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Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
HOME BUYING
TAKES JUMP
New Dollars In
Valley Due
To FILA

Thousands of "new" dol
lars are being put into Cir
culation as the result of the
rapid increase in home buy
ing, building, refinancing,
and undermining.
Applications totaling SILL 500 were
made out Thursday by H. ". Dav-
idson, district representative for
the F.. H. A. during his regular
weekly consultation hours here at
the Chamber of Commerce. Two
applications were for new residence
constructions, two were for re-
funding and one was for purchase.
ALI were in connection with Title
2 of the F. H. A.
Davidson said that each of the
Ell Centre banks Thursday report
ed new loans for residence con-
Struction outside the city.
Both Ell Centre banks, said DAY.
idson, are showing big increases
in title l loans, indicating that
more undermining and small rural
home construction is either start
ed or Immediately planned than
during November.
This, he believed, is the result
of the educational and advisory
drive being made by FILA offici-
ais in this territory. So helpful
has been the procedure of hav-
ing Davidson at the Chamber of
Commerce every week to consult
with interested persons, that Robert
Hays, secretary, is endeavoring to
have this service continued for at
least one more month. Because of
Christmas, Davidson will not make
his usual trip here next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
ZONING UNIT
WILL MEET

Ell Centres zoning and Plan
ming commission is scheduled to
meet at city hall at 7:3O o'clock
December 80, to consider matters
referred to members by the city
council.
Owners of property in the vicin-
ity of TIT Main street are asked to
attend the meeting because the
commission will consider the plan
for allowing an athletic club and
wrestling and boxing matches at
that place. The council referred
the matter to- the commission for
recommendation.
Other applications for special
permits also will be considered.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
FATHER KILLS
INVALID BOY
Wealthy Farmer
Stays Youth,
Then Self

BEDFORD, Iowa, Dec. 20. U.P)-
Abandoning hope that his son ever
would recover from a brain tumor,
William Reed killed the boy to-
day. After the mercy killing"
Reed committed suicide.
Reed, 50-year-old wealthy farm
er and stockman, had been des-
pendent since the recent return
of his 16-year-old son, Raymond,
from a st. Joseph, Mo, hospital
where he had undergone brain
operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20

nOSplJaI dlTecUOT, uIoCIOStu Itft 10
day.
Had the plot materialized, two
lone, unarmed guards would have
been overpowered, their keys stol-
en-, and the doors of the asylum
thrown open to $50 mentally be-
logged criminals, so of whom are
murderers, DR.. Cushman said.
Ten inmates" DR.. Cushman
continued, had planned the eS-
cape plot in the overcroWded
criminal insane ward, a ward orig
inally erected to house Sc prison.
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
GOVERNOR TO
BE 70 SUNDAY

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 20. W,P)-
Gov. Frank F. Merriam will cut
large cake tonight some 80 hours
in advance of his 10th birth an
niversary, which he will observe
Sunday.
His office staff of Is arranged
a birthday dinner party for to-
night. 1t will be a family affair
with only the governors staff at
tending.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
e. OH So!
W.! says
NAN FRANK WAIAtADE
kV5 by
~ 80 HOLDEN

One thing are puzzel me
about fellow humanity. Other
day / reading paper where at
one poor miner were trapped
in a mine. 25 gentlemen came
for the rescue. They digging
and using all sort of scientific
instrument to getting that poor
fellow out. Oxygen are pump
down i'm a clever hose. Coffee
are delivered i'm a sponge--and
they working day and all night
in no sleep. Anything to saving
that one miner. Final he are
save and brung to delicious
fresh air on top side! Big re-
joyful take place. At exactly
same time other fellows are
discovering new bombs which
are guarantee rs deaths with
one drop! They spending mil
lions to killing thousands. Mus
solini are very proud TO report
ing that he killed 400 Abyssin-
ians!
Whatsmatter please7
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
RAIN DELAYS
HOOP TOURNEY

Rain and attendant muddy roads
caused postponement of the I'm
perial Valley high school basket
ball tournament until January.
Coach w. S. Taylor of Central
Union high school announced this
afternoon.
The tournament originally was
scheduled to get under way to-
night. A definite date was not
announced for the postponed SEES
sion.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
BATTLE TOLL
SET AT 1900
League Prepares
For Sanctions
Siege
Copyright 1885 by United Press

Copyright 1885 by United Press
ASMARA, Eritrea, Dec. 20 WP)-
Sporadic fighting continued on the
northern front today as estimates
of Ethiopian dead in the fierce three
day battle on Takazze river rose to
more than 1000 Italian dead num-
bered 272, the high command said.
Many of the Ethiopian dead and
wounded we're carried from the field
as the barefooted warriors, at first
successful against the Italians, fin
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
TWO CHILDREN
KILLED IN BUS

RONKONKOMA, N. Y, Dec. 20.
WP)-Two children were killed and
three others injured critically
when a Long Island railroad train
hit a school bus at crossing in
Hollbrook today.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
WAR DEATHS MOUNT
III SPOR Ado FIGHTING
ESCAPE PLOT AT
ASYLUM FOILED

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. (UP) = Crminally
crazed inmates at Mendocno State hospital, Ukah at
tempted desperate wholesale escape plot that frus
only because suen behavior of rngeaders caused
hospital authorities to investigate, DR.. r. A. Cushman,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
MANAGER OF
CLUB GIVEN
KIDNAP NOTE
Receives Police Guard After Men Force
His Auto to Curb and Warn
Him to Keep Quiet

HOLLYWOOD, Dec 20. (UP) - Kidnap threats
against witness in the Thema Todd death investigation
today led authorities to station police guard at the home
of Alex Houne mare de hotel at the exclusive Trocadero
night club Miss Todd attended party at the Trocadero
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
Arizona Official Hits
Division Of River Funds

PHOENIX Dec. 10. (UP)-Attorney General John
L. Sullivan today charged the federal government was
"nsncere" in a $4,000 900 Colorado river development
grant made to Arizona, and recently rescinded.
"While getting $3.50 600 900 for their
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
He's Relieved

He's Relieved
Fred Elliott, deputy sheriff here,
breathes more freely again. A
coast newspaper recently reported
his marriage to Jacumba girl, ne
glecting to mention that Fred al
ready has a charming wife. The
deputy was non-plussed. 1t was
the first time he had committed
bigamy, even in the public prints,
he AYERS. Everything was hunky-
dunky, however, when the paper
printed a correction that it was
not Fred who was married, but
another Elliott, whose preliminary
handle is James.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20
Attention, Census Bureau

Each blessed event in the little
community of West is awaited
with keen anticipation by the en-
tire community, since it's arrival
means one more addition to the
population. A week of agitation
ended Wednesday with the advent
of new young lady at the Homer
Davis home.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20

A New Fad?-
Don Mapes. it seems, has gone
prince of Wales" with a crocheting
hook. He proudly displayed his
skill in fashioning dainty doodads
to an admiring audience recently
until someone muttered Page
RRw Then he tried to burn his
handiwork. Talk about the power
of the press!
One For The Book
Said Sheriff Bob Ware, upon be-
ing asked the whereabouts of
Philippine Islander wanted for a
crime:
ooh, he's out in some Filipino
camp, busy looking like all the
other FiEpinos."
Better Than Fishin'-
C. B. Collins, county school boss,
was pegging along near the old
Mesquite diggings in the CLAIMS
district, bordering over the prob
lens of the Glamis school, when
he noticed an urchin busiIy en-
gagged at something other than the
studies to which his age obviously
entitled him at that time Of day.
Cornelius stopped to investigate,
being, really, an attendance super
visor at heart.
What are you doin', sonny?" he
asked.
Mining" the lad replied.
And he was, too. The lad proud
ly hoisted a small pill bottle, in
the bottom of which reposed about
half an inch of gold dust.
The mining venture ended at the
rather pointed suggestion by Col
Inns that the young prospector
trade his pan for school book
until such time as classes we're
dismissed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-20

Bank Clearings T'oda,l
S4S,5i9.35
Building Permits
$95,085
Ito Date This Year,
Evening star., 1935-09-16
WALMSLEY'S TRIP
HERE FRU|TLESS
New Orleans Mayor Denies
Visit Was to Discuss
Politics.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley was
journeying back to New Orleans today
after rather fruitless 24-hour stay
in Washington, where he discussed
with officials the bill passed by his
State Legislature making it felony
for Federal officials to pay funds in
the State except in accordance with
the tenth amendment to the Consti-
tuition.
AS he boarded an airplane he re-
marked, however, that he had no
doubt Mr.. Roosevelt and the admin
istration will help those who have
been friendly to him in Louisiana" ="
He expects to return here soon TO
negotiate Federal loan.
Denies Political Import.
The New Orleans mayor reiterated
his denial that his trip here had
political import.
II knew Jim Farley was out of town
and wouldn't be here before I left
New Orleans yesterday" said the
mayor, who is one of the leading
opponents to the regime Of the late
Huey P. Long.
"Of course" he added with smile,
every one talked to wanted to hear
about the situation, but I made no
effort to see any one in the admin
istration about it,"
Walmsley would not discuss possible
candidates for posts now held by the
Long forces. but he said much con-
sideration is being given to this ques-
ton and that announcements probably
will be forthcoming soon.
I'VE will have a full ticket in the
field" he declared.
Here to Explain Law.
The mayor insisted that the sole
reason for his trip was the law passed
at last weeks special session of the
Louisiana Legislature making it a
felony for a Federal official to pay
funds in the State for any purpose not
in accordance with the tenth amend
ment.
i don't know what the law means" !"
Walmsley said, land don't think it S
good constitutionally. But it might
have the effect of hating all Federal
payments in the State A. A. A..
w. P. A., relief and every other
agency"
Evening star., 1935-09-16

down four winding flights Of stairs
could have suffered an injury Of that
sort by striking ledge Of marble"
ANY contact with hard surface
could have caused it." DR.. Cook an
Swered.
DR.. j. Webb McGehee was called as
the next witness.
Doctor. did you have an appoint
ment with Dr. Weiss to administer an
anesthetic Monday week ago?" Odom
asked of DR.. McGehee.
"Dr. Weiss rang my house about
8:15 pm. Sunday and wanted to know
If knew that the operation had been
changed from Our Lady Of the Lake
Sanitarium to the Baton Rouge Gen
eral Hospital. I told him I did"
He stepped from the stand.
District Attorney C. Sidney Fred
ericks Of the Washington st. Tam
many judicial district was then ques-
toned by Odom.
@. Where were you in the capitol
at the time Of the shooting?
A. was leaving the Governors
Office and had taken two steps when
I heard the first shot. 1t was fol-
lowed by a second shot and then a
fusillade. looked out the door just
q moment. saw a number of men
down the corridor in some confusion
and I withdrew
Odom attempted to learn from
Fredericks whether he saw any one
fine any shot, and Fredericks said it
would be difficult. since it happened
so rapidly and he was not sure OF
identities.
Fredericks said that later he recog-
nized Murphy Roden and Elliot Cole
man as two of the men who were
around Senator Long.
@. After the body was on the floor,
did you see anybody fire?
A. will answer it like this: There
were shots fired after the body was on
the floor
Amid talk Of truce with the New
Deal, the political heirs Of Long laid
plans today for a caucus to salvage all
possible from his Louisiana dictator
ship and national following.
The caucus plans OF Longs now
leaderless lieutenants were indefinite
The conclave may be held during the
present week and may include repre-
sentatives of the Long machine
throughout the 81 parishes of the
State, as well as the State officials
who were picked by the Senator.
Heard in the peace talk was a
proposed truce in the Governments
Federal income tax investigations in
Louisiana, which to date have sent
one Long associate to prison and
brought indictments against eight
others.
In an interview In Boston yesterday
on his way to Europe, Henry Morgen-
thau, jr., Secretary Of the Treasury,
said in regard to the tax cases:
I'VE don't start any tax cases for
political purposes and we don't stop
them for the same reason"
Evening star., 1935-09-16
FARMERS WARNED |
OF HIGH PRICES
Brookings Institution Holds
Artificial Levels May Re-
act to Producers.

The Brookings Institution today
warned farmers against artificially high
price levels which might eventually
react adversely to the producers them
selves.
In another statement involving the
Agriculture Adjustment Administra-
ton, the American Liberty League at
tackled the potato control amendment
as "of doubtful constitutionality, arbi-
trary, unreasonable and uneconomic."
The Brookings report was based on
its studies Of the effect of the A. A. A.
program on dairying and livestock.
DR.. John D. Black, professor Of eco
nomics at Harvard, found in the dairy
ing study that little tangible result
has been achieved in either production
or marketing control, outside the re-
duction in numbers of excess cattle
brought about by the cattle purchase
program and the buying of diseased
animals"
D. A. Fitzgerald, formerly of Iowa
State College, who conducted the live
stock study reached the conclusion
that actual price rises in the industry
have been chiefly the result of
drought"
He found most disturbing impli-
cation" in A. A. A. amendments which
the report said add interest and taxes
to the parity" price formula and
which still imply that benefit pay
ments are not to be considered in de-
termining the relation of farm prices
to parity prices"
Farmers at the present time do not
generally feel that parity prices for
hogs are desirable" Fitzgerald said,
but the continued emphasis on such
prices and all the publicity of the A.
A. A. may in time make farmers feel
that they are entitled under all the
conditions to parity prices for their
live stock.
Solely from their own point Of
view, producers should hesitate greatly
before supporting a program calling
for reductions in supply large enough
to cause any very large shift in con-
sumers' demand for pork.
vi q oAtOLL PNA4 A4OA Va SAAllC q AdA
reduction may not have any perma-
nent i'll effects: but over a longer
period it seems probable that the
gross value of the hog crop would
decline"
The Liberty League, asserting that
the "A. A. A. has become enmeshed
In a network of its own making" re-
minded that basic agricultural COM
modities have been increased from
seven to IS, and that Congress and
enforcement officials must go on and
on until every product Of agriculture
is brought under control"
Declaring that the Soviet govern
ment could not have devised a more
complete system Of control of the ac-
tivities of its subjects than is en-
bodied in the potato act" the league
said that If, through the subterfuge
of taxation, the Federal Government
may limit or prevent the production of
potatoes on farm, then it may, by the
same subterfuge, take complete con-
troll Of agriculture, mining, etc, in all
the States and, in the language Of Mr..
Justice McReynolds. the Constitution
is gone"
Evening star., 1935-09-16

the administration Is that. after the
Supreme Court of the United States
by a unanimous vote Of liberals and
conservatives, radicals and humani-
tarians, friends of labor and supposed
opponents of labor-nine justices rep
resenting every phase of social and
economic sympathy-agreed that the
Congress and the President had vio-
lated the Constitution in the passage
OF the national industrial recovery act,
then, and with full knowledge of what
the decision contained, the Congress
was asked by the President to disre-
gard AL doubts of constitutionality"
and adopt the Guffey law.
Answer of New Dealers.
The answer Of the New Dealers will
be that the courts have not yet de-
cided the concrete questions involved
in the Guffey law, irrespective of what
has been said by the Supreme Court
in the past. But meanwhile the Fed
eral Government has taken possession
of the coal industry, and the Con-
gress has delegated to an executive
commission the right to administer
the affairs Of that industry, from
price fixing to wage and hour regu-
lation-all the very things the Su-
preme Court had said in the Schechter
case were not provided for in the
Federal Constitution.
This is what makes the usurpation
issue so important as Constitution day,
celebrated throughout the country this
week, ushers in q national debate on
constitutionalism which probably will
run through the presidential and con.
gressional campaigns Of 1886.
tcopyrisht. 1e35J
Evening star., 1935-09-16

In its nature, the service consists
Of studying the abilities Of persons
injured in industry, teaching them
new occupations and placing them
in employment. Officials Of the
office of education estimate that the
total cost of rehabilitating such q
person Is now about $245, as COM
pared with a cost Of nearly $400
when the work first started.
Upon its enactment, it was the
intention Of the social security legis-
lation that certain features of the
program should be undertaken at
once. Those involving grants to States.
for instance, for old-age and blind
pensions, for maternal and child
welfare and for other features of
the program would have been placed
in operation as soon as State plans
received approval Of the new board
or one of the other agencies desig-
mated for administration of the Fed
eral part Of the plan. To this end
the third deficiency appropriation bill
carried appropriations amounting to
$76,084.750 for nine months opera
tion Of the various provisions of the
act. OF this total $2,216,500 was
marked for administrative expenses.
Because of the legislative entangle-
ments which resulted in the death
of the deficiency bill on the closing
night Of Congress, however, immediate
ALLEGATION Of funds to States Is neces-
sarily postponed until after Congress
returns in January and has oppor-
tunity to pass new appropriation
law.
Source Of Funds Uncertain.
Meanwhile efforts are being made
to organize the administrative forces
of the board, although the source
Of funds for salaries and incidental
expenses has been uncertain. To pave
the way, part of the staff of the
Security, most of whom probably will
be transferred into the Social Sc
curity Administration, has been moved
over to the Labor Department Build
ing to cooperate with members of
the board in making plans.
Operation of the unemployment
compensation and Federal old-age
insurance plans are not due to start
before 1886 and 1887, respectively,
with the full program not expected
to be in operation before 1912.
In its completed form, in the opinion
of Board Member A. j. Altmeyer, the
entire program will be recognized as
great advance in the utilization
Of our social and economic institu-
tions to serve more effectively the
common good.'
Evening star., 1935-09-16
DETAILS DISCLOSED
IN JAPANESE PLOT
Report Of Preliminary Hearing
Bares Plan to Bomb Cabi.
net From Air.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated PreSS.
TOXIC, September 16-Tne fan
tastic details of the most extensive
reactionary ti-government plot dur
ing the 1932-1933 period, when po-
litical terrorism was rampant in ia
pan, were revealed today with the
publication of the findings in the pre-
liminary hearings involving the Shim-
peitai-"soldiers Of the cross"
The soldiers" plotted to overthrow
violently the government, beginning
with an aerial bombing OF the cabinet
ministers at the premier's residence,
where they assembled July IL, 1888.
Widespread assassinations were to fol-
low, in the hope that a Fascist-mili-
taristic regime would be established
under the Emperor.
OF 63 persons arrested July 10, 1888,
on the eve of the projected uprising,
81 have been committed for trial be-
fore the Supreme Court, the publica-
ton disclosed, five have been COM
mitted to the Toxic Criminal Court,
while four died in prison.
Evening star., 1935-09-16
DEATH STRIKES
TWICE IN FAMILY
Mother and Mother-in-LaW
of Mrs. Barry Mohun Die
Within Few Days.

Death Of Mrs Mary Elizabeth Adams
Michener, 86, last Friday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Barry Mohun,
1868 Massachusetts avenue, was fol-
lowed yesterday by death of Mrs.
Martha v. Iaub Mohun, 90. mother
in-law Of Mrs. Barry Mohun, at
Chicago.
The two women are to be buried
here in Washington
Funeral services for Mrs. Michener,
a native of Indiana, were held at II
am. today from the Mohun residence
here, and burial was in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
Mrs. Michener was the widow Of
Louis Theodore Michener, local at
torney and former attorney general
Of Indiana, who died eight years ago
Mrs. Michener was active in social
circles of the District and a member
of the Washington Club. Surviving
are two daughters, Mrs. Mohun and
Mrs. Griffin Halstead Of Cincinnati;
several grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mohun,
who died at the home Of her son
John in Chicago yesterday. will be
held here at IL am. tomorrow from
st. Matthews Church. Private burial
will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Mohun, who lived here until
three years ago, was the widow Of
Francis Barry Mohun and the daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Wise Laub.
Surviving her, besides her son John,
are a daughter, Mrs. Sigel Roush of
Hillsboro, Ohio, and several grand
children and great-grandchildren
Evening star., 1935-09-16
CLEAN PHILIPPINE
VOTE is PROMISED
Murphy Holds Full Power Of Gov
ernment Over Bitter
Partisans.
nu Aha AssnciaiAd press

by lNe hSSOCIdt-u EItS9'
MANILA. P. /, September l6.-Gov.
Gen. Frank Murphy held the full
strength" of the Government as a
threat over bitter partisans today TO
assure that the Philippines first presi-
dental election tomorrow will be a
clean" one.
Murphy wrote two of the candidates,
Emilio Aguinaldo and Bishop Gregorio
Aglipay, that he would do his utmost
to prevent irregularities.
His assurance came after the two
accused the coalition behind Manuel
Ouezon, the third candidate, Of plan
ming frauds at the polls.
Each Of the three predicted victory
for himself with apparent confidence.
Partisans Of Quezon, president OF
the Insular Legislature, said they ex-
pected rs per cent Of the expected
500. 900 votes to be cast for him.
Quezon and his running mate are
supported by coalition OF the Ma
cionalista- Democratic party and the
Independent party.
Aglipay represents the extremist
Republicans. He is head of the Philip
pine Independent Catholic Church.
the National Socialist can
didate, once led an insurrection against
the United States. Both have urged
a shorter route to independence than
the one provided under the Tydings-
McDufie act of Congress, which
Quezon is supporting.
Only literate men will vote. Women
and illiterates have been disfranchised
by the present government.
Besides the President, who will be
elected for six-year term, the voters
will choose a Vice President and SO
assemblymen.