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Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
Cotton Contract
Signers Due To
Name Committee

Cotton contract signers of Imper-
ial Valley will hold county election
for three committeeman on Tues
day, January 90, at the Bard ex-
pertinent station at lis Yuma time
or 1915 local time.
Frank G.. Beyschlag, farm ad-
visor, reminds signers that only
signers may vote and that no prox-
les will be eligible.
The first eight men to reach the
farm advisors office by 10 a. m.
Tuesday will be able to secure
transportation with Beyschlag, or
w. B. Houghton. assistant in agri-
culture, who will take their cars.
Those who attend are advised to
take their lunches.
In addition to the election, details
of the 1885 contracts will be dis
cuSSed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
FLOOD TAKES
HEAVY TOLL

MARKS, Miss, Jan. 26. U.H-
Flood waters of the ColdWater riv-
er, spreading death and destruction
in Mississippi, Tennessee and Ar
kansas, had claimed a toll of "a
lives today. Damage across the
$5,000000 mark. Sickness and suf-
fering were widespread.
While the flood peril diminished
in the upper reaches of the river,
it increased in lowlandS south of
here, driving thousands from their
homes, endangering lives, and add
ing new problems for relief Off
cials already taxed with labor.
While Red Cross led relief forces
in directing evacuation of areas
below here, the North Mississippi
Flood Control association asked the
federal government for an appro-
priation to alleviate the "choked
condition of the Coldwater and
prevent the annual recurrence of
the Delta Drama
West Tennessee had a total of
three dead, with water receding
rapidly. Arkansas had three dead,
with the upper st. Francis river
in northeastern Arkansas menacing
several cities. River levees were
being sacked and constantly patrol
led as the water rose.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
COMPROMISE
ACCEPTED IN
LEGISLATURE
Conference Between Assembly
And House Decides On Exten-
I sion Until May |.
TWO VALLEY BILLS PASS
Hulse Gets Senate Approval OF
Measures Validating Contracts
On Canal.
TWO VALLEY BILLS PASS

SACRAMENTO, Jan. &c. U.R)--
Unwilling to permit a legislative
deadlock to interfere with mortgage
moratoriums, California IS lawmak-
ers took action today on a proposal
to extend present delinquency re-
lief until May l.
The compromise, recommended by
a "free conference committee OF
both houses, was designed to pro-
vide more time for consideration OF
the problem.
Under present law, mortgage
foreclosures are banned so long as
interest payments are made. The
assembly passed a new bill by VIII
liam Moseley Jones which would
authorize superior courts to decide
upon the amount to be paid on
principal and interest of loans and
mortgages. The senate, however,
voted merely to extend the present
act.
When neither house would recede
from its action, the matter went to
a committee and the compromise
suggestion resulted.
Leaders expected both houses to
accept the committee decision,
and fight for more liberal provis-
ions during the second part Of the
session. The present moratorium
act expires February l.
Bills touching on almost every
conceivable subject of legislation
poured into the records today as
attempts were made to start the
| constitutional recess tonight.
Administration floor leaders said
measures based on Gov. Frank F.
Merriam IS budget program would
be completed later today.
One of the outstanding bills in
the senate was submitted by Sem
ator Ed Fletcher, San Diego, and
proposed establishment of a state
tax commission to replace the state
board of equalization. The commits
sion would be composed of seven
members appointed by the COVER
nor, with the chief executive and
the state controller acting as ex-
officio members. 1t would have
jurisdiction over state, county and
city taxes.
"What would be the advantage
of the plan?o Senator Fletcher was
asked.
Economy he replied.
"In What way would economy be
possible by substituting a board Of
seven for an elective board Of
four?'
81 don't care to go into that.
You must accept the bill on its
face"
Fletcher declined to divulge at
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Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
PRESIDENT To
HANDLE FUND
Will Personally Supervise Ad-
ministration OF -Four Billion
Relief Program.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. U.P)-
President Roosevelt personally will
administer the $4,000,000,000 he has
asked from congress for relief pur-
poses, it was learned authoritative
ly today
Reports that Mr.. Roosevelt had
planned setting up new administra-
tive machinery to eXpend the huge
sum were declared erroneous.
1t was explained such reports
overlooked the working of the Pres
ident's message to congress in
which he asked ALLEGATION OF the
money to him personally.
Close administration advisers saw
possibility of the President group
ing some administration experts as
advisers to aid in the expenditure.
1t was emphasized no decision as
yet had been reached
Mr.. Roosevelt already has, it was
said, existing agencies to carry out
the broad features of his entire
recovery program. For example,
the set-up is complete for expan-
SlOll VI wv dCOlNlOlSO.
agencies exist as regards slum
clearance, housing, road building
and other work features.
Should the advisory group be
called in, it was held entirely like
ly that it would be composed of
Harry Hopkins, federal relief ad-
ministrator, Harold L. Ickes, pub
lie works administrator, James A.
Moffett, housing administrator, and
Admiral G. j. Peoples, in charge of
public buildings for the treasury
department.
Ickes, Hopkins and Peoples prev
iouSly had been mentioned as the
five individuals upon whom Mr..
Roosevelt planned to entrust the
task of administering the $4,000
100000.
Ickes, however, was subjected to
severe attacks in the house before
the relief bill passed Thursday and
administration leaders passed out
the word that he would not be the
administrator.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
EFFICIENCY in BUSINESS URGED
BY GIANNINI AS RECOVERY AID

Efficiency in business must pre-
cede recovery from the economic
ailments now disturbing the world,
DR.. A. H. Giannini, chairman of the
general executive board of the Bank
of America told a large audience
at the meeting of the Associated
Chambers of Commerce held at the
Barbara Worth hotel last night.
DR.. Giannini, in a masterful ad-
dress, reviewed the causes of the
present depression and held aloft
a guiding torch which will lead this
country as we'll as others out of the
maze of difficulties now besetting
the world. This, he stated, will be
accomplished with the aid of gov
ernment which will not exploit
either employers or employees,
which will not swing to the left or
eliminate the business man. He
pointed out that efficiency in the
business world will be the keystone
around which recovery measures
can be most satisfactorily built.
The theme of DR.. Giannini's ad-
dress was Looking Ahead-1935 a
Year of Confidence" and his re-
marks were based on observations
made during a recent extensive trip
through Europe. He spoke of the
great change that has taken place
in England during the past three
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
AGG|E CLUBS
COUNCIL HAS
MEETING HERE

Plans for the county All clubs
exhibits in the fair were discussed
at this mornings meeting of the
kggie Club council held in the court
house.
The leaders for the boys and girls
clubs met separately, after joint
session, to make plans for the ex-
hibits from the clothing clubs and
the agricultural clubs.
At the joint meeting, Virginia Teel
presided and H. Lee Landerman,
assistant farm advisor, reported on
the All club tours in December.
Report was made on the activities
of the Mulberry club and a COM
mittee was appointed to work out
score card to be used in judging
demonstration teams at the fair and
in scoring exhibits. Mrs. G. G. Bogue,
Ronald Ballou and Mrs. D. E. Teel
are on this committee.
1t was announced that A. H club
day will be March 16 and it was
suggested that committee consult
c. B. Collins, county superintendent
of schools, and the fair board, to
see if rural schools day and All
club day, might both be set for
March 16. This committee is COM
posed of H. Lee Landerman, Cleo
McCary and Mrs. o. G. Carleton.
Each group then held its own
meeting, making regulations as to
scoring, exhibits TO be entered, dec
orations, ETC., it being left to the
individual clubs to enter demon
stration teams or not as they see
fit,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE
'nited Press Staff Correspondent


Copyright, 1885, by United Press
PENNINGTON, N. j., Jan. 26.
WH-The state will tear to pieces
every alibi offered by Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann in his efforts to
prove he had no connection with
the murder of Charles A. Lind
bergh, Jr., members of prosecution
counsel said today.
The breakdown of the Bronx car
penter's Suave story Of amazing
profits in the stock market, his
fantastic recital of deals with the
mysterious ISidor Fisch, his WiStful
tale of domestic contentment while
the Lindbergh plot was unfolding,
already has begun.
He will undergo, next Monday,
one of the most blasting cross
examinations leveled against an ac-
cused man in the history of Amer
ican criminal trials.
Hauptmann doesn't like such ex-
aminations. When he is on the
offensive, when he is explaining
his position under the coaching of
friendly examiners, he is plausible,
almost convincing. When he is at
bay, his entire appearance and his
entire mentality appear to change.
He was completely at a loss for
answers yesterday when Attorney
General David T. Wilentz threw
into his hands a little red book in
which a single word, .boad.' leaped
up to confound him.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26

years. Better conditions are prevail
ing in Britain, he stated, and a feel
ing of confidence has been restored
to that country. France will see a
return to prosperity by the end of
this year he stated and added that
he had found peace and content
ment reigning in Italy.
He detailed the course of western
civilization and pointed out that
racial contentious have been at the
root Of troubles which have arisen
between European countries and di-
lated on the eyer-present dangers of
warfare between these countries.
DR. Giannini also spoke on the Hll-
American canal and what that pro-
ject will mean to the future of this
valley when completed, bringing
riches and prosperity through the
desert sands just as did the cara
vans of old in the desert areas of
the Orient.
He envisioned new era of peace
and prosperity for the United States
based on the national constitution
which is Americas safeguard against
all efforts to undermine the stabil-
ity of this nation.
DR.. Giannini was introduced by
Leroy Holt, dean of Imperial VAL
ley bankers and vice president of
the Bank of America, Holt having
been introduced by l.. j. Thomas,
president of the associated cham
bers. Representatives from Bank of
America branches in San Diego,
San Bernardino, Palm Springs, In
dio and cities of the valley also at
tended the meeting.
In his introduction, Holt pointed
out that DR.. Giannini, brother of A.
P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of
America, is internationally recog-
niized as one of the leading finan-
ciers of the present day. He stated
that British financial writer's had
listened to him with great atten-
ton and Quilted him in their writ
ings.
In the business session of the
meeting the associated chambers ac-
cepted a report from the dairying
committee which stated that cir
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Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
SHIP CAPTAIN
SAYS MOHAWK
REFUSED HELP
Master OF Talisman Declares
He Got No Reply To Offer
Made After Collision.

NEW YORK, Jan. &c. W.P)-Al-
though the Ward liner Mohawk was
sinking so rapidly 46 lives were lost,
it's master flatly refused an offer of
assistance from the freighter Tails
man with which it had collided, it
was testified today before the
steamboat inspection inquiry board.
Rep. Samuel Dickstein, (Dem.) N.
Y, meanwhile announced he would
introduce a resolution in the house
Monday designed to deny clearance
to any Ward line vessel until the
line "can satisfy the government
that it is fit to send ships to sea
without jeopardizing the lives of
passengers.
A close observer at the inquiry,
Dickstein came here in his official
capacity as chairman of the house
immigration committee to inyesti-
gate the employment of alien sea-
men on the ill-fated vessel.
During a pause at the hearing,
Dickstein discussed his proposed
resolution.
when bodies are floating around
in the ocean and more than 100
lives have been lost, it is time that
somebody stepped in," he said.
THE resolution will ask that the
treasury department and the de-
partment of commerce be advised
to step in and make an immediate
investigation of the Ward line and
that the treasury department direct
collectors of the port to deny clear
ance to any Ward line vessels until
such a time as they can satisfy the
bureau of navigation of the depart
ment of commerce that they are
competent to operate vessels"
Offer Not Accepted
Capt. Edmund Wang of the Tails
man, told also how he had failed
to get any answer from the bridge
of the Mohawk when he repeated
ly attempted to learn whether
Capt. Joseph E. Wood of the Ward
liner wanted him to keep the vessels
locked together. This would have
kept the Mohawk afloat for a while
longer. Capt. Wood went down Win
his ship.
Karl Nielsen, of the inquiry board
asked Capt. Wang why the Tails
man, closest ship to the scene, pick
ed up no survivors.
why didn't you lower lifeboats
when you saw the Mohawk was
sinking?"
Wang answered.:
1.-THE captain of the Mohawk in
formed us over the radio that he
didn't want our boats lowered. We
had our boats ready to lower and
could have been in the water in a
couple of minutes"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
STATE READY TO MAKE ATTACK ON
EVIDENCE GIVEN BY HAUPTMANN
Wientz Preparing To Tear Accused Mans Alibi
Claims To Pieces On Cross Examination
Next Monday.

The defense had not expected
that. 1t had passed away the ran
som notes easily and smoothly by
declaring they were not from the
crude fist of the German carpen-
ter. But when Wilentz put into
the same hands a book in which
the word 'boad' was spelled in
coiTectly-and in the same mis-
spelling that occurred in the final
ransom note-he was at loss both
for words and explanation.
When words failed him, Haupt-
mann has recourse to raging de-
NAL.
WilentZ said he has more than
80 contradictions between the
Hauptmann story as told upon his
arrest in the Bronx, and his sub
sequent explanations of his pos
session of nearly $4,000 in Lind
bergh ransom bills, dug up from
secret hiding places in his Bronx
garage.
He will take these contradictions
one by one, and ask the one-time
machine gunner why he lied.
The defense had taken Haupt-
mann over every one of the more
than 200 exhibits produced by the
state Of New Jersey and asked him
in each case whether he was ever
associated with it.
AS though he had been drilled
in class room, the German has
answered with a loud mo" to each
question.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
GRAF 7 IN PWA
To BE PRObED
Federal Grand Jury Summoned
As Projects As Far West As
California Investigated.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. U.H-
A special District of Columbia fed
eral grand jury-the first impanel-
led in 10 years-was summoned to-
day to investigate charges of graft
in a $4,000,000 PWA canal project
in Texas. The inquiry may extend
to other PWA projects.
District Attorney Leslie C. Gar
nett ordered the jury to meet Feb
ruary 6 to hear charges said to in
volve eight or 10 PWA officials, in
Guiding several in high petitions.
Summoning of the special grand
jury appeared to indicate the
charges were considered of great
seriousness.
A special jury has not been called
in the District of Columbia since
the famous Fall-Doheny oil cases
were instituted about 10 yeErs ago.
Decision to convene the grand
jury followed extensive inveStgia-
tions by Harold I. Ickes, PWA ad-
ministrator, and Louis P. CLAWS,
chief of the interior department
and PWA detective forces.
Scores of investigators under
CLAWS direction have been check
ing up on public works projects in
all parts of the country, in line
with Ickes' determination to pre-
vent graft in the $4,000, 100000 pro-
gram that has been under his di-
rection.
Summoning of the grand jury
here indicated that charges center
ing arourk the Texas project in
volved officials of PWA headquar-
terS here.
Location of other projects to
which the inquiry may be extended
was not disclosed, but Garnett in
timated it might involve some as
far west as California.
Garnett said the special grand
jury might take over the work OF
investigating fraud in the award
ing of war department contracts.
Some of these charges were prev
iously investigated by a district
grand jury, but no indictments were
reported.
The house military affairs COM
mittee has since inquired into ad-
ditional aspects of the situation and
another grand jury investigation
has been expected.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
Brief Filed In Suit
Against District

A copy of the respondents brief
in the case of E. L. and Myrtle Os-
borne against the Imperial Irriga-
ton District and its directors to the
district court of appeals, was filed
at the county clerks office this
morning The district, as appellant,
had appealed to the district court
from the judgment rendered by the
county superior court with Judge
Lloyd E. Griffin presiding.
The complaint in this action
which was filed February II, 1881,
asks damages of $50,00O for the
deaths of the six-year-old daughter
of the plaintiffs who was drowned
in a canal near Myrtle heading on
May z, 1890. 1t was alleged that the
structure was unsafe and dangerous
and gave way when the child was
on it. On January IL, 1888, Judge
Griffin, who heard the case, gave
judgment of $1,000 in favor of the
plaintiffs. An appeal from this judg-
ment was taken by the defendant
district and its directors.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
MARTIAL LAW
IMPOSED ON
BATON ROUGE
'Kingfish' Calls Out Militia To
Curb Asserted Plot To Assas-
sinate Him.
YIELDS DICTATOR'S POWER
Senator Also Acts As Prosecu-
tor And General To Uphold
His lron-Fisted Policy.

RATION ROUGE, La, Jan. 26.
U.P)-In the triple role of dictator
generalissimo and prosecuting at
torney, u. S. Senator Huey P. Long
moved with spectacular swiftness
today to crush a threatened armed
revolt against his iron-fisted rule
of Louisiana.
First-He called out national
guard troops to subdue the Square
Dealers association, which forcibly
elected his members of the East
Baton Rouge police jury last night.
Second-He obtained declaration
of general martial law in East
Baton Rouge parish. ..-
Third-He convened judicial
tribunal in the state supreme court
room to get to the bottom of an
asserted assassination plot
against his life.
Fourth-He adduced the testi-
'lnony OF Sidney P. Songy, an as
serted "spy" in his employ, that
an actual assassination plot was
Matched, and that he (Songy) kept
Long constantly advised.
Fifth-He caused the arrest OF
Powers Higginbotham, former COM
missioner OF parks, who was named
by Songy as an alleged participant
in the asserted plot. Higginboth-
am denied even knowing Songy.
While the murder plot hearing
was in progress, a squad of nation
al guardsmen raided the office of
the Square Deal association in the
Louisiana National bank building.
The soldiers sought guns and
ammunition which they believed
we're stored there and departed
Immediately when they found none.
With his troops apparently in
complete control of the capital, the
1kingfish' opened his court in
quiry shortly after IL a. m. Judge
]. d. Womack, appointed TO the
supreme court by Gov. o. K. Allen,
Longs ally, presided.
The proceedings were broadcast
: throughout the state-a character
istic Long gesture. The senator as
Sociated himself with Attorney Gen
eral G.. L. Porterie, who announced
Long would help him prosecute
these cases.
When the hearing opened, not a
single prisoner was in sight. Civil
and military authorities were NOV
ing about the city, armed with
warrants and looking for "conspir-
ators.''
'Your HONOR Long began, "we
intend to prove that conspiracy,
participated in by four sheriffs, one
district attorney and probably a
district judge, was Matched at mid
night gatherings in this city, to
murder local and state. officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
MANIAC ENDS
M||ROF R nRGY
WITH SUICIDE

CHICAGO, Jan. 26. W.p)-Three
murders, a suicide, and wounding
of two persons were scored today
against the economic depression
which turned a once promising
youth a mailman and made his cul-
tured mother a potential killer
The victims of 27-year-old Henry
Arden's maniacal trail were:
Dead:
Mrs. R. v. Arden, SO, his mother.
Miss Alice Irwin, %, Chicago re-
lief commission investigator.
Miss Caroline Wallace, As, relief
supervisor.
And Arden himself.
Wounded:
Niels Nelson, AZ, and Miss Hazel
Dugan, 35, relief commission en-
ployeeS.
Arden, paralytic graduate of the
University of Chicago, killed Miss
Irwin when she called at his home
to investigate an application for
aid. Then he and his mother raid
ed the relief headquarters in a
madman IS revenge for fancied ne
glect.
They pushed past a watchman,
ran upstairs to the second floor
and burst into an office in which
more than 100 employees were
working. Miss Wallace rose to meet
them.
"What do you want?" she ask
ed.
"You'll find out" shouted Ar
den. Without another word he
fired at the supervisor from a dis
tance of two feet. She fell. He
turned and fired again and again.
His mother, behind and to the
side of him, pulled a gun from her
coat and joined fire.
With Miss Wallace writhing al
most at his feet, the paralytic
placed his smoking gun at his
mothers head then fired. She was
killed instantly.
He used his last bullet to kill
himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
Townsend Director
To Talk Tuesday

DR.. Frank Dyer, national execu-
tive director of the Townsend plan
will address a mass meeting of val
ley Townsend clubs at Wilson school
auditorium next Tuesday night. DR..
Dyer is at present on a speaking
tour in favor of the plan and will
address gatherings at San Bernar-
dino, Phoenix and Tucson as well
as Ell Centre.
He has been connected with the
organization since its inception and
has seen the movement grow from
q small beginning to a vast nation
al network of clubs throughout the
union. This should be the most in
spring meeting held in Ell Centre to
date and everyone who is interested
in the economic security of this
country should be present to hear
the details of this great recovery
plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-26
Illness Confines
HeuUes To Home

Evan T. Hewes, president of the
irrigation district, is confined to
his home with an attack of influ-
enza, it was announced at district
headquarters this morning. At the
same time it was announced that
Mrs. Mark Rose, wife of Mark Rose,
director from the Holtville district,
is showing considerable improve
ment since her recent stroke.
Phil D. Swing, special represent
ative of the district. returned to San
Diego yesterday but will be back in
the valley again early next week to
receive final instructions from the
district board of directors prepara-
tory to returning to Washington, D.
C.