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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
FOUR SLAYERS
EXECUTED IN
THREE STATES
California Hangs Two While
Arizona And Nevada Use Le-
thai Gas.

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, July
13. W.P)-Two convicted murderers
Jose Arragon and Walker Rippy,
were hanged at San Quentin to-
day, plunging side by side to their
deaths.
The trap of the double -gallows
used for the execution was sprung
at 1901 a. m. Rippy was pronounc-
ed dead at 1913 a. m. Arragon
was declared dead at 1912 a. m.
Arragon was convicted of kill
ing his wife, Helen, and her assert
ed lover, Pasqual Torres. In a plea
! for Communication of his death SEN
tence to life Imprisonment defense
attorneys contended Arragon slew
the pair in a murderous frenzy
induced by Torress actions and
his wifes infidelity.
Torres, once a close friend of
Arragon, assertedly broke up the
formers home in Indio, Calf.
Rippy was the third of a trio
of Negroes to hang for the killing
of Alex Thompson, service station
operator near Victorville, Cal, and
said to have been an uncle of
Ruth Roland, film star. George
williams, who attempted to assume
full blame for the Staying, was
the first to hang for the crime.
Last Friday John Mick, "a, was
hanged for his part in the affair.
Thompson was killed during an
attempted robbery of his service
station. Rippy, Williams and Mick
were captured in MADEIRA, Calf,
! few days after the Staying.
STATE PRISON, CARSON CITY,
New, July 13. U.P)-Joe Behiter,
35, convicted three years ago for
the murder of Maxine Armstrong,
Las Vegas dance hall girl, died to-
day in Nevada IS lethal gas cham
ber.
He was the seventh person to die
here since Nevada introduced leth-
al gas execution to the world 10
years ago.
Behiter entered the death cham
ber at 4:33 a. m. Warden Matt
Penrose cut the strings which
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13

BOARD WILL
SEEK PEACE

WASHINGTON, July 13. U.H-
President Roosevelt IS national in
dustrial relations board today open
ed a nationwide drive to eliminate
friction between capital and labor,
which has brought strike, lockouts
and riots in widespread sections.
Eight industrial concerns were
cited to show cause why they should
not be prosecuted, or lose their blue
eagles, for alleged violation OF col
lective bargaining provisions of the
National Recovery Act.
Names of the concerns were with
held prior to designation Of dates
for hearings, scheduled for the
week of July %.
The companies will have an op-
portupity to refute the charges, but
If they fail, 1t was said the cases
would be turned over to the COM
pliance division of NRA, or to the
department of justice.
The new board, headed by Lloyd
Garrison, has broad powers, per-
mitting 1t to hold Investigations;
to order labor elections; to hear
cases of discharge of employees,
and to act as voluntary arbiter in
labor disputes.
It's decision cannot be reviewed
by the executive branch OF the gov
ernment.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
RELIEF WORK
NOW IN OLD
POST OFFICE

Headquarters for relief work ir.
the county have been set up in the
old post office building and follow
ing three days of moving furniture
and records from former quarters
in the basement of the court house
the organization is now ready to
function smoothly.
Officers connected with the va
rious departments of this relief
work are the following:
w. j. Sterrett, county SERA di-
rector. j. T. Rice, supervising en-
gineer. M. o. Briggs, manager Of
work placement. DR.. N. E. Dupont,
director of water distribution.
Charles A. Bratton, clerk in charge
of feed loan applications. This is
in connection with the drought re-
lief program being carried on in
the county. S. E. Shaw, assistant
auditor. E. E. Kiefer, paymaster,
and Miss Irma Mason, case super
visor of emergency relief.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
GOVERNOR TO
WATCH STRIKE
DEVELOPMENTS

SACRAMENTO. July 10. U.H-
Gov. Frank NJ Merriam contem-
plates no action extending the jur-
isdiction of national guard troops,
on strike duty in San Francisco
unless serious trouble develops and
he receives a request for aid, it was
said at the executive offices here
today
While an opinion had been re-
ceived from Attorney General U.
S. Webb stating it would be legal
for him to order troops to any part
of San Francisco, such action by
the governor was considered as a
remote possibility. Developments
in the strike situation, however,
would govern his future action, it
was said.
Sheriffs of the various counties
affected by the truck drivers walk
out were informed they were ex-
pected to maintain order in their
own territories. They have power
to swear in as many deputies as
needed.
Reports to the governor IS office
today indicated quiet prevailed in
the strike area.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
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SIsal. NsNauzht Syndicate. Iva
CHILDREN SEE
MOTHER SLAIN

DALLAS, Tex, July 13. WH -
H. B. Harris, 37-year-old buyer for
a Dallas department store, today
shot his divorced wife and another
woman to death and then shot him
self.
At the hospital where Harris was
taken doctors said he would die.
Harris victims were Mrs. Err
mine Harris, 80, his divorced wife,
and Mrs. Patricia Kidd, "a, her
cousin.
Officers learned that Harris
walked to Mrs. Harris residence
and in the presence of three Of
their children shot her and Mrs.
Kidd.
Then he sent a bullet into his
own body, staggered to the tele-
phone and called the police.
Mary Ermine Harris, 4, was tod
ding about the room when Harris
appeared and started shooting.
Bobby, 2, was seated in highchair,
and Gay, months old, was lying
in a cradle near by.
Officers said Harris was in the
custom of visiting his children at
their mothers home twice week.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
ORDERS PAIR
SHIPPED HERE
IMMEDIATELY
Director OF Public Works Re-
spends To Appeal By Hulse
For Assistance.
TO COOPERATE FULLY
Swing Advises SERA Project
Can Include Relief Work Nee
essary.
TO COOPERATE FULLY

SACRAMENTO, July 10. U.P)-
The state highway division today
ordered two tank trucks to Imper-
ial county to haul water for live
stock.
Serious drought conditions caused
r. c. Branion, state emergency re-
lief administrator, and State Sem
ator Ben Hulse to telegraph Gov.
Frank E. Merriam asking for state
aid in hauling water for stock
purposes.
Earl Lee Kelly, director of pub
lie works, said all trucks in the
Bakersfield area were in use, but
that he would make at least two
tank cars available. He was at
tempting to determine how far the
water must be hauled, and where
it will be distributed.
Senator Hulse said the drought
was exceedingly serious, and that
it was necessary to provide tank
trucks to transport water for live
stock and inhabitants of the coun-
ty.
Tank trucks for the conveyance
| of stock water from central points
to nearby ranches where it is so
| badly needed will be supplied the
! county it seemed assured this morn
ing. A telegram was received at
irrigation district headquarters
from Phil D. Swing who is now in
Washington to aid the county in
its present emergency to secure
needed relief.
SWINGS wire said in part that
the federal emergency relief ad-
ministration in the national cap
ital believes that state relief auth
! critics have the power and auth
| ority to make the maintenance an5
| operation of trucks for stock water
relief work project. This pro-
| cedure is favored by the federal
administration according to the
telegram.
County officials yesterday ad-
dressed pleas both to Governor
| Merriam and r. c. Branion, state
relief director, asking that all avail
able highway department water
trucks be sent to the valley to aid
in the transportation of stock
! water to the ranches Word of
this move had been sent to Swing
and he had contacted federal Of
cials in the matter. Senator Hulse.
who telegraphed the governor and
also wrote him, does not expect
reply before tomorrow.
The telegram states further that
Yuma had protested dam con-
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
SMALL
BOY KIDNAPPED

HARTSDALE, N. Y, July 13. U.P
"A call for boy scout and volunteer
reinforcements today sent almost
a thousand searchers through the
woods of Westchester county on
the trail of missing two-year-old
Robert Connor, believed to have
been abducted while at play in
one of New York City's exclusive
suburbs.
An all-night search which led 500
men through large estates and
thorny underbrush of the sur
rounding area yielded only two
vague clues:
l. The possibility that a de
mented peddler" seized the child
about 6 p. m. yesterday while he
was playing at his home in Harris
dale Manor.
2. The possibility that the child
was led Or carried to road in the
rear of the Connor home, where
he was taken into an automobile.
This was hinted when two trained
dogs followed the childs trail to
the road and then circled in con-
fusion.
Charles Connor, father of the
child and an engineer in the en-
ploy of the state insurance de-
partment, led the search. Shortly
after dawn, when the first search
ing parties of about 500 came in
tired and scratched by under
brush, he said he feared that his
son had been kidnapped.
All Night Search
All night he had hunted through
the woods and the rich estates
surrounding the district, calling the
boys name.
Connor said he was certain that
Robert, a normal, blond child
but not very robust, could not have
wandered far from the home,
which is surrounded by the ramb-
ling, wooded estates of prominent
persons.
Robert weighs % pounds and has
a small scar on the tip of his
nose. He wore pink rompers. high
white shoes and white socks.
The Connor family is ir COM
Portable circumstances. 1t was
pointed out that the large estates
nearby might lead kidnaper to
believe that the child belonged to
wealthy family.
Search for the peddler was spur
red when police learned that he
had been talking wildly in the
vicinity yesterday, referring to him
self as foreign nobleman who
was deprived of estates abroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
SAN FRANCISCO FACES VERITABLE
SIEGE AS GENERAL STRIKE BEGINS
Conditions Approaching Chaos AS Unions Of
All Types Join Longshoremen In Sympa-
thetic Walkout Of Workers.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13. U.P-
Blockaded by land and sea, San
Francisco and its teeming environs
were under siege today as a gen.
eral strike movement crushed down
from all sides.
Twenty thousand union workers
struck. BY nightfall thousands of
others we're expected to join a CITY,
wide walkout in sympathy with the
66 day old coastwide maritime
workers strike.
A food and fuel famine threat
ened.
Violence flared on the militia
guarded waterfront-blood battle
ground of the marine strike. A
sailor was shot Vandalism and
pillage broke out in wide-separat-
ed sections of the city. Striking
marine workers and teamsters at
tempted kidnapings.
Non-Striking truck drivers were
stopped, and slugged. Trucks were
overturned. Drivers were turned
back from the city's three arterial
highways after being stopped and
intimidated by sullen-faced union
teamSterS.
Fresh vegetables disappeared
from grocery stores. There was
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
TUo Sentenced
To Sar, Quentin

Charles Walker and Lie Lemley
were sentenced to San Quentin
prison for the terms prescribed by
law by Judge Thompson in superior
court this morning.
Walker had been found guilty by
a jury earlier this week of charge
of manslaughter following his trial
in superior court. He was said to
have struck a Japanese over the
head during a quarrel after an au-
tomobile accident, the man later
dying in a Los Angeles hospital.
Lemley, who had been charged
with lewd and lascivious conduct
previously waived preliminary hear.
ing when brought up in Winter
haven justice court. At his appear
ance in superior court he pleaded
guilty to the charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
Wetherbee's Fate
Rests With Jury

After receiving instructions from.
Judge r. D. McPherrin, the jury
which heard evidence produced dur
ing the trial of Melvin Wetherbee,
charged with criminal attack, re-
tired to the jury room to deliberate
on their verdict. The trial started
yesterday morning.
Wetherbee is charged with having
assaulted a 17-year-old Calexico
girl in March. He left the county
following the alleged assault and
was arrested in Des Moines, Iowa.
Extradition papers were obtained
and he was brought back to this
county to stand trial.
He was a member of the carnival
troupe which played at the fair
grounds during the county fair this
year and following that the carnival
played for short time in Calexico
at which time the attack is said
to have taken place.
The jury had not returned its
verdict by press time today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13

not enough meat to last over the
weekend. Shelves were Quilted of
canned goods as housewives, fear
ing famine, rushed to stock their
larders in an orgy of buying.
Taxicabs stopped operating at 3
a. m. when their gasoline supply
was exhausted. Motorists drove
miles into the country to get fuel
Hotels threatened to close.
knights Templar and their fam
lilies, in national convention here,
fled the city after striking team
sters curtly set a deadline for their
departure.
Situation Serious
The situation hourly became
more ominous. Street railway un-
ions we're to join the rapidly swell
ing onrush of labor for a paralyz-
ing general strike. Union after
union placed itself at the disposal
of the city's Central Labor coun-
Gil IS "strategy committee.
The group was to meet at 2 p.
m. to determine whether it would
ask all union labor to walk out un-
less ship owners and employers OF
longshoremen surrendered to the
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
DAIRY STRIKE
HITS INDIANA

SOUTH BEND, Ind, July 13.
U.P)-Delivery of milk to almost
10000 people in northern Indiana
was halted today by a strike OF
South Bend and Mishawaka dairy
employees.
Drivers of milk wagons and in
side employees struck at midnight
after operators of 18 dairy plants
adjourned an earlier meeting with
out answering demands for union
recognition, a $40 minimum week.
ly wage and six day week.
PicketS who rushed to every
plant in the district Immediately
after strike was approved by a
unanimous standing vote we're
joined by union employees of the
Studebaker Motors corporation, the
Bendix Products corporation, and
street car operators.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
APPEAL MADE
BY CARDINAL
IN FILM WAR

NEW YORK, July 10. W.H -
Calling upon Catholics to shun the
movies "glorification of lust and
crime" as they would quarantine
against epidemic" Patrick Cardinal
Hayes today joined religious leaders
fighting to purify the films.
In a message to pastors of the
archdiocese of New York he thank
ed God that the American public
Protestant, Jew and Catholic
''is rising to determined action to
put stop to productions that, for
the sake of monetary gain, de-
bauch the sense of Americas moral
decency which until recently neither
stage nor screen would dare offend
as openly and as f1agrantly as at
present"
The cardinal said he thought
the moral forces of the nation had
been too patient with motion pic
ture producers.
THE Catholic church takes no
drab view of lawful pleasure he
added. "She is a mother of joy
and limits her penitential season to
seme few weeks of the year. :.
She rejoices in seeing her child
rem happy, smiling in the enjoy
ment of normal, reasonable. and
wholesome amusement.
Gladly would the church bless
the screen, we're it to be morally
clean in it's presentation of the
realities of life and its creation
of mirth-provoKing situations"
VATICAN CITY, July 13. fU.H-
An even more vigorous and broader
campaign against allegedly immoral
motion picture films was fore
shadowed today in Vatican circles.
Vatican authorities watched close
ly efforts of American clergymen
and others to alter the trend of
films, and it was indicated that
even more thoroughness would be
approved.
The fight against sex films was
described by one source as "a cam
paign for the moralization of the
cinema-that is, for respect OF
conscience, dignity of art and lit
erature, and for the liberation OF
actors and others from a repug-
nant form of slavery"
Catholic publications, associa-
tions must unite in the campaign
against those film communities
where "paganism runs rife and the
only moral code is that of the
box office" said the Osservatore
Rohano, newspaper of the Vatican.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
Heart Attack
Claims Roncher

Henry Sulzer, 48-year-old ranch
worker. died of heart disease at
tbs last night when he was strick-
en- at the ranch of Glen Miller,
his employer, one mile west of the
Meloland store.
Sulzer, who had come here from
Switzerland, had very bad heart,
according to the examining ply
sician. Funeral arrangements,
pending the arrival today of a
brother from Pasadena, are in
charge of B. E. Lemons.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
Alleged Sn,ugglers
Taken At Jacurnba

w. D. Green of Mesa, 'Ariz., and
M. j. Wood, Salinas, Calf, with
Mohammed Jagar and Mohammed
Kawa, Hindus. were arrested in ia
cumba early this morning by In
spectors Seiber and Watson of the
border patrol and brought to the
county Jail where they are being
held for investigation by the immi-
grafton authorities.
According to officials 1t was said
that the two Americans were driv-
ing a coupe at the time of their
arrest, the two Hindus being hid
den in the rear deck of the car.
They had been brought over the
international line from Mexico, it
was charged.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
MRS. LINDSEY BETTER

HOLLYWOOD, July l3. U.P)-
Mrs. Ben B. Lindsey, wife of the
former Denver juvenile court judge,
has virtually recovered from a
heart attack, attaches at Holly
wood hospital reported today. Mrs.
Lindsey underwent blood trans
fusion last week after being strick-
en-. Her illness was attributed to
overwork in her husbands politi-
cal campaign. He is candidate
for superior judge in Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
Jail Breaker Is
CAPTURED At Yuma

C. A. Barber, serving term AZ
the county Jail for petty theft
took French leave" yesterday only
to have his freedom rudely inter-
rupted when he was picked up at
Yuma, where he is now held pend
ing extradition proceedings.
Barber was a trusty at the jail
and his absence was not noticed
for some time after he had walked
away. Notice was sent to nearby
points to watch out for him, result
ing in his arrest at Yuma.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
Harper Sentence
Due On Monday

Sentence will be pronounced or
James Harper, Negro, by Judge
Thompson Monday morning. Fol-
lowing his trial which concluded
yesterday Harper was found guilty
of manslaughter.
The defendant had been brought
to trial after the death of Everett
Lawson, another Negro, who was
stabbed to death with an icepick
in Brawley the afternoon of April
13. Lawson and Harper had fought
at that time, the former using
piece of lead pipe while Harper had
the icepick in his hand during the
quarrel.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
Property OUner
Here Found Dead

Word has reached here that A.
Fink of Los Angeles was found
dead in his automobile beside the
highway near Gilman Hot Springs
Wednesday afternoon. Authorities
believe he was the victim of an
heart attack.
Fink who owns considerable
property in Ell Centre was enroute
to Los Angeles from Ell Centro at
the time of his death. He had been
here since Monday looking after his
interests.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
HULL REPLIES
ADDRESS WAS
I NOT OFFICIAL
Secretary Of State Contends
Speech By NRA Chief Express
sicn Of Individual.
STICKS BY HIS REMARKS
General Asserts He Meant Every
Word Uttered About Revolt
Of Nazis.
STICKS BY HIS REMARKS

WASHINGTON. July 13 U.P)-
Recovery Administrator Hugh S.
johnson IS remarks on German
Nazi executions brought an immed-
late protest today from the Ger
man embassy and resulted in the
seate department. lsegretting"
that johnson Waterloo, Iowa,
speech had been "misconstrued as
off!cial.n -
The statement said:
1.-The German charge d 'affaires
called at the department of state
this morning and protested to the
secretary of state against the re-
marks reported to have been made
by General Hugh S. Johnson in
speech on July II, 1884 relative to
recent events in Germany.
1.-THE secretary of state called
the attention of DR.. Leitner to the
published statement of General
johnson which appeared in this
mornings press to the effect that
he was speaking as an individual
and not for the state department
or for the administrator. Mr..
Hull confirmed the accuracy of
this explanation and said it was to
be regretted that the position in
the government occupied by the
speaker made it possible for re-
marks uttered by him as an indi-
vidual to be misconstrued as Off
cial.'
WASHINGTON, July 13. U.P)-
Germany formally protested to the
state department today Gen. Hugh
S.. Johnson's pungent slam at the
Nazi government "second revolu-
tion' executions.
The formal complaint was lodged
by German Charge D'Affaires Ru-
dolph Leitner, and directly in
volved the brass-voiced NRA chief
tain in an international incident
affecting German-American friend
ly relations
johnson, meanwhile, defied the
state department, refusing to take
back what he said in his Iowa corn
belt speech yesterday and adding
he did not expect "cali down.
from the department.
Leitner was closeted with Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull for Is
minutes. 1t was understood COM
1nunique would be issued shortly by
Hull.
Leitner explained he had gone
to the department prior to receiv-
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
KLICK SIGNS FOR BOUT

NEW YORK, July l3. U.H-Ray
Carlin. manager of frankie Klick.
announced today that he had signed
for the California lightweight to
meet Cleto Locatelli OF Italy In
hereunder at Philadelphia on July
80. 1t will be the first bout OF
Kicks comeback campaign after
losing recently TO Tony Canzoneri.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
WHEAT GOING TIP

CHICAGO, July 13. W.P)-Wheat
touched dollar bushel today for
the first time in more than a month
with the biggest buying wave in
months swept into the board of
trade grain pits. At the close wheat
was up 27s to 3& cents, corn was
up l to 11a cents and oats were y
to y cent higher.
July wheat old closed at $685.
July new .961a, July corn 591s, and
July old oats .441h
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
Deadiir,e Near
On Registration

Thurrday. July 10, is the
final date for voters to regis
ter, so as to be eligible to
vote at the August primary
election.
Voters desiring to register
may do so up to the close of
business hours at the coun-
ty clerks office in the court
house any day up to and in
Guiding July 10.
Citizens who are not abso-
lutely sure that they are reg
ictered correctly, are urged to
take care of the matter at
once.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-13
mW!nLlL-,e

WASHINGTON, July II.
(SpeciaD-Just had a fine long
visit (and incidentally a good
lunch) with the kindliest,
friendliest and most able of
our diplomats in a long time,
Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
We talked much of South
America, where he had many
friends at that conference and
that's the country where we
can use some friends too.
That's our alley for our
drummers down there.
They are finally starting
something that should have
been started a year ago and
that IS this house building and
repairing. The local bank, or
local organization lends the
money up to $4,000, the govern
ment don't spend anything.
1t only guarantees 20 per cent
of it in case of loss. And these
loans are made almost entirely
on a maj IS name alone.
Well, just the idea of man
being trusted again is going to
make the whole thing 100 per
cent honest. 1t IS the best of
all plans and Jimmy Moffett
and a fine organization work
ing it.
Washington was never pref
tier. Not a senator or congress-
man here.
Yours,
Mx Rem<