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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
TINE operation which is the mos

TIE ODSIdllOIl WHICH 10 OllS llOSC
Il harmful is the one where a
person or institution with large
block of stock it desires to unload
goes to some unethical operator and
makes a deal with him to dispose
of the shares. The deal is made on
an option basis, and Immediately
all sorts of favorable rumors are
spread irrespective of their worth.
The ballyhoo continues and heavy
trades are made, some of them wash
sales, and the public is enticed
through phone calls and otherwise
to get in on the good thing" The
stock is sold on balance, the OPP
tons exercised, and then the oper-
ato= runs away from the market,
after which it promptly sinks and
goes dead.
With the wings of the operator
clipped it is but natural to witness
q slow market, unless, of course,
something unusual happens, such as
a currency imitation movement, to
get the public excited over profit
possibilities such as happened last
summer. In that event probably
even the higher margin require
ments will not stop a runaway
market.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
SUPERVISORS ACCEPT FEDERAL
T. B. CATTLE CONTROL PLAN
Adopt Resolution To Make Country Volun-
tary Area Following Discussion With Ami
NAL Bureau Representative.

DR.. Howe stated this morning
that according to a recent enact
ment of congress, $450,000 has been
allotted to California as indemnity
for tubercular cattle.
Imperial county has been tenta-
lively selected, Howe said further,
as one of the counties of the state
in which this money is to be spent
and it was his purpose in coming
here today to discuss plans for the
formation of this control area with
the supervisors and others inter-
ested in the county cattle industry.
He was accompanied by DR.. w.
w. Worcester, of the same depart
ment, who will be placed in charge
of the work when it starts in the
county. Howe said that it is his
intention to put about II men to
work on this eradication who will
go through the county and make
a complete test Of all herds.
He said further that it would be
impossible to pay more indemnity
than $40 for grade and $50 for
purebred stock. Furthermore the
sum of the salvage and indemnity
will not be allowed to exceed the
appraisal price originally placed on
these cattle.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
DEMOCRATIC REGISTRATION
SHOWS G. @. P. MAY LOSE STATE

may be further bolStered by July
10, when the primary registration
closes. Official, final figures will be
available early in August.
Two weeks have elarsed since to-
days official report was compiled
by counties, and nearly five weeks
remain for registration. Officials
pointed cut tnat registration usual
ly is heavy as the period approaches
a close, and that because of inter-
est in the 1884 governorship con-
test, registration may reach a new
right record for the primary.
Alameda Lead Cut
Los Angeles Democrats moved well
ahead of Republicans, 583,664 to
556,823. In San Francisco, the score
was 137,305 to 1854; in Fresno
26, TAO to 25,533; in Kern 19,347 to
14,498; in Imperial 9,874 to 7,135
Alameda continued to rank as a
Republican stronghold, although the
lead was cut from $4,000 in 1882 to
10000, the present registration as
reported here being 140,049 Repub-
leans and 80,729 Democrats.
Other counties in which the COM
manding party continued to lead by
approximately two to one were AL
pine, Humboldt, Marin, and Napa.
Strong Republican leads also were
in Contra Costa, Men
docino, Monterey, Orange, River
side, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa
Clara, Sonoma, Stanislaus and Ven-
tura counties.
Total registration for minor par
ties gave Socialists 1884; Prohi-
bitionists $3.50; Liberty 1897; Pro-
gressive 1921; Commonwealth 1853;
Communist 743; Miscellaneous 504,
and 122,934 who declined to state
party preference.
Registration for all parties to-
tailed 280O,986, compared with the
final registration of 1865 $3.50 for the
1882 primary.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Library To Haze
Summer Schedule

Beginning next week the city Ii
brary will put into effect the
changes in hours which will prevail
for July and August, states Agnes
Ferris Bigelow, city librarian.
The library will close each night
at 8 instead of and will be closed
all day Saturday and Sunday dur
ing these two months. Otherwise the
usual hours will be in effect, the
library opening at and closing at
8 p. m on Monday, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Friday, and on wednesday
opening at 10 a. m. and closing at
6 p. m.
These changes have been made
necessary due to the fact that the
library is operating with depict
ed staff while the circulation has
so increased during the depression
that an additional staff is needed
states Mrs. Bigelow.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
BRITAIN WILL
SEND ANSWER
ON DEBT NOTE

LONDON, June 18. U.p)-Great
Britain plans to reply to the latest
United States note on war debts,
in which payment in kind was sug-
gested as possibility, j. Ramsay
Macdonald, prime minister, told a
questioner. today in the house OF
commons.
Macdonald was replying to a
question by Capt. Arthur Evans,
conservative, who asked whether
the government would reply to the
United States note and whether it
would consider handing over Ber-
muda or any other island territor-
les adjacent to the United States
which no longer have defensive
value to the British empire.
Macdonald said that as he had
/ told previous questioner on
March 6, under no circumstances
can there be any question of such
an arrangement, as handing over
Bermuda or other islands.
John Lawson, Laborite, then
asked:
GAS the government has gone
off the gold standard and default
ed can the prime minister give a
guaranty that the British empire
will be left intact by the time OF
the next election?'
81 think my honorable friend Is
in some confusion on the matter, Z"
the prime minister replied.
PARIS, June 10. U.n)-The Unit
ed States should take over British
and French islands in the Carib-
bean in exchange for war debts,
Gen. Charles Sheriff. of New York
said in a statement published to-
day.
Sheriff., member of the Inter-
national Olympic committee and
former United States Ambassador
to Turkey. declared there is suffi-
cient precedent in the United States
having taken over Danish West In
dian Islands in the past.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18

That it is to the best interests
of Imperial county that it be made
a voluntary control area for the
eradication of bovine tuberculosis
was the subject of resolution
adopted by the board of supervisors
at their special meeting held this
morning. The main purpose of this
meeting was to discuss this matter
with DR.. w. E. Howe, inspector in
charge of field work for the United
States bureau Of animal industry
who had come from Sacramento to
meet with the board today.
The resolution states further that
the board will pass an emergency
ordinance establishing the county
as a volunteer control area, effect
i've Immediately on the passage of
the ordinance as soon as the Unit
ed States government establishes
rules and regulations for the area
and for the payment of indemnity
to Imperial county owners of dairy
stock reacting to the tuberculin
tests.
This ordinance is now being pre-
pared and will be ready for adop-
ton when it is known that the
government is ready to step in and
take control of the present situ-
alton.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Terms Set For
TDo Slayers

Sentences OF Ysidro Cardanes
and Anacleto Nartates who were
committed to San Quentin peni-
tentiary from this county on
charges of second degree murder,
July 10, 1881, have been set at 20
years each by the board of prison
terms, according to word received
at the court house this morning
Nartates was found guilty of the
killing of Luther Raldan on June
6, 1881 and Cardanes stood trial
for the death of Francis Pearl
Hynes on June IA of the same year
Raldan had been shot in the abb
domen and Hynes struck over the
head with an automobile crank.
The first death was the result Of
an argument over a card game
while Hynes was beaten to death
because he had refused to gamble
with Cardanes.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
DENTIST SHOT
by K|DNAPER
Body Found On Farm His Fam
lily Says He Was Attempting
To Sell To Stranger.

Ell DORADO, ILL.,, June ID. U.P)-
DR.. Homer Meyers, prominent and
wealthy dentist, who was reported
kidnapped last night, today was
found shot to death on a farm he
was attempting to sell to a strang-
er.
The body was found by a Saline
county deputy sheriff, photo
grapher and a newspaper reporter
who went to the farm near Equal
ity in search of clues.
Meyers was shot twice in the
back, according to report to the
sheriff IS office.
DR.. Meyers body was in a patch
of high weeds. He had been shot
through the abdomen. His hat was
about 20 feet from his body.
A physician said DR.. Meyers had
been dead about 27 hours, indicat-
ing he was shot Immediately after
his arrival with his prospective
buyer at a farm he owned
A woman, arrested shortly after
Mrs. Meyers became alarmed over
her husband IS failure to return
home, told authorities she had been
living with the man suspected of
the dentist IS murder. She told
police his name was Hal Sinclair,
an ex-cOnvict.
The woman refused to reveal her
identity, however. She said she
was married and lived in Texar-
kama, Tex. Previously she had said
she lived in Corpus Christi, Tex.
She came here three days ago
with Sinclair They registered at a
hotel under the name Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Armstrong, authorities
said.
The woman was arrested when
she attempted to catch a bus for
Chicago. She told police that her
companion returned to the hotel
after keeping an appointment with
DR.. Meyers last night and they
quarreled. She said she refused to
go to Chicago with Sinclair and
intended to travel by bus.
ELDORADO, ILL.,, June 18. W.p)--
While woman suspect was held
in Jail, police throughout central
and southern Illinois today sought
two men who were believed to be
holding DR.. M. L. Meyers, prom
inent dentist, for ransom.
DR.. Meyers was believed kidnap-
ed late yesterday when he disap-
peared after announcing he had an
appointment with two men who
wanted to buy his farm.
The dentist is considered moder-
ately wealthy and at one time he
was believed to be worth more than
$500.000.
Police have been unable to find
any witnesses to the actual abduc-
ton. The woman suspect, who
was registered at hotel with one
of the men sought as DR.. Meyer IS
kidnapers, gave the name of Mrs.
Lee Armstrong.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Urges Trucknen
To Register

Ed Royce, local registration agent
for the California state code au-
thority for the trucking industry,
has been advised that an extension
of time has been granted for reg
istering truck owners so that they
may have the privilege of voting
on the code being prepared for the
industry.
All for-hire truckmen who have
not yet registered, are urged by
Royce to call at his office 421 Main
street without delay, as no definite
date has been set for the end of
the extension and it may be closed
at any time, thereby preventing
the individual from exercising his
vote.
Registration is compulsory under
the MIRA and for this reason should
be given prompt attention, Royce
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
STEEL UNION
ULTIMA TUM
Due TUESDAY

WASHINGTON, June 18. U.H :
Steel Union labor leaders will hand
steel operators and the administra-
ton four-point strike settlement
ultimatum tomorrow, it was learned
here today.
1t will emphasize demands for COL
lective bargaining rights. declare for
appointment OF a three party indus
trial board, insist on immediate
elections to establish the unions
right to bargain for workers 1t rep
resents, and stipulate that final de-
cision on workers grievances rest
with the board.
In most respects the program ig-
nores administration compromise
cancellation labor legislation passed
by congress Saturday night and now
awaiting President Roosevelt's sig
nature. This measure creates neu-
trail board of three to receive and
mediate complaints of violations of
the steel code labor clause; provides
for collective bargaining conferences
if requested by employers and en-
ployees and would order and super
wise workers elections "off company
property"
The counter program was drawn
by William Green. president of the
American Federation of Labor and
accepted by union committee
headed by Michael F. Tighe, union
president. Green. Tighe and COM
mitteemen will hand the proposal to
Labor Secretary Francis Perkins
here tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
QUINTUPLETS HAVE BIRTHDAY
Dionne Gals Three Weeks Old And Putting
On Lots Of Beef

NORTH BAY, Ont, June 10. U.p)
The famous Dionne quintuplets,
who today became three weeks old,
are showing excellent gains in
weight and their mother has recov-
cred from a relapse which threat
ened her life last week.
DR.. A. r. Dafoe, country doctor
who has amazed medical science by
keeping all the tiny babies and their
mother alive, reported their condi-
ton as satisfactory, although the "a
year-old mother was anxious to
leave her bed and personally take
charge of nursing the infants. DR..
Dafoe ordered her to remain quiet
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
County AHoWed
NeuU CCC Quota

Applications for another enlist
ment in CCC camps will be taken
at the Imperial County Emergency
Relief office at the court house,
starting today, it was announced
by M. O. Briggs in charge OF ap-
plications.
Applicants must appear at the
office between the hours of 9 a.
m. and IL a. m. on Mondays, We'd
nesdays or Fridays. They must
be between the ages of IS and rs
years, single and have dependents.
Imperial county's quota has not
as yet been assigned, and other
things being equal, order of ap-
plication will count in choosing
candidates for camp, so that those
planning to attend are urged to
apply without delay.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
BY GEORGE E. HELMER

Unlte0 freSS Sta11 correspondent
SACRAMENTO, June 18-Demo-
cratic registration is creeping up on
Republican so fast that California,
always q. o. p. stronghold, may
awaken in August to find itself a
Bourbon state.
Official registration figures to
June show Republicans leading by
only $4,000 or 1889 STA to 1851 ,267,
according to Frank c. Jordan, sec
retary of state. Two years ago, Re-
publicans had a lead of 100000,
which was cut to 100000 for the
general election in November, 1882.
Twenty counties have swung to
the Democratic column. Only eight
showed a Bourbon majority in 1882.
Heading the 20 are Los Angeles and
San Francisco, heavy centers of
population. The others are Amador,
Colusa, Ell Dorado, Fresno, Imperial,
Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lassen, MADEIRA,
Mariposa. Modoc, Plumas. Shasta, ST.
ezra, Siskiyou, Trinity and Tuolum-
ne.
Figures in several other counties
are so close that the Bourbon ranks
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
SITUATION IS
DECLARED TO
Be SERIOUS
Chief Engineer OF Irrigation
, District Urges Measures Be
Taken For Storage.
CRISIS NOT YET AT HAND
Acute Condition Predicted Un-
less Sufficient Rain Falls In
Near Future. e

While asserting that there Is nc
reason for Imperial Valley residents
to become unduly alarmed right now
over a water shortage, M. j. Dowd
chief engineer for the Imperial r.
: rigation District was emphatic today
in declaring that unless heavy rains
come soon in the Colorado river ba-
sin, the valley is certain to face the
most severe shortage in its history
this summer.
He was equally emphatic in stat
ing that now is the time to prepare
for the impending shortage and
urged that storage Of at least a 10
days supply Of water for domestic
and stock purposes be provided for
by ranchers.
Grand Canyon showed a dis
charge Of $500 second feet today,
loss of 1000 second feet since Satur-
day." Dowd asserted, land there are
no indications at present Of an inn
provement. On the contrary, all
things point to further decrease in
the flow Of the river.
THE water shortage is wide
spread throughout the west" he
said, land have information show
ing that the flow of the Mississippi
Is lower right now that it has been
at any time since the government
started keeping records in 1851"
Asked If the district has made
any move toward pro-rating water,
Dowd said that the matter has been
discussed informally, but that moth
ing definite has been done, for 1t
is not as yet necessary to adopt this
step. That 1t would be forced on
the district during the summer un-
less there is radical change in wea-
ther conditions, he did not doubt.
Notices Sent Out
Notices urging the storage Of a
10 days supply were being sent out
today by the district, the engineer
advised.
II do not wish to alarm valley res
idents unduly," Dowd said, but they
must be prepared to face serious
condition here this summer If rain
does not come"
The seriousness of the situation
was brought to the attention OF the
board of supervisors at its special
meeting this morning, and after dis
cussion a request was sent to the
secretary of agriculture, asking that
this county be included in the ma
tional drought area and be granted
relief appropriations to be made by
the government. A&#
The request was placed in the
form of a letter to the secretary,
whose attention was called to the
seriousness of conditions here, the
valley being entirely dependent upon
the Colorado river for its water sup
ply.
ironically enough, 1t Is pointed
out. the most serious shortage In
the valleys history is threatened in
the last year that it will be depend
ent upon the whims of the Colorado
for its water BY this time next year
1t Is believed Boulder dam will be
ready to store water, thus ending
for all time droughts at one per-
iod and floods at another. ~;
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
HURRY[NC TOWARD ADJOURNMENT
Valley Threatened By Summer Water Shortae
Postmaster Gets
His Diploma

William Francis Richmond is now
the official postmaster of Ell Centre
and has the document to prove it..
A certificate of appointment, dat
ed May 7, signed by President
Roosevelt, and countersigned by
James A. Farley, postmaster-gen-
eral, was received by the postmas-
ter this morning and soon will de-
corate the wall in his office, as soon
as he and Leo Hetzel can come to
an agreement on the cost of a
frame.
Asked If he plans to have a gold
frame for the certificate, the post
master called attention to the fact
that the government is off the gold
standard, and as good Democrat,
the frame will have to be some
thing else."
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
PRESS NOTICE
GETS RESULTS

That notice in The Press gets
results was proven once more when,
in Wednesdays issue, story was
printed for the probation depart
ment. stating that the office was
seeking job for 15-year-old girl
The paper was hardly off the
press before calls began to come in
at the probation office, states Mrs.
Josephine Shackelford. dep uety
county probation officer, a family
chosen and by $3.50 the next morn
ing the girl was installed in her
new home. I
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Life Term For
Girls Slayer

LOS ANGELES, June 18. (U.n)~
Charles Johnston. 23-year-old Pas
adena chauffeur. who shot to death
Dorothy Smith. 10, OF Monrovia,
when she refused TO kiss him and
renew their engagement, was sem
fenced to life Imprisonment by SUE
perior Judge Elliott Craig today
~ figure got a break, = John.
ton said. ~ never again want
to come that close to getting my
neck stretched
The youth came TO California
four years ago from Columbus. O
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Believe Thief
Took Poison

LOS ANGELES, June 18. U.R) =
The man who ransacked small
restaurant here last night is dead
or near death, police believed to-
day.
The restaurant keeper had left,
Saturday night, a banana smeared
with arsenic, to kill rats.
When he opened the place this
morning, only the banana skins re-
manned. The prowler was supposed
to have eaten it.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Suicide Victim
Arizona Girl

LOS ANGELES, June Is. W.P)-
Identity of the nude young woman
who plunged to her death from
the fourth floor of an apartment
house was definitely established
by police today as Hazel Juanita
Pierce, niece of j. H. Higginbo-
than, former treasurer of Cocoon
ino county, Ariz.
Friends of the girl told officers
that she was respondent and had
been suffering from delusions for
some time. She had rented the
apartment only a few hours before
she ended her life Friday night
A sister of the dead girl, Mrs.
Edward Hanson, lives in Torrance.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Death Claims
Mrs. Chambers

Funeral services for Mrs. Pearl
E. Chambers. 80, wife of j. M.
Chambers, 319 Commercial street,
who died Saturday, will be held at
Lemons funeral parlors. Wednes-
day afternoon at $3.50. Rev. w. E.
Malan of the First Methodist
church will officiate and burial
will be in Evergreen cemetery
Mrs. Chambers was born in
Adair county, Iowa and had resided
in Ell Centre for the past 20 years.
She had been i'll for several
months and in addition to her
husband is survived by a daugh-
ter, Martha, Is years of old.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Submit Bids On
Grand Coulee Dan,

SPOKANE, Wash, June 18. W.P)
The Silas Mason company of New
York submitted a low bid of $29,-
339 ,301.50 for construction of the
Grand Coulee dam in the Columbia
river, to the United States reclama-
ton service here today.
The second low bid was 4,555,-
582 by Six Companies of Washing
ton, Inc, builders of Boulder dam.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18

at least another day until all dam
ger of second relapse is past.
Each baby showed a gain over the
previous day when weighed yester-
day. The weights and gains were:
Yvonne-two pounds, 1914 ounces,
gain of two ounces.
Annette-two pounds. nine and
three-quarter ounces, gain of one
and three-quarter ounces.
Cecile-two pounds, five ounces,
gain of two ounces.
Emilie-two pounds, one and one
half ounces, gain of one and one
quarter ounces.
Marie-one pound, is and one
quarter ounces, gain Of one ounce.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Foulds Files
For Supervisor

Scott B. Foulds, farm bureau
secretary, filed nomination papers
today as candidate for the office
of supervisor from District No. l.
Foulds is a resident of the Jas
per district, has been active in farm
bureau work and at present is also
engaged in aiding ranchers secure
commissioner IS loans.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
Chinese Pirates
Capture British

LONDON, June 18. W.P)-Chinese
Pirates raided the British steamer
Shuntien between Taku and Che
foo, capturing two of the ship s
officers and three English passen-
gers the admiralty announced to-
day. 4F
The captives included Lieuts.
Luce and Field of the British navy
and 20 Chinese. The British des-
troyer Veteran and navy planes
we're sent in pursuit.