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Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
PLANES OFF
FOR FLIGHT.
OVER PACIFIC
Six Leave Base AT San Diego
Enroute To San Francisco
Where Hop Will Begin.
MAY START ON THURSDAY
Navy Vessels To Be Stationed
On Route To Honolulu To Aid
In Emergency.

SAN DIEGO. Jan. 8. UP)-Bear-
ing the four-starred aluminium
flag" of the fleets commander in
chief, a navy flying boat piloted by
Lieutenant Commander Kneffler
McGinnis took off shortly after 10
a m. today for San Francisco, sig
mailing the start of a flight to Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii.
Five other planes followed the
leader into the air. In McGinniS'
plane was Admiral David F. Sellers,
commander in chief, U. S. fleet, who
will leave the squadron at San Fran
cisco.
Thursday morning, il the weather
permits, the squadron will roar out
over the Golden Gate for Pearl Har-
Dor.
Shortly after 8 p. m. the first
plane was pushed from the hangers
at North Island. Mechanics found
fault in the oiling system and Nc
Ginnis took the ship aloft on shorJ
inspection hop.
The trouble corrected, Adm. Sell
ers was piped aboard the plane. Two
staff officers, Lieut.. Comdr. A. G.
McFall, aviation officer and Lieut..
A. De Ayrault, Jr., flag lieutenant,
boarded other planes.
McGinnis' plane slowly gathered
speed on the CLASSY surface of the
bay and roared into the air in an
easy takeoff The other planes
wheeled after it and disappeared
northward in single line.
The trans-Pacific squadron will
land at Paradise Cove, sheltered
spot on San Francisco bay, 10 miles
from the city of San Francisco.
The navy tug Gannet will stand
by at the cove to furnish supplies
to the planes and quarters for the
personnel. Each plane will be load
ed with 1745 gallons of gasoline,
according to navy announcements.
Food for five men for five days
will be carried in each plane. Equip
ment will include radio and col
| lapsible rubber boat. C-
When the planes take off for
Pearl Harbor, protective line of
navy ships will guard them at in
tervals of 300 miles from the Golden
Gate to Honolulu. The ships in
order from the San Francisco side
are: Sandpiper, Schenck, Breese,
Whipporwill, Wright, Pelican and
Avocet. Midway on the route, the
U. S. S. Tanager will flash radio
weather signa.s TO the planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
NOTED DOCTOR
MEETS DEATH

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 9. U.H-The
nation IS medical men today mourn
ed the death of DR.. William West
Grant, who was credited by many
authorities with performance, in
1885, of the first recorded appendi-
citis operation.
His death last night at his home
here ended an amazing career
which saw him serving in both the
Civil war and the World war, the
only man known to have established
such record. DR.. Grant was 81
when he died. He had been in i'll
health since last July, when he un-
derWent an operation.
His life was studded with out
standing accomplishments in the
field of surgery. While there is
some dispute regarding the claim
that he performed the first appen-
dectomy, there can be no doubt
that he devised several other oper-
ations in general use.
Among them were those for cam
Ger of the mouth, for deformity of
the mouth, ana for facial paralysis
through anastomosiS of facial and
spinal accessory nerves.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
M<& R11~>.
9is34, Mcknight Syndicate. Inc.
SENATE TOLD
POST OFFICE
FILES BURNED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Up)-Of-
ficial files of the post office depart
ment containing data on ocean and
air mail subsidies were destroyed on
order of Former Postmaster Cen
eral Walter Browns secretary when
he left office last March, according
to testimony today at the senate
investigation of air mail contracts.
James Maher stenographer to the
postmaster general, testified he
was instructed to burn Browns Off
cial files shortly before last March
4. He said the documents contained
data on ocean and air mail matters.
Maher appeared before the Spe-
cial senate committee which has
been investigating ocean mail sub
sides and which turned today to
the air mail phase Of post office de-
partment activities.
He said he received orders from
Browns secretary to throw into the
furnace all files which the outgo-
ing postmaster did not desire to re-
tain.
1T vas a couple of days before
March a." Maher said, "and I took
the files down to the furnace and
burned Them
He said he discussed the instruc-
tions with other departmental STEM
ographers, and told them he thought
it unwise to destroy the files be-
cause they might prove valuable in
the Roosevelt administration.
He testified official files of other
postmaster generals had been stor-
ed away in the department.
Thomas H. McKeen, former Off
cial of the Wedell-W Williams Air
Transport company, New Orleans,
charged that the post office depart
ment Disseminated against indie
pendent transport operators in
awarding mail contracts.
He testified regarding an unsuc-
cessful attempt to obtain from
Brown participation in mail subsi-
dies.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
SEALS
FRENCH BANK
SCANDAL CASE
Hint Police Killed Absconding
Financier To Protect Govern
ment Officials.

PARIS, Jan. 8. U.P)-Cnarges
that Alexander Sacha Stavisky was
killed by police to end a financial
scandal threatening to blast the car
GERS of many public men were made
today by newspapers.
Socialist and right wing organs
charged that the absconding finan-
cier, who fled as his Credit Munich
pal Bayonne bank collapsed in a
$30,000000 ruin, was informally ex-
ecuted SO that he could not con-
feSs.
The charges followed immediate
ly upon the resignation of Minister
of Colonies Albert Dalimier, men,
toned as having advised insurance
companies to buy Stavisky's worth
lsS bonds.
The cabinet upon recommends
ton of Premier Camille Chautemps
replaced Dalimier with Lucien La
moureaux, minister of labor. Eugene
Frot, minister of merchant marine,
replaced LamoureauX, and William
Bertrand, under secretary of inter-
ior, was named to replace Frot.
While the charges were hurled at
the government from both sides
Chautemps pursued a judicial and
police investigation of the collapse
of Staviskys enterprises.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
DILL FAvORS
FREE SPEECH

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. U.P)--
Chairman Dill of the senate inter-
state commerce committee told the
United Press today he would sup
port legislation in congress to as
sure freedom of speech in radio
broadcasts.
He said number of senators
had brought to his attention in
stances in which certain persons
had been prohibited from making
speeches over national radio chains
because their addresses we're not in
harmony with the Roosevelt ad-
ministration program.
81 am free speech man, espec-
tally on the radio,' Dill said. "We
should have in the law something
to prohibit such discrimination in
radio broadcasts. -
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
PROPOSES TAX
FOR |NSUR|NC
UNEMPLOYED
BY EDWARD w. LEWIS
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. In
the face of treasury warnings
against Saddling business with ex-
ceSSive burdens during recovery per-
iod, proposals developed in the
house today for far-reaching Soc
ial Legislation which would eclipse
present experiments.
Rep. Connery, Dem, Mass, who
may push again his 30-hour work.
week bill, is studying a plan for
unemployment insurance for the
100000 men he estimates would
remain out of employment even in
event the 30-hour work week was
adopted for industry. The pro-
posal centers around a tax based
on the horsepower of machinery.
Proceeds from the tax would go
to the jobless until industry re-
instates them.
Various members have already
introduced bills for an old age
pension system.
Connery said that the Federation
of Labor estimates of 100000 men
returned to work in industry dur
ing 1888 showed plainly that the
40 hour week under NRA codes
cannot be expected, at the most
to bring back to employment more
than 100000 or 100000 by next
May"
He argued that the 30 hour week
bill would mean employment for
6,00O,OO0.
THAT would still leave five Or
six million still unemployed, part
ly due to the depression and part
ly to machinery" Connery, chair
man of the house labor committee
said.
Favor Tax Changes
Meanwhile the house ways and
means committee resumed tax re-
vision hearings today with senti-
ment still pronounced for drastic
changes in the income tax to
yield S270,OOO,00O new revenues, des-
pite a statement by Secretary of
Treasury Morgenthau that many
of the proposals would retard busi-
ness and result in no savings.
Indications were that the bill
which will be drafted on the basis
of a subcommittee recommended
tions would carry provision for
abolition of consolidated returns,
and for elimination of credits for
foreign tax payments. The two
changes have been opposed by
Morgenthau.
The house today had the District
of Columbia liquor control bill on
it's schedule. Passage of the measure
by Thursday was the hope of the
leadership.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
Young To Seek
Governors job

SAN DIEGO. Jan. Q. W.P)-Milton
K. Young of Los Angeles who lost
the election to Governor Rolph four
years ago, was back in the ring to-
day with an announcement nc
would again seek the Democratic
nomination for governor.
The Los Angeles attorney an
nounced his re-entry before ad-
dressing a Jackson day gathering
of Democrats hehe last night. He
committed himself squarely TO the
recovery policies of President Roose-
welt.
81 have been asked II my hat Is
in the ring Young said. II II.
In the near future, shall announces
in detail the principles and policies
for which / stand, but I can sum
them up today In the brief state
ment that 1t is my object TO carry
out in California the same broad
efforts for the welfare OF the whole
people as President Roosevelt 10
carrying out in the nation.'
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09

charged with keeping a love tryst
with him at Miami Beach, Fla,
last January and February. Dates
and places are well known to VAL
lee," the complaint alleged. Alleged
photographs showing the two en-
bracing were cited
Scouts Charges
Miss Faye characterized the
charges as ridiculous"
"As a member of his orchestra"
she said, II have travelled with him
in many different states and in
many different places. Any charge
as is listed in the complaint is ridi-
culous as will be definitely proved
when the matter is brought into
court"
Vallee said he was ready to dis
prove the charges.
II will be happy to answer every
charge she has made" he said. Il
hope l never have to do it. 1 don't
want to blast her but if eventually
everything has to be brought out,
then we will let Mrs. Vallees voice
speak for itself"
Without pausing, he explained
himself
II refer to telephone conversa-
tions, letters and teiegrams," he
said Il am amazed at her audacity
1 think she feels would never go
through with it,"
Hinting at some discovery in their
married life, Vallee considered him.
self generous for providing her 500
a week since their separation last
April.
Cites Wife's Conduct
"She was getting $1OO a week
more than she deserved,' he said.
"During the past seven or eight
months I have had nothing to say.
You will remember as Mrs. Vallee
proceeded westward from New
York; she seemed to get more cour-
age at each station and became
more abusive. When she arrived in
Los Angeles she was questioned
about a baby and she made friv-
olous reply. Then she brought &C
ton to restrain me from obtaining
a Mexican divorce and another ask
ing for more money, charging fraud.
She had been steamed up. I was
forced to defend myself. We filed
an action in reply in New York but
when my attorney attempted to
discuss the case in court and want
ed to turn over to the press my
charges. her attorney went pale and
said to the court: please don't let
them get out. I had no personal
desire to have the charges made. ]
could have but I preferred not
After all, the divorce is unimport-
anti
Miss Webb sought to block her
husband from filing a Mexican oil
vorce. Denied an injunction in the
lower courts, she now has an ap-
peal pending.
Vallee was particularly angered
at his wife IS attempts to suppress
the charges.
"The reason for the attempt TO
cloak this action in Los Angeles with
secrecy is obvious and ! would class
ify the action as the good old
shakedoWn racket
Vallee was sued under his real
name of Hubert Prior Vallee. Judge
Frank c. C. Collier ordered him to
appear for a hearing January IT,
At that time, Miss Webb s petition
for temporary alimony willy be
heard.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
Says Alien Land
lac Not Weakened

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 9. U.P)--Ac-
ton of the United States supreme
court in invalidating two sections
of California's alien land law will
nOtchange the act materially AsSo-
ciate Justice J. u. Plummer of the
Third District appellate court said
today.
"Invalidation of sections ga and
1888 of the act eliminates the clause
which placed the burden of eStab-
fishing innocence on the defend
ant" Justice Plummer said. 1T will
make it the duty of the state to eS-
tablish prima facie case, but will
not necessarily weaken the law"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09

Money apportioned to the various
school funds is as follows: dis
trict tax for general fund, elemen-
tary schools, $35,54531; district
tax, building fund, elementary
schools, $2,562.73; district tax, gen.
eral fund, high school, $55,280; dis
trict tax, Junior college tuition, ST.
55750; district tax, high school
tuition, $7,704.48.
The last two figures represent
the amounts to be paid for tut
ton for valley pupils attending
schools outside the valley for eX-
ample, pupils in the river district
who attend the Yuma high school,
Almost all of the outstanding
registered school warrants will
in turn be taken care of, leaving
the schools in much better finan-
cial shape at this time of the year
than is usual. These tax receipts
plus the state apportionment under
the Riley-Stewart plan have not
only aided the schools but caused
reduction in the tax rate.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
Three Killed In
Crossing Crash

RIVERSIDE, Jan. 8. UP) = Two
women and a child we're dead to-
day, a man may die and three other
persons we're injured as the result
of a railroad crossing disaster last
night.
At a residential crossing where
safety gates recently were replaced
by signals, a Union Pacific passen-
ger train crashed into the small
automobile packed with seven per-
sons, all Mexican.
The dead: Lupe Rajo, "a; Mrs.
Marcia Llamas, 25; Lorena Rivs, 3.
Probably fatally injured; Domin-
go Llamas, "a.
Injured: Frank Llamas, one year;
Mary Llamas, 5, and Consuella Ar
redondo, 18.
All lived in Pomona.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
Military Training
Upheld By Court

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8. U.P)-
Albert w. Hamilton and w. Alonzo
Reynolds, Jr., former students at
the University of California at Los
Angeles, were directed in a state su-
preme court decision today to sub
NIT to military training or accept
their dismissal from the university.
The court for the second time up
held the right of the board of re-
gents of the university to make mil
itary training compulsory. The re-
quirement did not violate a stud
ent's constitutional rights, the de-
cision said.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
Chinese Warn
Oil Companies

SHANGHAI, Jan. 0. UP)-The
central government foreign office
today advised oil companies oper-
ating in Annoy and Foochow, CEN
ters of a fiercely fought civil war
to mark their properties with ban
ners visible from airplaneS.
The order, transmitted to the
companies through foreign lega-
tions here, indicated that the
Nationalist government planned to
renew aerial bombardment of the
revolt centerS
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
LOUISIANA SOCIETY ROASTS LONG
Senator Denounced In Song, Poetry And
Oratory At Dinner Given In New York

senator until the ballot box is no
longer medium for the expression
of the will of the people" she said
Owen P. White, magazine editor,
who raised fund to buy a medal
for the unknown person who struck
Long in Long Island washroom,
read lengthy saga commemorating
that event. A stanza follows:
80 I sing the song Of muskelonge,
The lobster, eel and crab,
The bull frog in the puddle,
With his gift of gall and CAB.
And ! lift glass of legal booze
And toast the happy guy
Who sent the fish back to his mud
With beefsteak on his eye"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09

NEW YORK, Jan. 9. UP)-The
name of Senator Huey P Long do
minated a dinner of the Louisiana
society of New York last night
which was to have commemorated
the anniversary of the battle of
New Orleans. Long was denounced
in song, poetry, and oratory.
Mrs. Hilda b Phelps Hammond
leader of a women's movement to
unSeat Long, was the guest of hon.
or. In the principal address she de-
manded liberation of Louisiana
from .'Longism."
"A system of repriSals has been
woven around Louisiana under the
direction of a present United States
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
BY r. ID. MCMILLAN.

CHAMON1X, France, Jan. 9. -
Alexander Sacha Stavisky, abscond-
ing banker died today, presumably
a suicide, in the little Chamonix
hospital, high in the Alps where he
had been in hiding.
Stavisky took with him in death
the story of his rise and fall-the
rise as a boon companion of high
government officials, the fall when
bonds issued by his Credit, Munich
pal Bayonne, combined bank and
official pawnshop, were declared
worthless.
He died without regaining con-
sciouSneSS. Twelve hours before a
bullet had shattered his skull.
Officials of the department of
Haute Savoie, in which Chamonix
fled during the Christmas holidays,
side to question him concerning re-
ports he did not attempt suicide
but was killed by police to insure
his silence.
1t was believed that had he
talked the revelations would have
meant ruin to many prominent men
who, most of them innocently, had
aided the devious schemes by which
he floated more than $30,000000 in
bonds.
Had Long Record
Members of parliament and the
cabinet had been mentioned as too
friendly with a man who. after he
fled during thet Christmas holidays,
was revealed as having long Grim
inal record, but who had been ac-
cepted in smart society and had
entertained many political leaders.
The Chamonix investigating mag
istrate was expected to order an
immediate autopsy to determine
whether the wound was self-inflict-
ed. 1t was expected too that he
would order the detention of Stav-
isky's beautiful brunette wife.
From the wife it was hoped auth
critics might find whether Stavisky
had managed to hide some of the
$30,000,000 which he took from in
vestors. including insurance COM
panies which we're advised by gov
ernment officials to buy his bonds
He had $2,135 in his pockets when
he was brought to the hospital.
Stavisky controlled theatres, news
papers, magazines. Then just be-
fore Christmas he dropped out of
sight. The revelation that he had
absconded was the greatest financial
scandal in years.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
Students CiUen
Rhodes Honors

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan g. UP
Four college students from the
southwest district were chosen
today as beneficiaries of Rhodes
scholarships, providing for study at
oxford university in England.
Those chosen from an original
list of Sd candidates were Samuel
Adams, Tucson, Ariz.; Morgan Sib-
bett, Provo, Utah, student at
Cornell university; Murray Kirk
wood, Pomona college, Claremont.
Calf, now studying at New Med
ford, Mass; and Chauncey d. Har-
ris, son of F. S. Harris, president
of Brigham Young university, Utah
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
PREPARES MESSAGE

WASHINGTON. Jan. 9. up
President Roosevelt cut his calling
list to a minimum today to devote
several hours to the two special
messages to congress which are to
be transmitted tomorrow
Mr.. Roosevelt will give both
houses special communications on
farm credit guarantees and the st.
Lawrence waterways treaty.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09

Shortly before noon to-day group
of nearly 1000 striking lettuce field
workers gathered for a demonstra-
tion on the east side of Brawley.
When told to disperse by police they
refused and they were charged by
the officers using tear gas bombs.
This broke up the meeting with no
violence of any sort being reported.
At almost the same time several
truckloads of strikers, mostly Mexi-
cans, headed toward Ell Centro on
the Dogwood road. They were stop
ped Just beyond the Brawley city
limits by state traffic Officers who
forced them to turn back.
Due to the excellent work of the
Brawley police in handling the
strikers, aided by county officers,
members of the state traffic patrol
ard Ell Centro police detailed for
the occasion, there was no out
break among the strikers.
Deputies from the sheriffs office
aided by members of the state traf-
fic patrol and five local police Of
ficers have been detailed to strike
duty on the highway between here
and Brawley where, it was learned,
picketS were preparing to resume
their activities to keep workers from
entering the lettuce fields.
BY press time no violence had
been reported to county authorities
on the part of striking field work.
ers. The strike is now in its second
day, many workers in the Brawley
district having walked out at o.
clock yesterday morning.
Yesterday afternoon at o'clock
Sheriff Campbell and Deputy Fred
Elliott arrested Lucio De Leon, M.
Zataray, j. Fuentes, M. Garcia,
Frank Majana, Biato Manonong,
Philip Garcia, j. Valencia and Mrs.
: r. s. Fuller. They are now held at
the county Jail for investigation re-
lative to picketing activities III
fields near Holtville.
Early this morning police received
a call to Second and State streets
where, it was said, disturbance was
being caused by strike agitatorS en-
deavoring to keep men from going
to work. An officer was detailed to
investigate and upon his arrival on
the scene of the reported disturb
ance found ali quiet.
Later in the morning police
searched a room in a local hotel
where they had been told firearms
would be found. A search of this
room uncovered a 80 calibre re-
volver and a large knife in a coat
on the wall. The inmates of the
room were not present when the
search was made.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
Quake At RiUerside
And Los Angeles

RIVERSIDE, Jan. 9. U.P)-A
sharp earth shock was felt here at
6:12 a. m. today The quake was suf-
ficiently strong to rattle windows
and awake sleepers. No damage
was reported in an early survey.
1t was believed the quake centered
along the San Jacinto fault.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. U.P) =
A slight earthquake was felt in the
eastern residential district of Los
Angeles at 6:l2 a. m, today, but it
was not of sufficient intensity to
awaken sleepers. The shock was not
felt at Long Beach.
SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. 9. W.P)
The entire San Bernardino valley
was shaken early today by the
sharpest earthquake since the dis
astrous temblor of last March 10,
No damage or injury was reported
Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-09
USE TEAR GAS
ON STRIKERS
At bRAWLEY
Police Disperse Gathering OF
1000 Field Workers Called
For Demonstration.
UNABLE TO LEAVE CITY
Efforts To Get Through To Ell
Centre Frustrated By Officers
Guarding Roads.

Upwards of $50 lettuce field
strikers were assembled in the
Eark across from the court house
at press time this afternoon
listening to speakers who we're
urging them to stand fast in
the ranks of the strikers.
The meeting followed a visit
by delegation TO the county
jail, where they protested
against the detention Of eight
strikers who were arrested here
at noon today, during a dem
OnstratiOn on the east side.
At the Jail Undersheriff
Clarke informed them that no
charges had as yet been made
against thee light men and that
nothing would be done about
their cases until tomorrow.
The delegation reported this
to the meeting being held in
the park.
City police were dispatched to
the Jail and court house to help
out the force of deputy sheriffs.
No trouble was anticipated but
officers weer prepared for it if
it came, they stated.