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Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-14

sociation cooperate with the state
relief commission in a statewide
survey of welfare conditions. 1t is
our understanding that this survey
is to be conducted in a friendly
manner with the individual county
boards without disturbance of local
committee organizations. A report
on this survey is to be ready for
the next meeting of the state relief
commission on September 28."
Edward H. Law, county clerk,
dispatched telegram to Caldecott
this morning stating that the sup
ervisorS would meet on Monday
and that the matter should be
taken up by the local board at
that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-14
Radio Program To
Honor Constitution

In honor of the American consti-
tuition a program will be given over
radio station KXO next Tuesday
evening from 6:15 to <N45 o'clock
under the auspices of the county
interpost council of the American
Legion.
w. S. Dunn, Imperial, past COM
mander of the council will deliv-
er the address on the constitution
and an appropriate musical pro-
gram will also be played.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-14

Caldwell, Walkup. Knott, Thomas
and Hemsley; Bowers, Wilson and
Berg.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-14

Babich, REFS, Baker, Green, Barr,
Munns, Mungo and Lopez, ]. Taylor;
Root, HenShaw, Kowalik and Hart
nett, O'Dea.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-14
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Bowman, Prim and Todd, Blan-
ton, Hoyt and Grace.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-14

LdWSOn ana COChTanei BrOWf
DeShong, Murphy and Dickey.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
500, 900 HEART BALM
GIVEN FORMER Wife
Jury Rules in Favor of Mrs. Bed
ford-Jones Against Second
Wife.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated HreSS.
CHICAGO, April 4.-"Heart balm
Of 100000 was awarded by a Fed
eral court jury today to Mrs. Helen
Bedford Jones of Evansville, Ind, in
her suit over the affections of her
former husband, Henry Bedford
Jones, fiction writer. The jury or
dered a payment of this amount by
Mrs. Mary Bernardin Bedford-Jones,
the writer's present wife.
Defense Attorney Earle Ewins an
nounced after the verdict was read
that he would seek a new trial be-
cause the first and the second wives
were residents of different States.
Neither Mrs. Bernardin Bedford
Jones. the loser, nor Mrs. Helen Bed
ford-Jones, the winner, were in court
to hear the verdict. 1t was returned
sealed, the jury having spent only
2 hours and 80 minutes in consider
ing the affair.
The amount awarded the first wife
was half of what she had asked.
Bedford-Jones and his first wife
were divorced in 1928. He married
Mrs. Bernardin, the widow of an
Evansville manufacturer, in 1929. On
the witness stand he charged his first
wife with constant nagging," which
drove him, he swore, to the verge of
suicide.
But attorneys on the other side
called the writer ''just playboy, who
led his wife on until she was so years
old, making believe that he loved her. >
Evening star., 1935-04-04
FORCES
NUMBER 100000
Army Guarding Borders Has
Modern Guns and Sup
ply System.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated PreSS.
Adds ABABA. Ethiopia, April A.
A modernly equipped Ethiopian army
of 100000 men is swarming to the
Eritrean and Italian Somaliland bor-
ders. authoritative sources said today
Concurrent with this disclosure OF
the size of the army Emperor Halle
Selassie has mustered, the government
reasserted its contention that the mill
tary movements are merely 'precau-
tionary"
The latest types of rifles have been
placed in the hands of the warriors,
in contrast with the spears and sabers
which Ethiopian tribesmen carried in
their previous battles with Italy.
The forces are under the command
of Ethiopian chiefs. Although some
European officers are serving as ad-
visors in aviation and other branches
of the army, the Ethiopians. recalling
with pride their successes against
italian troops 40 years ago, have en-
trusted the direction of their military
operations to their own leaders.
The army is said to have plentiful
supply of machine guns, ammunition
and other stores. In the past the i'm
portant function of accumulating food
supplies and transporting them to the
troops was left In the hands of women.
This primitive custom of warfare no
longer exists.
The government has taken over the
task of organizing the commissary and
establishing lines of communication
from the sources of supply to the ad-
vance posts. Provisions already have
been accumulated at many strategic
points.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
SCHEME TO SPARE
[YDDANE CLAIMED
BoIand Says Alleged Death
Order Was to Be Ignored
in Robbery.

The pilot" to murder Francis S.
Lyddane. Montgomery County liquor
dispensary employe, actually was to
have been only q highway robbery,
Maryland police have been advised by
John Martin Boland, held at Rockville
under a charge of conspiring with
Mrs. Anne Lyddane to murder her
husband.
The weird crime that police charge
was to have been a Staying, but which
Boland allegedly claims was to have
been lust a shakedown," was to have
taken place along the East-West High
way on the county pay day March rs
last, it was learned today.
Earlier reports were to the effect
that Lyddane was marked for bump
ing off" in a faxed hold-up of the
liquor dispenSary at Silver Spring,
Nd, where Lyddane Is bookkeeper
Questioning of Boland, who is alleged
to have signed confession, has de-
veloped that the overt act"-what-
ever its nature-was to have occurred
while Lyddanc was driving to his home
in Rockville.
Woman In Seclusion.
Boland was still in the Rockville
jail today, along with his alleged con-
feSsed ''liaison man." John Henry Car
nell, who will be a States witness
against Boland and Mrs. Lyddane
The latter is in Seclusion at her
fathers home on the outskirts of
Rockville, having been released in
custody of her attorneys.
Washington police we're conducting
a city-wide search for a third man,
whose identity is known, and who
was named by Boland and Carnell
in their alleged confessions as the
man they had told Mrs Lyddane
was a philadelphia gunman."
Meanwhile Attorney Kenneth Lyd-
dane, cousin of the intended victim
of the alleged plot, announced he
located Rat" here last night and
that the man indicated willingness
to testify in the case, providing he is
not arrested.
According to Stedman Prescott,
associated with Attorney Lyddane in
defense of Mrs. Lyddane, Rat" told
the lawyer he did not know Mrs.
Lyddane and had never seen her, but
that he was acquainted with Boland
and CARMEL.
Claims Part Payment.
The story that Boland is alleged to
have told investigators who have
been quizzing him in Jail was to the
effect that while he, Carnell and
Rat" allegedly had received part
payment for the lob" of Lyddane, it
was the scheme of the trio to trick
their alleged employer and stage a
hold-up of Lyddane, instead.
How the hold-up was to be ex-
planned to their alleged employer was
not made clear in the alleged state
ments Boland is said to have de-
clared he had no intention, at any
stage of the alleged conspiracy, Of
committing murder for any one.
The warrants issued against Boland
and Mrs Lyddane, on the basis of al
legged confessions by the former
and Carnell, charge, however, that
the pair deliberately, wickedly and
feloniously" conspired to murder
Lyddane.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
INVESTING PUBLIC
HELD V|CT|M|zED
Commission Hearing Told
Customers of Certain
Group Denied Voice.
BY the Associated Press.

oy thc AoSOSldbco Elcoos
BOSTON. April 4-Charges that
certain individuals under investigation
by the Federal Securities and Ex-
change Commission had taken mil
lions of dollars from the public. that
they owned palatial yachts and that
they lived "on the fat of the land,
while their customers never had a
chance to be heard, we're made today
by John L. Flynn, special counsel fol-
the commission.
Flynn said many connected with
the cases at present under inveStiga-
ton were 'fugitives from justice" anC
that no later than week ago he knew
the location of one of the number
hidden in q hotel near Boston by q
member of the Massachusetts bar.
The Securities and Exchange Com
mission counsel said the fact-findine
hearing now in progress before Re-
gional Administrator Edmund j. Bran
don was the first time customers oi
some of these firms had had oppor-
tunity to be heard.
Flynn,s statements were made DUR
ing the hearing today in reply to allie
cations by George v. Alpert. lawyer
appearing as counsel for the Win
chester Institute of Finance of Win
chester, Mass, that the constitutional
rights of clients had been violated
through denial of the right to cross
examine.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
2 CONWCTS SHOT
IN CAMP MUTINY
Guards Wound Pair When Is
Refuse to Leave Cells-Gas
Is Used.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ELIZABETH CITY, N. c., April A.
Disorder broke out among colored
convicts in a cell block at the Wood
vile Prison Camp near here early to-
day. Guards shot two men and
hurled tear gas bombs in an effort to
quell it.
Capt. J. M. Tolar, superintendent
Of the prison camp, said IS men were
involved in the mutiny.
The sullen convicts declined to leave
their cell block this morning to work
and threatened guards who sought to
force them to leave in pairs.
Neither of the men shot was hurt
seriously. Woodrow Purdy, 80, a life
term prisoner, suffered a flesh wound,
and Albert Hardy, also a life termer,
was struck by bird shot.
Tear gas was brought to the camp
by Sheriff Charles Carmine of Pas
Guotank County. 1t was soon exhaust
ed without driving the prisoners from
the cell block and more gas bombs
were ordered from Tarboro
Evening star., 1935-04-04
N. r. 4. Step to Fascist State,
Mason Tells Senate PrObers
Ex.Counsel of Darro,U
Board Predicts Soar.
ing Prices.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate investigators were told today
by Lowell Mason, former counsel for
the Darrow Review Board, that
N. r. A. is the first step" toward a
Fascist state, comparable to the Ital-
ian march on Rome" or the German
beer hall putsch."
Mason, a youthfulfappearing Chi
cago attorney, compared the N. r. A.
set up with the Fascist corporate
state, saying they were modelled on
the same lines.
Reviewing the findings of the Re-
view Board headed by Clarence Dar-
row, Mason also predicted to the
Senate Finance Committee that If
N. r. A. were extended without
restoration of the antitrust laws,
the sky will be the limit" on prices
and "the consumer will be the VIC
tim"
"A resume of the findings Of the
Evening star., 1935-04-04
Change in Great Britain'S
Attitude Toward Peace
Guarantee Results From
Threat of Air Invasion.
'AGGRESSOR' DEFINITION
EXPECTED TO BE GIVEN
Czechs Give Britain Assurance
Of Support in Safeguarding
Against War-French Seek
United Front at Stresa to
Brighten Germany.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, April 4.-Spurred to ac-
ton by Germany'S rearmament Eu-
rope is believed by Geneva observers to
be headed toward pact of security
against war which would contain pro-
visions for mutual assistance against
aggressor nations.
Advices arriving at the League OF
Nations headquarters indicate a ten
dency toward general treaty of mu-
tual assistance which will in sense
revive the famous Geneva protocol of
1924.
This named as an aggressor any
nation which refuses to arbitrate and
provided penalizing action ranging
from economic and financial action to
military force. Great Britain refused
to ratify that protocol on the grounds
that it meant the British Navy would
have to guarantee the peace of Europe.
But England now apparently has
been convinced that, with a certainty
of air attacks in event of war, she is
ro longer isolated and that as was
said by Stanley Baldwin, lord presi-
dent of the council, Englands frontier
is now the Rhine.
Since the World War. the Eastern
and western Hemispheres have sought
feverishly to devise peace systems
which would reduce to a minimum
the chances of another and more ter
rible holocaust.
The Washington Naval Conference
Of 1922 not only halted a naval build
ing race but concluded treaties de-
signed to promote the peace of the
Pacific
The famous Locarno pact of 1925
provided for peace on the Rhine
That pact, signed by Germany, Bel
GUM, France, Great Britain and Italy,
provides that if any of the first three
attacks another, the remaining sig
natories shall attack the aggressor
nation
1t was suggested that this pact
might conceivably form the basis for
the protected general European Sc
curity pact which would implement
and strengthen the Covenant of the
League of Nations. 1t would, Of
course, be open to Germany.
Indications in League circles are
that the proposed treaty would pro-
vice:
l. Non-aggreSsion.
2. The definition of an aggressor
along the line proposed by President
Roosevelt Of the United States and
by Soviet Russia.
5. A penalty system against proved
aggressors.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
ROOSEVELT TRIES LUCK
OFF CONCEPTION ISLAND
Fishing Base Shifted 40 Miles
From Long Island, Secre-
tary Advised.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, April 4.-President
Roosevelt fished off Conception Island
in the British Bahamas today.
After almost a day without word for
publication from the President, tenn.
porary White House headquarters here
was advised late last night by Mr..
Roosevelt of the shift in base from
Long Island to Conception Island, 40
miles away.
Mr.. Roosevelt waited until his vaca-
ton yacht Nourmahal had weighed
anchor and was underway for the new
base before releasing word of his move
ments.
Marvin H. Mcintyre, presidential
secretary established at Miami, main
tanned contact with Mr.. Roosevelt
throughout the day.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
Texas Conuicts Mimic Barro,c,
Chop Off Feet to AvOid Work

1--WE found six convicts who had
chopped of their feet with axes or
mutilated themselves in other ways" +"
Simmons said in making public re-
port on physical examinations Of all
the inmates.
"The convicts have been doing
that ever since Clyde Barrow Chopped
of his toes, while he was in prison,
to get out of work. 1t is form of
rebellion by the convicts."
Barrow, a killer and. bank robber,
and Bonnie Parker, his cigar smoking
woman companion, were slain by
omcers hst- suHmex - LoMietsuas
Evening star., 1935-04-04
u. S. AGENTS ARREST
PURPLE GANGSTER
Victor Cannellan, One of Last Of
Mob, Held on Counterfeit
ing Charge.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK. April A. 4.-Treasury secret
service agents disclosed today the ar
rest of Victor Comedian, IS, de-
scribed as "one of the last of Detroits
Purple gang" in a Hoboken saloon
two days ago.
F. William Morris. Treasury agent
said Comedian, also known under the
aliases Of O'Brien, Cross and Maxwell,
had been sought since last November
for alleged counterfeiting.
He was surprised by Federal men
and local policemen Tuesday, Morris
said. and was captured without
struggle. A loaded .45-caliber auto
matte was strapped to his leg inside
his trousers, Morris stated, and sew
eral .38-caliber bullets and a shield
from a private detective agency were
found in his pocket.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
MISS BOOTH REVEALS
CARE OF 3 CHILDREN
Salvation Army Head Denies De-
string Marriage-Tells Of
Rearing Charges.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April A Daily Mail
dispatch from Sydney, Australia, said
today that Evangeline Booth, head of
the Salvation Army, revealed that she
raised three children as her own and
described them as "the secret love
Of my life"
She Indignantly denied reports
which appeared in an overseas news
paper, the Dispatch said, attributing
to ner a statement that she longed
for children of her own. had been in
love several times, and that something
always prevented her marriage.
She told today how she raised three
children, whom I loved as my own"
"One, poor boy" she said, "is dead;
another is brilliant Salvationist; the
third is an invalid. That other story
is all wrong"
Evening star., 1935-04-04
Four Drown in Auto.

FLORENCE, s. c., April 4 R.-A
crew of workmen today sought to ex-
tricate the bodies of four persons
drowned when their automobile
plunged into Lynch's River near here
late last night
Lesion Powell and Afford Jones es-
capped. Those drowned were Mrs.
jamie Jones. 60; her two daughters,
Verline and Rosa Jones, and J. r.
Hannah, all residents Of Florence
County.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
UNITED FRONT SOUGHT.
French Aim Is Declared to Frighten
Reich.

tCopyright, 1888, by the Associated Press)
PARIS, April 4-High sources said
today that France, while eager for a
general European security pact to in
clude Germany, hopes for united
front with Great Britain and Italy to
brighten" the Reich.
Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, 1t was
disclosed, will seek to embody these
two objectives in a program he will
present at the conference of the
powers at Stresa April II.
The first point in his program, it
was said. will be a clear-cut document
signed by France, Great Britain and
Italy setting forth their determination
TO resist any threat to European peace.
His second objective, the high
sources said, will be an understanding
on essentials of general European
security pact to which Germany will
be invited to adhere
Failing to obtain an agreement on
the general security pact, it is re-
lsbly stated Laval probably will seek
Continued on Page 5, Column -
Evening star., 1935-04-04
GIRL FOUND DEAD

Grandmother Near Death From
Effects of Poison.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 N.-
An 11-year-old girl was found dead
and her grandmother in dying con-
dition here early today.
Deputy Coroner Michael Brown said
slight burns in the mouth of the girl,
Margaret Hill, indicated she may have
swallowed poison. Her grandmother,
Mrs. Mark L. Cohn, 66, who was found
writhing in agony on the floor when
her husband returned home, was not
expected to recover from the effects
Of poison,
Evening star., 1935-04-04
MAN ENDS LIFE IN PACT
BUT WOMAN RENEGES
Victim Identified as New York
Bond Trader-Companion
Says She Lost Nerve.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April "A man identi-
fed by Police Lieut. Andrew j. Hurley
as Harry B. Van Allen, IS, New York
bond trader, plunged to death from
the twelfth floor Of the Hotel Statler
early today. in what Hurley described
rs double suicide pact"
An hysterical red-headed woman
about rs, Hurley said, was found in
the hotel room from which Van Allen
apparently leaped. He said she de-
clined to identify herself further than
to admit that she signed a note found
in the room as "Bea Ryan" Hurley
said she told him she "lost her nerve
and failed to carry out her part of the
pact.
Evening star., 1935-04-04

He charged 1t had been obtained
while she was standing with a gun
at my head"
We've had trouble ever since we
married IL years ago" Hurd said at
police headquarters last night Then
she got the idea that spirits had told
her I was having relations with this
other woman, and that I had given
the woman $4,000. All I own is two
little houses.
MY wife was killing me by inches. /"
he cried as he began removing his
clothes. Sometimes she beat me all
night. She chained me to the bed
and was too i'll to fight back. She
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1935-04-04
z KILLED, ) HURT
IN EVICTION RIOT
Sheriff and Miner Shot to
Death in Gallup, N. Mex,
Outbreak.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GALLUP, N. Mex, April 4.-Sheriff
M. r. Carmichael and an unemployed
coal miner were shot to death, and
five persons, including one woman.
were wounded today in a street riot
precipitated by shouting crowd of
more than 300.
Disorder famed when the crowd
rushed sheriff's deputies removing
prisoners from hearing in a Justice
OF the Peace Court growing out of an
eviction case.
The jobleSs man slain was identified
as Ignacio Velarde, 81, a World War
veteran.
Sheriff Shot in Head.
Deputy Sheriff B. w. Roberts said
either Velarde or another unemployed
miner, Solomon L. Esquibel, 81, shot
Sheriff Carmichael through the head
and the deputy then opened fire and
shot both Velarde and Esquibel.
Two other sheriff's deputies, Edison
L. (BobcaD Wilson and Roy BoggeS,
were wounded in the fighting. Wilson
suffered bullet wound in the chest
and Bogges was stabbed in the chest.
The rioting crowd gathered as q
hearing proceeded in the court of Jus
tice B. w. Bickel for three men OIL
charges of breaking and entering a
house from which one of the trio had
been evicted. The three we're Exiquito
Navarro. Victor Campos and Jenny
Lavato.
Hearing Preliminary.
The hearing was a preliminary one
and as the officers and prisoners left
the building on one of Gallup's main
streets by rear door the crowd ran
around and charged.
The entire State motor patrol of 10
men was dispatched from Santa Fe
toward Gallup and State Attorney
General Frank Patton, district at
torney and a detective accompanied
the detail.
Gallup with population of 5000 is
the scene of the States largest coal
mining enterprises with five separate
camps. 1t was the scene of a strike
in 1888 which lasted for five months.
National Guardsmen were called to
duty at that time.
Evening star., 1935-04-04

Hc Sdiu HdQ DStn lNIlCUSQ pV QlS
wife because spirits told her I had
a hidden fortune 1 was giving to the
woman next door"
Detectives gasped last night when
Hurd. stripping off his clothing, dis
closed the evidence of Mrs. Hurd S
alleged inQuisition His story. City
Detectives Fred Greene and John Co.'S
tello said, probably was true.
Miss Nellie A. Hurd. adopted daugh-
ter Of the Hurds. denied her STEP
father had been tortured and insisted
that he signed of his free will con-
fession" of infidelity with a neighbor
woman and of his giving her $4,000.
The purported confession" found
by police in the Hurd home. was re-
pudiated by the 77-year-old husband.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED FItsb.
HOUSTON, Tex. April 4.-The late
desperate, Clyde Barrow, was blamed
today for introducing the self-mutila-
tion idea at the Retrieve Prison farm,
where several convicts have chopped
off their feet.
The Barrow influence at the Angel
ton, Tex. institution was disclosed
by Lee Simmons, general manager
of the State prison system, after Gov.
James v. Alfred ordered an investiga-
ton into reports that prisoners had
mutilated themselves because Of the
hrutality Of guAfds.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
Two Die in Wreck.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA. Ill, April 4.-The engi-
neer and fireman Of a Rock Island
train we're killed and three others in
jured early today when the truck of q
westbound tank car broke, hurting
the tank into the path of another
1 freight train bound east.
Evening star., 1935-04-04

Darrow Board investigation. he said,
shows that under the N. r. A. the
practice of monopoly by large indus
tries is bold and aggressive. Small
Continued on Page 4, Column g.
Evening star., 1935-04-04
Man, II, Auenges Long Torture
By Staying Jealous Wife, 81
Feet Burned With Matches, Stabbed
With Dagger, Often Tied and Beaten,
Crazed Killer Asserts.


KANSAS CITY April Mrs Nellie IIurd
bullet
tortured by his wife effort make disclose hiding
of hidden
Mrs Hud
bullets
Evening star., 1935-04-04
"BLUE LAW" EDICT
Foe of Voliva Will Attempt to
Enforce Old Statute.

ZION. ILL.,, April CP.-Folks in
Zion will have to watch their STEP"
William M. Edwards, newly elected
mayor, and opponent of Wilbur Glenn
Voliva. religious leader. says he's 60
ing to try to enforce the blue laws
no smoking, no gum chewing, no short
skirts, no card playing, no dancing
and no movies.
Evening star., 1935-04-04

Rain this afternoon and tonight to-
morrow partly cloudy, slightly warmer;
lowest temperature tonight about 40 de-
grees Temperatures-Highe 81, at 4:30
pm. yesterday: lowest. ~. at $50 am
today. Full report on page AT.
The Washington times., 1935-08-03

The Yankees call Johnny
Broaca the slump breaker" for
the very good reason that when
things get very tough with the
club he has a way of winning a
game. He had such a chance
yesterday. with the Tigers out OF
action due to rain.
Lou Gehrig almost stopped
Buddy Myers smash that rolled
to right for a two-bagger. Sci
kirk was a little slow in coming
in for the grounder, which gave
Myer his chance to break for the
bag.
Joe Kuhel made a right smart
play on Selkirk'S grounder in the
second inning. He played in on
a short hop and won the race to
the bag with something to spare.
Tony Lazzeri hit his twelfth
home run Of the season into the