torrance would be helpful to those
who are fighting his measures.
Thus 1t was not just to get enough
operatives to the spot quickly that
the Department of Justice used air
planes In moving It's men. The point
was to get men who had demonstrate
ed their ability both as marksmen and
as men who handled themselves capa-
bly, under great stress. In short,
picked men.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

That huts and dwelling places we're
distributed In parallel streets as far
back Al the middle OF the Neollthic
age is one Of the most interesting dis
coverieso made In Egyptian archeolog-
ical work.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10
Round Robin

PFO[eCI LHe DIrQB
That eat tbe insects
That destroy the forests
That conserve the waters
That feed the streams
That fill the reservoirs
That moisten the lands
That produce the crops y
That supply the markets
That provide the foods
That nourlsh the people
That make the nation.
Pathfinder Magazine.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-10

Ferry's Seeds are sold only In fresh
dated packages. When you buy Fer
ry's Seeds you are sure OF the finest
quality available. Adv.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-27

Under dominion civil law, experts
agree, Justice Ives was correct. But,
in the minds of farmers. merchants and
even a poolroom proprietor, the jury
was right.
The cry of some rings:
There ought to be a change in the
law!'
That, however, could not occur with
out legislative procedure by men who
are Brownlee's friends. To bring to
Vivian and her father financial re-
compense it would have to be made
retroactive.
If such a change were made, another
trial would have to be instituted.
1t is doubtful that either Brownlee
or the MacMillan'S desire another
taste of the extensive publicity which
accompanied the case.
Miss Macmillan, just after the ordeal,
said:
Il have wondered time and again,
if I should have made this public. I
don't know if I have damaged my own
reputation, but I feel that I have saved
hundreds of other country girls"
Brownlee's answer to the outcome
was to forward his resignation, includ-
w r, walsh
"A ie" Jays = OFFICIALS were III eau
Gus 10 race tle many prooleH1S r1Snle
OUT OF tne Verolct.
VIVIAN mas returned 10
tne picturesque mountalnsloe "nere sne
1lrst met BroWnlee curing a pohtlca!
picnic, on the ank OF n macleod
river.