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The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13
the MIRACLE WORKER

OIduu W adVe k1duuleu 4WO
Thousand Cases and Got"
Miraculous Number Of Con-
victions Last Year
BY Nonad
The Hon. John P. Devaney is
exerting himself strenuously to
have Olson bulwarked with
state. constabulary. Devaney has
pushed such measure thru the
Minnesota Crime Commission,
of which he is the chairman, and
secured its endorsement by that
organization. He has used his
influence to secure similar en-
dorsement from the Minnesota
Law and Order League. He has
persuaded the Senate Committee
on Crime and Crime Prevention
to approve it. His latest contor-
tons in the same connection
were before the House Commit
' tee on Civil Administration.
Devaney is quoted as having
told the house committee that
eight outside men in the depart
ment the bill seeks to endow with
so much power-the bureau of
criminal apprehension-handled
taVo thousand cases last year and
got eighty-fise to ninety percent
of convictions" That statement
is certainly a pippin. And no
tice the weight of authority be-
hind it!
Passolt and his eight boys get
credit from that Devaney state
ment for running down, prepar-
} ;,g reports on, preparing trials
r, and participating in trials
of, two thousand cases, plus Sc
curing convictions in seventeen
or eighteen hundred of them
all in the short period of one
If those figures are divided by
one hundred we will still be
doubtful. The credit for most
of those cases belongs rightfully
to the county and municipal pro-
tutors and county and munich
police officers. The bureaus
z credit should be mostly for
ONE bookkeeping work.
Figure it out for yourself!
How many cases per day per
sleuth does that make?
And that book keeping should
be looked on with suspicion be-
cause the department had no use
or. Irving P. Jones. Jones is
recognized as an outstanding
authority on the Bertillon sys-
tenn and we'll stake our all on
. his absolute honesty and integ-
rity. The fact that the depart
nnent has no use for ability and
integrity Of the Jones type raises
suspicion, to say the least.
Super Sleuths If those eight
boys can do what Devaney Gre
dts them with having done, the
department should have twenty
eight more, and all of them given
fill and statewide police powers.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13
A HUSMAN SONCSTER Gagged

Kenneth Wheeler Victim Of Husman Strike Doctrine Sent
Work House for Ninety Days Plead Guilty to Charge
Of Malicious Destruction Of Property" The Man Who
Should Have Been Jailed, is HUSMAN, Who Incted to
Violence
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
DIRECT RELIEF TO END ON NOVEMBER FIRST
Corporation Tax Measure Attacked By Opponents
Salvation Army's
Border Commander
Makes Visit Here

Major Robert Rooney, command
er of the border division of the Sal
vation Army, arrived in El Centro
today, accompanied by Captain H.
Koerner, divisional finance officer,
for an official visit to the local
Army headquarters.
He was to meet with members of
the local advisory board this after
noon and tonight will be given a
welcoming reception at the State
Street Christian church at o'clock.
Councilman Fred j. Gianola will be
chairman of the meeting, repre-
senting the city, and Supervisor
Hugh Osborne will speak for the
county and in behalf of veterans
organizations.
Major Rooney Is veteran in
Army work, first becoming connect
ed with the organization in his ma
tive city of Glasgow, Scotland and
later was sent to the training school
at London, returning to Scotland
for active duty. Subsequently he
was transferred to the United
States and has seen service in var
ious parts of the east, middle west
and northwest.
He was installed as commander
of the border division at Phoenix
last week and is making his first
official swing through his territory,
which has El Centro for its extreme
western end, with Ell Paso being
the eastern boundary.
II am very glad to be in Ell Cen
tro," Major Rooney said, "and have
had fine reports of the splendid CO.
operation which the Army has re-
ceived here in the past and hope
it will continue to receive it. Cap
tain Eplett, whom we have placed
in charge here, is an experienced
officer and is well equipped to carry
on the work here. 1 ask for him
the material and moral support of
the people of this community in the
fine work which he is doing"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
Food Poisons Nine
In Hollywood Home

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 8. WP)-
Nine persons, among them Leonar-
do Romero, 81, wealthy Honduras
merchant and his family, were
rushed to hospital here today suf-
fering from food poisoning
The victims were Romero, his
wife; their three daughters, Louise,
IL, Sara, IL, and Emma, ID; Mrs.
E. Edwards, E. F. Good, Al, Mrs.
Baxter, AZ, and Conception Avilez
81, the RomeroS' maid.
All were guests at Mrs. Edwards
home where they dined on chipped
beef and cheese last night. They
became violently i'll early today.
Romero and his family arrived
here several weeks ago by airplane
from Honduras, where the mer-
chant has large land holdings.
Police obtained samples of the
food for analysis.
City Health Officer George Par
rish ordered an analysis of the food,
but said at least two days would be
required to determine the cause of
the illness. l0llg
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
WATER RATES
NOT CHANGED
BY ORDINANCE
Council Passes Measure Provid-
ing For Alteration In Regula-
tons To Second Reading

A new ordinance on city water
rates and service was passed to its
second reading by the city council
at its meeting last night. Council
men Bucklin and Gianola were
not present at the session.
According to the terms of this
ordinance water rates remain the
same per 1000 gallons as before, i. e.,
for the first 10000 gallons conSum-
ed, 10 cents per 100; for the next
10000 gallons, Is cents per 1000 gall
Ions and in excess of 100000 gal
Ions, IA cents per 1000 gallons per
month.
The ordinance provides for deliv-
cry of water to residences outside
the city limits at double the inside
rate and also for one minimum
rate which will be the meter min
imum. 1t eliminates all charges for
extra rooms in a building or extra
houses on a lot and charges will be
made according to the one meter
reading.
Dowd Asks Cooperation
M. j. Dowd, chairman of the
county relief committee, appeared
before the board and asked the CO.
operation of the city in sponsoring
WPA projects to give employment
to individuals who are in status
between that classed as unemploy-
able by the WPA and employable
by the county board of supervisors
The council favored such pro-
posal provided other cities in the
county would join the program.
Phil knights, city engineer, re-
ported a telephone conversation he
had with E. E. Wallace, state high
way engineer, to the effect that al
federal funds for grade separations
were specifically limited to exist
ing grade crossings. This, it was
believed, would put the proposed
State street crossing out of conSid-
Grafton.
Wallace suggested an underpass
on Main street but the council eX-
pressed itself as doubtful if such a
procedure could be advisable at this
time. The state engineer will be
here next week, it was said, at
which time the matter will be CIV
en- further consideration.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
HOUSEWIVES
WINNERS S OF
BRIDGE PLAY

ASBURY PARK, N. j., Aug. 8.
U.P)-A pair of New Jersey house
wives and two Philadelphia men
who refused to bet on themselves
at odds of 10 to shared honors to-
day as the best team -of-pairs con-
tract players under jurisdiction OF
the American Bridge League.
The women, victors in the wom-
ems pairs event Of the leagues an
nual summer tournament, are Mrs.
Adolph Ulbrich, Railway, N. j., and
Mrs. Joel Teichman, RoSelle, N. j.
The men are Fred G. French and
Edward M. Cook.
A new tournament division, to
determine a team-of-four cham
pion in knockout play, went into
the second day with French and
Cook threatening to win another
title. Playing with two fellow Phil
adelphians, r. A. McPherran and
John Crawford, they led one sec
ton. Louis j. Haddad, Chicago,
with Charles Porter, Charles Hall
and Foster Hopkins of Cincinnati
headed the other section.
A much touted team composed OF
Harold Vanderbilt, Oswald Jacoby,
David Burnstine and B. j. Becker
was eleventh in the list of 81 teams.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
NEW THEORY
ADVANCED IN
DEATH CASE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8. W.R) -
Investigators seeking the cause of
the death of Mrs. Mary James, 27-
year-old expectant mother, today
studied the possibility that she may
have been attacked by a burglar
before she fell into a fish pond in
the rear of her La Crescenta home.
Sheriff'S officers said that sew
eral bruises found on the top of
the woman's head and on her
arms turned the inquiry into that
channel.
Meanwhile an exhaustive autopsy
continued to determine exact cause
of Mrs. James death. DR.. A. F.
Wagner, county autopsy surgeon,
said he found traces of water in
the lungs, but was not prepared
to attribute death to drowning un-
til a chemists's report on analysis
of the vital organs.
Robert S. James, husband of the
woman, who also lost previous
wife by drowning, was questioned
again at length but was unable 10
shed any light on the case.
He accompanied investigators to
his home and pointed out that he
had found his wife lying partly
submerged in the fish pond when
he arrived home Monday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
BANNING RESIDENTS ASKED TO
BEFAIR IN ADVISING TOURISTS
Delegation From Imperial Valley Sets Out Argu-
ments In Favor OF Imperial Valley Highway At
Last Nights Inter-City Meeting

Chamber of Commerce, led the El
Centre delegation.
One of the noted speakers of the
evening was G. D. Hamilton of
Banning. just appointed member
of the state highway commission to
represent the counties of Imperial,
Riverside and San Bernardino.
Hamilton heartily took the view
that it was the duty of the people
of Banning to give full, fair and
impartial information about all
highways leading out of their city.
I'VE should forget any personal
interests we might have" said
Commissioner Hamilton. 1--WE owe
it to the motorists to tell them
about all the roads in this area. We
are rendering a service to the pub
lic."
The keynote of McEuen's ad-
dress was that the people of Ban
ming should, in fairness to their
friends and patrons of Imperial
Valley, tell all inquiring motorists
about both routes leading South
and East, and not just one.
McEuen contended that when a
motorist inquired as to the shortest
road, it should be ascertained if
The inquirer meant in miles, or In
time.
Explains Routes
Maps were distributed showing
the route from Banning to FL Paso
via Imperial and Yuma valleys, and
McEuen proceeded to explain the
advantages of this route in time
and in comfort. The FL Centre
speaker explained that because of
the open character of the country
and the high class of construction
much time could be saved were the
motoriSt taking the road through
Imperial Valley and Yuma.
"If the tourist who asks the best
road to Ell Paso is in hurry" he
said, then there is only one an
swer: Take the Yuma road If he
is interested only in miles, there is
difference of nine miles with a
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
EARTHQUAKE
HITS ECUADOR

PASTO (Columbia), Aug. 8. U.P)
-Wreckage of this city high in the
Andes was searched today for
bodies of at least 20 persons who
perished in an earthquake that
shook the Ecuadorian frontier early
yesterday.
Damage was inestimable. Many
houses crashed. especially in iso-
lated mountain passes near Paste.
La Merced church was among the
damaged buildings.
The quake came while most of
the populace was still sleeping,
trapping many in their beds as
wreckage crashed down under the
force of the tremors.
Other towns were reported to
have suffered considerably, report
edly buryIng many victims
Churches collapsed in Aldana, va
cuanquer and Yalmautan.
Debris obstructed highways along
the frontier and leading into
Paste, hampering Red Cross efforts
TO reach the stricken region.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
FOULO|S To
LEAVE ARMY
Continued on page 81

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. WD -
Major General Benjamin G. Fou-
lois, chief of the army air corps,
today at his own request, termi-
mated his active service with the
army.
Foulois, center of acrimonious
congressional charges for his ad-
ministration of the air corps, ap-
piled for and was granted three
months leave of absence. At the
termination of the leave he asked
to be placed on the retired list.
Foulois already was on temporary
leave of absence.
The effect of his request was to
sever his active connection with
the army after more than two de-
cades of service, during which he
rose to one of the top-ranking po-
sitions in the military service.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
OFF
To COMMENCE
SEPTEMBER |.
Administration Will Speed Up
WPA Program And Shut Down
FERA Activities
CENSUS IS TAKEN IN STATE
Over 100000 Able Bodied
Persons In California Qualified
For WPA Jobs
BY RICHARD l.. HARDNESS

BY RICHARD L.. HARkNESS
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1895, by United Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. The
administration, it was learned to-
day, plans to start shutting off di-
rect relief to whole states on Sep
tember l and to end the dole all
over the country two months later
by putting 3,500,000 men to work.
Work-relief officials predicted
their S4,000,000,000 employment
drive will become so effective with
in three weeks that three states
will need no more Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration mon
ey.
Needy in seven or eight other
states are slated definitely for
transfer from relief rolls to pay
rolls by September Is. The number
will be increased to 80 by October
l and 48 on November /.
The move, program officials said,
will solve the problem of caring
for "unemployables." There will be
llO ulOAC lCOCldA ICAiCA niOACys
States, counties, and municipalities
must feed them.
President Roosevelt at recent
press conference appeared less con-
fident than other officials of ending
all direct relief on schedule. He
said an unemployable could not be
permitted to starve merely because
state authorities refused to assume
their responsibility for his care.
But inquiry indicates that the Pres
ident was thinking in terms of a
very small number of individual
cases and that direct relief actually
will be abandoned.
Although employment directors
refused to name the first states to
be cut off the dole list, they ex-
planned their move by saying:
Every state except IA has sent
Works Progress project plans to
Administrator Harry L. Hopkins for
approval.
Routine Speeded Up
"The routine for making work
money available has been speeded
up. AS soon as a state receives
funds to put its employable needy
on jobs, FERA will refuse to carry
it any further.
There will be 3,500,00 men work.
ing under the program by Novem-
Continued on page %
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
Suit Filed Today
By Mrs. Spreckies

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8. U.H-
John Detrick Spreckels III, scion of
wealthy, prominent San Diego
family, had violent temper and
displayed a too great fondness for
liquor and other women, his wife
Roxana Gloria Spreckels claimed
today in suit for separate main
tenance.
Mrs. Spreckels, daughter of q
National City minister, used 10
page complaint to list the various
acts of mental cruelty she charged
to Spreckels.
She asked $1,000 monthly for the
support of herself and their daugh-
ter, Elsie La Marr, and share of
her husbands wealth.
Mrs. Spreckels declared that sew
eral times in recent years her hus-
band had threatened her with bod
lily harm and at times menaced her
with a gun.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
BLonton Warns
Of War Danger
From Criticism

WASHINGTON, Aug. g. U.P)-
American citizens who demand that
the United States take official cog
nizance of religious prosecutions in
foreign countries "are going to get
us into war" Rep. Thomas D.
Blanton (Dem) Texas, warned the
house today.
Blanton on several previous oc-
casions has engaged in heated de-
bate with representatives who criti-
cized the regimes of various foreign
dictatorS.
Il have in my heart a warm feel
ing for every Jew and every Gath
olic in the United States" Blanton
said.
But I want to say to my Jewish
and my Catholic friends that If
they don't stop interferinf with
the internal matters of foreign gov
ernments they're going to get us in
to war"
Referring to the Mexican govern
ment's long fight with Catholic
leaders, Blanton said, II live near
the Mexican border and know it's
perfectly safe for every American
citizen to go into Mexico"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
Conferees Agree
On Elimination
OF Pension Plan

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. W.P)-
Conferees on the social security bill
today reached an agreement to
eliminate the private pension
amendment from the final form of
the measure.
1t was decided also to appoint
hous and senate committees to
study the part that private PEN
sion plans should play in the ad-
miniStration'S social security pro-
gram.
This indicated that some adjust
ment might be made at the next
session of congress.
The private pension amendment,
sponsored by Sen. Bennett Champ
Clark, was adopted in the senate
but was not in the house version
of the bill. 1t provided for exemp-
ton of private pension systems
from the federal taxation provided
in the bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
PRESIDENT To
STAND PAT
ON PROGRAM
Willing To Seek Reelection
Next Year On ''New Deal"
Platform, Despite R. |. Vote
By LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

Onlteu freSS Sta1f correspondent
Copyright, 1895, by United PressJ
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt will stand pat on
the new deal" and go into the
1886 presidential campaign with is
sues repudiated Tuesday by Rhode
Island voters in by-election
which revealed the administration
to be slipping in a typical New
England industrial constituency.
Conservative Democrats have
been grumbling for months against
some phases of the new deal" pro-
gram. They would like to put the
brakes on Roosevelt. The Presi-
dent is more or less opposed by a
conservative insurgent" group of
Democratic senators and represen-
tatives just as the famous pro-
gressive Republican bloc heckled
former Presidents Coolidgp and
Hoover.
But the new deal" would per-
nit the conservatives to bolt alto
gether before abandoning the re-
form and recovery policies which
Mr.. Roosevelt has prescribed to
attain "a better social order"
Postmaster General James A
Farley predicted early last spring
that the big fellows would buck the
new deal next year and that the
little man and his wife and voting
Oh
with Roosevelt.
Farley Mistaken
Farley pointed out that there are
more little fellows than big ones in
the United States-measured in
terms of bankrolls. His mathema-
tics is excellent but some political
observers of the Democratic wreck
age in Rhode Islands first congress
sional district after Tuesdays cleo
ton believe Farley may have over
estimated the 1896 vote getting
powers of reform and recovery.
Whether the Rhode Island result
means nothing Or much in relation
to next years presidential polling,
Mr.. Roosevelt intends to fight the
campaign on battle lines already
established.
In one respect the administra-
ton is beaten and apparently
knows it. The Roosevelt plan for
abolishing unnecessary public util-
ity holding companies apparently
cannot be rammed through con-
gress and compromise is in order.
The death sentence" was an issue
in the Rhode >sland voting and it
aroused no enthusiasm. That re-
moved almost the last chance of
persuading the 5alky house to
change its mind AID go along with
the President.
On other issues-repudiated in
Rhode Island though they may
have been-the President is stand
ing firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
ASSA|LED BY
vANDENBERG
IN ADDRESS
Michigan Senator Charges Bill
Would Drive Ford Company
Into Hands OF Wall Street
EXPERT WITNESS TESTIFIES
Former Treasury Official Says
Excess Profits Levy Violates
All Sound Taxation

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. WP)-
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (Rep0
Michigan, charged in the senate
today that the proposed admins
tration tax bill would drive the Ford
Motor company into the hands of
Wall street and the money chang
erS."
Defending his states most famous
industrialist. Vandenberg said that
through operation of proposed high
inheritance taxes, the company
will be forced out of the close con-
troll which has preferred the Gre
alton of vast and effective instru-
mentality of employment and COM
merce rather than the disbursement
of personal dividends"
Vandenberg took the floor soon
after senate finance committee
hearings on the bill had closed with
a general attack on its provisions
by organized business.
Possible effect of the bill on the
$600000,000 Fore, company has been
a salient point of discussion since
the bill was offered. Robert H.
UdChoOll, COulloGl VI Vic lAlUCl 1ldA
revenue bureau. told the committee
that on the death of Henry Ford,
his son, Edsel, might be forced to
sell bonds or stock in the company
to other investors in order to OBJ
tain funds to pay the proposed high
inheritance tax.
Vandenburg, declaring he was
not speaking for Henry and EdSel
Ford or their institutions, said the
bill would drive the Ford company
into diversified ownership which
can come only through enormous
Ultimate stock sales to the public"
1T will be robbed of the integ-
ration which has made it what it
is-the employer of 100000 persons
in Wayne county, Mich, alone-the
indirect employer of countless other
hundreds of thousands whose tasks
depend upon Ford operations-the
best customer of a thousand other
factories in communities scattered
all over the land-a gigantic patron
of our railroads and our mines" he
said.
"Bluntly, it will be driven into
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08

Before a gathering of $50 per-
sons at Banning last evening, w.
w. McEuen, manager of the Pion-
eer Title Insurance and Trust
Company of Ell Centro, and former
president of the Ell Centre Cham
ber of Commerce, besought from
the people of Banning cooperation
in routing motorists over Highways
U. S. SO and U. S. 80 through I'M
perial Valley.
The meeting was arranged by the
KiWanis clubs of Banning, Brawley,
Calexico, Yuma and Ell Centro, and
each club sent a representative
delegation. There were 80 persons
from El Centro and correspond
ingly large numbers from Brawley,
Calexico and Yuma. R. G. Clemons,
president of the El Centre Kiwanis
club and w. H. Tyler, Jr., of the
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
Four Injured In
San Diego Blast

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8. U.P)-One
man was believed dying and three
others were trapped in a giant beer
tank filled with ammonia fumes to-
day following an explosion in the
ABC brewery plant here.
William Hubbard, Los Angeles
contractor, was dragged from the
tank in a critical condition and was
believed to be dying. William
MORE, electrician, who had been
working near the tank, was remoV-
ed suffering from inhalation of the
fumes.
The men were repairing the
huge tank when the blast occurred.
Firemen said unless the three
were removed Immediately they
would be aSphyxiated by the deadly
ammonia fumes. Five fire engine
companies worked frantically in an
attempt to free the trapped men.
Officers fought with one work.
man who attempted to push his
way through firemen and debris to
reach his companions.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-08
Tri-Flog Plane
Record Is Sought
By Young Flyer

VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 8. UP)-
Frank Kurtz, 20, University of Sou
thern California student, took off
from Victoria at a. m. today for
Aqua Caliente, Mexico, in an at
tempt to set a new junior Canada
Mexico flight record.
He carried greetings from Mayor
Leeming of Victoria to the mayor
of the Mexican City. He expected
to average 100 miles an hour,
reaching Aqua Caliente sometime
this afternoon.
The takeoff was set for $3.50, but
Kurtz had difficulty starting the
motor of his plane. He was inpa-
tient at the delay.
Kurtz refueled at 6:10 a. m. in
Portland. Medford, Sacramento
and Bakersfield were scheduled as
other refueling stops.
The record he seeks is for fly
ers under 81 years of age.