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Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
Arizona Enjoined
From, Interfering
With Parker Dan,

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL. UD -
The supreme court today issued a
temporary restraining order for
bidding Gov. B. Moetr of Arizona
and the state authorities to inter-
fere with construction of Parker
Dam in the Colorado river.
The courts order runs to March
4, when the court will hear argu-
ment on the motion of Arizona to
dismiss the governments suit
brought to restrain interference
with the construction work.
The dam is link in the Boulder
Canyon project, greatest of the gov
ernment's water power develop
ments. The dispute is an echo Of
Arizona's fight against the alloca-
ton of water under the compact
between affected states.
Part of the construction of Par
ker dam is on Arizona territory.
When workmen attempted to pro-
ceed with this portion of the con-
struction work Moeur called out the
state troops and stopped them. Har-
old l.. Ickes, secretary of interior,
in filing an original bill of COM
plant, charged that the delay would
work irreparable injury to the pro-
gress of the Boulder Dam project.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
Californian To
Go On Trial In
Canadian Court

BELLEVILLE, Ont, Feb. IL. (U.R)
Harold w. Vermilyea, 49, Ontar-
10, Calf, will go on trial tomor-
row charged with numbering his
wealthy, socially prominent mother,
Mrs. Nathaniel Vermilyea, 76.
Vermilyea allegedly beat the aged
woman to death with an axe on the
night Of october A. outside the res
fdence of her daughter, wife of the
Hon. DR.. j. A. Faulkner, Ontario
minister of public health.
Following the alleged attack Yer
Elilyea, the crown cohtends, re-
turned to his Ontario, Calf, home
after dash across the continent
in which he utilized taxicabs, trains
and airplanes TO escape.
He was arrested at Ontario and
returned to Belleville where he was
indicted.
Vermilyea has maintained, since
his arrest, that he had not been
outside California during the past
II years.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
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Hauptn,onv, Case
Jury May Be Put
In Secret Place

FLEMINGTON, N. j., Feb. II. W.p)
The Hauptmann jury today may be
taken to a secret place to deliber-
ate, as a result of fears of attempts
to learn of their opinion in the
jury room, it was reported today.
Chief Constable Oden Baggstrom,
charged with the duty Of protect
ing the jurors from contacts with
outsiders and guarding against any
possible "leaks,'' said deliberations
would be in a small ante-room just
off the main courtroom, where the
court stenographerS have bee n
working. 1t Is planned to move the
stenographers and disconnect the
news machines on which the tram
script of testimony has been trans
mitted, he said.
Discovery yesterday of secret
wires paralleling the wires leading
to the electric clock in the court
room and running outside the court
house, thence to small room just
off the balcony, caused Baggstorm
to become greatly exercised. He
said, "We re going to be absolutely
sure there will be no leaks' but
he declined to reveal his plan in
detail.
Because of the amount of labor
necessary to clear the grand jury
witnesses room in which Baggstrom
said the jury will deliberate, it was
believed that transfer of the jury,
under heavy guard to some other
place, was a strong probability.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
Roosevelt Meets
Labor Chieftoins

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL U.D -
, ference with heads of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor today
reiterated his belief in the "neces-
sity" and "the soundness of fur
thering the principle of collective
bargaining as between labor and
management"
Mr.. Roosevelt's statement SEEM
ed designed to attempt to heal the
breach that has developed between
the A. F. of L. and the administra-
ton on several issues. The meet
ing failed to bring agreement on
many of these points, but the
President gave organized labor a
strong pat on the back.
He said the policy of collective
bargaining requires highly develop
ed organization of both employees
and employers, coupled with re-
cognition that their relations must
be based on willingness to ar
bitrate.
The President praised the A. F..
of L. as lone of the great and
outstanding institutions of the
country and lauded its part "in
the work of rehabilitating indus
try and in the protection of our
country ITSELF"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
SAYS CRIME
COMM TED
BY SERVANT
Hauptmann's Attorney Charges
Prosecution Made Up Evil
dence And Concealed Truth
MAKES FRAME-UP' CLAIM
All Witnesses Accused Of Being
Plants To Support Guilt Of
Accused Man

FLEMINGTON, N. j., Feb. IL.
WP-In a raging denunciation OF
New Jersey and New York police
methods, Edward j. Reilly today ac-
cused the governments wood ex-
pert, Arthur Koehler, OF manufac-
turing evidence to send Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann to the electric
chair.
The chief defense counsel's sum-
nation of resons (for finding Haupt-
mann innocent of the murder of
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr, rose to
q climax of sensation when the So
called Bull of Brooklyn" using
every method known to his years
of handling criminal cases, branded
the prosecutors of his client as
"concealers of the truth and crea-
! tors of false testimony"
In effect, he charged Koehler
with saving board taken from
Hauptmann's attic in two places,
and constructing with it false rail
on the kidnap ladder.
1.-The state police rented Haupt-
mann's house after his arrest" he
shouted. "They wouldn't let us in
there. They wouldn't let us see what
was going on"
Wilentz Silent
Reilly's charges against the gov
ernments witnesses and the "bung-
ling police" came tumbling on each
others heels, without interference
from Attorney General David T..
Wilentz, who will have his day in
court tomorrow. The florid Brook
lyn attorney declared:
l.. That Col. Lindbergh's loyal
servants" participated in the crime.
2. That Butler Oliver Whately si-
fenced the family dog to prevent
its barking on the night of the
crime.
3. That "Nursemaid Betty Cow
signalled to Henry (ReO Johnson
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
LONG URGES
FARLEY PROBE

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. W.P) =
Sen. Huey P. Long, (Dem) La, in
troduced resolution today to in
vestigate the conduct" of Post
master General James A. Farley.
Longs resolution requested an in
vestigation by three senators to be
appointed by the vice-president.
1t recited a series of allegations
and reports relating to profits from
contract arrangements and govern
ment purchases which Long at
tributed to Farley.
The resolution also listed as a
reason for investigation the stamp
printing episode which the house
refused to investigate. Farley has
been accused of giving friends a
particularly valuable set of new is
sue stamps.
The Long resolution said also it
had been alleged that Farley was
implicated in a wire service" lead
ing into gambling houses through
out the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
To Reconsider
Vote On Relief
Scale OF Wages

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL. U.P)-
The senate appropriations commit
tee today voted to reconsider its
action of last week in approving the
payment of prevailing wage rates
on relief projects but delayed a
vote on whether the proposal should
be removed from the $4,880, 900, 900
work relief bill.
The vote for reconsideration was
IA to 9.
The committee had adopted the
prevailing wage amendment by a
vote of IL to 8.
The committee IS action was a
tentative victory for President
Roosevelt, who wants the amend
ment removed from the bill so that
he can proceed with the original
plan to pay a security wage' OF
approximately $50 per month on re-
lief work
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
Head At Hearing
In Federal Court

Elmer Heald, district attorney, was
in San Diego today for a hearing
in federal court on the action
brought by A. l.. Wirin against
George Campbell, former sheriff
and Lon Cromer, Brawley police
chief.
This action was brought to Sc
cure an injunction against the two
defendants to prevent them inter-
fering with a meeting which was
to have been held in the Azteca
hall, Brawley, last winter under the
auspices of the American Civil Lib
critics Union.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
State To Close
Radical Trial

SACRAMENTO, Feb. II UP)--
The state expected to close its case
today in the trial of II Com
munists accused of criminal syndi-
caliSm.
The defense, seeking to refute
prosecution evidence OF. strikes in
the San Joaquin and Sacramento
valleys, prepared to call SO wit
nesses. Presentation of rebuttal
testimony will require nearly two
months, attorneys estimated.
The defendants are accused OF
having fomented strikes and ad-
vocated overthrow of the govern
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
SAYS BARON
DECEIVED HIM

LOS ANGELES, Feb. IL. UP
John Schleifer, Huntington FarA
business man, was completely be-
witched'' by Baron Carl Van Bad
enthal's tales of European wealth
and splendor, he admitted today
in Superior Judge Thomas p.
White IS court where the baron Is
being tried on grand theft charges.
Schleifer, who charges the baron,
alias Carl Willinger, swindled him
out of 1920, testified He had such
sincere manner, believed every
word he said"
"'Even when he described his
castle in Vienna, his 100000 dia-
mond reposing in Paris value and
his sale of a motion picture seem
ario to Universal Studios, I believed
him.
81 never doubted he was a bar
on,o Schleifer added, "'I took him
into my home and made him
trusted friend and confiadnte.
Schleifer told the court that he
advanced the baron $1,000 so that
the self-styled nobleman could 20
to Europe to obtain release OF dia-
logue rights to scenario he said
he had sold to Universal Studios.
On the way back from Vienna
the baron was TO stop In Paris and
pick up the 100000 diamond. nc
cording to Schleifers IS testimony.
The baron left Schleifer's Hunt
ington Park home July 4, 1894. lie
was arrested some months later IN
New York and returned here for
trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
UNSETTLED WEATHER TO CONTINUE
Rain Not Predicted Though Cloudiness And Warmer
Temperatures Expected

Unsettled weather is still the pre-
diction for tonight and tomorrow
according to Fred A. Baughman, To-
cal observer for the U. s. frost SER
vice, who, however, does not an
ticipate rain, although at noon the
barometer had fallen slightly.
Cloudiness tomorrow with warm
weather is expected.
Sundays rainfall was extremely
local, states Baughman, none fall
ing in Brawley and only trace in
Calexico, while Ell Centros rainfall
was .38, according to Howard En-
mons, local observer for the U; S.
weather bureau.
Emmons' total for the storm is
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
Sheriff Quits As
School Trustee

Sheriff Robert w. Ware has sent
in his resignation as trustee for the
Calipatria elementary schools. due
to the fact that he no longer re-
sides in that district. No appoint
ment has been made as yet to fill
the vacancy by c. B. Collins, county
superintendent of schools.
Collins has appointed Arthur
Plecher as trustee for Seeley, fill
ing the vacancy caused by the res
ignation of Anna Mae Long who no
longer lives in that district.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
Fleet off For
War Moneuuers

LOS ANGELES, Feb. IL. W.P)-
Thirty-two ships, major portion of
the United States fleet raised an
chor and steamed out to sea today
for three days of war practice on a
cruise to San Francisco.
The fleet will remain at San
Francisco during national defense
week February 1927 and then re-
turn to bases here until the next
spring cruise.
Following the wake of Admiral
Joseph M. Reeves flagship Penn
sylvania were nine other battleships,
seven heavy cruisers, four light
cruises, the airplane carrier Sara
toga, five submarines, and other
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
MISS N 'ELROY
. WORRIES OVER
DOOMED MAN
Kidnap Victim Leaves Home
Because OF Fright Due To
Fate OF Her Captor

NORMAL, ILL.,, Feb. IL WP) -
Mary McElroy was worried to the
point of distraction over the fate
of the men who kidnapped her two
years ago. she told police today
when they questioned her as to the
reason for her sudden disappear
ance from her Kansas City home
Miss McElroy, daughter of City
Manager Henry McElroy of Kansas
City, left home suddenly last night
and turned up today aboard a bus
bound from Springfield to Chicago
Il don't know exactly why !
left" she said, "but I have been
worrying about that man sem
fenced to die and about the Others
who are to go on trial"
She referred to Walter H. Nc
Gee who is under sentence OF
death in connection with her alb
duction for ransom in 1888.
81 can stand a lot of punish
ment," she said, "but I don't like
to see others suffer. I was ready
to go out of my mind and wanted
to get away"
Meanwhile she prepared to leave
here for Springfield to meet hei
uncle, w. B. McElroy, who was en-
route there from Kansas City ir
a chartered airplane.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. IL. U.P
Judge Henry F. McElroy, cit,
manager, disclosed today that hi
daughter, Mary McElroy, 81, wa
missing. He said he believed worr.
| over the appeal of man sentenced
to death for kidnapping Miss McEl
roy two years ago might have
brought on nervous breakdown
J which caused her to leave home.
Police and relatives discounted q
kidnapping theory and said indica-
tions were the young woman left
home voluntarily.
Kansas City officers and the
father spent the latter part of the
night telephoning hotels, apartment
houses and the residences of friends
where they believed Miss McElroy
might have gone.
Today the city manager said she
might have gone to Jefferson City
where the state supreme court is
considering the case of Walter Nc
Gee, alleged leader in the kidnapping
of Miss McElroy on May 81, 1888
She was ransomed for $4,000.
Recently the judge had received
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Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
COACHELLA SUPPORTS POWER PLAN
Officials Of Three Cities And Water District Pledge
Cooperation To Hewes

Entire cooperation with the irri-
cation district power generation and
distribution program has been OBJ
tanned from the Coachella water
district, the Indio city council, the
Palm Springs trustees, and the
Thermal board of trustees, Evan
T. Hewes, local district president
announced this morning.
Hewes visited these cities in the
Coachella district yesterday and
Saturday. speaking 20 the different
boards of directors and trustees and
secured pledges from all of COM
plete accordance with the local dis
trict on the All-American canal
power program.
On all sides, Hewes reported,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11

2.06 inches and the total for the
year is 2.60 inches.
Baughman says that from his
talks with growers and others, the
rain did as much good as harm in
their opinion. Dairymen and lettuce
growers suffered the most from the
storm, the latter estimating their
losses at from 800-l000 cars.
On the other hand, according to
growers, squash and tomatoes,
harmed by the last frost, have bene-
fitted by the rains as have such
crops as barley.
B. A! Harrigan, agricultural COM
missioner, is making survey of the
actual loss to lettuce growers and
other ranchers.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
RECOUNT OF BALLOTS STARTED BY DISTRICT
Reilly Makes Vicious Attack On State Evidence
Looks Like He
Rolls 'En1 Up

Los ANGELES, Feb. IL. U.P)
California jewelers. today
wondered If President RoOsev-
welt buttons his shirt sleeves
or uses cuff links.
The jewellers, voting TO send
him a pair of links adorned
with California gems as a ges-
ture of the California Retail
jewelers. convention here next
week, then puzzled whether the
President used links or buttons.
The links are to studded with
aquamarine, tOurmaline, kim
zite, benitoite and other stones
found only in California mines.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11

those attending the meetings and
the general public are not only in
terested in the districts power pro-
gram, but are enthusiastic about it..
Numerous questions were asked
Hewes in the course of the discus
sions indicating that Coachella VAL
ley is keeping in close touch with
developments and is most anxious
to have the districts program sue
ceed.
Imperial Valley can be sure OF
the utmost support and coopera-
ton from Coachella Valley in the
power project program" Hewes
said, "and officials there are anxious
to assist in any way possible"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
mW1galAa glao
SN SAYS'

SANTA MONICA, Feb. 10. (Spe-
ciaD-These old boys that IS
claimed they been dead and then
come back to life, they seem to be
getting all the play in the pa
pers. The fellow in England
claimed he got to heaven and
that it was great, and he is sorry
they revived him.
Well It's not much trouble to
get dead again; a little street
crossing without being alert will
do the job. Then we got an old
boy out here in Hollywood that
claimed he was dead for % min
utes, and he says he was glad to
get back alive again.
Sounds like a chamber of COM
merce ad for Hollywood to me.
Course coming from where he
does, he might have got in the
wrong place. That's very prob
able. Anyhow they re both lying,
but it helps kill time till the SUI
preme court acts.
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11
ITALY READY
To MAKE WAR
ON AbYSS|N|A
Two Divisions OF Troops Mobi-
lized For Service Against Afri-
can Kingdom
BY THOMAS b. MORGAN
United Press Staff Correspondent


Copyright, 1895 by United Press
ROME, Feb. IL. Italy mobil-
lied two divisions of troops on a
war basis today as the result of an
attack by AbySSinian tribesmen on
Italian native troops in disputed
territory between Abyssinia and
Italian Southland.
It was said authoritatively that
an ultimatum would be sent to the
Emperor Halle Selassie I, Abyssi-
MAS king of kings" unless Italy
received complete satisfaction.
Premier Benito Mussolini's action
today came as portentous climax
to the announcement that he sent
last night forceful protest against
the alleged attack and called some
$4,000 picked men of mechanical
military units to the colors.
No doubt was left that he S>de-
termined to end, by war if neces-
sary, the raids by frontier tribes
men.
The attack in question occurred
January 90. 1t was not known pub
licly until Mussolini's announcement
of last night.
Men of the mechanical units as
sembled quietly at secret depots, 60
ing for a possible war against the
country from which the Queen of
Sheba, as it then was, went to meet
King Solomon and, in bearing a
son to him, to found the dynasty
which the Emperor Halle Selassie,
king of kings" now rules.
An official spokesman said blunt
ly to the United Press that the gov
ernment was enraged.
"The present situation cannot be
exaggerated" he added 1.-THE gov
ernment has been extremely calm
and has carried patience to the
limit.
For months our outposts have
been attacked, our colonial troops
massacred.
Our protests against marauding
bands-regulars aS'well as irregtllars
have been received with deaf ears
by the Abyssinian government.
I'VE shall get satisfaction. We
can not permit our frontier to be
violated"
LONDON, Feb. IL. Up-Great
Britain is offering its good offices
in hope of averting war between
Italy and Abyssinia, it was under
stood today
Britain is basing its activities on
the order of the League of Nations
council for direct negotiations be-
tween Italy and Abyssinia of their
frontier dispute involving strip OF
territory bordering on Italian Soma
liland. These negotiations have not
opened actually.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11

CONTINUED on page 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-03-28

ney she will travel through a cor
ridor hemmed in by high noun
tains and Swallowed by pines, cliffs
and crags. Alongside the train the
green Clark's Fork river will surge
and chatter. Away off upon hign
peaks, lonely lookout towers will
mark the faithful vigil of forest
fire lookouts. Here and there dis
tant waterfalls will flash from
cliffs.
Pacific Time" will be entered at
Paradise, Montana, not far from
the Idaho line and in the same To-
cality as the Flathead Indian Res
ervation and the United States BIZ
son Range where shaggy monarchs
of the plains are being perpetuated
for future generations.
With such a prize trip as this to
work for the Herald's Educational
Travel contest is enlisting a degree
of activity and community interest
that is squirting each contestant to
her utmost effort From al indica-
tions, there will be no letup in
work or suspense until the final
close Of the contest.
Many snow-capped mountains,
where summer and winter sports
mingle all summer, border the
route which will be followed
through the west by the first-prize
winner in the Herald's Educational
Travel contest Among them Is
Mount Rainior, Washington, 14,4O8
feet high. which will be within
view from windows of the North
Coast Limited as It crosses the
Cascade Range and approaches
Seattle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-03-28

the other the loose smut, some
times called naked smut. Re
cent investigations by M. B.
Moore and c. c. Allison, however,
have revealed the prevalence of
a third smut which looks like
loose smut but behaves like COW
cred smut. This new smut, which
has been called the intermediate,
cannot be distinguished from the
loose smut in the field, but the diff
ference is readily seen under the
microscope.
Since the intermediate smut can
be controlled by chemicals, such
theatment will reduce losses from
barley smut more than has pre-
viously been supposed, says Dr.
Stakman. Much Of the smut
which formerly has been consid-
cred loose smut, comfortable on
ly by the hot water treatment, is
really intermediate smut, controH'
able by chemical treatments.
That the intermediate smut is
very widespread in Minnesota, is
indicated by a survey made last
summer in which it was found in
"a counties, being generally dis
tributed thruout southern Mime
sofa as far north as Polk county.
The plant disease men strongly
urge that farmers treat barley
seed with an organic mercury
compound, such as New Improved
Ceresan, in order to eliminate the
covered smut, and barley stripe
all of which cause considerable
damage.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-03-28
ST. LOUIS All CLUBS
WIN PROGRESS CONTEST

Ranking first in a national All
county progress contest, st. Louis
county All clubs will be awarded
a $4,000 community building, COM
pletely furnished and Handicapped
Announcement Of this award was
made recently by the National
Committee on Boys and Girls
Club Work, Chicago. which super
vised the contest. st. Louis county
previously had won first over Is
Minnesota counties in state All
progress contest.
Facts which counted in st. Louis
county's selection were its enroll
ment Of 1884 club members, said
to be the largest Of any county in
the United States; its efficient All
club organization, headed by two
full-time club leaders; and the ex-
cellent cooperation given these
leaders by residents Of the county,
individually and through their
farm and civic organizations.
Other factors bringing about
this selection We're the high per-
centage of member projects COM
pleted; large attendance Of MEM
bers at All club meetings and
other events; and the influence Of
All club work on farm, home and
community progress.
H. ]. Aase is in charge of the
boys club work in this county, and
Miss Mabel Fertig directs the girls
projects. Both have headquarters
at Virginia.
The building, donated by one Of
the nations large mail-order firms,
will be completely furnished with
kitchen and dinning equipment; a
social parlor with fireplace, and a
250-volume library. A site for the
building will be selected soon by
st. Louis county local and county
club leaders.