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Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
KARP|S AIDE
ADMITS GUILT
IN K|DNAP INC
Enters Plea In Bremen Case
And Is Questioned d About
Weyerhaeuser Abduction

ST. PAUL, June UD - Volney
Davis pleaded guilty today when ar
raigned before Judge M. M. Joyce
in federal court on charges of
participating i'll the 100000 kid
naping of Edward G. Bremen.
Davis, arrested by Melvin Purvis
in Chicago and brought here by
airplane, was a member of the
notorious Barker -Karpis gylg and
was wanted for questioning in con-
nection with the abduction OF
George Weyerhaeuser in Tacoma,
Wash.
He was arraigned on the Bremen
charge within few hours after ar
rival here. Sentence was deferred.
Haggard and holding his hat over
his face TO avoid photographers,
Davis was taken into federal court
under heavy guard.
George F. Sullivan, United States
district attorney, who prosecuted
the case which convicted five FORM
er allies of Davis in the Barker
Karpis gang, moved that he be ar
raigned on a charge of conspiracy.
Judge Joyce instructed that the
indictment be read and then asked
Davis if he understood the meaning
of the true bill. Davis replied that
he did.
Taken In Chicago
Asked whether he pleaded guilty
or not guilty, Davis answered, in a
low voice:
II plead guilty"
Davis, seized in Chicago and
hustled here by airplane, is listed by
federal authorities as an eX-convict
confederate of Alvin Karpis, chief
suspect in the Weyerhaeuser abb
duction.
The department of justice agents,
it was believed, hoped to draw from
Davis a lead as to the whereabouts
of KarpiS.
The theory that the prisoner, al
ready under indictment on charges
of aiding in the kidnapping of Ed
ward G.. Bremen, might have inside
knowledge of the Tacoma youths
abduction was given credence by
the closely guarded movements of
government authorities.
Davis had mutilated his finger
tips in an effort to escape capture.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
HINDU STAGES
GUN BATTLE

Inder Singh, 81, was booked at
the county Jail Saturday night for
investigation into an alleged assault
on Malta Singh, fellow Hindu.
According to Jail attendants IN
der Singh is said to have shot twice
at MALTA Singh with 20 guage
shotgun during a quarrel over a
note at o'clock Saturday evening
on a ranch four miles northwest OF
Imperial. The first blast from the
gun splattercd MALTA with shot af-
ter which he took refuge behind a
large tree just as the second shot
was fired. Pellets from this Sec
ond blast struck the tree.
A number of the shot were eX-
tracted from the wounded mans
body by an Imperial physician and
it is reported that he was not SER
iously injured. The affair was in
vestigated by Sheriff Ware mad T.
M. Sharp, chief criminal deputy
and it was further stated at the
jail this morning that a charge of
assault with intent to commit mur-
der will probably be lodged against
Inder Singh sometime today.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
FLOODS CONTINUE TO RAVAGE MIDDLE WEST
Kidnapers Succeed In Eluding Net Set By Officer
Valley Exhibit
At Exposition
All Complete

That Imperial Valleys miniature
exhibit at the San Diego fair is all
completed, showing complete set
up of valley ranch and the crops
grown here, is the report brought
back by B. A. Harrigan, agricultur-
al commissioner, and Harry Wood
bury, in charge of Imperial Valley
day at the exposition.
The two visited the fair Sunday
and state that in few days all
will be in readiness. All exterior
work and the grounds were COM
pleted prior 10 the opening and
work is being done in completing
exhibits and interiors.
Worklnen are at their jobs at
midnight each night, working till
morning so that there is no sign OF
construction going on while the fair
is in progress.
According to Harrigan, Imperial
Valley has the distinction of hav-
ing one of its representatives pay
the first five dollars taken in at the
famous Cafe of the World at the
fair.
On the opening night Harrigan
A. Y. Preble, supervisor; Evan t.
HeweS, irrigation district chairman
and Walter Goodson, secretary, rep
resented the valley, Preble's five
dollars being the first money re-
ceived by the cafe.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
San Francisco
Has Hot Weather

SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 UP)-
-Four persons were overcome by
heat on downtown San Francisco
streets today as the city's thermo-
meters shot up to the highest tenn
perature Of the year.
The victims all were treated at
Central Emergency hospital after
the mercury had climbed to SO de-
grees at l1:30 d. m.
At noon, the temperature had
slipped back to sc degrees, but
climbed again to 81 few minutes
later.
Weather bureau officials did not
expect the go mark to be reached
today.
The highest reading was 10 de-
grees below San Francisco'S all time
record for June 8, established at SO
degrees in 1881.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
DEATH TOLL
EXPECTED To
BE INCREASED
Over Hundred Lives Lost And
Property Damage Estimated
At Above 10 Million Dollars
KANSAS TOWNS FLOODED
Residents Forced To Flee As
Raging Waters Approach
Homes AT Rapid Speed
KANSAS TOWNS FLOODED
BY United Press

Floods rolled through fertile mid
west valleys today leaving death
and destruction in their wake, while
overcast skies created the addition
al menace of more rain and still
higher water.
The Republican river, flowing
through Kansas and Nebraska, has
taken an estimated toll of go lives.
Property damage already exceeds
$10,000,000.
In Colorado and Wyoming cloud
bursts brought death to 26 last
week.
The Marais des Cygnes river
flowed through the streets of Otta-
wa, Kansas. Water was three feet
deep in many stores and still ris-
ing.
Serious conditions were anticipat-
ed in northwestern Nebraska where
the North Platte and South Platte
were converging at the town Of
North Platte. Each was carrying
six-foot flood crest. Towns of Big
Springs, Roscoe and Brule were un-
der water.
A swift current of the Kaw river
was undermining the levee which
protects the Kansas City, Mo-, mum
icipal airport. Riprap work started
today and sandbags were piled in
to the breaks.
The Missouri river, into which
virtually all these the flood waters
eventually flow, was within foot
of flood stage at Kansas City. At
jefferson City, Mo-, it reached its
greatest height in 80 years and the
crest of the flood Is not expected
until Tuesday or Wednesday.
The great Bagnall dam poured
millions of gallons of water an
hour into the Missouri, all of its
IL spillways open to release the
flood built up on the 50-mile lake.
In the $50 mile stretch from Boone
vile to Herman, Mo-, 1000 families
moved to higher ground, according
to army engineers estimates.
JUNCTION CITY, Kansas, June
3 W.P) - Sweeping southeastward
from its path of havoc through
Nebraska, the flood crest of the
Republican river today laid waste
thousands of fertile acres of farm
land in north central Kansas.
Already flood waters from last
weeks cloudbursts had taken an
estimated death toll of las in these
two states and Colorado.
Hundreds of farm families fled
before the onrush, warned by tele-
phone operators who remained on
duty throughout the night and far
into the day to spread the alarm.
The flood crest already had pass
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Loses Fight To
Auoid Sentence

WASHINGTON, June 3.W.R -
Richard l.. Hargreaves, former
president of the First National Bank
of Beverly Hills, Calf, today was
denied his application for a su-
preme court review of his convic-
ton on charges of misapplying
funds of the bank and making false
reports.
Hargreaves is under sentence of
three years in Jail after being con-
victed on eight counts of an in
dictment returned against ihm and
John R. Scantlin, vice-president of
the institution.
The jury at his trial found Har-
greaves guilty of having misapplied
$4,000 of the banks funds. 1t al
SO found that he had made false
entries in a report on the banks S
condition made to the comptroller
of the currency.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Mx Ro1ux
Q 1855. hsitaaeht Syndicate. -
Milk Institute
Getting Support
From, Doiryn1an

Imperial Valley dairymen appear
to be taking more and deeper in
terest In the Milk Institute, an Or
ganiZation which was created to
assist them in solving their pro-
duction and marketing problems.
Walter B. Havekorst of the Bank
of America, President of the Milk
Institute of Imperial Valley, re-
ceived recently a communication
from j. r. Haley of Route l, Seeley
enclosing membership fee and ask
ing for membership cards for him
seld and wife, Mrs. Lilly Haley.
1T is gratifying" said Havekorst,
when our dairymen voluntarily
apply for membership in the Milk
Institute. OF course, this is just ex-
actly what they should do, because
certainly if the business and pro-
fessional men of Imperial Valley
are willing to organize and MAIN
tain an institution such as this,
and help the dairyn an, every prac-
tical dairyman ought to be men,
ber, because the whole plan was
devised to assist the dairy industry
directly and of course indirectly aid
general business In Imperial VAL
ley"
One of the objectives of the Milk
Institute is to bring in new dairy
men and new dairy herds, and with
this in mind, the Milk Institute di-
rectors and regents, it is stated,
will Immediately, after the sum-
mer season, commence an intensive
campaign to interest dairy farmers
in coming to Imperial Valley and
establishing themselves here so
that the countys former annual
production of 100000 pounds of
butterfat will be maintained or in.
creased.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
ND CLUES To
WHEREABOUTS
OF GANGSTERS
Federal Men Claim To Know
Identity OF Man Who Signed
First Ransom Note
GOOD START BY ABDUCTORS
Money Paid Over At Least "a
Hours Before Weyerhaeuser
Boy Released
GOOD START BY ABDUCTORS
By WILFRED BROWN
United Press Staff Correspondent

TACOMA, Wash, June 3. W.P)-
Kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser
had eluded the most elaborate man
hunt in northwest history for more
than 48 hours today.
Dozens of clues had been run
down by police in various sections
of the northwest but the gang, be-
lieved to consist of either three OF
six men, and probably headed by
Alvin KarpiS, notorious gangster
had either "holed in" or had elud-
ed the search.
Federal agents here, more than
a score of them under E. j. Con-
molly of Chicago, continued to CEN
ter their efforts in Tacoma, Seattle
and other Puget Sound cities with
in 100 miles of Issaquah where the
youngster was put out on lonely
Snoqualmie highway at a. m. Sat
urday.
They discounted the Importance
to the Weyerhaeuser case of the
arrest of Volney Davis, member OF
the Barker-Karpis gang, in Chi
cago. Davis was at first reported
being flown here by department OF
justice agents, but was instead tax
en- to st. Paul where he faces a
direct charge in the Edward Bre-
mer kidnapping case.
Davis was identified by local
apartment house managers as the
man who, accompanied by dark
haired woman, sought to rent an
apartment shortly before the boy
was kidnapped .'His presence in Chi
cago Sunday, police said, however
precluded his participation in at
least the reception OF the 100000
ransom.
Booklets containing the serial
numbers of the 10000 federal re-
serve notes paid by F. Rodman Tit
comb, uncle OF the boy, for his
safe release, were due here today
and were to be distributed TO banks
through this region. The bills, all
of the San Francisco mint, were
said TO begin with the letter L
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Valley Officers
Shoot On Coast

Under the direction of Sheriff R.
w. Ware, a group of valley peace
officers motored to San Diego yes
terday for an informal pistol match
with the San Diego sheriff's depart
ment and city police team on the
SO yard course. The coast city team
won by a 1474-1434 score and an in
vitation was extended to the local
team for a return match which was
accepted.
Scores made by the valley marks
men were: F.. V. Ackley, 295; w.
Keating, 295; L. Echols, 2S4; j.
Tackett, 282 and D. Keesee, 278.
In the Glass c competition for
the Silvergate club trophy, j.
Tackett of the local police depart
ment placed second with 219
mark. H. A. Schupp was first with
900.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
BY HARTZELL SPENCE
United Press Staff Correspondent

DES MONIES, Ia, June 3. -
Herbert Hoover called upon the
youth of his native state today to
look to the future with confidence,
to guard increasingly against gov
ernmental interference, and to build
a greater civilization upon the struc-
ture erected by the labor of their
forebears.
The former President spoke with
deep sympathy for the soil, with
touches of humor and with many
biting references to policies of the
Roosevelt administration in his ad-
dress to the graduating class OF
Drake university.
He recalled with enthusiasm and
from personal experience the back
ground of Iowa farmers, praising
their courage in the face of many
hardships, their self-sufficiency
and individualism and their bat
tie for personal and economic free
dom. He contrasted sharply and
unfavorably with tendencies of
present day government under the
new deal"
II am going to try and give you
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
SH|POWNERS
DEMAND THAT
STRIKES END

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3. U.P)
Pacific coast shipowners de-
manded today that the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's association
cease the series of strikes which,
the shipowners said, may force them
to break off relations with the un-
ion.
Protesting that the $50 small
strikes in the port of San Francis
co since the peace agreement ad-
justing the 1884 maritime strike last
September had proved costly to
shipping and the travelling public,
the ship owners urged the union to
purge itself of aSsertedly Commun-
istic influence.
Employers are convinced that rad
ical and destructive elements DOM
mate the San Francisco local and
that no peace is possible while such
an element is in control" said the
statement issued by the Waterfront
Employers association.
"Shipowners cannot tolerate
longer the conditions that have ex-
listed in this port for the last six
months and relationship with the
San Francisco local of the I. l.. A.
cannot continue unless such chang
eS are made as will make contin-
uance possible"
The association statement widen
ed the breach between the employ
ers and the longshoremen and made
more likely coast wise tieup when
the present working agreement ex-
pires in September.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
HOOVER RAPS NEW DEAL IN
ADDRESS TO IOWA GRADUATES
Warns Them To Beware Of Government Interfer-
ence In Regulation OF Their Lives
And Their Occupations

a little encouragement" he said,
land to remark on something to
look out for The frontiers OF
human betterment as yet are but
barely penetrated by men
81 am troubled by just one thing.
That is what the forces of govern
ment may impose on you that will
limit or destroy your inspirations,
your incentives and your opportu-
mites. Will government permit you
to breathe the pure air of liberty in
the spirit of the Bill of Rights?
That is the thing that you have
need to look out for For in this
matter you enter life at one of the
most crucial periods of American
history.
"These God-fearing people build
ed this state under freedom, not
under a political bureaucracy that
coded their daily actions, limited
the products of their factories and
their farms, that told them they
could or could not start any enter
prise. They fought the enemies of
freedom, both right and left.
Recalls Childhood Days
Hoover spoke fondly of the 10
years of his childhood in Iowa,
recalling the blacksmith shop of
the Hoover farm, the work in the
barns and in the fields, but tenn
pered with glorious adventure, mag
nificent undertakings in the woods
and streams. 1t is a vision of
people earnest in the days work
A people of glorious faith in
their own right arm, in America
and in God"
He told how the family perform
ed all of the functions now done
for farm families by packing
houses, soap companies, carpet fac
tories, and canning factories and
mills.
To-day" he continued, such
things come to the front door
wrapped in cellophane.
THAT economic system avoided
strikes, lockouts, industrial clash,
class conflicts, labor boards, arbi-
tration.
at even denied conciliation to
small boys. The prevailing rate
for picking potato bugs was one
cent a hundred and if you wanted
firecrackerS on the Fourth of July
you took it or left it. If that wage
still prevails, it ought now to be
adjusted to the commodity dollar
and is entitled to hearing by the
labor board. 1t may be that the
use of arsenic on bugs has created
chronological unemployed in the
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Ransom, Money
List Published

WASHINGTON, June U.P)- j.,
Edgar Hoover, director of the fed
eral bureau Of investigation, today
made public a list of the federal re-
serve notes used in paying the $780,
900 ransom Of young George Weyer-
haeuser.
The list, running SIS closely print
ed pages, was distributed to police
officers and banking headquarters
throughout the nation with the re-
quest that if any of the ransom
money appears the bureau of in
vestigation be notified.
Hoover also released photostatic
copies of the 81 point ransom note
which a criminal signing himself
"Egoist' sent the parents OF the
boy.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Gais, SholUr In
Postal Receipts

Ell CentrO's postal receipts con-
tinue to show an increase, accord
ing to Postmaster Frank Rich
m0nd, the total for May being
S5,457.30, compared with S5,128.68,
for the month of May, 1884, or an
increase of S328.62.
There have been consistent
gains every month SO far this
year, the postmaster said, and he
is confident the years total will
be considerably ahead of the 1884
figures, for there is every indica-
ton that business is on the up
trend.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
FORMER LOCAL MAN ENDS LIFE
Jack Christensen, Manager Of Brawley Store Sue
cumbs To Poisoning

j. L. Christensen, manager of
the A & P store in Brawley, died
at the Brawley hospital at 1870
o'clock this afternoon from the ef-
fects of a dose of strychnine, which,
according to the information receiv-
ed here, was taken with suicidal
intent. Christensen had formerly
been a clerk in the Ell Centro store
and was appointed to the Brawley
managership several months ago.
Information received here is to
the effect that at IL o'clock this
morning Christensen sud d e lily
slumped to the floor of the store.
Other attendants, thinking he had
become overcome by the heat, rush
ed him to the hospital, where, it is
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
TuUo Injured AS
Cars Collide

w. E. Wood, 35, of Heber and c.
Estrada, 36, Mexicali, were injured
in All automobile accident which
happened at 4:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon Il quarter of mile east
of the Jasper store on the Calexi-
co-Holtville road, according to a
report filed with the state highway
patrol.
The men were injured when cars
driven by Wood and o. Miyota, So,
Holtville, colllded at an intersection.
Both cars overturned and Wood
was pinned beneath them receiving
a dislocated hip and other injuries.
Estrada who was riding with Mi
yota suffered two broken ribs as
we'll as bruises and lacerations.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
WOMAN KILLED AS AUTOS CRASH
Mrs. Ernest L. Roander Victim Of Tragedy AT East
ern City Limits

The car in which Mrs. Rolander
was riding with her husband and
son, Harold r., 10, had just reached
the intersection when it was struck
by another car driven by B. E. Mitt
Singh, Ell Centre, coming at rapid
rate of speed along the Dogwood
road. The impact was sufficient to
overturn both cars. Mrs. Rolander
died before she could be taken to a
hospital for medical attention.
Her husband and son as we'll as
Singh were injured and received
treatment fol- their injuries at La
Solana hospital. Singh was later
booked at the county jail where it
was said that manslaughter charges
may be filed against him, pending
the outcome of a coroner's inquest
which will be held here this after
noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03

said, he told the physician that he
had taken the poison.
A stomach pump was used on
him and for a time it was thought
he was on the road to recovery
when he was suddenly taken with
convulsions and died. Store attend
ants told officers they noted Moth
ing unusual In Christiansens ac-
tions the past few days or this
morning until he suddenly collapsed
at the store.
Frank McCaslin, deputy coroner,
left for Brawley Immediately after
notice of the mans death was
received from the Brawley police
department.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
FULL TEXT OF SPEECHES GIVEN
BY HEWES-WEST IN THIS ISSUE

information of its readers, and
believes that a better under
standing of the two arguments
submitted can be obtained by
having the arguments present
ed at the same time.
Texts for the addresses were
furnished by the Southern ST.
orras Power company and the
Imperial Irrigation District
and are authorized as the full
text of both addresses.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Against
Mackey Dismissed

After a preliminary hearing be-
fore Judge Simpson in justice court
this morning, charges of assault
with a deadly weapon and illegal
possession of brass knuckles were
dismissed against OFT Mackey. The
charges had been brought by w. E.
Womack of Seeley.
Dismissal Of these charges were
based on insufficiency of evidence
Z to warrant holding him for super
ior court. 1t was said at the dis
trict attorneys office that a charge
of battery will be filed against
Mackey.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Motor Vehicle
Fund DiUided

A total of $29, ,34797 in state mot
or vehicle funds allocated to this
county was divided among the five
county road districts by the board
of supervisors at their meeting this
morning. Joe Wilson was appoint
ed by the board to oversee the con-
B. M. Graham, presided in the abb
B. M. Graha mpresided in the alb
Sence of A. Y. Preble, chairman Of
the board. The regular meeting
continued this afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Valley Fleece
Captures Prize

William TulloS, valley stockman,
has received word that fleece en-
tered by him in the Great Western
Ram and Wool Show held recently
in Sacramento, was awarded third
prize.
Tullos received not only the rib
bon but a handsome wool blanket
for his prize.
This fleece and others from the
valley were entered in the show by
George L. Winwright, assistant
farm advisor. and w. B. Houghton,
emergency assistant in agriculture.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
Three Inuolued In
Seal Heights RolD

With his clothing in shreds and
blood oozing from numerous wounds
on his head and upper body. James
Meyer appeared at the district at
torneys office this morning TO
sign a complaint against Gene Hig.
gins and Tom Kennedy charging
the two men with battery. All are
residents Of the Seal Heights dis
trict.
The two are said to have set up
on Meyer and beaten him severely
about 10 o'clock this morning dur
ing an argument.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
LOSES EXTRADITION FIGHT

WASHINGTON, June ) U.R-Lee
j. Kelly of FIT. Worth, Tex, today
was denied a supreme court review
of his fight to escape extradition to
Phoenix, Ariz., to face charges OF
mail fraud. Kelly contended he
could not be tried in Arizona be-
cause he had already been prosecut-
ed in FIT. Worth for the same trans
actions which were involved in the
Arizona case. The fifth court OF
appeals had ruled that hescould be
removed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-03
a. M1aNAa
S~N SAYS

LOS ANGELES, June (SpeciaD
Well sir forlorn looking gen.
tleman come to my house this
Sunday afternoon. Said he was
one of Roosevelt's cabinet, and he
looked it. 1t was Mr.. Roper,
Secretary of Commerce. I try to
make it a point to never turn any,
body away. First one of the New
Deal I had seen since the Su-
preme Court took their matches
away from 'em. But he was a
game southern gentleman. No
kicks, no squawks. He and I
searched around through the
burned embers, to see if any little
New Deal object might be sal
vaged.
We decided that big business
operating under the old dog eat
dog" plan, SO many dogs would
eventually get bit that parts of
the NRA would look like halo
by 1886.
Yours,