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Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
HEWES DENIES CH|LDERS SENT
To WASHINGTON BY DISTRICT

Denying that Attorney Charles
l.. Childers has been sent to Wash
ington to speed up allotment of
the S6,O00,000 appropriation for the
All-American canal, Evan T. Hewes,
president of the Imperial Irrigation
District also stated that the dis
trict officials are keeping in con-
stant touch with reclamation SER
vice officials at the capital in con-
nection with the canal project.
Close contact is also being mani
tained with r. j. Coffee, counsel
for the reclamation service and
with Dr. Harry R. Forbes, presi-
dent of the Coachella water board.
In telephone conversation with
HeWes this morning, DR.. Forbes
stated that he is awaiting infor-
nation from Coachella's represen-
tatiye at Washington and that he
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
STATE TAKES
THREE LIVES

, HERNANDO, Miss, March 16
W.P)-Three Negro attackers of a
17-year-old girl died on the galloWs
just before dawn today at the De-
Soto county jail.
Departing from the Mississippi
tradition of executing its condemned
men at noon, 200 national guards
men secretly took tie Negroes into
fernando at a. m. to avert pos
sible clashes with citizens.
Crowds OF farmers had planned
to attend the execution which coun-
ty officials had announced would
be teld at noon today.
At 4:28 a. m, Isaac Howard
walked to the gallows singing a
Negro spiritual. The trap was
sprung and he was pronounced
dead 15l2 minutes later. The moose
stilled Ernest McGehee's singing OF
hymns at 4:58. He was pronounced
dead at 5:13.
The last of the asSaulters, john
ny Jones, silently marched to the
platform, the rope was adjusted
and the steel trap doors Changed at
5:25. 1t also took him Is minutes
to die.
A witness to the executions was
Clyde Collins, fatEer of the assault
ed girl, for whom the Mississippi
senate passed a special "hangman's
bill" that would have allowed him
to spring the trap. He had re-
quested that privilege of the sher-
lff. The house judiciary committee
killed the bill, however.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
AGED LUMBER
MAGNATE DIES

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 16.
W.P)-The lumber industry, from
loggerS in remote northwestern for
eSts to executives sin skyscraper Of
fees today mourned the death of
Robert Alexander Long, modern
Titan.
Long, 83-year-old founder of the
Long-Bell Lumber Co.. died last
night, two days after an emergency
operation for an intestinal obstruc-
ton.
Starting with single carload of
lumber, Long built $100,00000
business which made him one of
the greatest lumber magnateS in the
world. He controlled vast en-
pire of forests, sawmills and lum-
ber yards.
Among his many monuments is
the model city of Longview, Wash.
which he founded in 1923.
With $700 in his pocket, Long
left his birthplace near Shelbyville
KY, and came to Kansas City in
1873 A year later he went to Col
umbus, Kans., with Victor Bell and
Z. n. Wliltc. 4llcy UCuBIlI d Cal
load of lumber to build sheds for
their hay business. The business
failed.
But the lumber was sold at a
profit He borrowed $4,000 and in
partnership with Bell and White
formed lumber company. 1t was
years before they could afford a
small sawmill
In 1899 they began selling lum-
ber wholesale throughout the south.
When the southern supply of
white pine began to run low, Long
looked to huge forests of the Pa
cific northwest. On the Cowlitz
and Columbia rivers in Washington
he built the world IS largest saw
mills.
Long was no exception among the
wealthy men upon whom the de-
preston laid heavy hand. AT the
time of his death his company was
in receivership and its reorganiza-
ton was directed by bondholders
committee.
His business success was match
ed by his generosity. He gave mil
lions to churches. schools, hospitals
and other philanthropic enter
priSeS,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
|NSULL OvERTAKEN BY GREEK
GUNBOAT ON WAY To EGYPT
Former Utilities Magnate Placed Under Ar
rest And Will Be Returned To Athens For
Disposition Of Case.

escape.
insult was captured within sight
of freedom, police said
The Meotis had ignored the wire
less calls flashed across the sea
from Athens, and from the little
Greek destroyer racing toward the
steamer.
The destroyer overlook the Meo-
tbs just as it was endeavoring to
enter Port Kesser-Where it would
have been out of jurisdiction.
TORONTO, Ont, March 16. U.P)
-Extradition of Martin J. insult
fugitive utilities executive and
brother of Samuel insult, to Chi
'cago was confirmed on appeal to-
day by the appeal court of Ontario
Decision was final, ending a court
battle whether insult would face
charges in connection with the In
'sull utilities empire collapse.
The appellate division of the su-
preme court of Ontario, denied In
sull s appeal and upheld judgment
of Justice A. c. Kingstone, who,
last December 2 ordered that the
former millionaire be held for eX-
tradition.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
BY E. A. SULLIVAN

United Press staff Correspondent
BERKELEY, March 16.--The un-
ceaSing efforts of science to pro-
long human life poised on the brink
of new and important discoveries
today through the success Of young
DR.. Robert E. Cornish in restoring
life temporarily to two dogs which
had been asphyxiated by nitrogen
and ether.
Determined to solve the timeless
problem, Dr. Cornish, %, tall and
dark-haired research biologist. was
disappointed but not discouraged
when a "second death' overlook
the two black and white iNy ter
riers revived by his experiments af-
ter their hearts had stopped beat
ing for more than five minutes.
DR.. Cornish believed that in the
use of heparin, liver extract little
known outside the scientific world,
, Law the age-old secret which may
mean "rebirth to thousands OF
human beings killed by gas, elec-
trio shock, heart disease and SIM
liar causes.
The experiments were conducted
in a gloomy barn-like structure on
the University of California campus.
CWA funds made possible the work
in which the young scientist had in
vested all of his own resources.
Cornish and his assistants Sc
lected a dog they had called "Laz-
arus H. for their first test. Doses
of nitrogen and ether were admin
istered to cause death. Five min
utes after the dogs heart stopped
beating, they applied the treat
ments Cornish had devised in his
researches. ....-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
PROPOSITION
TO APPEAR ON
CITY BALLOT

With tie city election less than a
month away, voters will still have
plenty of time in which to study
the merits of a proposition which
will find its place on the ballot as
TIE result of an action taken by the
city council at a special meeting
held at $50 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon.
This proposition, No. l on the
ballot, will read as follows: "Ordi-
nance No. BIT of the city of Ell Gen.
tro providing for the levy and COL
lection of a tax of 10 cents on $lO0
of assessed valuation OF property
for parks, music and advertising
shall be, and the same is Eere-
by repealed"
The motion to have this propo-
sition placed on the ballot was in
troduced by Councilman Bucklin,
seconded by Councilman Anderson
and received the unanimous vote OF
tie board in its support.
Ordinance No. BIT was adopted on
April 8. 1928, at a general election
by the people of Ell Centro. 1t pro-
vides for the levying and collection
of this tax which has been used
since that time by the chamber of
commerce, with part of it also 60
ing for the support of the munich
pal band.
In addition to this proposition
the voters will be called upon to
elect two members OF the council
and q city clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16

will confer again with Hewes to-
morrow
Hewes stated that Coachella Of
ficials, who have constantly in
dicated their desire to speed con-
struction of the canal. have ad-
vised the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict that there is no necessity of
sending a representative to Wash
ington at this time.
The directors do not intend TO
sit idly by" Hewes said, III there
is any need for delegation to pro-
tect the canal allotment. At a con-
ference of several of the directors
Yesterday the entire situation was
thoroughly discussed, after which
I conferred with Attorney Childers
by telephone and talked over the
possibility of him going TO Wash
ington. The matter was left open,
to be decided later"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
Kitten .SoiUeS
OLUn Problem

A small, bedraggled kitten which
had spent two cold Nigl,.tS and a
VAIN day atop a telephone pole on
the alley between Broadway and
Main streets at Sixth, this morn
ing finally got up enough courage
10 make one last bid for safety as
a repairman from the Southern ST.
erras Power company was mount
ing tie pole to rescue the stranded
animal.
Just as the mans hands were al
most within reach of the kitten, the
latter jumped from the poles cross
beam onto neighboring roof,
thence to the ground and scamper-
ed away. How the animal got onto
the pole in the first place could not
be determined and city officials
were debating whether or not Tom
Ream's truck and ladder should be
called out to the rescue when word
was brought that the kitten had
solved the problem to everyone's
satisfaction, including its own.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16

ATHENS, March 16. U.P)-Police
announced today that Samuel In
sull had been arrested aboard the
Greek freight steamship MeotiS.
The announcement came soon af-
ter police had said they learned
insult left Greece Wednesday night
aboard the ship and that torpedo
boat destroyer was in pursuit.
The problem at once arose as to
what the government would do with
insult if he returned here.
The government had demanded
that he leave.
He was to thave been sent inland
on the Orient express that crosses
Europe from Paris to Istanbul.
So angered were government Of
ficialS that it was believed possible
they might refuse to give him even
this slim chance of escape and
make sure he was delivered in some
manner to American officials for
extradition to the United States.
Police announced that the Meotis
was a few hours off Alexandria,
Egypt, when insult was caught.
It was added that the Meotis was
returning to Athens at full speed.
1t was announced that as soon as
police learned insult was aboard the
steamship, Wirelass calls were
broadcast continuously over the
Mediterranean and the Aegean for
the ship to return at once to Pr
aeus, the port of Athens.
The ship was headed for KeSSer
Port, near Alexandria.
The announcement that the Meo-
It's was a ''few hours off Alex
andria would indicate that it would
arrive at Pireaeus within about 36
hours-Saturday night. 1t is $50
miles from Alexandria to Piraeus.
Radios from the Meotis, police
said, reported that insult was pros
trated with despair at his failure to
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
RAINEY WILL
FORCE VOTES
UPON SILVER

WASHINGTON, March 16. U.P)-
Henry T. Rainey, speaker of the
house, broke with the administra-
ton and announced he would force
a vote next Monday on two silver
measures.
Rainey said he would recognize
silver bloc leaders Monday to force
votes on the Feisinger Remonetiza-
ton bill and the Dies bill for pay
ment in silver of commodities sold
abroad.
A tWo-thirds vote is necessary to
pass either under the plan Rainey
proposed.
Rainey criticized Henry Morgen-
thau, Jr., secretary of treasury for
his statement yesterday against
silver legislation in which he sug-
gested that "backers of the bills
were "not disinterested.
81 don t think much of the state
ment,' said Rainey. THE answer
to it is such headlines as Wheat
Tumbles' and Silver DropS'.'
Under Rainey's plan the Fiesin-
ger and Dies bills, reported out
last week by the house coinage
committee, will be considered un-
der suspension of rules. Under this
procedure only 40 minutes debate
is permitted and then the measure
is voted on.
81 think the Dies bill has bet
ter chance to pass by two-thirds, .
Rainey said. "The votes will be a
test of house sentiment on silver. I
think both bills will be supported
by majority.
Rainey said if either or both
measures fail he would give the sill
yer bloc an opportunity to bring the
measure up again the first Monday
in April-the next suspension day.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
ACLU TO HOLD
MASS MEETING
AT BRAWLEY

Postponed meeting OF valley
workers has been called for Satur-
day afternoon, March IT. at $3.50
in the Azteca hall, Brawley and con-
Quoted under the auspices OF the
American Civil Liberties Union.
The meeting was postponed from
last Sunday in order to give Elmer
Heald. district attorney, an oppor-
tunity to present cause as to why
the meeting should not be held. IRE
federal court in San Diego upheld
Judge Kerrigan's ruling and the
meeting has accordingly been
scheduled.
Prominent residents of Los An
geles, San Diego and other South
ern California communities have
been invited to attend the meeting
and the Civil Liberties Union has
promised to stop any speaker who
makes any call to violence or any
one who advocates Communism.
Representative of churches and
civic organizations have been asked
to attend to see for themselves how
the meeting is conducted.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
Of
HOLCPLANNED

WASHINGTON, March 16. U.p)-
The senate was embarked today
upon a course calculated to effect
far reaching changes in the nation s
financial dealings.
The group of bills up for consid-
Grafton included extension of the
scope of the Home Owners Loan
Corporation, bankruptcy legislation
affecting corporations, cities, coun-
ties and states; a new revenue bill,
legislation for stock market regula-
ton and the highly controversial
question of presidential authority to
negotiate reciprocal tariff agree
mentS.
The senate set out on this am
bilious program by taking up the
new Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton bill, which would guarantee
the principal as well as the inter-
est on HOLC bonds. This bill will
be the unfinished business when the
senate reconveneS Monday.
Enactment of the measure in
that form would provide an import
ant impetus to the construction in
dustry which has Jagged behind in
the recovery drive.
The new revenue bill. Tightening
up income tax provisions and pro-
viding new means of revenue
! through securities taxation, is eX-
pected to come up late next week.
Chairman Pat Harrison Of the SEN
ate finance committee predicted it
would require little debate.
Two bankruptcy bills will require
action One is for cities, counties
and other taxing units, and pro-
vides for scaling down of bonded
Indebtedness. The other would
open the way for corporations to
obtain adjustment of their debts
through bankruptcy proceedings.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
YOUNG DOCTOR SUCCESSFUL IN
RESTORING LIFE To TWO DOGS

The dogs body was placed ON a
teeter-board and was submitted to
injections. A physiological salt
solution was placed in the femoral
vein. The solution had been modi-
flied with dogs blood from which
all clots had been removed, then
had been saturated with oxygen.
The heart stimulant adrenalin and
the liver extract heparin we're in
cluded in the mixture.
Heart Beats Resumed
In a few minutes the still form
of the animal twitched. and the
heart resumed beating. For eight
hours it lay in an unconscious state
while showing all other signs of
life-breathing, blood circulation,
heart beat.
Impatient to speed the return of
the dog to consciousness, the eX-
perimenters injected glycogen, a SUI
gar extract. The solution caused
a blood clot which resulted in the
animals "Second' and final death.
The dog known as Lazarus III
was then subjected to similar as
phyxiation. Cornish and his asso-
ciates waited eight minutes after
the heart beats stopped before in
jecting the solution containing the
adrenalin and the heparin.
The second dog repeated the per-
formance of its predecessor. The
heart beat returned, respiration re-
sumed, and all normal functions
were restored except that again the
animal was unconscious. This time
Cornish avoided the glycogen injec-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
NEGRO PAL Of
D|LL|NGER IS
POLICE VICTIM
Herbert Youngblood Shot And
Killed In Gun Battle AT Port
Huron, Mich.
SEARCH ON FOR COMRADE
Officers Told Notorious Jail
Breaker And Bandit Hiding In
Neighborhood.

PORT HURON, Mich, March 16.
W.P)-John Dillinger, notorious out
law, was believed trapped in the
Thumb district of Michigan today.
County, state and federal peace
officers converged on this area i'm
mediately after Sheriff William l..
Vanantwerp and two deputies shot
and killed Herbert Youngblood,
Negro, who escaped from the Crown
Point, Ind, Jail with Dillinger last
week.
AS the young Negro lay gasping
in his hospital bed he whispered
to Prosecutor Laurie o. Teller that
he had seen Dillinger and two COM
panions last night; that Dillinger
had va Ford sedan similar to
the car in which he fled from
Crown Point"
UnderSheriffS Charles Cavanaugh
and Deputy Howard Lohr, each shot
through the abdomen in the gun
battle with Youngblood, were given
an even chance OF recovery. Sher-
if VanantWerp'S bullet wound i'll
the arm was not considered serious.
Eugene Fields, Negro store clerk,
received a minor wound in the right
shoulder.
Sheriffs in adjoining counties
We're instructed to place road block
AIDES to halt the fleeing Dillinger
should he still be in the area.
Meanwhile William Larson, spe-
cial agent in charge Of the diviS-
ion of investigation of the depart
ment of justice at Detroit, ordered
his agents into the area to cooper
ate in apprehending Dillinger. State
police sent guards from Bay City,
Flint, Detroit and Lansing. The
cars were loaded with riot guns,
machine guns and tear gas bombs.
Sheriff VanantWerp revealed that
when he and his deputies entered
the store Youngblood was standing
in the center. The officers stepped
up and started to search him. They
took one gun when he jerked free
and started shooting with another
pistol. Fields was struck by a stray
bullet.
Officers believed Youngblood had
been in the city since Tuesday.
A careful questioning was going
forward of the Negro residents who
had known and talked to Young
blood during his stay in efforts to
ascertain whether the hideout Of
Dillinger could be located.
PORT HURON, Mich, March 16.
U.P)-Herbert Youngblood, Negro
who broke Jail with John Dillinger,
was shot and critically wounded in
a gun battle with police here to-
day.
Clarence Marx, police officer in
. formed by the United Press of the
description of Youngblood, confront
ed the wounded Negro with the
Identification and obtained an ad-
mission that he was with Dillinger
when the desperate broke out Of
the Crown Point Jail with a wood
en- pistol.
''He also told me that Dillinger
and two companions are in this vi
cinity,' Marx said, "and we are
starting out now to hunt for them
A description of Youngblood, OBJ
tanned by the United Press from
Crown Point, showed him to be a
man 80 years old, feet 9 inches
tall, weighing $50 pounds and hav-
ing brown eyes, black hair and
skin.
Point by point the description
CONTINUED On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
Richmond Only
Eligible Here

WASHINGTON, March 16. U.H)-
The post office department today
announced Frank Richmond is the
only eligible applicant for the post
mastership at Ell Centre, Calf, and
Paul o. Martin the only eligible
applicant at Burbank.
Postmaster Richmond stated to-
day that he is holding office under
a temporary appointment and
judging by the announcement in
the above dispatch believes he will
receive permanent appointment
in the near future.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
DISTRICT SEEKS
TO GET SWING

BY Al vote the irrigation
district board of directors late
this afternoon instructed Chair
man Hewes to contact Phil ID.
Swing either by telegram or
telephone to see If he can
represent the district in securing
the waving of the valuation
clause in the All-Amercian
canal contract and also secure
the release of the S6,0O0,O00 ap-
propiated for construction OF
the canal.
Swing is at present in Wash
ingtOn, ID. c. The vote was:
Directors, Hewes, Aten, Young
and Kalin, yes, Director Rose,
no.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
PRIEST TO BE
IN CHARGE OF
CANAL WORK

YUMA, March 16. U.H-R. f.
Weber, superintendent of the
Orland, Calf, reclamation prof.
ect for many years, will succeed
Ray NJ. Priest as superintendent
of the Yuma reclamation prof.
Get, IL was announced today.
Priest has been named en-
gineer in charge of cOnstruc-
ton of the S27,000,0O0 ALI
American canal, according to
Washington advices. Weber will
take up his new duties Monday.
Priest said All-American ca
nal engineers will be installed
Monday i'm their offices in the
new Yuma federal building. He
added that crew of engineers
now is sinking test pits along
the canal route from the pro-
posed Imperial dam to point
west of the sandhills.
Priest has been familiar with
all phases of the All-American
canal project for many years,
according to Imperial Irrigation
district officials, and reports
that he was to be supplanted by
Weber, enormously given pub
licity here as meaning that
Priest was to be removed from
Yuma, were not well received.
Instead Of supplanting Priest,
Weber will merely relieve him
Of the burden of overseeing the
Yuma reclamation project, so
that Priest may devote all his
time to the canal project.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-16
GETS COOLIDGE FURNITURE

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. U.P) -
The desk and chair that the late
President Calvin Coolidge used while
rracticing law in this city, and
three volumes of newspaper clip
pings, a historiette of his career,
were presented to the Forbes Lii
brary here by his widow, Mrs. Grace
Coolidge.