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Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
MIA OFFICIAL
STATES BR|bE
WAS OFFERED

WASHINGTON, May /. (U.P) -
A high official of the National Re-
covery Administration said today
that upon three occasions he has
been offered bribes if he would en-
gage in industrial organization
racketS.
The official, Dr. Wilson Compton,
chief of trade associations, told
of the racketeers' attempted ap-
proach, analyzed the character of
Administrator Hugh S. johnson,
and told business it must be good
to escape a real battle with the
NRA.
Compton spoke before the spring
meeting of the American Trade
association executives, preparatory
to the opening tomorrow of the
annual convention of the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
Il have been on three separate
occasions approached by men evi-
IDENTIFY connected with some as
sociations and obviously ambitious
for more, who promised to make
me rich if I would engage with
them in some industry organization
racket which would clearly have
involved a betrayal of the faith
and trusteeship without which no
man has right to accept a pub
lie office" he said.
Compton did not name the men
who approached him nor did he
give details.
DR.. Compton said that despite
Gen. Johnson's faults he thanked
God for such a man."
Il say this not because I con-
cur in all that he has DONE" he
continued. Il think he has made
some nearly disastrous mistakes,
that he has acted often impulsivelS
and without knowledge, arbitrar-
lily and inconsiderately.
"He does not yet and I think
never will get the most nor the
best out of his subordinates be-
cause he does not readily bring
himself to trust their judgment.
He regards himself as trustee
of the President of the United
States and accordingly is reluc-
tant to delegate that trusteeship.
Gen. Johnson is fortnight and
courageous and especially he is
an honorable man."
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
SALT-W ATER
PROTECT IN
HOT WEATHER

RIVERSIDE. May l. U.P)-Suc-
cessful preventive treatment for
heat prostrations by the use of two
of the oldest and plainest "medi-
cines' known to man, were report
ed today TO the California Medical
association, in convention here.
DR.. G. Van zwallenburg of Riv-
erSide and DR.. Richard o. Schofield
of Boulder City. New, reported that
heat prostrations among workers
at Boulder dam, where summer
temperatures often pass 125, wera
reduced from II in 1881 to nine in
1888 by prescribing drinking
water in large quantities and an
abnormally large amount of salt in
seasoning foods.
DR., Van zWallenburg said:
1.-The body's only protection
against excessive heat is the vap-
orization of the body's own water.
Fill the blood vessels with water.
Heat dilates the capillaries and
there is an outpouring of protect
ing moisture in the form of per-
Spiration -
The loss of body salt under such
conditions is enormous, DR.. Van
zwallenburg said. Besides addi-
tional salt in the diet he recon-
mended intraVenous saline solutions
in emergency cases.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
WOUNDED MAN
WILL RECOVER

Condition of Fred Anthony, Ne
gro, who was shot through the
head shortly after noon, yesterday,
is very satisfactory attendants at
the county hospital stated today
Anthony was allegedly shot by
Sidney Sanders, another Negro, on
the old Collins farm about six
miles southwest of Seeley.
According to the report of the
shooting made to the Sheriff'S Of
flee, Sanders who is now in the
county Jail walked up behind An
thony while the latter was eating
his lunch and shot him under
the right ear with a small calibre
revolver. The bullet went through
Anthony's neck, coming out below
the other ear. The wounded man
was Immediately rushed to the
county hospital.
Following the shooting, Sanders
left the scene crossed New River
and headed east. His. tracks were
followed by Deputy Sheriffs Clark
and Sharpe, who with Walter
Walsh, state traffic patrolman
had taken up the search as soon
as word of the shooting was reach
ed here.
Sanders was picked up by Sher-
iff George Campbell at TAO o'clock
last night on highway No. 80, a
mile and a half west of this city
as he was coming to Ell Centro.
When stopped by the sheriff, San
ders is said not to have denied
doing the shooting, claiming that
Anthony had stolen some grocer
les belonging to him and had pre-
vented him from making use of
the groceries he had bought. The
gun used was found in his pos
session when arrested.
He was booked at the county
jail on charge of assault with
a deadly weapon.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
La,Uyer Fails To
AnsUer Charges

LOS ANGELES, May l. UD -
Testimony that Mrs. Belle McCord
Roberts, prominent Long Beach
woman, had assisted in the mys-
terious disappearance of the defen-
dant led to abrupt continuance to-
day of the trial of Frank Golden,
attorney, on abduction charges.
Golden, accused of abducting
Mrs. Mary G. Lott, 87-year-old San
Francisco widow, to gain control Of
her $4,000 estate, had been con-
fined in Long Beach hospital for
treatment of heart ailment.
Superior Judge Elliott Craig Or
dered the defendants $4,000 bond
forfeited and issued subpoena for
Mrs. Roberts, a former newspaper
publisher.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
JUPITER HAS
WHITE SPOT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May l. tU.H)
"A huge white spot has appeared
on the planet Jupiter-the first
phenomenon of its kind within the
memory of veteran Harvard obser-
vatory astronomers.
The discovery was reported to
Harvard by Prof. j. j. Nassau OF
the Warner and Swasey observatory
at Cleveland, 0.
"An outstanding white spot on
the south equatorial belt 10000
miles by 1000 miles was observed on
Jupiter transiting at 10 p. m. on
April 29," Nassau's report said. THE
angle with the equator was 80 de-
grees."
Leon Campbell of Harvard obser-
vatory said he doubted that the
Jupiter spot had any connection
with a spot on the sun observed re-
Gently.
The Jupiter spot is interesting
astronomically but probably will
have no effect on earth because of
the great distance (Jupiter never
comes closer than 367,000,00O miles
to earth. 1t signifies some sort of
disturbance in Jupiter's atmo-
sphere. 1t may be due to frozen
ammonia"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
BY HOBART C. MONTEE

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May l. = so
what?"
This was the question asked by
observers, both in and out of the
administration today as the state
department, and probably the
chancelleries of a number of for
eign countries awaited Tokio's re-
action to the sharply worded Amer
ican rebuff to Japan's claims of
priority in relations with China.
Several major facts stood out as
result of the statement which
Joseph C. Grew, American am
bassador to Japan, delivered to
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota on
instructions from Cordell Hull, sec
retary of state riddling the stand
taken by Japan that she had a
right to be consulted by foreign
powers considering loans or other
assistance to the Chinese govern
ment.
These were:
l. The United States had taken
the lead among world powers in
rejecting Japan's claims and stand
ing four square for the sanctity
of treaties and international obli-
cations.
2. The rejection was so sweep
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
COCOANUT OIL
TAX f AYED
BY ISLANDER

WASHINGTON, May l. U.P)-
A warning that violation of the
spirit of the -McDuffie act
will produce important repercus-
sions in the far east was sounded
in the house of representatives to-
day by Resident Commissioner
Pedro Guevara.
The imposition of three cents
tax on cocoanut oil from the Phil
ippines, Guevara said, amounted to
a fundamental alteration of the
independence act.
This will cause the economic
penetration of the Philippines by
some nation who will be more
than willing to take advantage of
the situation.
Indirectly it will justify the at
tempt to destroy the open door
policy successfully inaugurated and
maintained by the United States in
China.
"It will depress the American
trade in the Philippines, far dim
inishing the purchasing power of
it's inhabitants and will reduce
their capacity to buy American
goods
Guevara said he regretted 'to
mention some of these questions"
in speech delivered to express
the gratitude of the Filipino people
to congress for having granted
an independence act.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
ORDINANCE TO
PUT CURB ON
DRUG ADDICTS

LOS ANGELES, May /. U.p)-
Under an ordinance to be requested
of the city council by police, all
physicians will be forced to report
treatment of drug addicts to the
police department.
This decision was an outgrowth
OF meeting late yesterday between
representatives of the health de-
partment. police and federal and
state narcotic officers called to
discuss the future of the city IS mar
cotic clinic.
DR.. E. H. Williams, prominent
psychiatrist, who had been doing
the clinic work, was arrested last
week on suspicion of violating the
Harrison narcotic act in the cam
paign of federal officers to eradi-
cate drug traffic in Los Angeles.
The specialist resigned from the
clinic following his arrest.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
FILM COMEDIAN TO WE'D INVALID
Romance To Unite Chester Conklin And
Former Well-Known Violinist

HOLLYWOOD, May l. U.H -
A romance as idyllic as any penned
by poet was brought to light today
when wedding plans were announc-
ed for Chester Conklin, motion
picture comedian, and Miss Mar
gherita Rouse, former concert vio-
liniSt and now an invalid.
They will be married Saturday
at Adams church. Seated in the
wheel chair she has occupied %
years, the 51-year-old bride will
wear trousseau and bridal veil like
any other bride" Only a few close
friends will be in attendance.
Once an accomplished violinist,
Miss Rouse's career was cut short
by a fall down the stairs of a
Chicago theatre. She was only 6
when she made her first concert
tour, appearing in the major cities
of America. At the age of 18, she
was appearing on programs with
Ernestine Schumann-Heink. 1t was
when the two were booked in Chi
cago that the young violinist fell
down the steps OF the theatre,
suffering almost complete para
lysis. Her condition later was ag-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
MRS. JOHNSON
APPEALS CASE

Following the posting of $3.50
cash bail with Judge Mayfield
late yesterday afternoon, Mrs.
Grover C. Johnson was released
from the county Jail, an appeal
having been entered against the
Judgment of the justice court.
Mrs. johnson had been senten-
ced to pay a $3.50 fine or spend
125 days in the county Jail after
her conviction on a charge of
carrying a concealed weapon. She
applied for probation which was
denied by the justice court and had
served II days of her sentence yes
terday when released pending the
hearing of the appeal. After her
release Mrs. Johnson left to join
her husband in San Bernardino.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
SAY BREMER
CASE: SOLVED
Federal Agents Obtain Confes-
sions From Suspects In Kid
naping Affair.

CHICAGO, May /. U.P)-Feder-
al detectives who for four months
have relentlessly sifted the under
worlds of a dozen cities recorded
as solved today one of the most
sensational and battling crimes OF
recent years, the 100000 kidnapping
of Edward c.. Bremen # st. Paul
Four men were held on charges
of conspiracy in abduction of the
wealthy banker, son of Adolf Bre-
mer, brewer and friend of PreSi-
dent Roosevelt. Among them was
John j. Mclaughlin, one time po-
litical leader of Chicago IS west side
and reputed overload of city gamb-
ling concessions.
Investigators said Mclaughlin
confessed he handled $4,000 of the
huge ransom paid for Bremer's re-
lease.
His 16-year-old son, John, Jr.,
was arraigned yesterday before a
United States commissioner and
held under $4,000 bond when agents
testified he had $85 of the ransom
money.
With him was arraigned Philip
Delaney, "a, a bartender. Melvin
Purvis, chief department of justice
agent here, revealed Delaney was
arrested Saturday, at the same time
the Senior Mclaughlin was held
He was said to have passed $4,000
of Bremer's money.
Both the younger Mclaughlin and
Delaney pleaded not guilty. Della
ney's bond was set at $4,000.
The other man held is William
Vidler, arrested with $2665 of the
Bremen money in his possession.
Federal men searched the entire
southwest, meanwhile, for two no.
torious gangsters, Arthur Doc)
Barker and Alvin Karpis.
Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings announced several weeks ago
that Barker and Karpis had been
identified as the men who actually
kidnapped Bremen.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
Comedian Loses
Damage Action

HOLLYWOOD, May l. U.P)-
George Moran, surviving member
of the 1.-TWO Black Crows emerg-
ed from bitter legal dispute late
today with an empty pocket.
A jury denied him $34,5OO dam
ages he sought from Mrs Myrtle
Mack and an insurance company
on the claim Mrs. Mack was driv-
ing negligently when her car over
turned on an Arizona highway last
January, killing her husband,
Charles Mack, and injuring himself
and Mack Sennett, film producer.
The jury deliberated six hours be-
fore absolving Mrs. Mack and the
insurance company.
Moran had claimed the accident
impaired his ability to earn a stage
living. He said he could no longer
memorize. Mrs. Mack contended a
blowout caused the accident.
Moran was the straight men,
ber of the Moran and Mack black
face comic team.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
BY JOHN A. REICHMANN
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May l. - The
coo firms trading ON the New York
stock exchange made average prof
its of $1,333,333 in the period begin
ming in 1923 and running through
the 1929 boom as well as the lean
days that followed, figures submit
ted to the senate banking commit
tee revealed today.
The total sum, as gathered from
missionaries tabulated by Ferdi-
nand Pecora, the committees coun-
sci, showed a net income of $685.
167,686 for the period. The figures
were compiled from answers that
represented almost the entire mem
ber body of the exchanges.
The net income ran a little more
than one-third of the gross income
of $2,153,218 671 which the report
ing firms received.
Buyers and sellers of securities,
including the small speculator, paid
in more than three e-fourths of the
total gross income in commissions.
They spent $1,502, ,275 in this
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
Fourth Clubs
To Tour Valley

Tour of the various industries of
Ell Centro will be enjoyed by 4-H
club boys and girls on Saturday of
this week, May 5, according TO II.
Lee Landerman, assistant farm ad-
visor and All club leader.
These tours are events of each
year and this year those industries
in this city are the ones to be
visited. The group will assemble
at 10 a. m. in the front Of the court
house and from there visit a num-
ber of firms including Cramer IS
Bakery, the Imperial Valley Press,
radio station KXO, the Farnsworth
Dairy and other points of inter-
est.
The tour will be interrupted at
noon for a pot luck luncheon in
the park.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
ASK DISTRICT
To RESC|ND
ITS SCONTRACT
Power Company Threatens
Court Action Against Proposed
Electric Plant.

A demand that the irrigation
district board of directors rescind
the contract it entered into re-
Gently for the construction of a
standby power plant to be located
in Brawley was contained in let
ter from the Southern Sierras
Power company read to the board
this afternoon. The letter was Or
dered filed without comment.
This letter, signed by A. B. West,
president of the power company al
leges that the district ''is now and
has for some time past been in de-
fault in the payment of its bond
principal and interest, n d
in addition, has outstanding a large
amount of registered warrants
which it is unable to pay.'
1t states further 1.-The company,
therefore, hereby demands that
your board take prompt action
forthwith to cancel, annul and res
cind said CONTRACT which is held
to be illegal. Unless this is done
the communication states that the
company will be forced "to protect
and enforce the rights of said dis
trict by such action or actions as
it may be advised to be proper and
effective in the premises.
A communication from the state
highway commission was also read
advising the board that the next
meeting of the commission will be
! on May 10 instead of this coming
Friday as had at first been an
nounced. The board of directors
are to meet with the commission or
that date to discuss the matter OF
bridges on the state highway whers
this crosses the All-American can
al route.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
A. c. |. !. INSISTING UPON GOOD Will TOUR
Canal Edition
Meets Delay

Due to unforeseen difficult
tics with the cover page, pub
lication of the All-American
canal souvenir edition, spon-
ecred by the Brawley News,
Calexico Chronicle and I'M
rerial Valley Press, has been
deferred until the latter part
of this week.
The five sections in which
the edition is TO appear have
been completed and are ready
now for mailing. The cover
is being printed by the Elite
Printing company of this city.
which advises il will be ready
possibly in time to get the
edition into Thursdays mail.
The publishers extremely re-
gret this eleventh hour delay
which was unavoidable, and
assure those who have been
eagerly awaiting the issue that
every possible effort will be
made to have it available on
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
Wind Damaging
To Wheat Crop

Considerable damage is being
done the wheat crop by today IS
wind states H. Lee Landerman, as
sistant farm advisor. The grain,
which is ready to harvest, is being
shattered out and causing consider
able loss to growers.
Those growers whose wheat is in
wirdrows are suffering less dam
age as it can be picked up with
combine harvester after the wind.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
Court To Decide
Wheat Or Alfalfa

With the plaintiff claiming the
crop is wheat and the defendant
equally sure it is alfalfa, Judge
Vaughn Thompson has a knotty
problem ON his hands in superior
court while listening to the argu-
ments of attorneys in the action
of w. S. Harris versus H. d. Poor.
The phase of this action brought
to the courts attention this morn
ing was an argument for an or
der to show cause why tenn
porary restraining order should not
be permanent to prevent the cut
ting of a crop on property now
in litigation Wheat and alfalfa
were sewn together in the field
making a crop of mixed nature.
it is claimed
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01

gravated by arthritis. The best
medical care was Intellectual
Her romance with Conklin was
born of a radio appearance. The
comedian was dedicating most of
his broadcasts to "shutins," listen
ers who are confined to their
homes. Once he gave a party for
them at his home. Among those
who came was Miss Rouse. Friend
ship developed into love and today
eliminated in the announcement
they would be married
"Oh, I'm so happy" said the
bride-to-be. I'm going to wear a
veil, a regular bridal veil like any
other bride"
Conklin is well known in the
valley and is still believed to own
property here. His mother, in the
pioneer days of Ell Centre con-
ddcted a boarding house at Sixth
and Olive streets, which was one
of the popular eating places for
residents of the city. Her son who
had not then become famous in
the films, was frequent visitor
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
MAKES FULL HOUSE

LONG BEACH, May l. U.P)-
Henry A. Schact passed out cigars
today, not one but three, in honor
ing himself as the father of trip
lets.
His wife presented him with three
daughters, born at one-minute in
tervalS. They weighed between
three pounds, Is ounces, and four
pounds, six ounces.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
PLANNING To
VISIT VALLEY
On SATURDAY
Leaders Reject Suggestion OF
General Glassford That Pro-
gram Be Abandoned.
RADICAL UNION CONDEMNED
Federal Conciliator Issues Pub
lie Rebuke To Avowed Com
munistic Organization.

Los ANGELES, May 1. U.p
Request of Gen. Pelham ID.
GlassfOrd, federal conciliator I'm
the Imperial Valley labor dis
putes, that the American Civil
Liberties union delegation to
the valley next Saturday be
abandoned, was rejected today
by Los Angeles leaders of the
union.
Sentiment here is that the
Civil Liberties union must pro-
ceed to demonstrate the break
down of local and state law
enforcement by free speech
meetings until federal govern
ment accepts responsibility"
the telegram of the A. c. l.. U.
officials to Glassford read.
Reports that leaders of the
strikers in the valley were plan
ming to blow up railroad
bridge at the peak of the mel
on season and thus initiate
strike proceedings were denied
to the Civil Liberties union
by representatives of the strik-
ers.
However, in its telegram to
GlaSsfOrd, the Civil Liberties
union officials suggested that
the proper action would be 'to
have railroad bridge guarded
in the light of recent informa-
ton"
When the above United Pres
dispatch was read to him toda
by The Press, General Pelham Z
Glassford denied that he had mad
any request to the American Civi
Liberties union to postpone O
abandon its plans for a so-calle,
goodwill tour to the valley mex
The general stated that he Ok
advise against the goo,
will tour in a telegram to Ches
,er Williams, representative of tn
A. G. L. u, part of which h,
quoted as follows: "I PERSONAL,
your proposed return
and good will tour planned TO
1ext Saturday because cannot &C
'ompliSh anything but aggravatiol
% the situation"
The telegram from the Ameri
IAN Liberties union to the gen
eral, rejecting the request which
le never made, reached him at .
o'clock this afternoon. He advised
The Press that he intended t,
study it over and would make /,
Continued On PAGE a.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
i. s. AWAITS TOKIO'S REPLY
TOSTAND ON CHINA PROGRAM
American Statement Is Sharp Rebuff To
Japan's Claims Of Priority In Chinese In
}ePestS

ing and direct as to make Japan
'it" for the next move.
3. The United States has not
deviated from the Stimsonian doc
trine that the sanctity of treaties
and other international obligations
must be observed by all the sign
atories of those treaties.
T. The United States recognition
of Manchukuo, the puppet state
carved out of North China within
ring of japanese bayonets, ap-
pears as far distant under the
Roosevelt administration as at any
time under Herbert Hoovers pres
idency.
The much talked-of British and
American Joint action" appeared
to have become unjointed at a
strategic spot in the crucible of
practical test.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
IN
PROFESSIONS
Of RADICALS
Moscow Takes Lead With Huge
Display OF Military Forces
And Workers.
VIOLENCE HITS MINIMUM
Paris Takes Extreme Precau-
tions To Guard Against Re-
newal Of Disturbances.
BY JOSEPH ii. BAIRD
United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, May l. Hundreds
of thousands of soldiers and work.
ers in mass formation surged
through Red Square past Nikolai
Lenin IS tomb today on the occasion
of Soviet Russia's greatest holiday
May day.
Joseph Stain, leader of the Sow
let government; President Michael
Lalinin and Premier Viacreslav
Molotov headed the assemblage of
hundreds of notables on the review
ing stand at Lenjn's tomb.
Stain, in his familiar Semi-mil-
itary uniform with visored cap, re-
sponded frequently to spirited sa-
luteS of soldiers who made up the
first portion of the parade.
Thousands of infantrymen, i'm
pressive in seemingly uncountable
numbers, marched past first. Then
came rank after rank of tanks,
clanking over the square, then
rumbling of heavy guns and other
war paraphernalia.
Scores of airplanes OF Russia g
efficient air force, believed to be
the second largest in the world
after France 's-roared overhead In
series of intricate maneuvers.
There was a special effort to
make this years parade impressive
SO that foreign military attaches
in view of the far eastern situation
might see the state of the Soviet
army.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-01
BY RAY G. MARSHALL
Press Staff Correspondent

TOXIC, May /. - Japan was
revealed today as standing firm
against selfish" foreign inter-
ference in China, despite represen-
tations by the United States and
Great Britain.
Publication of the statement
Continued On Page 81