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Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11

WASHINGTON, Oct. Ii. WR)-
The agricultural census beginning
in January will give $4,000 pa
tronage plums' to Democratic
congressman, William L. Austin,
census bureau director, said today.
Austin's statement came as Re-
publicans protested administration
e-election methods, namely con-
cerning the outgo of crop benefit
checks at the rate of $4,000000 a
day.
Austin said the $4,000 field super
visors and enumerators required
for the census would be selected
after consultation with Demo-
cratic representatives.
In q statement replying to crit
icism of political patronage, -
Austin said the policy since the
Civil war has been to award the
census jobs to the party in power.
"The mid-decennial census legis-
lation was passed by a Republican
congress and approved by a Re-
publican president" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
By THOMAS COPE

United Presg staff Correspondent
PARIS. Oct. 11.-Police uncover
ed an amazing and widespread as
SaSSination plot today when they
rounded up alleged conspirators in
the murder Of King Alexander oil
JugoSlavia and Foreign Minister
Louis Barthou of France.
Two Croats arrested on the Swiss
border and third Slav who is
fugitive in the Fontainbleau Forest
near Paris were expected to furn-
ish the clues which would result in
the capture of a formidable gang
of terrorists.
The two arrested on the border.
police announced, confessed they
were active accomplices of Petrus
Kelemen (also known as Rudolph
Suk) the actual slayer.
Their names were given as LadiS-
las BeneS COR Egon Kramer) and
q man named Novak.
The fugitive in the forest was
Sylvester Chalny (alSo known as
Nails NikoniD, who tore away from
police when he was searched at
Fontainbleau station. Hundreds of
policemen and soldiers spread out
through the forest in an extensive
manhunt, but police announced
they had lost his trail.
Police said the suspected Croats
were in Switzerland or headed for
the Swiss border from widely sep
arated sections of France. The as
sassination plot, authorities de-
clared, was woven in Switzerland,
where other accomplices are known
to be in hiding.
Police arrested BeneS and Novak
while they were lunching in a bar
at Thonen Les BainS, on the French
shore of Lake Geneva, while pre-
pairing to walk around the end Of
iConsinued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
"ALFALFA BILL" HITS NEW DEAL"
Oklahoma Governor Flags Present Policies
Of Administration

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. II. U.H
Gov. w. H. (Alfalfa BilD Murray
today predicted that unless ma
tional "new deal'' policies are
checked they will bring tyranny
and calamity upon the country.
He centered his attack on the
NRA and AAA programs.
The codes are $50 uncertain that
even the lawyers cannot advise the
citizens as to the law" Murray
wrote in the weekly Blue Valley
Farmer, his personal journal
"A bureaucratic government, as
shown in Rome. as tried once in
England and now inaugurated
in the United States, has wherever
tried, proven despotic, lawless in
administration, wasteful in expend-
iture of public money, and more
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
SAY BUSINESS
COOPERATING
ON NEW DEAL
BY II. o. THOMPSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1884, BY United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. II. - The
Roosevelt administration was con-
vinced today that important bus
mess and industrial interests at
last were swinging to support of
the ''new deal' and that this at
titude should be reflected in gen.
orally improved conditions through
out the country.
In keeping with a determination
to maintain contact with repre-
sentative business leaders, Mr..
Roosevelt is planning a series of
important pronouncements design
ed to keep recovery efforts and
private business activities closely
attuned.
1t was learned that the White
House, privately irritated In the
past at tactics which were inter
preted as obStructioniSt and selfish,
felt that business and industry
were about to begin a period OF
really constructive cooperation.
1t was said that genuine hope
was being expressed that recovery
problems could be handled on a
plane of frank and open discussion.
One of the factors entering the Sit
uation was understood to be the
administration activities under
the reciprocal tariff powers granted
by congress.
Manufacturers have come to be-
lieve, correctly or not, that their
goods might be imperiled by cheap
er products from abroad unless
they join,1 in movements to loosen
industrial fetters and give impetus
to the recovery machine.
Mr. Roosevelt has been holding
conferences quietly and without
fanfare. Others will be held dur
ing the autumn, all with the pur-
pose of getting government and
private initiative together for a
full hearted assault upon the de-
preston.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
PATRONAGE PLUMS'' PROTESTED
Census To Provide Many Jobs
For Democratic Party

He pointed that the 1880 popula-
ton and farm census was taken by
a field force Of SIS supervisors and
90 l62 enumerators appointed on
recommendation CT Republican
congressman.
The new census, he said, would
require 223 supervisors averaging
about 5000 in salary for the three
months work and the balance will
be enumerators employed for some
Is to 20 days.
He said the appointments will be
made from rural districts rather
than cities that none would be
made before November Is.
Republicans say crop benefit
checks are going out at the psy-
Geological political moment. The
AAA will distribute approximately
5000, 100000 more in crop benefit
checks before the November elec-
tion. New dealers explain that the
close upon $1,O0O,0O0,00O of crop
payments is being made merely ac-
cording to contract.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
FRENCH ARREST PLOTTERS IN ASSASSINATION
armers Asked To Aid Building Of Canal Sector
G. o. p. Rally At
Coiexico Tonight

All candidates for non partisan
offices and Republican candidates
for partisan offices, are invited to
speak at the rally to be held tonight
at city park in CaleXico, with Ma
than w. Hale, former senator from
Tennessee as the chief speaker in
behalf of Governor Merriam.
Contrary to statements previously
made. Chairman w. S. Dunn of the
Republican county central commit
tee states that the meeting will not
be closed to any but Republicans.
Candidates for non-partisan offices
will be welcomed and accorded ev-
cry courtesy regardless of their per
scnal political affiliation.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
QUEEN TELLS
SON FACTS IN
KINGS DEATH
France Planning Fullest Honors
For Barthou Who Met Death
With Alexander
By RALPH HEINZEN
United Press Staff Correspondent
1nod h., procc

CupyIIS4lI, 1901, ny OIllttu IiCoo.
PARIS, Oct. II. W.P)-Marie, wild
owed queen of Jugoslavia, came to
Paris today and told her l1year
old son, Peter II, the king, how his
father died at an aSSaSsin'S hands.
She spoke the news to him at
the Paris residence of the marshal
of the JugoSlavian royal household,
in the Square There's near the av
onue Victor Hugo, where he spent
the night.
Tears streaming down her cheeks,
Queen Marie clutched Peter and
told him his father was dead-not,
as he had thought, slightly hurt
in motor accident.
The widow queens train arrived
at 9 Am. from Marseille. Her car
remained darkened on siding. Her
mother, DOwager Queen Marie OF
Roumania, who brought Peter to
Paris from his English school, went
at once to join her. The two women
sat together in the car for SO min
utes. When they left the car both
were in black, the younger queen
heavily yelled They made their way
tc a motor car through a crowd
which 5000 policemen held back,
and went to the marshals home
where Peter was waiting.
In Marie's special train from Mar
seille, where King Alexander and
! 7 C,,ic po,fIDa1l EreOPb fOrpion min
lister, were murdered by Petrus Kele
men, were President Albert Lebrun
and leading members of his cabinet
In train behind came the body
Of Barthou, accompanied by rela-
tiveS.
AleXander's body was on the de
stroyer Dubrovnik, steaming through
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11

exact sum demanded as ransom
$50,0O0-was withdrawn from a 10
cal bank by the family.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Oct. 11.-MrS.
Berry V. Stoll, belle of Kentucky
society, was kidnapped from her
sick bed and was brutally beaten
by her abductor, it was revealed
today as private citizens joined law
enforcement agencies in an effort
to trap the criminal.
Mrs. Stoll, beautiful brunette
wife of a wealthy oil man, had
been sick in bed for several days
and when dragged away by the
kidnaper, she was clad only in a
negligee gown and checkered
coat hastily thrown over her Shoul-
ders.
She was carried, bleeding and
screaming, from the spacious south
ern mansion to the automobile of
the kidnaper who sped away leav-
ing behind a peculiarly construct
ed ransom note demanding $4,000.
Her husband, president of
the Stoll Refining company and
man of millions, was frantic to-
day. He announced he stood ready
to pay the ransom for the safe re-
turn of his 26-year-old wife. Stoll
himself is 80
1.-The man came in yesterday
about 3 O'Clock, - Mrs. Fowler
Woolet, a maid, said. ''He looked
and acted like a fiend. He asked
to see the telephone connections
and apparently started to work on
them.
He was in the house about an
, hour and half altogether. After
fooling around with the wires for
some time he jerked them from
their connections and began shout
ing wildly.
Tied Up Maid
MRS. Stoll, who had been i'll for
several days and who was in her
bed in an upstairs room, was dis
turbed by the noise and came down
the stairs from the second floor
She was confronted by the kidnap-
er, who instructed me to bind the
hands of my employer with black
electrician IS tape which he sup
piled.
Then he tied me to a chair
with wire and gagged me. Mrs.
Stoll was left free to talk ana
when the man told her he was 60
ing to kidnap her she engaged him
"a conversation concerning de-
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11

intolerable than the rule of a king
or emperor and that is what We
have now,' the governor asserted
Describing the AAA as IAN ash
nine administrator" and the Bank
head cotton control bill as a Chunk
head and a bone-head bill. >
he cited numerous instances which
he said showed injuStices.
Why, - ne demanded, should
government be operated on such a
hazy system of law; such uncer-
tainty of result; such duplicity OF
conduct?
"Why, therefore, should the
farmer and the laborer continue
the Dance to the Pipers?'
"Oh. duplicityl Oh, damna-
tionl oh, hell What shall the
farmer do to be saved?p
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
GUILTY
OF CONTEMPT

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. II. U.P
The state supreme court today
adjudged the Chronicle Publishing
company, Chester Rowell. editor of
the San Francisco Chronicle and
w. D. Chandler, managing editor,
guilty of contempt of court as an
outgrowth of the publication by the
Chronicle of a story on September
10 saying that David Lamson, con-
yicted of numbering his wife, would
be granted a new trial.
The publishing company was
fined $500 and Rowell and Chand-
Ter $3.50 each. They were given
five days in which to pay. In lieu
of the fine, the court ruled, they
might serve one day in Jail for
each 5000 of the fine.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. IL. U.P)-
Authorities have made some pro
gress toward solving the abduction
OF Mrs Alice Stoll, it appeared late
today "a hours after she was kid
naped from her mansion on the
banks of the Ohio.
j. P. ONeal. commonwealth at
torney, announced that he had a
definite lead but refused to am
plify this statement pending devel-
opments in the abduction of the
young society woman.
Meanwhile statements of Mrs.
Stoll's wealthy husband, Berry ".
Stoll that the money is ready"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
HAUP TMANN' :
EXT RAD| TON
MEETS DELAY

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.WP)-Bruno
r. Hauptmann won the opening
skirmish in his fight against ex-
tradition to face charges of muir
dering the Lindbergh baby in New
Jersey when hearing on habeas
corpus writ was postponed today
until Monday. PoStponement was
on request of the defense over state
protests.
Granting of the hearing Monday
forestalled New jerseys efforts to
take Hauptmann to Pennington to-
Gay for arraignment on the murder
charge.
Attorney General David Willenz,
invited to the chambers of Su-
preme Justice Ernest Hammer, OBJ
jected to the delay, but Justice
Hammer ruled that FaWcett's S re-
quest for hearing after the week
end was not unreasonable.
The extortion case against Haupt-
mann in Bronx county already had
been postponed.
Hauptmann was reCurnec to the
Bronx county Jail.
NEW YORK, Oct. Il. UR)-Bru-
no Hauptmann today fought extra
dition to- New Jersey to face char
ges of numbering the kidnapped
Lindbergh baby, after County
Judge James M. Barrett cleared
his docket of the eXtortion charge
on which Hauptmann was held in
Bronx county
Judge Barrett rescinded the
100000 bail fixed for the Bronx
carpenter-Which he has never fur
niShed-and released the prisoner
on his own recognizance SO that
New Jersey could serve a bench
warrant for his arrest. This was a
technicality observed so that eX-
tradition to New Jersey might not
be delayed because OF the formal
tiles connected with bail.
The formality Of serving the eX-
tradition warrant from New Jersey
on James M. Fawcett, Hauptmann'
attorney, was carried out and the
last legal obstacle to Hauptmann's
removal to face a murder charge
at Pennington, N. J.-except for
defense attempt to obtain a habeas
corpus writ-waS removed.
For three seconds Hauptmann
was a free man. That was after
the Judge released him on his own
recognizance. Then the New York
police, acting on the extradition re-
quest approved by Gov, Herbert H,
Lehman, took him into custody.
A few minutes earlier Haupt-
mann had expressed fear OF
lynching.
The prisoner inquired anxiously
if much of a crowd would be on
hand to see him.
DO you think they might try TO
take me out of the automobile on
the way to New Jersey?" he asked,
according to Warden Martin Dunn.
He appeared relieved when in
formed Is or more New Jersey
state troops would guard him on
the journey.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
CONGRESSMAN Here
For Brief Visit

Congressman George Burnham
paid a flying visit to El Centre to-
Cay, accompanied by G. Aubrey
Davidson of San Diego, in the in
terests of his campaign and to
confer with supporters here.
He left for San Diego this al
ternoon, being scheduled to make
an address there tonight, and stat
ed that he plans to make several
visits to the valley between now
and election day.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
Expect Further
Riuer Decrease

Further decreases in the fiOw
Of the Colorado river are noted
fer today, according to readings
r,stcd at irrigation district
headquarters this morning.
These chow a $50 second foot
drop at the Grand Canyon; $40
s.cond feet a. Yuma; further
dion of 200 second feet at the
diversion with loss of 400 sec
ond feet at the Topock station.
Readings for today are as fol-
.lowa: Grand Canyon, 1850; fu-
ma 12O; Spill 1850; diversion
1900 with 1880 second feet Tor
the Topock station.
No reports were received mere
4 day from the Yuma ofiice Oh
the weather bureau relative 10
weather conditions along tno
watershed of the river or In the
upper basin.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
Tomorrow To Be
Legal Holiday

Columbus Day will be celebrated
in Ell Centro tomorrow as state
holiday. All banks and other fin
ancial institutions will be closed
for the day. The court house and
city hall in all their departments
will be closed to business for the
day,
The city library will also close
but will remain open until 8 O'Clock
tonight. Not being a national hol-
iday the post office is not included
in the vacation and will be open
for business tomorrow as usual.
Business houses throughout the
city will remain open to serve their
patrons.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
WILL REQUIRE
EQUIPMENT ON
WESTERN L c
Hope To Start Active Work On
Calexico Section Early Part Of
Next Week.
ALL MUST BE REGISTERED
Ranchers Having Machines And
Animals To Be Listed With
Unemployment Service.

Following a conference late yes
tel day afternoon with r. +. wal
terS, reclamation bureau engineer,
Evan T. HeWes, chairman of the IL
rigation district board of directors
announced that force account WORK
on the IL. mile CaleXico sector oil
the All-American canal will in all
probability get under way sometime
next week.
Walters was accompanied here
from Yuma by E. J. WesterhouSe
and r. B. Williams, the latter haV-
ing just been appointed chief en-
eineer in charge of canal construc-
ticn by Walters. He will succeed
r. M. Priest who died in Phoenix
several months ago.
This morning, Frank (. iigley
who had been appointed field sup
erintendent for the work by the
district, went into consultation Win
M. j Dowd, chief engineer for the
district. to formulate plans ana
proceedings according to which the
work is to be carried out. Exact
date for the actual commencement
of this force account construction
. 5yill be made known within few
! days.
a possible delay in starting TINS
this work might arise from the re-
quest of the CaleXico Chamber OF
Commerce, laid before the district
beard at their Tuesday meeting,
that the canal be rerouted so as 70
pass through the city and not along
its northern boundary as had at
first been contemplated.
Upon reception of this request
the board voted TO favor such
plan provided that it met with the
approyal Of the reclamation SER
vice officials and while here yester-
day Walters said that it would re-
ceiye the utmost consideration
from his department, adding, how
ever, that such might mean slight
delay as the whole question would
have to be gone into thoroughly.
Equirment Needed
Ranchers having teams or equip
ment of any sort which might pcs
siblv be used under the force ac-
count program are asked to regis
ter such with Chan Livingston,
county manager of the National
Unemployment Service at MS Ell
Centre office. Equipment mcludes
tractors. fresnoes or any other
piece of machinery which could De
used in the excavation OF TINS
Calexico sector.
yesterday, 10 men were sent out
to work on the canal route in the
east end of the county. They were
all from the Winterhaven and
Bard districts and for the next few
= days will dig test holes and do
other work which will enable the
reclamation service engineers to
study the nature of the ground IN
that area.
Tomorrow IL more men VIII be
sent out to join the force at pres
ent working for the Boyce-lgoe
company near Araz. These Latter
will take their regular places IN
shifts on the canal construction
uncer the Boyce-Igoe company
which holds q sub contract under
the Callahan company. Other as
signments. of men from the local
Office are expected to be mace
lust as soon as the rush OF work
along the canal route makes sucn
action necessary, it was said mere
this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
HOLDING PAIR
WHO CONFESS
COMPLETELY
Third Suspected As Leader Es-
capes In General Roundup
OF Conspirators.
CABINET OFFICER QUITS
Minister OF Interior Resigns
After Criticism For Not Pro-
tecting Alexander
BY United Press

Developments in the assassin
atiCn of King Alexander follow:
French police uncovered an
amazing Croatian assassination
plot centering in France and
Switzerland. Two principals
were arrested and others sought.
Anti-Italian feeling flared in
Jugoslavia. An Italian counsel
was beaten by a mob. Demon
stratOrs openly shouted charges
that Italy was behind the as
sassination.
King Peter ii joined his moth
er in Paris, who told him the
tragic story of his fathers death.
He will leave for Belgrade to-
night to take the throne under
a regency.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
COMP ROM|SE:
EXPECTED IN
LABOR RANKS
Row Over Craft And Industrial
Unions And Executive Council
To Be Ironed Out

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. II. UR)
Compromises on the two most i'm
portant problems before the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor-Industrial
VS.. Craft UnioniSm and the enlarge
ment of the executive council-ap-
peared certain today in the 54th an
nual convention.
The compromise plans appeared
during night sesSion-the first OF
the convention-in which by an oV
erwhelming vote the delegates sus-
tanned the executive council in or
dering the building trades depart
ment to reinstate the carpenters,
electricians and bricklayers unions.
The fight of John l.. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers and Francis
j. German of the Textile Workers
for greater federation activity in
organizing large industries as sin
gle union units seemed certain OF
solution under the compromise pro
iposed.
Under the plan the federation
would reaffirm its traditional prin-
ciple of craft unionism but would
authorize the executive council to
issue chapters in the aluminium, au-
tomobile cement and other mass
production industries for verticle or
industrial type unions.
Judging by present trends in the
convention, such charters may,
when the time comes to issue them,
| be granted by an executive council
of Is members. Lewis has a proposal
before the convention to increase
the council membership from II to
%. 1t was indicated today that Pres
ident William Green, fighting the
miners chieftain on the plan, may
agree to enlarge the council to 10.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. II. U.P
Harold B. Butler director of the
international labor office at Gen
eva, told the American Federation
of Labor today that economically
the world sis better off today chan
it was l8 months ago.
The road to world industrial re-
covery, Butler said, is marked by
a code of fair international COM
petition with shorter working hours
for labor.
THE great technical changes
which have been made III industry
have caused great and widespread
displacement of labor - the speak
er said, according to a copy of his
address. In every country there is
an army of unemployed.
LAS President Roosevelt said
the other day, it is impossible to
contemplate these armies becom-
ing permanent. The world has got
to solve the unemployment prob
lem.
1T will not be easily solved, but
the conviction is growing that it
cannot be solved without reduc-
ton in working hours.
Butler described the entire NRA
program of the United States as a
"great concerted effort to readjuSt
the economic life of the American
people to new conditions. ."
"You are tackling the funda-
mental problems of our age boldly
and directly the international
laborite said.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11

Quincy Quinlivan, 90, and Rich
ard Simpson, "a, brought back from
San Diego Tuesday night to face
charges resulting from the alleged
hcldup of two local men on the
highway near the sand hills at
midnight, Monday will be released
from the county jail sometime to-
day, it was learned at the county
institution this morning.
Jail officials stated that W. H.
Farris, one of the men who re-
ported that he had been held up
has left Ell Centre while Harold
Kerr. the other victim of the al
legged holdup stated yesterday that
he would not sign any complaint
against the San Diegans. Under
these circumstances the county has
no further grounds upon which to
hold the suspects.
The automobile, a Ford coupe
belonging to FarriS, in which the
two men went to San Diego fol-
lowing the alleged holdup, was re-
turned here last night.
FarriS and Kerr mad reported 10
police that they were held up by
the two San Diegans while on
their way home from Yuma at
midnight, Monday In their story
they stated that the two men who
were hitchhikers, had asked for a
ride and when this was granted,
robbed the local men, stripping
them of all their clothing and left
them afoot in the desert.
Guinlivan and Simpson were ar
rested in San Diego Tuesday NOR
ming following messages sent to
the coast city after the report was
received here of the alleged hold
up. Deputies from here went to the
coast city and brought the sus-
poets back to face hearing on the
charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-11
Tubs Were Boats

HINSDALE Mall. U.P)-Mr. and
Mrs. William ODonnell heard a
mysterious knocking on the kit
chen floor. They discovered later
that the humping noise was the
washtub floating in the cellar. The
town was washed out and the eel
lar was full of water.