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Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Yankees Reported
Safely In Persia

TEHERAN, Iran (Persia) June
"a. UP)--Dr. Hermann F. Erben of
San Francisco and two companions
arrived Saturday after being lost
in the Karbela Najaf desert on
their way from Baghdad, Irak.
At the outset of 20,000-mile sci
entific expedition across Asia to
the Pacific, they lost their way in
the desert. They had no water and
their specially constructed automo-
bile was a foot deep in sand after
a terrific sandstorm.
Erben's companions are Max
Reisch, Austrian sportsman, and
Helmuth Mahmann, Vienna photo
grapher. Reisch injured his side on
stone while swimming in the I'll
girls soon after they left Baghdad
and was taken to a hospital.
Erben was in good spirits today
and reported he was we'll treated
on his journey.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Report Local Man
In Mountain Crash

Report of an accident, assertedly
involving Sam Schoenburg of this
city, and in which Mrs. A. p. Me-
Critic of Scotsdale, Ariz., received
severe injuries, was received hero
today. The accident happened Sat-
urday night near Jacumba.
Inquiry at the traffic office, sher-
ifs office and district attorneys
office in San Diego county, revealed
that no report on the accident had
been filed at any of these places
A report circulated here thai
Mrs. McCrite had died, was denied
this afternoon by the San Diego
Tribune.
Schoenburg was sentenced In po-
lice court last week to pay fine
of 500 and serve so days In jail
for disturbing the peace by firing
off a gun at his home. a habit
which had brought him into trouble
on several previous occasions. Tho
Jail sentence was suspended on con-
dition that he leave town.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
PRESIDENT AT
OFFICE AFTER
RECENT TRIP

WASHINGTON. June "a. U.Pp-
President Roosevelt arrived today
at $3.50 a. m. after weekend spent
at New London, Conn, and his
Hyde Park, N. Y, estate. He went
directly to the White House.
A brisk week of action confront
ed the President as he returned to
the capital.
He was expected to confer with
congressional leaders with the view
of clarifying the status of his pro-
gram for higher taxes on the
wealthy.
Plans for congressional adjourn
ment are dependent upon whether
the President desires enactment Of
the tax revision proposal at this
session or prefers to let the problem
go over until next winter.
He also faced a criictal situation
in the house where a revolt has de-
veloped over the Wheeler -Rayburn
utilities bill and the IVA amend
ments. Both measures have been
reported out of committee in form
much less drastic than desired by
Mr.. Roosevelt,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
ATTACK MADE:
UPON MERGED
REFUND PLAN
Situation Is Similar To That
Existing In Imperial irrigation
District
DECISION TO BE IMPORTANT
Local Bond Refunding Program
Will Be Jeopardized If Court
Upholds Petition

LOS ANGELES June "a. U.P)-
Opposing a petition of the Merced
Irrigation District for permission
to reorganize under federal court
supervision, attorneys representing
bondholders of the district today
declared emergency bankruptcy leg
islation enacted by congress last
year Is unconstitutional.
The plan, said to have the sane
ton of approximately two-thirds of
the districts bondholders was de-
signed with view to solving the
districts financial difficulties. 1t
would provide for flotation of Re-
construction Finance Corporation
loan, and issuance of new bonds
which would net bondholders 81
cents on the dollar for their pres
ent holdings.
Representing the West Coast
Life Insurance company, Attorney
Charles L. Childers contended that
congress had not the power to pass
the bankruptcy statute. The hear
ing opened shortly before noon in
| the federal court.
"This act encroaches on the SOW
ereignty of the state" Childers de-
clared. 1.-THE plan is confiscatory
and deprives investors of their
nights and their holdings in viola
ton of the constitution"
Under the proposed plan, bonded
Indebtedness Of the district, approx
imately $16,oOo,Oo0, would be cut to
$8,500,000.
Officials and taxpayers of the
Imperial Irrigation District are
watching the above case with con-
siderable interest as the courts de-
cision will have direct bearing on
/ the district of the future, it was
stated last week.
| The local district also has a re-
funding program now practically
complete and chaos would result, it
is stated, if the courts decision
should be adverse to the refunding
program.
Charles L. Childers, representing
, the Merced district bondholders
who are opposing the refunding.
was formerly chief counsel for the
Imperial Irrigation District.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
MOUNTAIN CAMP MOVED AHEAD
State Park Commission Votes SERA Application
For Recreation Center

At a meeting of the California
state park commission held Satur-
day at noon in the Exposition Ad-
miniStration Building at San Die
go, park commissioners voted un-
animously OF apply for an SERA
project for the development of the
wooded promontory at the south
end of Cuyamaca Lake in GUYANA
ca State Park, primarily for the
benefit of Imperial county. Guy
Fleming, superintendent of the
southern division of the state park
system, was instructed by the COM
missionerS to cooperate with the
supervisors and with the Imperial
County SERA in making surveys
and plans for the establishment of
the camp.
Members of the park commission
were heartily in accord with the
idea advanced by the Imperial
county supervisors for establishing
an Imperial county camp at this
scenic point on the lake, but the
question arose as to whether such
a camp could be used by the re-
sidents of Imperial county exclu-
sively. 1t was felt that the area
was amply large to permit other
persons sharing tn e benefits.
when we acquired Cuyamaca
State Park said President Will
liam Edawrds Colby of the State
Park Commission, I'VE had in mind
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
TWO INJURED
IN SERIES Of
AUTO CRASHES
Two Escape Unframed As Auto
Strikes Freight Train At Main
Street Crossing

Two persons injured. consider
able damage to several automobiles
and one horse killed are the re-
suits of four traffic accidents in
the county over the weekend ac-
Cording to reports filed at the traf-
flee department., police department
and sheriff's office.
At 8:15 o'clock last night, Clifford
Richards, Ell Centre, driving east
on Main street, crashed into the
side of a northbound freight train
at the Main street crossing. Neith-
er Richards nor his wife received
any injury. Richards is reported
to have told police that he had
seen no crossing flagman on duty
at the time but the conductor OF
the train stated that he and
brakeman Lad been acting as flag
men while the train was on the
crossing. Richards car was badly
damaged and towed to a local gar.
age.
A meagre report at the sheriff's
office states that at the airport
crossing OF the FL Centro-C Calexico
highway a horse was killed by a
motorist early yesterday morning
The driver of the car was not in
jured.
Trucks driven by Fred Cox, El
Centre and John Dykes, BraWley
figured in another accident which
happened % miles west of Brawley
at 1920 o'clock Saturday night, &C
cording to another report.
This states that Cox fell asleep
while operating his truck and side
swiped Dykes truck which was
parked off the highway. Dykes
received minor bruises and scratch
es but the crash was sufficient tc
cause damages estimated at SITE
to the two trucks.
Guadalupe Silva, Brawley, was
slightly injured in another .acci-
dent which happened near the east
city limits of Brawley at 9:3C
o'clock last night. The report
states that her car was struck by
another operated by Theodore SOFA
also of Brawicy. The latter is saio
to have been intoxicated at the
time of the accident as after strik-
ing the other car he is reported to
have run away from the place. He
was apprehended by Officer Walsh
of the state traffic department
and Brawley police. Brought to the
county jail he is being held there
pending a decision to prosecute him
on a reckless driving or hit and
run charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
SUPERVISORS
FROWN UPON
BUDGET RAISE
Opposed To Increases To Take
Care OF Unemployables After
First OF Next Month

Supervisors from a majority of
counties in the state went on rec
ord as opposed to any additional
budget increaA7 outside the regu-
larly allowed five per cent in order
to raise funds TO care for unem-
ployables who will be put under
their care after July l, A. Y. Preple,
chairman of the county board of
supervisors stated this morning.
Preble returned here yesterday
from the meeting of supervisors
which had been held in Los An
geles late last week.
While every county in the state
was not represented at this meet,
ing, those present represented 80
per cent of the states population,
Preble said.
This meeting was held by the
supervisors in answer to the re-
quest made by state relief admins
tration forces recently that after
July l all unemployables should be
taken care of by the counties in
which they reside and not by gov
ernment funds. For that purpose
each county was asked to make
necessary budget increases to en-
able them to take care of this add
ed relief group.
Imperial county's quota was set
at $169,049 which would cause
material increase in the tax rate
for the coming fiscal year and this
was opposed by the supervisors
from this county.
M. L. Lewis, field agent for the
state relief administration, wa:
present at this meeting with The
supervisors and was asked many
pertinent questions relating to the
intended relief setup after July l.
An examination of the 260 cases
of alleged unemployables to be
transferred to the county care after
July / as reported on list SUBJ
mitted by Charles Nice, county in
digent officer, showed that rs were
able to work; eight were aliens
capable of doing work; one was ELI
gible for needy relief; one was a
pensioner; one had been refused
pension, and eight were receiving
aid from. both the county and
state, Preble said.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
OFFICER HELD
FOR SHOOTING
DENVER MAN

DENVER, Colo, June "a. U.R =
A charge of murder was prepared
today. against a Denver policeman
who awoke from a drunken slum-
ber to learn that bullet from his
service revolver had killed Arthur
P. Ware, Jr., %, wealthy drug COM
pany executive.
The Staying followed the coming
out party for Miss Edith Malo,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Malo, one of Denver's wealthiest
families, Saturday night.
The victim, a friend of the Malo
family though not guest at the
reception, was the fiance of Miss
Emma Jean Denious, daughter Of
prominent attorney.
The policeman, Ernest Ayres, 38,
was assigned with several other
officers to the Malo party. Shortly
before 8 p. m. Ware called at the
Malo home to pick up another po-
liceman, E. L. Scott, with whom
he had been studying police radio
methods.
Ayers, investigators learned, was
drunk, and Ware volunteered to
drive him home in the young mans
automobile.
Seven and a half hours later
Ayers awoke to feel the pressure of
a body against his side. He lighted
a match and before it flickered out
saw Wares lifeless body and his
own .45-calibre revolver lying in
a pool of blood on the floor.
81 don't remember anything un-
til I woke up in the car and found
young Ware beside me-" Ayers told
Police Chief George w. Marland.
He admitted he was intoxicated.
Officers applied the new para
fin powder burn test" to both the
victims and the officers hands.
The sensitive wax showed Ayers
had fired a gun sometime in the
preceding IL hours. Investigators
found a bullet from Ayers revolver
had coursed through Wares brain.
The youths right hand was
tightly clenched. In it officers
found the cars ignition key. They
concluded that Ayers had demand
ed permission to drive and that
Ware had refused and that the
shooting followed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Utah Slayer To Get
Hearing On Sanity

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June
"a. U.P-Delbert Green, 26, under
sentence to be shot for almost five
years, evaded the death penalty
again today when Judge Herbert
Schiller granted plea for a san
ity hearing.
Green was scheduled to face a
firing squad of five men at sun
rise Wednesday. The order for a
sanity hearing automatically stay
ed execution.
In granting plea Judge Schiller
said the hearing would be called
July l, or as soon thereafter as
possible"
The hearing will be before jury
of IL. Should the jury return a
verdict that Green IS insane he
would be committed to the state
hospital.
Grsn, convicted in 1890 of kill
ing his young wife. her mother and
his uncle, three times has been
sentenced to be shot. Appeals to
higher courts stayed execution in
the first two instances.
In a previous trial a jury re-
turned a verdict that Green was
sane at the time of the murders.
The hearing ordered today is to de-
termine if he is sane now.
In the event of Green being COM
mitted to the state hospital, he would
come under the death sentence
again should an examination de-
termine he had regained sanity.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Bankhead Home Act
Passed By Senate

WASHINGTON, June "a U.P)-
The senate today passed the Bank
head Farmers Home Corporation
Act which seeks to aid tenant
farmers by financing them in the
purchase of homesteads.
The bill now goes to the house.
AS it passed the senate the bill
provided that all workers in the
corporations employ except attor-
neys be subject to civil service. 1t
also provided that all employees
getting more than $4,000 be subject
to confirmation by the senate.
The vote on final passage was f5
to 80
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24

more than anything else the great
benefits which would accrue to the
people in Imperial Valley in having
this beautiful. timbered park facing
the lake available for summer
camping and winter sports. There
are $1,000 acres of land in the
Cuyamaca State Park and there
should be ample for Imperial VAL
ley residents and for others who
might wish to use the park"
Those attending from Imperial
Valley, representing the Imperial
County SERA headquarters were
w. j. Sterrett, Miss Rachel Greene
Kenneth Hickcox and Tom Haw-
ley. r. M. Gregory, in charge of the
San Diego SERA Administration
was present to assist the Imperial
county delegation. Also appearing
was j. G. Spencer of Seeley, inter-
ested in mountain recreational
areas, and Robert Hays, secretary
manager of the FL Centre Cham
Der of Commerce.
The Ell Centro delegation were
materially aided in their presenta-
tion of Imperial Valleys case by a
legal brief prepared by c. G. Halli-
day, assistant district attorney, on
the authority of the state park
commission, under the California
statutes, to make a cession of land
for camp site purposes similar to
that asked for by the Imperial
county board of supervisors.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Federal COURT CASE BEING WATCHED HERE
Militia Standing By For Duty At Eureka Strike
Three Instructed
To Leaue Ell Centro

Pleading guilty in police court
this morning to charges of vag-
rancy, L. Cooper, A. Grimes and H.
Bradford were given terms of 10
days each in Jail, suspended on
condition they leave town today. R.
Sanchez, facing a drunkenness
charge, had his case continued un-
til Wednesday.
D. Mendoza, drunkenness and
disturbing the peace and B. Ybara,
drunkenness, viii have their cases
taken up again on Thursday. E.
Owens, drunkenness and disturb
ing the peace, pleaded guilty and
drew a SIS or 71a days in Jail SEN
tence. Sentences of $40 or five days
we're imposed on F. Padilla, J. Vra-
ma and H. Mendenhall when they
pleaded guilty to charges of drunk
enneSS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24

which made London and Paris go
wild in 1919, and gave New York
and Washington patriotic chills
which lasted for three full days.
We ought to call them young la
dies, but that sounds too stiff.
Those kids can march. They are
a credit to Imperial Valley and
any valleyite who couldn't get a
tingle yesterday as he overheard
comments on them as they passed
along the line of march must have
ice water in his veins.
Down the plaza they swung,
drawing handclaps and cheers all
the way. Not one girl batted an
eyelash, lost a step, or deviated one
single bit from the business in
hand-that of making the best pos
sible showing they could for Impe-
rial Valley. The sunlight bounced
off their golden helmets and some
thing else bounced out of their
faces, off their soldierly steps, out
of their personalities that made
you glad you were from Imperial
Valley and that, in manner of
speaking, these kids were our kids,
out before the critical eyes of the
world and making big, smashing
hit of it. Every mother and IA
ther who has a youngster in that
group should be proud of her.
We are trying to get them down
into that organ pavilion but it is
hard job. There could be plenty
more written about them but they
were swell and we are going to let
it go at that and say they got into
the organ pavilion with the hand
claps of thousands of persons roar
ing around them, their friends and
neighbors proud of them, and then
they filed back stage to await their
turn on the program.
Time Advanced
F. Imperial Valleys moment in the
center of the exposition stage was
on. Not even the fact that it was
, advanced half an hour with hardly
any notice, prevented large
crowd from seating itself in front
of the stage and around the sides.
The valleyites were there out OF
loyalty, other hundreds came al
tracted by the parade of the In
dians and the Holtville girls and
more came pouring in when the
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Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
MRS. VALLEY 8
TRIAL STARTS
ON JULY 9TH

TACOMA, Wash, June "a. U.P)
Mrs. Margaret Valley, accused
accomplice in the Weyerhaeuser
kidnapping, will go on trial July S
on charges of kidnapping and con-
spiracy to kidnap, Federal Judge
E. E. Cushman ruled today.
Mrs. Valley remained in her jail
cell in Olympia today while her at
torney, Steve O'Brien of Tacoma,
battled to have the trial delayed
until July 8. Harmon M. Valley,
her husband, was sentenced last
Friday to As years in federal pri-
son. He probably will testify in his
wife's behalf at her trial.
j. Charles Dennis, U. S. District
attorney, requested Judge Cush-
man to set July or 6 for the hear
ing over O'Brien's protests.
OBrien declared John F. Dore,
former Seattle mayor, who was ap-
pointed to assist in Mrs. Valleys
defense, believed the trial would
not last more than a week and
would be completed in time for
Judge Cushman to start his vaca-
ton July Is, as scheduled.
Judge Cushman then set July :
as the opening date, with the IN
derstanding no more than that day
will be occupied in selecting a jury
to hear the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
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TRAFFIC TOLL
IN SOUTHLAND
IS HEAVY ONE

LOS ANGELES, June "a. U.P)-
Deaths in an unusually hazardous
weekend on Southern California
highways stood at nine early to-
day, three Of them children.
Charles Stockdale, SO, Fresno,
died yesterday of injuries suffered
when he was struck June 13 by an
automobile driven by Sakuma Bun
shiro, "a.
Child traffic fatalities were Re-
becca Larson, 2, Long Beach, run
over by a car backing out of a
driveway; Richard Brubeck, /, who
fell from a moving machine; Leo
nard Schulman, IL. who ran into
the street in front of an automo-
bile.
Aristo Queseda, 10, was held on
suspicion OF manslaughter after
his automobile killed 90-year-old
woman, Mrs. Sylvester Ramirez.
Other victims were Clark LIE
Barre, SO; Robert Handler, 25, Chi
cago, who died in Pomona of in
juries suffered Friday in a crash;
John G. Wyness, "a; John johnson.
As.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Mexican Official
Commits Suicide

Aqua PRIETA, Sonora, Mexico,
June "a. UP - Dependency over
the political situation in Mexico
was blamed today for the suicide of
Guillermo M. Bernal, postmaster
here for the past year.
Bernal, member of a prominent
Sonora family and related by mar
riage to Gen. Plutarco Elias Cal
les, drank poison after writing a
farewell note in which he declared
he was the victim of a political plot
against his character.
Bernal was married three years
ago to Senorita Guadalupe Elias,
daughter of Jesus Elias, prominent
Sonora cattleman. She survives
him.
He came here from Naco, Sonora,
where he was postmaster and head
of the government telegraph de-
partment for two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Says Husband Tried
To Glue Her Poison

LOS ANGELES. June "a. U.P)-
Russell Calhoun, as, was to stand
trial on attempted murder charges
today in connection with an alleged
attempt to kill his wife and their
star boarder by inducing them to
drink poisoned coffee.
Calhoun was arrested after his
wife. Mrs. Nellie Calhoun, 80, told
police she "peeked through a key
hole" and saw her husband pour
something from a bottle" into a pot
Of coffee he brewed for their break
fast. Police examined the contents
of the pot and found 1t contained
a deadly poison.
Ralph Clocker. the boarder, was
taken to a hospital suffering from
poisoning after he assertedly drank
a cup of coffee made by Calhoun.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
State NRA Codes No
Longer Held L e g al

Californias industrial recovery
act and codes, modelled after the
NRA, have, like the latter, been de-
clared void by a decision of the
second district court of appeal at
Los Angeles Saturday.
The decision quotes the U. S. SUI
preme court decision on the NRA
in declaring the state act uncon-
stitutional.
The case involving the decision
involved Glenn Downing, found
guilty of violating the petroleum
industry's code of fair competition
in a lower court.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Heart Attack Fatal
For Fire Fighter

ALTADENA, Calf, June "a. U.P)
The death Of David Gemmil, 55,
Salt Lake City mining engineer,
who collapsed face down into the
flames while fighting a grass fire,
was attributed to heart trouble to-
day.
Rescued by friends, Gemmil died
while an inhalator was working
over him.
His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Gemmil,
said he was under treatment for a
heart allment in Salt Lake City
hospital during January.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Marriage Rejected
By Woman Prisoner

DEDHAM, Mass, June "a. U.P)-
Norma Brighton Millen, in Jail as
an accessory to murders which sent
her husband and two others to the
electric chair, has rejected a mar
riage proposal from midweStern
railroad man.
The suitor. who lives in Miss ouri,
and who said he had substantial
income and believed he could make
her forget her misfortunes. Offered
to wed the pretty 20-year-old widow
as soon as she was released.
Norlna's rejection of the propos-
al was announced through her
in bringing troops to Tacoma. We
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
INVITES PRESIDENT TO SAIL

WASHINGTON, June "a. CUP =
President Roosevelt today was in
vited by DR.. Albert Soiland, COM
modore of the Pacific coast yacht
ing association. to sail the formers
55-foot boat Viking w from New
port to San Diego, Calf, distance
of 35 miles. Mr.. Roosevelt, accord
ing to Soiland, indicated that he
might like a try at the job and
that perhaps it would take place in
September.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
WAR ILLNESS FATAL

LOS ANGELES, June "a. U.D =
tuberculosis contracted during
World war service was blamed to-
day for the death of James Irvine
Jr., AZ, .multi-millionaire Oregon
county rancher, yesterday in st.
Vincents hospital.
Irvine's father owns the 100000
acre San Joaquin rancho near
Santa Ana.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Pioneer California
Woman Dies At sc

LOS ANGELES, June "a. UP)---
Sonora Anita De La Guerra De
Thompson, Sc, member of the old
Southern California aristocracy,
will be buried in the cemetery Of
Santa Barbara mission following a
funeral scheduled to be held here
today.
Famed as a belle in her youth,
she was the daughter of Concep-
cion Sepulveda, member of the
family owning old Rancho Palos
Verdes. She lived here 80 years.
The funeral was to be held in
st. JoSeph'S church.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
SECOND SHOT SUCCEEDS

LOS ANGELES, June "a. U,H -
When his first shot missed a vital
spot, James E. Plant, AZ, advertiS-
ing man, calmly extracted the shell
from his gun, loaded two fresh car
tridges, and sent a second bullet
through his heart.
Police attributed his suicide to i'll
health.