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Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Manners Girls
Husband Will
Be Questioned

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6. (UP)
The district attorneys office,
after questioning Jayne Man
ner for an hour without result, or
dered her estranged husband,
Maurice Kusell, brought in for
questioning regarding his charges
that she had valuable information
about the five-year-old disappear
ance of Supreme Court Justice
Joseph Crater of New York.
Investigators said the former
New York Showgirl failed to throw
any light on the mystery of the
jurist's disappearance.
Thus baked, Blayney Matthews,
chief county Investigator, request
ed the appearance of Kusell to
explain why he charged in a sup
Elemental divorce complaint that
his wife often boasted of "know-
ing plenty" about the Crater case.
Kusell, according to his mother,
is out of the city,
Miss Manners told inquisitors
that although she had been in
formed by acquaintance that she
once met Crater at a party, she
insisted she had no recollection of
him, nor did she possess any
knowledge of his disappearance.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Mexican Trade
Book Available

The El Centro Chamber of Com
merce, following its request to the
United States department of COM
merce, has received a volume en-
titled, Trading Under the Laws Of
Mexico" prepared by Mariana H.
Ramirez, chief of tn Latin Ameri-
can section of the division of COM
mercial laws of the department of
commerce, for the use of chamber
members and the public generally.
This volume will be of intense
interest TO those who are doing
business i'll Mexico 1t covers very
thoroughly the field of business in
tercourse with the neighboring re-
public.
In DR.. Ramirezs volume, some of
the subjects trated are as follows:
Contracts, negotiable instruments,
the law OF agency, sales, the law of
mercantile organization, insurance
and labor legislation, the law of
common carriers, taxation, bank
rutcy and legal procedure.
Manager Robert Hays states that
this edition is at the chamber for
general use and may be referred 70
by interested parties.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
PRESIDENT ASSERTS NATION Is
ON NTSWAY TOWARD RECOVERY
Breathing Spell" Reached, Chief Executive Tells
Newspaper Publisher In Reply To Letter Asking
For Statement OF Ideals

litical opponents to go before the
electorate in opposition to any OF
his major detectives.
Explaining that he entered office
pledged to a very considerable leg
islative program" the President de-
clared conditions in 1882 required
drastic and far reaching action.
DUTY and necessity" he wrote,
required us to move on a broad
front for more than two years.
1T seemed to the congress and to
me better to achieve these object
ives as expeditiously as possible in
order that not only business but the
public generally might know those
notifications in the conditions and
rules of economic enterprise which
were involved in our program.
Breathing Spell Here
This basic program, however,
has now reached substantial COM
pletion and the breathing spell Of
which you speak is her-very de-
cidedly So"
Howard's letter said he had
sought reasons for "the doubts and
uncel tainties of those business men
who are skeptics, critics, and out
right opponents of your program at
time when there is no commen-
surate dissatisfaction being evi-
denced by others of the electorate" >"
He told the President that hostility
to the new deal" did not appear
merely among selfish or sinister in
tereStS.
Howard invited the President to
Smoke out the sinister forces seek
ing to delude the public into be-
lieving that an orderly moderniza-
ton of a system we want to pre-
serve is revolution in disguise"
The President replied that bus
iress interests actually are in har-
mony with mass interests in this
! country. He said it would be futile
to attempt to distinguish between
reform" and recovery" legislation
Continued on page g.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
TWO SLAYERS
EXECUTED At
STATE PRISON
Yacht Bandit And Comrade In
Attempted Break Pay Penalty
For Their Crimes
BY JACK WALTER
United Press Staff Corresponds
CAM nI1EhI1NTM pDICONI Cant


SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Sept. 6.
Ethan McNabb. dapper Pacific
coast yacht bandit" and William
Bagley, known as the Number
bad man" of San Quentin, drop
ped to death simultaneously today
on the prison gallows.
The double trap was sprung at
1902 a. m. and 13 minutes later DR..
l.. L. Stanley, prison physician,
pronounced the convicts dead.
McNabb and Bagley, with long
crime records, died for leading an
unsuccessful attempt to scale San
Quentin's walls last March IL.
Armed with prison-made guns,
four convicts dashed into the prison
yard with a ladder Guards saw
them and opened fire When the
gunfire was over. it was discovered
that John H. Arbuckle, another
convict, had been killed by the
band as he blundered into the line
of fire.
Two of the convicts were given
additional terms for their part in
the plot. McNabb and Bagley,
however, were under life sentence
and in California lifer who uses a
gun against prison guards is liable
to the death penalty
A jury in San Rafeal, near the
prison, decreed the gallows for the
yacht bandit" and his chief aide.
McNabb was the first to enter
the death chamber. A guard was
at each of his arms. He walked
rapidly toward the 13 steps, his
nerves apparently under excellent
control.
McNabb reached the gallows plat
form just as a door to the "con-
demned cage" reopened to admit
Bagley. Bagley was pale and was
so weak that guards were forced to
assist him up the gallows stairs.
Take it easy" McNabb caution
| ed his companion.
Those were the last words heard
in the death chamber. A split sec
ond later, three guards cut three
strings leading from the gallows to
a small booth nearby. Two of the
three strings sprung the traps.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Fletcher To Open
G. O. p. Parley

WASHINGTON. Sept. 6. U.P)-
Printing his organization for the
1886 presidential drive, Chairman
Henry P. Fletcher of the Republi-
can national committee today sum-
moned executive committee MEM
bers to meet here September 25 for
a preliminary campaign conference.
1t will be the first formal meet
ing of the Republican high COM
mand since June, 1894. when the
full committee selected Fletcher as
its chairman. He announced the
conference was necessary "in view of
the Importance of early organiza-
ton of Republican activities"
The Republican chieftains will be
confronted by the task of selecting
a 1886 convention city and Of find
ing means to finance the campaign.
San Francisco, Atlantic City, N. j..
and Chicago have been mentioned
as possible locations.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Wrecked Liners
Passengers On
Way 10 Homes

NEW YORK, Sept. 6-tUP)-The
Southern Pacific Steamship Com
pany Morgan Line) today an
nounced change in plans that will
bring the special train bearing $50
passengers and SO crew rescued from
the liner Like into New York Sat-
urday at a. m, EST, two hours
later than under the original sched-
ule.
The train will reach Washington
at midnight. Stops will be made be-
tween there and New York City to
accommodate passengers living along
the route.
Ten of the rescued passengers
aboard the tanker Reaper will ar
rive at Wilmington, N. c., tonight
instead of tomorrow, it was an
nounced.
Passengers remaining in Miami
will leave tonight or tomorrow tor
various destinations, the company
here said. Many OF them live in
the south and will return to their
homes instead of proceeding here.
MIAMI, Sept. 6-(U.P)-Marine
engineers inspecting the storm
wrecked liner Dixie, aground on
French Reef, announced today that
tie $500, 900 snip probably could be
saved.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Report Ransom
Bills In East

BOSTON, Sept. 6. U.P)-Search
for William Mahan, ex-convict
wanted In connection with the
100000 Weyerhaeuser kidnapping,
has turned to Boston because of the
reported discovery of several of the
ransom bills.
Federal men are checking banks
and business houses throughout
eastern Massachusetts, in an effort
to trace ransom bills in denomina-
tions of $5, $40 and $40 said to have
appeared here shortly before Labor
day.
WASHINGTON, Sept. g. W.P)-
The department of justice said to-
day it had no information con-
cerning the appearance of any
Weyerhaeuser kidnap ransom mon
ey in the vicinity of Boston.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Boom Merriam
For President

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 6. W.P)-
The first Merriam for President"
club was organized in California
today as a growing movement to
inject Californias Governor Frank
F.. Merriam into the national politi-
cal picture gained momentum.
Albert H. Miller, AzuSa, Calf,
notified the governor htat the first
of contemplated chain of cam
paign organizations had been form
ed in the Southern California city.
Merriam will visit the ST. Louis
National American Legion conven-
ton soon. Political observers said
the visit would be intended as a
trial balloon" to gauge the Leg
ions attitude toward the governor
as a potential Republican preSi-
Dental candidate.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
BOdyguard Racket
Exposed By Star

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 6. W.P)-A
"bodyguard racket" which reputedly
aimed to fleece such film celebri-
ties as zasu Pitts and Stan Laurel
under threats of kidnapping was be-
ing investigated today by police
and the district attorneys office.
The scheme was exposed by Miss
Pitts who said she had received
threatening letters, demanding
money and suggesting" that she
employ bodyguards to protect her
self and family.
Under the plot, according TO in
vestigators, the authors apparently
sought to frighten intended vic
TINS by threats of kidnapping or
death and followed this up by ap-
plying for jobs as bodyguards at
high pay.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Dynamite PlOtters
Taken To Prisons

MODESTO, Calf, Sept. 6. W.P)-
AT dawn today eight maritime
workers convicted in connection
with an alleged dynamite plot
against the Standard OIL company
were enroute to state prisons.
Seven of the men were taken un-
der heavy guard to San Quentin,
where they will serve out indeter-
inmate sentences for reckless pos
session of dynamite. Patsy Clam
brelli, eighth of the band who as
sertedly participated in the oil
tanker strike terrorist plot, was
taken to Folsom prison last night.
Two prior felony convictions In
Connecticut led Superior Judge Roy
B. Maxey to order Ciambrelli 10
Folsom
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Examinations For
School Bus Drivers

Examinations for school bus driv-
ers will be held at the traffic office
III the court house tomorrow and
next Saturday, Capt Oswalt OF the
California Highway Patrol, an-
nounced today.
Under the state law all operators
of school buses are required TO take
an examination to demonstrate
their fitness for such work.
Drivers wishing to take the test
may do so between 9 a. m, and 5
p. M, with the exception OF the
noon hour IL to p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent


NYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. g.
President Roosevelt announced to-
day his basic program of reform
and recovery had reached "substan-
tial completion and that the
breathing spell" wanted by busi-
ness men is here.
His declaration was made In a
letter to Roy w. Toward, chairman
of the board of the Scripps- Howard
newspapers. The letter revealed
that the administrations modifica-
ton of the rules of business has
been carried practically as far as
the President intends it shall go.
Howard had written to the Pres
ident on August &c telling him that
many business men, once support
ers of the new DEAL" are now not
only hostile but frightened and
want breathing spell. The Pres
ident replied under date of Sept
ember 2.
The Presidents letter was In a
confident tone and challenged po-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Schumann-Heink
Signs Contract

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 6-(U.P)-
The name of Madame Ernestine
Schumann-H Heink, was penned at
the foot of three-year Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer contract today, and
the brand new Pickford-Lasky pro-
ducing combine was burned up"
When Mary Pickford and Jesse
L. Lasky joined forces to make
movies recently, they announced
that the elderly diva would be one
OF their leading stars.
M. c. Levee, actors agent tied up
with the Metro organization, hoped
g plane for Chicago and wheedled
the diva into signing up, almosc be-
fore the ink was dry Lasky arrived
in Chicago too late.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
YOUTH SAVED
FROM MANIAC
BY ANGRY MOB

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6. W.P)-A
30-year- old Japanese, impelled by a
maniacal blood lust, was thwarted
by mob of spectators today from
strangling boy of his own race to
cure a poisoned mind"
Voice told me kill japanese boy
to cure myself" Kanji Nata chat
tered as officers wrenched him
from the crowd which was beating
him after finding him tightening a
moose about the neck of 10-year-old
Hisshi Ogushi.
The attack occurred in the down.
town japanese quarter.
According to police, the boy was
riding on his scooter when the
man accosted him.
You Japanese boy?" he asked.
YES" the boy replied.
That's good gotta kill Japa-
nese boy" the man said.
Without further ado, he seized
a piece of rope from the scooter
and fastened it about the neck of
the screaming boy. Passersby tore
the man away and were kicking
and beating him when police ar
rived.
At headquarters, Hata told Off
GERS the lust for blood overpowered
him as he was eating a bowl of
muSh.
Il saw cook put something in
mush," he said. 1T poisoned my
mind. Then I heard voice tell me
l have kill Japanese boy to take
poison out of mind
The attacker was sent to the
psychopathic ward for observation.
His victim was not seriously in
jured.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Dixon Funeral To
Be Held Monday

Funeral services for w. w. Dixon,
veteran mail carrier of this city,
will be held Monday morning at
$50 from the Veterans Admins
tration home in Sawtelle, friends
here were advised today. Burial will
be in the military cemetery connec-
ton with the home.
Dixon, a veteran of the Spanish
American war; died at the soldier 5
home yesterday where he had been
a patient for several weeks. He was
a mail carrier in this city for II
years prior to his retirement in
1880.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
DISTRICT ASKS
FEDERAL LOAN

Applications for two WPA prof.
ects totaling $234,0O0 were author
lied by the irrigation district board
of directors at heir meeting his
morning. These applications will
be sent to state officers of the
WPA and then to Washington, D.
c.. for final approval.
The first of these projects esti-
mated to cost $l56,OO0 calls for the
brushinf and cleaning of d/Strict
canals while the second would re-
pair and rebuild old structures and
erect some new buildings needed
by the district at an estimated cost
of $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Former Navy. Man
Victim OF Murder

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 6. U.P - A
bullet hole in the forehead, the
neatly dressed body of man iden-
titled as Arthur A. Quist, so, for
mer naval chief carpenters mate,
was fuond lying in a field north of
here today.
Police said Quist, apparently a
victim of murder, had been shot in
the head with large calibre gun.
No gun was found near the body.
There was no evidence of a strug-
gle and the only indication Quist
might have been a victim of rob-
berry was a turned out trousers poe
ket.
The death was the third violent
demise in the San Diego district in
two days. Yesterday George Brech-
tel, 83, shot and killed his 80-year-
old wife, then killed himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
BY WALLACE CARROLL
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1885, By United Press
GENEVA, Aug. 6.-Italy an
nounced formally today that it
would no longer sit at the League
of Nations council table so long as
an Ethiopian delegate was present.
Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy
made the announcement to DR.. En-
rique Ruiz Quinzau, Argentine
chairman of the council.
To the United Press he said i'm
mediately afterward
Il authorize you to announce that
following consultation with Rome
Continued on page o.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Judge Henning Dies
On Train In East

TOLEDO, O., Sept. 6. WP)-Fed-
eral Judge Edward j. Henning, OF
1916 N. Normandie avenue, Los An
geles, died after suffering a heart
attack on a Chicago-bound train
last night.
Henning retired from the federal
bench In the Southern California
district in 1929 to enter private law
practice in New York City. He had
served on the bench for four years
as an appointee of President Cool
idge. For four years previously he
had served the Republican admin
istration as assistant secretary of
labor.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
DOCTORS SAY
MRS. BOWLING
OUT Of MIND
Accused Slayer Of Sister Hurls
Cup At Woman Judge During
Insanity Hearing

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 6. Up -
Mrs. Florence Boykin Dowling. tow
ering San Francisco woman,
charged with the murder OF her
sister, Mrs. Gladys Glenna Fair.
created an uproar In psychopathic
court today by hurting a sputum
cup in the face of Superior Judge
Georgia Bullock.
Shrieking that she was tired Of
being questioned over her sanity,
the quaint, 6-foot defendant then
collapsed in a swoon.
Judge Bullock hastily adjourned
court and retired to her chambers.
DR.. Victor Parkin, General hos
pital staff physician, who was sum-
moned as a principal witness to
testify that Mrs. DoWling is insane,
declared the attack on the court
was a perfect re-enactment" OF
the murder except that the wom-
an didn't have a gun"
The outburst came after DR.. E. H.
Williams, psychiatrist, testified that
x-ray photographs Of Mrs. Dow
lings brain showed a definite pitu-
itary condition, causing a pressure
on the brain.
st believe she definitely is in
sane and should be confined to an
institution he said.
rs she legally sane?" Judge
Bullock asked.
che ie +al1i,Np fIa TRUTH tf
the shooting of Mrs. Fair, she Is
legally insane" the witness re-
joined.
Flies Into Rage
DR.. Parkin corroborated the opin-
ion, referring to Mrs. Dowling''
story that she might have" killed
her sister although her memory
was clouded. She later said sht
was convinced she was the assas-
sin.
Judge Bullock was discussing the
possibility of remanding the pris-
oner to an asylum when the de-
fendant interrupted.
81 refuse to answer any more
questions" she screamed. II want
to rest. I've tried to tell every
thing I remember"
Before she could be restrained
she leaped to her feet, hurled the
cup at the woman jurist and faint
ed.
Mrs. Fair, attractive clerk in the
naval survey department at Long
Beach, was killed on the night oi
August 10. Her body, a ballet
through the head, was found the
next day, sprawled across a half
filled bathtub in her apartment
Police learned that her sister had
visited her the night of the slay'
ing. Mrs. Bowling was arrested II
San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Terrazas To Be
San Diego Consul

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6. U.P)-
Joaquin TerraZas, former Mexican
consul here. will leave in a week to
become consul at San Diego. Calf,
the Mexican consulate announced
today.
Senior Terrazas was consul here
for six months prior to the appoint
ment of Consul Ricardo G. Hill, and
previously had been stationed at
CaleXico, Calf. At San Diego he
succeeds Enrique Ferriera, retiring
to private life.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Legion Officers
To Be Installed

County council officers of the
American Legion will be installed
Monday night at p. m. in the CAL
eXico County Club, with w. A..
tDoc) Higgins. commander of the
22nd district, as installing officer.
Verne c. Monte, vice-commander
will install officers of Goree-Leke
post at the same time. There will
be short business meeting followed
by refreshments and entertainment.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
Prison Sentence
Given To Slayer

Los ANGELES. Sept. SUP
Milton X. Asbill. sailor from the
USS Pennsylvania. VINO pleaded
guilty TO manslaughter In connec-
ton with the murder OF Raymond
MeLachlin, Manhattan Beach gas
company collector. today was sem
fenced 70 from one 70 10 years IN
San Quentin prison BY Superior
Judge Rober II. Scott.
A companion. David Il. Foss. 20.
recently was convicted OF second de-
gree murder.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
NEGLIGENCE
CHARGED BY
PROSECUTOR
States Attorney Asserts Re-
lief Train Should Have Been
Sent Earlier To Vets
TWO INQUIRIES UNDER WAY
Federal And State Officials
Seek To Ascertain Cause OF
Heavy Loss OF Life
By III. O. THOMPSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
MIAMI, Sept. 6.-State's Attor-
ney George A. Worley charged to-
day there was criminal negligence
somewhere" in failure to remove
veterans from the Florida Keys be-
fore the hurricane struck and killed
300 or more.
Relief workers still struggled on
the Keys to move bodies of the
dead to the mainland for disposal.
Worley, who qualified his charge
with the statement he did not be-
lieve the blame could be placed on
any one agency, made his charges
after examining two unnamed wit
nesses. He summoned for question:
ing six others.
Worley said he believed the spe-
cial train should have been sent
sooner"
MIAMI, Sept. 6. W.H - Col.
George E. Ijams, assistant veterans
administrator, began an inyestiga-
tion today to determine why war
veterans we're not evacuated from
Florida Keys before they were de-
vastated by the hurricane that
caused the death of at least 800
persons and perhaps of 800 others,
mostly veterans, reported missing.
The veterans were engaged on
FERA road-building projects In the
Keys.
Ijams, assigned to the investiga-
ton by Frank T. Hines, head Of the
veterans bureau at the request of
President Roosevelt, arrived here
today and immediately called q
conference oSall federal agencies in
the area. He planned to announce
his course of action later.
Other developments today includ-
ed:
Gov. Dave Sholtz ordered States
Attorney George A. Worley to con-
duct an investigation similar to
that proposed by federal authori-
ties.
IjamS announced veteran VIC
Tins Of the hurricane will be given
military funerals here.
Harry L. Hopkins, federal work
relief administrator, In Washing =
ton, authorized a 100000 grant to
Florida to speed the rehabilitation
program.
The hurricane, meantime, after
lashing the west coast ofFlorida and
cutting eastward across the state
before swinging northward along
the Atlantic seaboard, approached
New York City today. Its intensi-
" was considerably diminished.
however.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
BY II. o. THOMPSON

Ohlteu fresS Staff Correspondent
MIAMI, sept. CUBA race
against the spread Of pestilence be-
gan today while state and federal
officials elashed over the cause for
high casualties In the hurricane di-
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06
NATIONAL LEAGUE
AMERICAN LEAGUE

At Washington-ist game n n 3
ST. Louis - 00f 80 0of@zil l1 !
Washington 0Q2 l03 600 IA Q
Cain. Van Alta. Knott and Hrulas
ley; Russell. Petit. coppola. Hadisy
and Bolton.
Detroit at Phlladf lphia. pasi-
poned, rain. two games t0moTrae
Chicago a. NeW rork. paslpone1.
rain. two games tomoFIa9.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-06

GENEVA, Sept. 6-UD - The
council of the League of Nations,
with Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy
absenting himself because he re-
fused to sit with the Ethiopian dele
gate, approved unanimously tonight
4 the creation of a five-power COM
mission to attempt settlement OF
the African dispute.
Italy was listed as refraining from
voting, which made it unanimous.
The committee will be composed
of representatives of Britain,
France, Spain Poland and Turkey,
/. despite the fact that Baron Aloisi
previously had firmly refused to
consider the participation on it OF
Britain and France, on the ground
that they are interested parties.