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Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
FOUR INJURED
IN CAR WRECKS

Four persons were injured in two
county automobile accidents over
the weekend, according to reports
filed at the state traffic office.
M. Alvardo, Z, received painful in
juries to his legs in an accident
which happened at 6 o'clock last
night, 11a miles west of Seeley. The
report on this accident states that a
car driven by Pete Butcher ran into
a wagon driven by Francisco Alvar-
edo, Seeley, father of the injured
boy. The youngster was sitting on
the back end of the wagon with his
feet hanging over the end at the
time of the accident.
AT 4 o'clock yesterday morning,
cars driven by Julion Cruz, Calexico,
and w. Wogatzke, Los Angeles, col
lided mile east of Heber. The traf-
fic report states that Cruz was on
the wrong side of the road and hit
the other car head on injuring three
people. Both cars total wreck and
all persons taken to the county hos
pital." Charles Stone. l4l3la Dana
street, Los Angeles, who was riding
with Wogatzke, was also injured in
the crash. The men were treated for
their injuries at the county hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
DRUNKENNESS
HEADS POLICE
COURT CASES

Arrests by local police during the
month of February totaled 144 ac-
cording to the report compiled and
filed yesterday Of this number 75
were arrested for drunkenness; 80
for disturbing the peace; "a for vag-
rancy; five for petty theft, five for
battery and two for investigation.
Disposition of these cases was as
follows. 48 served time, % paid
fines; 25 cases were dismissed 23
suspended; nine are pending; six
we're turned over to the county and
five were released to pay fines at
a later date.
During February $86810 was col
lected by the department. Of this,
1912 was for general fines: $40 traf-
fic fines 1894 in occupation license
fees and $152.l0 for dog licenses.
forty traffic tickets were issued and
the cost of feeding city prisoners am
ounted to $109.95.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04

Y ERD|CT IN
ROAD DEATH

That Angel Torres, 80, Porto Ri
can, came to his death through an
unavoidable automobile accident on
the Ell Centro-I Imperial highway the
night of March l." was the verdict
returned by coroner's jury held
here this morning.
Torres was struck by an automo-
bile driven by I. M. Sharp, cmet
criminal deputy sheriff, about two
miles north of Ell Centro at 8 o'clock
saturday night and died at La So
lana hospital two hours later. Evi-
dence brought out at the inquest
showed that Torres was walking on
the highway in the center of the
southbound traffic ane when
struck. A passing truck blinded
Sharp momentarily and he did not
see the walking man until too late
TO avoid the accident.
Ross Brown OF McCabe was a wit
ness to the accident and at the in
quest this morning ana stated alat
Torres ha dmade no effort to get
cut of the way OF the oncoming
machine before it struck him. Tor
es' wife, Mrs. Josephine Torres, tes-
titled that her husband was or the
way to Ell Centro for gasoline to
fill the empty tank OF their car at
the time of the accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
BANK LOAN To
OBTAIN RELIEF .
FUNDS SOUGHT
Bill Asks Appropriation To Pay
Interest On SIS, 100000 For
Sixty Days
WOULD RETAIN UTILITY TAX
Constitutional Amendment Pro-
posed To Prevent Turning
Taxation Over To Counties
WOULD RETAIN UTILITY TAX

SACRAMENTO, March 4. W.R) -
Emergency legislation designed to
raise additional funds for unem-
ployment relief was presented to
the California legislature today
when the lawmakers convened Tor
the start of their spring session.
A bill prepared by the finance
committee of the state emergency
relief commission asked the legis-
lature for a $4,000 appropriation
to pay the interest on $5,00OO0O
loan which will be sought by Con-
troller Ray r. Riley.
The money, to be borrowed from
the Bank of America for 60-day
period, will be added to $s,000,0OO
advanced by the federal govern
ment to meet unemployment re-
lief expenses during March. The
loan will bear an interest rate or
312 per cent.
Addition of $5,000,000 will obviate
the necessity of drastic emergency
relief reductions, officials said.
The second half session of the
5lst legislature got away to fly
ing start with 1t. Gov. George j.
Hatfield in the senate and Speaker
Craig in the assembly calling their
respective houses to order at IL q.
m.
Heavy Loss TO State
Aside from the emergency relief
appropriation matter, the first
measure of Importance was O bill
by Assemblyman Cronin and VIII
hanson advocating constitution
al amendment to prevent return OF
utility property to county tax rolls.
The state will lose $60,e00,000 in
biennial revenue If utility taxes are
returned to counties, as provided
by vote of the electorate in June,
1888.
Various new taxes have been
suggested to make up the differ
ence and to raise additional funds
to balance the state budget.
Delay of the return would give
the state $6o,000,000 of the more
than $10O,000,0O0 needed In new
revenue.
Cronin said there was so much
opposition to suggested nuisance"
and other taxes that It may be
impossible to agree on q revenue
plan unless the state retains util-
ity taxes.
Although his bill did not men,
tion an election, a special vote OF
the people will be necessary to
amend the constitution and halt
return of utility property to coun-
ty tax rolls.
Meanwhile, assembly leaders pre-
dicted that opposition to the gov
ernor's $347,000,000 budget program
would be concentrated on proposed
financing methods, rather than al
location of runds set up in the
budget.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
Phoenix Deputies
Make Visit Here

E. w. Roach and Lon Jordan,
deputies from the sheriff's office
in Phoenix, were in the valley over
the weekend investigating the
recent lettuce workers strike here.
They conferred with Sheriff Ware
and Rodney Clarke, undersheriff,
on these matters.
They stated that just before
leaving Phoenix they had heard
that James Rorty and Charles
Malamuth had been met at the
Phoenix city limits by traffic off,
GERS who escorted them through
the city. A United Press dispatch
received here this morning stated
that the two men had not been
arrested in Phoenix.
Rorty and Malamuth were the
two writer's who were questioned
here by Sheriff Ware and his dep
uties concerning their alleged rad
ical connections last week, finally
leaving for the east under an es-
cort from the sheriff'S office.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
PRINCE WEDS
FRENCH GIRL

ROME, March 4. U.P) Prince
Jaime, ,26-year-old second son OF
former King Alfonso of Spain, to-
day married Mile. Emanuella de
Dampierre, 81, daughter of the
Count de Dampierre, counsellor OF
the French embassy.
AS at a, recent wedding of Al
fonsos daughter the Infanta Bea-
trice to Duke Torlonia, Queen Vic
toria, james mother, did not at
tend the wedding-suppoSedly be-
cause she disapproves OF the non
royal marriages which her chill
dren have favored, and which AL
fonso has approved. The brides
father, also, was absent.
Cardinal Segura. primate OF
Spain, officiated at the wedding,
at st. Ignatiuss church. Two
thousand people attended the cer-
emony, among them 500 Spanish
royalists.
The bride is a granddaughter by
marriage of Princess Josephine
Marx Ruspoli di Poggie-Sausa, the
former Josephine Curtis of Boston.
jaime is the third of Alfonso's
children to marry outside royal
circles. Ills eldest son, Alfonso,
married Edelmira Sampedro, the
daughter of Cuban plantation
owner.
The couple will go to London to
see former Queen Victoria, james
mother, and then to Egypt.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
CREEK REVOLT
NOT YET OVER
Government And Rebel Forces
Still Battling For Control In
Virtual Civil War
By ANTHONY KEDRAS
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1885, by United Press
ATHENS, March 4.-Rebel and
government forces fought today in
Macedonia and Crete, on land and
sea, and in the air.
Government forces claimed VIC
tory at Cavalla and at Drama, on
the plain of Philippi, where, 20 GEN.
turies ago, Brutus and CassiuS were
defeated by Octavius and Anthony.
Rebel warships maintained a
stand at Sounda bay, of the island
Of Crete.
The government prepared to send
an expedition against the rebels, us
ing five destroyers, two submarines
and a torpedo boat, and there was
prospects OF a pitched naval bat
tie.
President Alexander Zaimis, arch
bishop Chryssostomos OF the Greek
Orthodox church, and John A. Dros-
sopoulos took the initiative In an
effort to terminate situation which
was described as approaching civil
war.
Rebels, seeking to overthrow the
government and put Eleutherios
VenizeloS, the Lion of Crete in
power, were reported holding the
wireless and telegraph stations in
Crete with the aid of civilians.
A battered rebel fleet headed by
the cruiser Averoff, flagship OF the
navy, seemed withstanding rain
of bombs from government air.
planes which flew between the
mainland and the island.
The government was .concentrat-
ing its efforts for the tinfe being on
eastern Macedonia, whence Alexan-
der the Great came to conquer the
then-known world.
!. Control Macedonia
Soldiers and airplaneS were sent
to Macedonia to reinforce loyal
troops there. A communique said
that the government forces defeated
the rebels at Drama and occupied
Cavalla, on the coast.
1t was asserted that the govern
nent was in control of the general
situation in Macedonia.
1t was admitted, however, that re-
bells controlled small part of East
ern Macedonia, and section in
Crete.
Arrests of political leaders affili-
ated with the Venizelist opposition
TO Premier Panagiotis Tsaldaris con-
tmued in Athens, and it was plan
ned to start courts-martial today to
try them. The death penalty was
possible under the state martial law
prevailing.
Men of the military classes of
1880, 1892 and 1888 were called to
the colorS.
The government seemed firmly in
control in Greece generally.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
ALL ELIGIBLE
PERSONS WILL
STAY On LIST.
Rolls Will Be Gone Over To
Make Certain No Fraudulent
Cases Are Included
SALARIES TO BE SLASHED
Administrative Workers Will
Be Reduced In Line With Or
der From Mclaughlin

With the reception OF informa-
ton yesterday that all additional
$5,O00,000 had been added to SERA
funds, bringing the tota to $l4,O00,-
900 for use in state relief work, w.
j. Sterrett, local SERA director
stated this morning 9nat there Will
not be any necessity OF wholesale
dismissal of clients as had at first
been anticipated.
1--WE are going through the rolls
to prove the case load, that is to
see if every name on these rolls
should be there,' Sterrett said,
adding that he is now awaiting def
mite orders from state headquar-
ters concerning the distribution OF
the additional funds.
"There is no need for worry or
fear on the part of anyone who Is
on the rolls as they will all be cared
for,' he added.
In a bulletin signed by Frank Y.
Mclaughlin, state administrator,
the local office has been advised
of the salary decreases for workers
on the administrative staff. These
decreases went into effect on March
l and are according to the follow
ing graduated scale:
From SIT to $22 per week, 5 per
cent; from $2201 to $35 per week,
10 per cent; from $35.0l to $40 per
week. is per cent; from STOOL to
S1OO per week, 20 per cent and over
SlOO per week, 25 per cent. Admin
istrative employees receiving less
than SIT per week are not affected
by this reduction.
To Cut Projects
This action was taken in line
with a former telegram stating
that these decreases were to be
made in view Of the fact that suf-
ficient funds were not available to
carry on at the present scale. IL
was further indicated that a drastic
reduction would take place in the
number of projects to be carried on
in the county.
All projects now effective here
have been suspended Tor To-Day ana
tomorrow during which time a COM
plete checkup will be made by the
local office after which new work
cards will be issued and certain OF
the more important and necessary
of these projects will be carried
through to completion.
meeting attended by-J. E. Peck
and j. j. Drouillard, state SERA
officials with B. M. Graham, coun-
ty supervisor and Evan T. Hewes,
president of the irrigation district,
was held here Saturday morning
and it was decided that the irriga-
ton ditch cleaning project would
be continued until further orders
are received from state headquar-
'ters.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
County Assessment
Work Starts Today

New field and office deputies for
the county assessor-collector's Off
ice were sworn in this noon, be-
ginning the new assessment year.
after receiving instructions this
morning from Dan West, county
assessor collector.
West states that he proposes to
lower the assessed valuation on all
real estate so that it will not bear
too great burden of taxation in
comparison with that born by pub
lie utilities property.
Personal property will be assessed
at one-half of its market value, the
assessor collector stated to the
farm bureau directors at their meet
ing Saturday.
Furthermore, efforts were begun
at once to watch shipments of cat
tie from the valley since each year
many eyade payment OF taxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
STATE LEGISLATURE OPENS SECOND SESSION
County SERA Will Share In Additional Funds
u. S. Cancellation
Commissioner Here

Garfield r. Jones, supervising
conciliatipn commissioner for South
ern California, spent Saturday with
Scott B. Foulds, local conciliation
commissioner, going over the local
field with him and expressing COM
mendation of FouldS' work.
In commenting on Jones visit,
Foulds says that section rs of the
Bankruptcy act to which was added
last June the FraZier-Lemke bill,
is legislation of an entirely new
type and at first created difficulties
as various interpretations were
placed upon its provisions and pro-
cedure.
Since then court decisions have
simplified procedure and meaning
and the acts are accomplishing
their aims. Jones has charge OF
Southern California and issues the
forms for uses, rules as to proceed
Ings and coordinates the procedure.
As both an attorney and farmer
he is a man Of wide experience,
states FouldS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
FARM BUREAU DID NOT DEMAND
HORTON QUIT PRIVATE PRACTICE

monthly meeting of farm bureau
directors held in the court house.
II was announced that the wom-
EN- of EaStside-S Sunset farm home
department will serve luncheon at
noon in the Holtyille civic center
at this meeting.
Considerable discussion relative
to proposed legislation took place.
Mrs. Charles Hackleman presented
the resolution from the committee
on disqualification, opposing passage
OF assembly bill No. 954. or any
other amendment to section 1928 of
the political code or to change or
lessen in any way the authority of
boards of supervisors to maintain
county hospitals for their citizens
and taxpayers as well as for indig-
entS. The home department went
on record in the morning as oppos-
ing such measures and the farm
bureau also opposed any change.
Oppose Gas Tax Change
Another measure opposed by the
directors was the proposal that the
CONTINUED on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
NOTED COAST
EDITOR DIES

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4. U.H
Fremont Older, 78, famed crusad-
ing editor, died yesterday at the
wheel of an automobile near Stock
ton. ..s. -.-. .. -...-.
The man who had hammered
through six decades Of Journalistic
endeavor against abuses in govern
ment died virtually in harness. In
his pocket was a half-finished ar
ticle.
Older complained of feeling Ill,
but insisted on driving to his home
at Saratoga n the SAINT aClara val
ley.
Near Stockton he slumped sud-
denly over the wheel. HIS wife took
him to a Stockton hospital where 1T
was determined he had died from a
heart attack.
Older was born in a log cabin in
Appleton, Wis, in 1865. He entered
newspaper work at Is. He became
editor of the San Francisco Bulletin
in 1894, and as manager and editor
of that paper, The San Francisco
Call, and later the combined San
Francisco Call-Bulletin, he attract
cd national attention with the vigor
of his crusading campaigns for mu-
nicipal, state and national better
ment. His most famous crusade was
the exposure of the municipal graft
which followed the 1906 fire in San
Francisco. He also campaigned III
recent years for release of Tom
Mooney, labor leader, from life I'M
prisonment in connection with the
1916 Preparedness day bombings.
The body was returned DO his
country estate for burial Tuesday,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
State To Help
Fight On Weed

Approval Of an agreement be-
tween the state department of agri-
culture and the county for the era
dication of the camelthorn PEST here
was voted at meeting of the board
of supervisors this morning. The
board further voted an increase of
salary for the deputy sheriff sta
toned at inland from sec to $50 a
month and approved demands on
the county for February.
The meeting was continued this
afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
HAUP PTMANN' 5
FUND HELPED
BY CITIZENS

PASSAIC, N. j., March 4. W.P-
Citizens of the state that convict
ed Bruno Richard Hauptmann were
enlisted in his appeal fight today
with contributions of $1,000.
The condemned mans wife car
ried the defense fund drive to Pas
sale as she had to New Yorks
German section. The meeting was
held in the town hall, which was
packed with about 1000 persons.
On overflow crowd of 500 remained
outside.
Mrs. Hauptmann addressed the
gathering in German. Women in
the audience sobbed as she plead
ed:
"They (the state) have taken
my husband away. They have
taken away the father of my child.
Please help me in trying to bring
him back. I know him to be inno-
cent"
TRENTON, N. j., March 4. WIR-
Attorney General David T. Will
entz, prosecutor of Bruno Haupt-
mann, returns from Miami today
and was expected to study reports
of the Hauptmann defense fund.
The state may move to have
Hauptmann's pauper petition set
aside and seek to apply the de-
fense fund for payment of costs
in printing the trial record. The
trial court ordered the state to
pay the cost when Hauptmann
swore he was penniless.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
DoWd Back From
Riuer Conference

M. j. Dowd, irrigation district
engineer, returned yesterday from
Salt Lake City where he had at
tended a conference OF Colorado
river basin states relative to the
Arizona water and power contract.
Dowd stated that final proposals
have been submitted to Arizona
relative to a clause to be inserted
in this proposed contract which
would protect the rights OF the sig
natory states in the matter Of dis
tribution of storage water and pow
er from Boulder dam. Dowd was
one of committee which had
helped draft this clause and had
remained in Salt Lake after other
irrigation district representatives
left.
1t Is expected that Arizona 3 at
titude on the proposed clause viii
be known within a few days.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
Believe Missing
Artist Is Alive

LOS ANGELES, March 4. W,R)--
Everett Ruess, Los Angeles artist
who has been missing in the South
ern Utah mountains since last No
vember, may be alive, his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Ruess,
were informed today by H. j. Allen
of Escalante, Utah.
Allen telegrapned the parents
that he was organizing a searching
party to hunt the missing man in
the belief he may have "holed up"
for safety in some canyon near Fif-
ty-mile mountain.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
Seek Action On
Townsend Plan

WASHIGTON, March 4. W.H-An
effort to force house consideration
of the Townsend old-age pension
plan was made today by Rep. Jo-
seph P. Monaghan, (Dem) Mont.
He prepared petition for filing
today asking that the ways and
means committee be discharged
from further consideration of the
bill.
The petition, if it obtains PIT sig
natures, would force the measure
before the house for consideration.
Administration leaders oppose action
on the bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04
AHege Violation
OF Liquor LalDs

Complaints were prepared this
morning by the district attorneys
office against Claude and Roy Orr
on an alleged charge of selling Ii
quor without license and after the
prescribed closing hours. The men
were arrested after midnight, Satur-
day, in the Winterhaven beer gar
den by Sheriff Ware, Deputy Sharp
and Mark Munson, OF the state
board of equalization.
This is The first arrest made in
the county under the new liquor
regime and it was said that several
BOTTLES of alleged whiskey were con-
fiscated as evidence as the estab-
lishment had license covering the
sale OF beer and wines only.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-04

ster NRA IS weakened fabric with
an appeal to employers to increase
wages 10 per cent, reduce hours of
work by the same margin. The OBJ
jective was unemployment of 1,000,-
600 more persons. The response
was not general.
Within q week the adminiStra-
ton was apologizing for the orders
which sent army flyers into the air
with the mail. All military mail
planes were grounded on March II
to avoid further loss of life.
On March II the safely Demo-
cratic house passed the Patman
bonus bill despite White House op-
position and two days later the
senate rejected the st. Lawrence
Seaway treaty for which Mr.. Roose-
yelt pleaded. The World court had
the SAINT treatment this winter.
Veto Overridden
Before the month was out con-
gresS had oyerridden Mr.. Roose-
velt' s veto of the billion dollar in
dependent offices bill containing an
appropriation OF $228,000,000 for
war veterans in excess OF White
House plans for the soldiers.
Default of water debts became
the fixed policy of all but one
debtor last June and just before
the end of the second "neW deal'
year the administration was COM
PEELED to announce collapse of debt
negotiations with Soviet Russia.
Meantime the blunt-spoken board
headed by Clarence Darrow was
blasting the NRA with criticism
which will be a factor in altering
its scope this spring.
Bloody strikes marred Mr.. Roose-
yelt s second year in the White
House. Upwards of 100000 textile
workers in the south and New Eng
land walked out in protest against
| working conditions under the first
and most widely publicized OF NRA
codes.
From May 9 to July 81 the Pa
cific coast was blighted by long
shoremen IS strike which developed
finally into a general Walkout of
union labor in San Francisco.
Truckmen struck and fought with
clubs in Minneapolis; the Kohler
plant was wrecked in wisconsin;
and there were costly conflicts in
Ohio.
The foregoing "new deal" re-
verses provide some background for
the stalemate in which White House
and congress now have put public
business. Political observers be-
lieve Mr.. Roosevelt maintains his
majority grip on popular opinion
His opposition is unorganized ana
so far is impotent nationally The
two thirds Democratic majorities
elected last November were an eX-
preston of confidence in the Pres
ident.
Many statesmen who cam e
through on q "Support-RooseSelt >
platform are deSerting him now.
Organized labor complains that the
"new deal" is too moderate in its
reforms and is lax in supporting
the workers right to unionize open
shop plants.
Mr.. Roosevelt lost support of con-
servatiye Democrats when he began
tinkering with money and finally
devalued the dollar to 5906 cents,
gold. There appears, therefore, to
be merit in the Presidents claim
that he is pursuing middle of the
road course, neither dictated by the
left wing or the right. But politi-
cally no explanation of strategy
will supplant the urgent necessity
for Mr.. Roosevelt to reestabliSh
control over a congressional work
ing majority. He and his aides are
hard at that job now.