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Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
HOPSON NOT ABLE TO REMEMBER
INCOME FROM UTILITIES FIRM
Witness In Lobbying Probe Resents Question On His
Private Affairs And Gives House Probe Commit
tee Little Assistance In Investigation

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. W.P) -
Howard C. Hopson, smiling, jovlal
mystery man of the congressional
lobby investigation, earnestly told
house investigators today that he
couldn't remember his present in
come, although he recalled making
some 100000 in 1922.
The reputedly dominant figure in
the giant Associated Gas and Elec-
trio company, sought for weeks in
the investigation of $1,800,000
campaign against the Wheeler
Rayburn bill, but found only yes
terday mixed flashes of angry de-
fiance with roars of laughter when
he appeared before the committee.
And at the end of the morning
session, he again demonstrated the
ease with which he avoids sub
poena-bearers by scooting away in
a taxi while an investigator from
the rival senate lobby committee
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
CONTRACT LET FOR CANAL DESIL TING WORKS
Staying Suspects
Sent To Folsom
For Safe Keeping

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 13. U.P)-
Folsom prisons sturdy walls and
efficient guards afforded protection
today n three Oakland men ar
resteo n the Staying of Chief of
Police Elton G.. Fish of North Sac
remento
The suspects were transferred
from the Sacramento Jail to Folsom
to avoid any possibility of mob vio-
lence.
While no direct threats to lynch
the prisoners were reported, crowds
constantly circulated around the
Sacramento city and county prisons
while the youths were held there
and extra guards were required.
The prisoners are Alfred Paine.
26; Hugh Smith, %; and George F.
Wallace, 81.
Francis O'Shea, deputy district
attorney of Sacramento county, has
announced that he would request
the grand jury Friday to indict
them on charges of murder and
would seek an early trial.
Paine repeatedly has confessed
firing the shot which killed Fish.
While enroute to the prison from
here. Paine led officers to field
south of Roseville and recovered
the revolver which supposedly was
used in the Staying of Fish.
The gun, an old .38, was fully
loaded.
Sergeant Ray Peart and Detec-
tive Ray Kunz quoted Paine as say
ing: st reloaded it on the way to
RoSeville."
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
inland Man Dies
Of Heart Attack

Rufus Cooksey, SO, a resident of
inland for the past 18 months died
suddenly at his home yesterday af-
ternoon. He is survived by his wi
dow and no announcement has
yet been made regarding funeral
arrangements.
According to Frank Raney, de-
putty coroner who investigated
Cooksey's death, it was occasioned
by a heart attack as the deceased
had been under the care of a ply
sician for a heart ailment for the
past year.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
Close Call For
TWo Boys From
Extreme Fl e a t

Jack Benson, II, of Atlanta,
Georgia, and Russell West, 16,
Danville, Illinois, are in the coun-
ty hospital recovering from the
effects of heat prostration. Infor-
nation received from the hospital
this morning states that the two
boys are we'll on the road to re-
covery from their experience.
They were picked up by a Sou
thern Pacific freight train crew
five miles east of Flowing Wells IN
the desert yesterday afternoon. A
report given the sheriff's office at
6 o'clock states that they were tax
en- to inland, given first aid treat
ment there and then taken to the
county hospital.
Their condition was extremely
serious when first discovered by
the trainmen, the report states. At
the sheriff's office this morning it
was said that the boys were max
ing their way back home after some
time spent on the coast. They had
been without water since yesterday
morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
Arizona Cancels
DriUers' Licenses

PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 13. UP) -
Cancellation of all Arizona automo-
bile driving permits September l
was ordered by state authorities to-
day as part of their campaign to
reduce the states disproportionate-
ly large traffic death toll.
New licenses will be issued, they
said, only after passage of stiff"
examination on traffic regulations
and ability to drive. Previously,
licenses were issued without exam
nations.
The only licenses which will not
become void September l are those
issued to professional drivers.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
RILEY WARNS
OF INCREASED
STATE DEFICIT

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 13. U.H-
CALIFORNIA; general fund deficit,
now amounting to $28,0O0000, will
total $79000,000 by June 30, 1887,
unless the legislature in special ses-
sion next winter devises methods
of producing new revenue.
Controller Ray L. Riley made
this new estimate today after study
ing the 1935-37 budget and income
possibilities.
The 51st legislature, in its recent
session, passed new tax measures
to raise more than $100,000,000 in
new revenue, but this will not be
sufficient to replace lost income and
meet increasing expenses, Riley
figured.
General fund obligations for the
present biennium, he pointed out,
total $316,715,T28, including special
appropriations, fixed charges and
the deficit which accumulated during
the past four years.
Riley estimated revenues would
total $230,567970, leaving $86,147,-
758 in obligations uncovered by rev.
enue. Passage of the building bond
act in the special election today
would reduce the obligations by
$4, 1863, 500, ana passage of the Ma
tional Security Act would lower OBJ
lightions another $3,000,000. The
deficit then, at the end of the BIZ
ennium, would be slightly under
$79000,000
In addition, $24,OOO,0O0 will be
needed for unemployment relief
during the second half of the two
year period.
A special legislative session, there
fore, would have to raise $103,000,-
900 in new taxes to meet all ex-
penses for the biennium.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13

Word was received here this
morning to the effect that 10
day stay of execution on these
writs had been granted the resi-
dents of this territory. When ques-
toned on this point Eggleston stat
ed that he had received no infor-
nation to that effect. He added
that he had acted in the matter on
orders received directly from the
U. S. Marshal's office in Los An
geles and that that office had sent
him no notice that any stay OF
execution had either been asked OF
granted.
Until receive such notice di-
rectly from the Los Angeles office,
the deputy marshal said, I shall
take no further action in the mat
ter"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
Directors Discuss
Utilities District

Irrigation District directors in
session today discussed further the
possibility OF organizing a utility
district in the valley to develop and
distribute power from the ALL
American Canal Harry w. Horton,
district chief counsel, outlined to
the directors the three methods
under which, according to California
law, such a district might be formed.
Horton had been instructed by
the board at their last meeting to
make study of this question from
the legal point of view and report
back to the board today. The dis
cussion was continued during the
afternoon session with no definite
action in the matter taken by the
directors.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
MEDICAL EXPERT SAYS WILLARD'S
FREEZING THEORY is BUNCOMBE

CHICAGO, Aug. 13. W,R The
American Medical association to-
day warned Ralph S. Willard, Los
Angeles chemist preparing to bring
a human icicle" back to life, that
it will expose his claims publicly
as "a vicious hoax"
The threat brought an immed-
late retort from Willard that the
associations spokesman, DR.. Nor
ris Fishbein, was talking about
something of which he was utterly
ignorant.
DR.. Fishbein, editor of the Jour
nal of the American Medical asso-
citation, in which the threatened
expose will appear this week, called
Willard "a faker pure and simple .
His claim of freezing revivifica-
tion experiments having been sue
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
All California
"Goes On Wagon

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10. Wlp -
California supposedly went dry for
13 or ID hours today because an
old law on the statute books pro-
hibits the sale or distribution of
Intoxicating liquor during election
hours.
Liquor dealers who make sales
of drinks or bottles before the polls
close will be in danger of having
their licenses suspended or re-
voked, George Stout, state liquor
enforcement chief, said.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
OBJECTION To
LOW SPOT ON
LEAGUE : LIST.
Delay In Consideration Would
Be Advantage To Italy In Pre-
pairing For War
EMPEROR'S NOTE AWAITED
Halle Selassie Believed To Have
Asked Britain And France To
Use Discretion
BY FREDERICK KUH

united Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1885, by United Press)
! LONDON, Aug. 13.-Great Bri-
ttain has demanded that the League
of Nations secretariat place the
Ethiopian dispute first on
the Agenda for the league council
meeting S ep t m ber 4, it was
learned today.
Disclosure that the dispute was
placed 22nd on the list of 25 topics
for the council meeting was inter-
preted generally as foretelling an
effort to delay consideration while
minor matters were passed on.
This would give additional days
in which Italy could prepare for its
expected attack at the end of the
rainy season, which at the time Of
the meeting will be imminent.
The government, 1t was learned,
promptly informed the secretariat
that 1t confidently expected the
Ethiopian crisis to be first on the
councils list. This comprised ad-
vance notification to council men,
bers of Britain'S attitude. The
council will meet in private to con-
slider arrangement of items on the
program.
Britain's move was construed
also as confirmation that if nego-
tiations to be started with France
and Italy at Paris Thursday end in
failure, Britain will insist on full
public discussion of the crisis,
whatever the eventual effect on
the league itself.
Anthony Eden, minister for
league affairs, will leave with his
associates for Paris today to rep
resent Britain at the three-power
conference, in order that he may
confer with Premier Pierre Laval
before the arrival of the Italian
delegation.
1t is widely believed that Eden
will propose a solution by which
Ethiopia would be put under a
league economic mandate for which
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
PouUer Program, Is
Sent To Capital

Revised plans for irrigation dis
trict power development have been
sent directly to Washington, D. c.,
for action by federal authorities,
Evan T. Hewes, district president
stated this morning.
These plans cover the develop
ment and distribution of All-Amer-
ican canal power by the district
and were sent directly to Washing
ton and not through state agen-
cies.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
WORK To Be
STARTED IN
ONE MON 7 H
Job Awarded To Door Company
Of Denver, Colorado, On Bid
OF $564,SOO
WILL CLEAR VALLEY WATER
Plant Designed To Keep Silt
Out OF Canals And bitches
Eliminating Big Expense

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. U.P)-
The federal reclamation bureau to-
day awarded $564,800 contract to
the Door Company, Denver, Colo,
for construction of a desilting plant
at the head of the All-American
canal in California.
Reclamation Commissioner Ell
wood Mead said work would start
within 80 days.
The desilting works will be adja-
cent to Imperial dam where it
crosses the Colorado river. The
plant will remove mud from the
river water before it is diverted
into the All-American system.
Informed this afternoon by The
Press of the above United Press
dispatch, M. J. Dowd, chief engi-
neer for the Imperial Irrigation
district, explained that the contract
mentioned is for equipment for the
desilting plant and not tor the de-
sitting basins themselves.
1.-The Door company has been
making extensive experiments and
research in this sort Of work for
several years." ne said. 1.-THE
equipment consist of rotary scrapers
and operating apparatus which will
clean off the mud from the basins
and carry it back into the river be-
low the desilting plant.
Recently on a visit to their
plant in Denver I inspected q
(Cortint,ed IN nape AZ
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
Mrs. Albert RoWe
Called By Death

Mrs. Albert d. Rowe, former val
ley resident, died yesterday after
a short illness in the Iona Linda
hospital, San Bernardino.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock from
the Knoppsnyder funeral home at
Cotton, with interment in Ontario.
The Rowes had lived in Imperial
Valley for some time previous to
their removal one year ago. Albert
Rowe was a member of the local
fire department in 1921 and 1922,
and following that, the family lived
in Holtville for a period.
Mrs. Rowe leaves, in addition to
her husband, daughter, Kather-
inc, and a son, Dale.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
Hog Processing
Tax Not Legal

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug 13. W.H
The AAA hog processing tax to-
day was held unconstitutional by
Federal Judge W. Calvin Chestnut.
The court granted an injunction
to John A. Gebeiein, Inc, a pack
ing house, restraining the govern
ment from collecting the tax.
Judge Chestnut held that the
AAA act was a wholesale regulation
on agriculture in the several states
for which congress had no power
to levy special tax and that the
tax was imposed through an un-
warranted delegation of power to
the secretary of agriculture.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
Slayers Convicted
In Dickinson Case

DETROIT, Aug. 13. O.P)-A jury
today found William Schweitzer and
three women defendants guilty in
the first degree of the murder of
Howard Carter Dickinson, promin-
ent New York attorney.
The women, Florence and Loretta
Jackson, ana Jean Miller, sobbed
hysterically as the verdict was an
nounced by the jury of six men
and six women.
Life sentence in a Michigan
prison is mandatory.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
Legion In Charge
OF Scott Funeral

Funeral services for Rion G..
Scott, Civil war veteran who died
yesterday at his ranch in Heber,
will be held tomorrow morning at
9 o'clock from the chapel of B. E.
Lemons, with the American Le-
gion in charge of the services. In
terment will b Elm Evergreen ceme-
terry.
Scott was Sc years of age at the
time of his death. He was pri-
vate in Company B, 43rd regiment
of the Missouri infantry volunteers,
enlisting at Savannah, Mo-, August
26, 1864, and being mustered out
of service one year later at the close
of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
LITTLE VOTING BEING DONE HERE
Less Than 100 Ballots Cast In Three Precincts In
Special State Election

ballots were sent out and returned
to be counted in the election re-
turns.
Due to the election a holiday was
granted to all state. city and coun-
ty offices here today which were
closed. Banking and other financial
institutions were closed while Ii
quor disp pens sin G establishments
were restrained from selling liquors
until after the close of the polls.
Reports from other parts of the
county and also the state at large
indicated that the vote will be ex-
tremely light.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
Zenge Enters Plea
Denying His Guilt

CHICAGO, Aug. 13. WR)-Mande-
Vile Zenge, 26-year-old Missouri
farm hand, today pleaded not gull
ty TO the mutilation murder of DR..
Walter j. Bauer when arraigned
before acting Chief Justice John c.
Lewe of the criminal court on a
murder indictment.
Judge Lewe set September 9 as
the trial date.
Zenge. the state charges, mur-
dered DR.. Bauer because he was
Tilted by Louise Schaffer, his
sweetheart of seven years who mar
ried DIR. Bauer.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
VAN EMAN DELEGATE

FRESNO, Calf, Aug. 13. W.H
Six Legonnaires were nomin-
ated today for delegates at large
to the national convention in st.
Louis.
They are Mayor Y. S. LeymeI
of Fresno, Don Burbeck of Mill
Valley Joe JukOmsky of Los An
geles, o. II. Van Eman of Imper-
ial Valley, william G. Lewis Of
Fellows and M. NJ. Garrett of
Walnut Creek.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13

cessfully applied to a rhesus mon
key are pure poppycock," the edi-
tor said.
He added a charge that Willard,
never a physician, was arrested in
California in May, 1893, for prac-
ticing medicine without a license,
was fined $500 and given $3.50 days
in jail.
"The monkey trick probably was
achieved by a neat trick of substi-
tuition, which any magician could
perform"
Willard, in California, where he
has contracted with Stephen Sim
khovitch, 34-year-old scenario
writer, for the human freezing ex-
pertinent, said DR.. Fishbein's sus-
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13

Less than 100 persons had voted
in the three local precincts for the
special state election by noon today
indicating a very light vote will be
cast here by the time the polls close
at 7 o'clock this evening.
That this light vote is not be-
cause so many residents of the city
and county are at present out of
the valley lies in the fact that but
80 absentee ballots were sent out
to applicants desiring them for this
election, while at the general cleo
ton last November, 1900 of these
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
VETS RIGHTS RESTORED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. U.R)-
President Roosevelt late today
signed the bin restoring full pen
sions to Spanish American war vet
Grams at a cost of $45 100000 an
nually to the federal government.
The action came as a surprise TO
many observers, who had felt that
he probably would veto it in view
of tfE fact that no provision for
payment had been made in the
budget.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
A. W1O1l
SN &AYS'

AKLAVIK, N. w. T. Aug. II.
(SpeciaD-Was you ever driving
around in a car and not know or
caring where you went? Well.
that's what Wiley and I are do
ing. We sure having a great
time. If we hear of whales or
polar bears in the Arctic, or
big herd of caribou or reindeer
we fly over and see it. Friday
and Saturday we visited the old
Klondyke district, Dawson City,
Bonanza, Eldorado Say there is
a horse here; furthest north Of
any horse, and he eats fish and
travels on snowshoeS. Maybe
Point Barrow today.
Yours,
Mk& Ro1@~<.
eIpIs. Asfiaagbt syS4sOaas. b.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13
NATIONAL LEAGUE

No games scheduled
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-13

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w AMBOLDI &c response.
To double-check the question,
the professor sent query to the
two hundred employers. 40
"Do your secretaries sit in your
laps?"
"No indeed" was the prompt
rejoinder.
Could anything be more con-
elusive and convincing? 1t re-
minds me Of . chap by the name
of Otis Garrison, who used to
work for a neighbor of my grand
fathers. Otis fell in love with a
girl who had driftcd into town,
and became engaged to her.
81 am the only fellow she ever
went with" Otis contided to me.
Glow do you know" l asked.
"She told me: So" answered
Otis with an air Of finality.
Shortly aftcrward Otis gave his
girl the money to buy furniture
and fix up q home, SO they could
move in as soon as they were mar
ried. But evidently she lost his
address, for he never saw hcr
again.
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Retail Trade In
u. S. Advancing
Dry Goods Assn. Reports
on 1884 Results
Bv WAYNE BUTLEF
~ pro.c Staff Correspondent

United Press Stast S'rreSp
NEW YORK, jan. 1o.-CUf' -,
Retail sales in department and dry y
Goods stores last year sho Nn9
fbei,. first increase since lyI3 :,
rising l4.7 per cent above LOO 2,,
levels the National Retain Try
Goods association has repor'e'
here. -, 10 bn
80 per cent below the 1929 pear.
level but only % per cent IoMSt
than in 1925. considered an aver
ape drv goods year. Supplement
inc the rise in dollar volume, the
number of individual TRANSACTIONS
in 1884 rose 10 per cent. L.,
Geographically. the best STOW ns
ing was made in agricultural sec
lions. rcflccting the influence OIL
the Government aid to the farm
err In the Atlanta federal re e
serve district, sales rose 20 per
cent, in the Dallas area 23:3 PEI
cent and in the Chicago district
20.6 per cent. Ia
The smallest gains were regis
tered in the Boston district, Wnore
dollar volume advanced only 81
per cent and in the New YORK
area, where the rise was IL per
cent. In 1888. gains were con
fined to the Cleveland. Atlanta
and Dallas districts and ranged
from or to 3.5 per cent. -,
Asked to forecast expected
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Editor, The Times-News:
The Times-Ncws issue Of Jan
uary 7 says on page four, under
headlines, 81 hrce Million Is
Sought For n. c. Highways"
Why should Chairman Waynick
ask for appropriation Of $2,60S,-
PIP to bring the state and county
system up to g reasonable passible
condition. and $3,543,837 for the
same purpose on county roads;
ard an additional $5,433,00O to
make the old wooden bridges as
safe and serviccable as they would
have been had proper maintenance
been received, when this neglect
ed and deferred maintenance will
help much in reducing the dcath
and accident toll. that is mountinE
SO alarmingly in the state? When
on page one Of the same issue,
under headlines, harmonious
Session Of n. c. legislature Fore
seem" we read, "Thc biggest leg
islative battle Of the entire ses-
sion will rcvolvc around the high
way SURPRISES and discussion of
the highway fund" For the leg
islaturc will have available in the
highway surplus more than $10,-
100000 Of cash into which scores
of different agencies ere already
cage TO thrust itching fingers.
These articles should be rem
dercd 50 that we may better re-
alizc what service we may expect
from cur tax money paid to iegis,
lators and executives in salaries
and expenses.
F. A. BAILEY.
Horse Shoe, n. c..
january 9, 1885.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
TIT WASHINGTON
~ RODNEY DuTCHrE

It's now clearer than ever that
the administration was all lined up
and ready to toss the amiable, ell
derby Joe to the crocodiles and turn
over the speakership to the up-and-
-eoming Mr.. Sam Rayburn of Texas.
!, The idea was to get large Demo.
cratic House delegations from big
states-New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Illinois. Massachusetts,
Ohio, and so on-held uncOmmitted
to any candidate and then to bust
through for Rayburn with as many
new members as could be persuaded
they should vote for the admins.
tration man"
II you think Roosevelt was una.
ware of all that, you'll find the
White House backing you up 100
per cent in that viewpoint. But
somebody is likely to think you're
a bit Quaint-minded.
The curtain came hurtling down
before the characters in the plot
even moved onto the stage.
n CERTAIN powerful political
n boss, closely allied with Byrns,
began to talk in vigorous terms to
a high official parsonage who was
/ IN a position to call it all off.
He was simple and direct about
! it. Certainly. the administration
could steam-roller Joe Byrns If it
went through with the plan. But
Joe and his friends would there
fHpon make such a hornets nest out
of ACongress that the admlnistra'
ton would be suffering from a
chrome attack of acute regret from
jar. 3 on.
After that sessiOn-here revealed
for the first time-signals were
changed. Garner stepped from
Roosevelts Office to emphasize the
presidents neutrality, and Rayburn
withdrew after Gufrey, quick on the
trigger with inside information
had stcered the Pennsylvania House
Democrats 20 the Byrns camp and
received lots of political credit for
making a new speaker.
Copyright. 1885. .NEA Service Incl
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BYPU Grog,r2 7
: Plan Fer 7,

. The F.. F.. Bobar ..gio,
P.U. will meet with tna d.
of the BTU. department a
First Baptist church r,niys1
1880 at the home Of Iqs E,
corner of Third and prr,o
The purpose Of this m.. IN,
arrange all committees. .r.r .
for them, and plan PROGRAM,
the remaining SUNDAY m /
.aIW. Every member rr"
TO attend.
On the Goth of this mor,t
theirs Night will be observe.
all of the B.Y.P.U.'s. Each y
is making special plans and
arations for this nigh. s.
programs will be planned
fathers who have son. or 4,
tcrs in the H.Y.P.T'. gap, ~
to attend.