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The Washington times., 1935-01-28

@"S0SAAAA4S LLle lower eQge or
the foothills, Dick struck out
over the level floor of the desert
to the north. Little by little
he was gaining. Even the
leaders were too distant for
rifle shot. and as the foaming
bay lunged forward Dicks hope
or1ghtened-there might still be
O chance Of fighting his way
past the nearest riders and gain
ing the north end of the Bar
rier. Long odds, but not once
did the thought of surrender
cross his mind-that would be
playing into Sari's hands. The
finding Of Dick Lowell's riddled
body would be the one act
needed to throw CONSERVATION
Into the ranchers and end for
all time their dangerous leader.
Hunted Prey
On he rode. His shoulder was
burning like fire, and the wind,
hot with the desert sun, swept
by him in dry, fitful gusts.
Sweat Streamed in tiny rivulets
down his worn face as once
more he raised his eyes, then
suddenly Dick pulled his horse
to a convulSive halt, and in that
instant all hope died.
For there. directly in his path
and not a mile ahead, another
band Of horsemen came riding
toward him, cutting off any
chance of escaping around the
Barrier. Desperately he glanced
behind. More than 20 men
were spread out fan-wise in a
huge enveloping net, driving
down up him slowly, almost in
solently in their lack of haste,
while still unknown to Dick, at
the very top of the Barrier,
solitary man stood watching,
eagerly waiting for the time
when that harried rider below
must turn at last to the great
cliff itself and make his final
stand.
Hemmed in by this fast-clos-
ing wall of enemies, Dick
paused only an instant. then
turning in his tracks, galloped
away at a sharp angle, swerving
a little toward the Barrier to
keep his new pursuers at their
distance. He rode more easily
now, no longer forcing his
horse, knowing that by no pos
Sible burst of speed could he
outride them.
Slender Chance
Two possible ways lay ahead,
both of them desperate, both
perhaps hopeless, but his mind,
working with cold clarity in the
presenceof danger, weighed
those two plans as he rode.
First lay the dim chance of
turning and making a dash for
freedom by heading directly
toward this band of horsemen,
shooting his way through them,
hoping, by some lucky stroke,
to gain the shelter of the foot
hills beyond. Yet desperate
and maddened with pain as he
was, he had to yield to the
certain knowledge that with
rifles it would be an easy task
for these men to shoot him
down long before he could even
engage them at revolver range.
The Washington times., 1935-01-28

"And who is this, standing so Importantly" asked
Tom. THAT Is Manko Kapak, who brought the
Inca culture into our land Not our greatest chief;
in fact, foreign invader. But we honor him for
what he gave us Of wisdom"
The Washington times., 1935-01-28

Sari's Band Cuts Off Chance of
Escape Around Barrier
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

big Boss" Lo1OeU political in Washington qith
Nick Sar has manager, plans cast irrigation project
IN Verde Arizona They haze forced the rochers to sell
their holdings for pittGmces.
Bruce and Dick LoceU oppose their father and Dick,
Whe IN Washington finds evidence of Sars crooked
ness Receving Ore telling of the murder of Bruce,
Dick pledges vengeance
Sa flies Verde and Dick against interfering
Wth his pans Nora Barnes is kidnapped By SarJs gang
and Dick reScues her after sharp fight in Och man
Is shot,
Sar uses political influence to haze the military forces
dSperse mass meeting of ranchers led By Dick and
Barnes. Dick shoots Pablo then tlees to the omains
Dick defeats Bull Pablo, of Sari's foremen in a
pistol contest OF the u S. Army post Sarj political
neetng of ranchers led by Dick and Barnes Dick shoots
Pablo then fees to the mountains
Nora vsts him there and spends the qht IN the cuve
0h'ch Dick has made his headquarters She is followed
by Sors gunnnen and soldiers her neat trip to the
hideout
The Washington times., 1935-01-28
NOW READ ON

Long odds. Again Dick dropped his spurred heels
ana Ielt those powerful muscles of the bay tighten in
response NO slightest hope of making his way
between those two bands of pursuers or of reaching the
lake and the hills beyond, for behind him. like thin
line of skrmishers, the followers of Sari raced ever
spreading that human net wider and wider Ahead cut
ting hm off, lay the Barrier and for long, heart-break
ing moments he spurred his horse mercessy keeping
Ing his pursuers - 1"N
The Washington times., 1935-01-28
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
RED BARRY .

RITTER GETTING THE CROWN
AJENELS FROM MAZDA AND
HER ePOTAER SEGpID, THE
HAWK BETRETS THEM, STRIKING
DOWN SEGRlD. HE TAKES. THEM
TO A CELLAR ROOM AND Is
ABOUT TO PLACE THEM IN 4
VAT OF DEADLY ACID. MANDRAKE
AND LOTHIAN, WAITING OUT
SIDE FOR NARDA, BECOME
INPATIENT, AND ENTER THE
GROUNDS. THE HAWK BELIEVES
MANDRAKE TO Be DEAD,
E,TING AT THE BOTTOM or
THE SEA- NOT KNOWING
THAT MANDRAKE ESCAPED
FROM HIS CHAINS.
The Washington times., 1935-01-28

And please tell us now," put in Jerry, about the
big claw-track we found whenever our golden YES.
sells were stolen up above!" That was merely Q
track made by an artificial claw attached to the
feet of our boys, to confuse you"
The Washington times., 1935-01-28

"The World Of Darkness will long believe these
golden statues hidden beneath the palaces of Cuzco"
Hoano went on. They we're removed to this place
to make certain that no profans sure-seekers
hands will ever touch them"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
.|ND|CT THREE
PRINCIPALS IN
K|DNAP CASE
information Shows Mrs. Valley
Took A Leading Part In The
Abduction OF Tacoma Boy

TACOMA Wash, June 20. UP)-
Indictments returned by a federal
grand jury revealed today that
Margaret valley, 19-year-old Utah
girl who married an eX-convict
against the wishes of her family,
played a leading instead of sub
ordinate part in the kidnapping of
George Weyerhaeuser.
The jury found that the blonde
wife of Harmon Metz Valley, 25,
rot only rented the Spokane house
in which the nine-year-o son of
Tacoma lumber millionaire was
payment contact notes to John
Philip WeyerhaeuSer, father of the
boy.
The indictments refuted previous
belief that Mrs. Valley had little to
do with the abduction case, that
she had remained aloof from any
participation in the crime except
the spending CT the ransom money,
and that she had had no knowledge
of the abduction until informed by
her husband that the boy was hid
den IN the nome at Spokane.
Confirming previous suspicious
that woman had written the notes
signed by the "Egoist," a single in
dictment naming only Mrs. Valley
indicated that she might have writ
ten the notes demanding 100000
ransom and arranging for its pay
ment.
This note was revealed in the
grand jury proceedings which yes
terday resulted in indictments OF
the Valleys and William Mahan, al
las Grant, fugitive, on charges OF
vDlating the Lindbergh anti-kid-
mapping law, CT using the mails to
defraud and Of conspiracy to extort.
The contact note, not previously
published, read:
Time is up-Get a room at the
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
MORE WATER
BACK Of DAM

Discharge of water at Grand
Canyon above the Boulder Dam
was 10l,000 second feet yesterday, it
was reported at irrigation district
headquarters in Imperial this morn
ing. In this connection it was add
ed that year ago the discharge
at this point was 6,570 second feet
and also that the last time such
high volume of water discharge was
recorded was on May 26, 1882 when
101 900 second feet passed the cam
yon station. This figure, it was
pointed out, was the maximum for
that year.
Elevation Of water behind the
cam yesterday was IT'LL feet with
approximately 100000 acre feet of
water in the reservoir. This stor-
age is said to constitute years
normal supply of water for the val
ley.
District officials this morning
pointed out that the storage Of
water behind Boulder Dam is in
creasing gradually every day with
readings of this increase being
transmitted TO headquarters here
several times each week.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20

The case against Bloomgarden
was prosecuted in this state by the
state division of market enforce
ment after checks, mailed here from
Detroit by Bloomgarden, for produce
purchased by his brother from val
ley growers, were assertedly found
to be worthless.
The district attorneys office eX-
planned that some states refuse to
eXtradite on bad check charges but
it had not been believed that Michi-
gan was in this category.
B. A. Harrigan, county agricul-
tural commissioner, who cooperated
with the division of market en-
forcement and the district attorneys
office in the action against Bloom
garden, said checks given to valley
growers amounted to approximately
$4,000 and the case was an un-
usually flagrant one,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
Vote Restrictions
On WoternlelonS

Decision to withhold harvesting
the remainder of the watermelon
crop between the hours of II a. m.
and p. m. each day was made at
last nights meeting of watermelon
growers held at the court house. The
melons spoil if harvested during the
hot hours of the day.
With the peak of the season over
and the market fairly good, the
year should end successfully, de-
clares B. A. Harrigan, commissioner.
The market was somewhat in
jured by truck shipments, the own
ers being forced to sell below the
market price in Los Angeles when
the market was somewhat sluggish.
Growers agreed to meet next year
early in the season to work out
some plan whereby the small ship
per may be protected against having
to dump his crop on the market to
get his money, thus keeping the
market steady
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
NEW JERSEY JUSTICES IN CLASH
WITH HAUPTMANN ATTORNEYS
Frequent Sharp Questions Hurled At Lawyers Seek.
ing To Prove Lindbergh kidnapping
Was Inside job

TRENTON, N. j., June 20 UP
Black-robed justices of the court OF
errors and appeals took an active
part today in arguments Of defense
and state attorneys over the life of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
Two country lawyers carrying the
convicted Lindbergh baby murder
er's appeal to the high court, con-
tended the kidnapping was IAN inside
job" and protested what they called
unfair and unconstitutional tactics
of the state at Hauptmann's trial.
Throughout the arguments in the
auStere court room, the justices
questioned them sharply, especially
as to why they did not object dur
ing the trial. The lawyers, Frederick
A. Pope and Egbert Rosecrans, oc-
caSionally fumbled for answers.
At 205 p. IN. the court resumed
behind locked doors with Attorney
General David T. Wilentz carrying
the brunt of the states demand that
Hauptmann die in the electric chair.
While Anna Hauptmann prayed
and talked with her husband in the
prison death house, the appeal of
the convicted Lindbergh baby mur-
derer was carried to the high court
on the contention that MS trial at
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
DiUorce Granted To
Wife Of Mat Artist

LOS ANGELES, June 20. U,P) -
The rough tactics of Ray Steele,
wrestler, won him many bouts in
the ring, but they were out of
place in his home, Superior Judge
Ben B. Lindsey ruled today in
granting a divorce to Mrs. Ann
Sauer. Steele's real name is Pete
Sauer.
She charged the wrestler was
violent and abusive, once knocking
her to the floor.
The wrestler also was accused of
'indulging habitually and heavily
in Intoxicating liquors.
HE associated with other women
and asked me why I didn't keep
company with other men, like most
women do" Mrs. Sauer's testified.
On one occasion her husband
asked her to move from their home
into the maids quarters in another
house they owned, she said.
That professional wrestling is a
lucrative occupation was shown in
Mrs. Sauer's declaration that Steele
earned more than $4,000 a month.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
Negroes Celebrate
Emancipation Day

Negro residents from all parts OF
Imperial Valley celebrated Emanci-
patton day with a program at the
east side park yesterday under the
auspices of Salton Sea Lodge I. B.
P. E. W., with the entire east side
community cooperating to make
the occasion a fine success.
The program started with a pic
mic in the park, followed by games
and an exhibition by the colored
Boy Scout troop. A band from
Brawley was heard in a public con-
cert in the park during the evening
and the Gay closed with a dance
at the Elks hall on Second and
State street.
A parade, previously scheduled
to be held in connection with the
celebration, was called off due to
the weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
Officials Of Mix
Institute To Meet

Directors of the Milk Institute of
Imperial Valley will meet tonight
at the Bank of America, Ell Centro,
at 7:30, in regular monthly session,
with w. B. Havekorst presiding. All
directors and regents of the Milk
Institute have been urged by Presi-
dent Havekorst to attend this i'm
portant meeting
On this occasion, Mr.. w. c.
Cronchy of the Challenge organi-
2ation in Los Angeles will tell of
plans being made for using I'M
perial Valleys sweet cream and E
w. Lott and other members of the
Imperial Valley Milk Producers
Association at Holtville which ships
its products through the Challenge
Association will tell of the changes
being made in the plant at Holtville
in order to take care of this cream
which is going to the Coastal mar
ketS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
STRIKES CAR
TRAVELLING BY
LANDING FIELD
Man, Wife And Child Lose
Lives While Crew OF Plane
Sustain Serious Injuries
MACHINE OUT OF CONTROL
Fails To Make Sufficient Alti-
tude And Crashes Through
Fence Into Highway

LOS ANGELES, June 20 U,D -
Failing to get altitude in an at
tempt to take off, an army airplane
crashed across a highway in Grit
fifth Park today and killed three
persons passing the National Guard
Airport in an automobile.
The dead were Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Krause, of Glendale, Calf, and
their tWo-year-old daughter, Dona
Mae.
Three army men, crew of the
plane, received injuries. They were
lst 1t. George D. Campbell, who
had a fractured leg and cuts and
bruises, and End 1t. w. w. Pannis
and Cadet T. r. Walsh, both OF
whom suffered minor cuts and
bruises.
Cadet Walsh was plotting the
craft, one of the observation planes
of the 88th squadron of Brooks
Field, San Antonio, Texas. The
squadron was here to participate in
maneuvers of the first wing of the
general headquarters air force.
According to airport officials, the
plane failed to rise at the end of
run in an attempt to get off the
ground.
Then, apparently out of control, it
crashed through the airport fence
and bounded onto the highway.
1t struck and bowled over the car
in which Krause and his wife and
daughter were motoring along
Riverside drive.
Still out of control it went
through another fence and finally
came to rest on the 18th green Of
The Griffith Park golf course.
Mrs. Krause and her daughter
were dead when spectators reached
the Krause automobile. Krause
died later in the Georgia Street Re-
ceiving hospital.
1t. Campbell was eXtricated from
the wrecked plane with consider
able difficulty. Passing motorists.
airport officials and golfers managed
to liberate him.
Krause's neighbors said he was
carpenter He said the KrauseS had
one other child, Ronald, 5, who pre-
sently was in the state of Wash
ington.
The crash occurred as the plane
was taking off for San Diego. The
rest of the squadron proceeded TO
San Diego.
Mrs. Krause was an expectant
mother. She was % years of age,
and her husband, "a.
LOS ANGELES, June 20. UP)-
An army airplane killed three peo-
pie today and injured another as it
crashed into an automobile in at
tempting to land at the National
Guard airport in Griffith Park.
The dead were Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
KrauSe and their two-year-old son.
Stanley. They were riding in the
car driven By Krause.
The pilot Of the plane, Lieuten-
ant Campbell, of Brooks Field, San
Antonio, Texas. was injured ser
iouSly.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
DISMISS 900
WORKERS ON
STATE ROLLS
Enforcement Of The New Civil
Service Rules Expected To
Lop Off More Employees
BY GEORGE Z. HELMER
United Press Staff Correspondent

SACRAMENTO, June 20.-Dis-
missal Of nearly 500 state employ
ees conceded today with the start
of an intensive legislative investi-
cation of the state civil service sys-
tenn and of charges that politics
had entered into distribution of
jobs supposedly under civil service
jurisdiction.
Nearly SOC employees, 300 of
whom worked for the board of
equalization, lost their positions to-
day because they failed to pass eX-
aminationS which would have
placed them in the eligible list.
Some 500 others tottered on the
ragged edge because Gov. Frank
F.. Merriam had not found time to
dig from a mass of bills one which
would protect these employees.
More than 300 in this class were
with the equalization board.
The uproar over loss OF jobs was
a result of the new civil service act
voted by the people last November
and effective since December 20,
1884. The act placed some 5000
previously exempt positions under
civil service.
Appointed employees who had
worked for the state less than six
months prior to December 20 were
given temporary authorization to
continue their duties until today
but were required to take civil SER
vice examinations if they desired
permanent status.
Placed As Eligibles
Nearly 500 IN that class passed
the examinations but this did not
mean they could retain their jobs
permanently. They merely were to
be placed on the eligible list along
with hundreds of others who took
the examinations. If their ratings
were lower than others, they faced
the danger of being replaced.
The Keough BILL now before the
governor, would place these 500 on
a preferential list, thus assuring
them of their positions.
Meanwhile, civil service directors
made preparations to fill approxi-
mately 200 positions created by le-
gislative approval of new tax laws.
These will include 85 in the board
of equalization, to handle tighten
ing of sales tax administration,
hard liquor taxes and oil and gas
inspection; 60 in the franchise
commissioners office to admins
ter the personal income tax; 35 in
the social welfare department to
handle increased old age pension
benefits, and so in the motor We
hicle department to administer the
new state automobile tax in lieu OF
the local personal property levy.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
ARMY PLANE KILLS THREE At LOS ANGELES
President Shifts hare-Wealth Plan To Congress
Architect Due To
Discuss Plans For
NeO City Building

Members of the city council and
library board were today awaiting
the arrival OF Claud Beelman, Los
Angeles architect who had been re-
tanned by the council to draft pre-
liminary plans for the proposed
new combination city hall and IL
brary. Beelman was to have met
with the two boards here this morn
ing but by noon had not made his
appearance.
The matter was brought up for
discussion at a meeting of the
council held here last night but was
finally laid on the table until Beel-
mans arrival this morning at
which time it was expected that
the plans could be discussed in
greater detail.
1t is proposed to build a COM
bination city hall and library at
an estimated cost of not over $780,
900 with no particular site for this
building determined at present. 1t
is also proposed to use the present
library building as headquarters
for the police department with add
ed jail facilities.
The preliminary plans are to be
submitted with the city'S applica-
ton for PWA loan to finance
the new building.
Beelman arrived here at o'clock
this afternoon, having been delayed
enroute through tire trouble. He
met with the council and library
board in a room in the Rehkopf
building at 2:3O o'clock, and plans
for the new building were then dis
cuSSed in detail.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20

Pennington was not fair or i'm
partial
In the morning session, ending at
1:12 p. m. the attorneys for Haupt-
mann argued 16 points which they
advanced in their appeal. The af-
ternoon session was for the states
counter argument.
In their argument this morning
defense counsel contended that
someone inside the Lindbergh home
handed the infant son of Col. and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh out OF
the nursery window to the kidnaper
The argument revived the inside
job" theory advanced at the trial.
Standing before the two rows OF
black-robed judges - Chancellor
Luther A. Campbell and 13 asso-
ciates composed the court-Fred-
erick A. Pope argued:
Take the ransom money out OF
this case and there is not enough
other evidence to convict a motor
iouS thief of petty larceny
ROsecrans Cool
Egbert RosecranS had preceded
Pope, who completed the defense
argument. Rosecrans stood in the
center of the quiet court room, be-
hind a square stand, and spoke in q
soft, low voice.
Where Pope was cynical, satirical
explosive, and suave RoSecranS was
quiet and dignified.
Pope, too, met with significant
comment from the court. Through
cut his argument. Pope was sub
jected to heckling by five of the
judges.
Pope closed the appeal with g
laundering peroration:
~'Your honors, it just doesn't ado
| up. 1t just doesn't make sense.
Bruno Hauptmann--nor anyone
else-climbed that ladder cat the
Lindbergh home) went into that
room, stole that baby and carried
him out.
The state changed its theory OF
how it happened because it had nc
proof of how Or where the baby met
his death"
RoSecrans based his chief argu-
ment in a bitter attack on what he
called the switch" in the state
theories of how the child met his
death. He said that Attorney Gen
eral David T. Wilentz, in his closing
argument, had reversed his story OF
the kidnapping and murder as it had
been outlined in the indictment and
in testimony.
Rosecrans contended that Haupt-
mann had been deprived of his con-
stitutional right to trial by due
process of law. Repeatedly, he was
forced to parry barbed questions
from the judges.
. The jurists cited precedents in
state and federal statutes and in
old English common law as they
questioned RoSecrans.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
SCOUT CAMP
GETS READY
FOR TROOPS

Carl Helmick, Scout executive
was in the Scout office at the court
house this morning to attend to Of
ficial business, returning to Camp
San Felipe tonight.
The weather is ideal at camp he
declares and the camp will have
six troops located there the first
weeks in July. Troop AZ of Yuma,
Arizona, will start camping this
coming Sunday, and the six troops
will enter camp the following week.
Helmick has received bulletins
containing the complete program
for the regional camporal to be
held in San Diego in October. Ten
patrols from this council are eligi-
BILE to attend.
The council will also be repre-
sented by three delegates at the
big national jamboree to be held in
Washington, D. c. in August. John
Hill of Yuma is the only Scout to
attend, but Helmick will be present
as will A. O RankinS, Yuma Scout
er
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
Doubt Early Action
On Guffey Measure

WASHINGTON, June 20 U.D =
Speaker Joseph w. Byrns today said
he doubted the house could take up
the Guffey coal regulation bill until
the first week of July raising new
uncertainties in the coal labor
situation.
The United Mine Workers post
poned a strike call from June II to
July l on assurances that the bill
probably would be passed by them.
If the bill is not passed by July
l, the United Mine Workers at
titude at that time would depend
largely on whether action on the
measure was imminent, it was be-
lieved.
Byrns said the house would ad-
journ Friday until Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-20
SEEKS EARLY
PASSAGE FOR
TAXPROGRAN
Will Let Solons Decide When
And How Suggested Measures
Will Be Taken Up
REACTION BADLY CONFUSED
Response Indicates Approval
And Objection F lilo win g
Partisanship Lines

WASHINGTON, June 90 U.P)-
President Roosevelt shifted TO con-
gress today the responsibility for
Immediate action on his billion dol
lar share -the-wealth tax program.
The White House indicated that
while Mr.. Roosevelt was desirous
of early passage of his three point
program for increased tax levieS on
the wealth, he preferred to let
congress decide when and how the
measure would be taken up.
A meeting Of the senate finance
committee was called with an indi-
cation that the group would vote
whether it should go into the
broad plan at this time.
1t was indicated that the White
House felt the tax pronouncement
was one of the most significant
pronouncements by Mr.. Roosevelt
since assuming office and that
there was no intention of rushing
through immediate legislation.