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Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
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ABOARD
FRENCHPLANE
DIE IN CRASH

PARIS, March 10. U.P-A Bel
gian army plane flying over the
Congo river today found the debris
of French Governor General Ed
Guard Renard's plane near Mos
saka, with all seven occupants
dead. The Belgian ministry of COL
onies reported today to French Of
ficials.
The bodies of the governor of
French equatorial Africa, his wife,
his chief of staff, and four men,
bers of the crew, were mangled,
the flyer reported.
"The plane struck the ground
at great speed, splintered and in
stantly killed the seven occupants" :"
the Belgian ministry reported.
The crash Of the party, which
left Brazzaville, French equatorial
Africa, Friday on an aerial tour
Of the French domain, occurred TOO
miles from the starting point.
The Belgian minister was advised
OF the tragedy by representatives
at Leopoldvilla, Belgian Congo. The
plane had crashed across the Con-
go river in Belgian territory, "un-
doubtedly due to fog and invisible
ity following a tornado" the min
istry said.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
COMP PR0M|SE
OFFERED IN
PENSION ROW
Amendment Would Prevent Un-
qualified Endorsement Of
Townsend Program.

SACRAMENTO March 10. U.P)-
The California senate moved toward
showdown on the Townsend old
age pension plan today after Sena-
tor Edward w. Stow, Santa Bar
bara, had submitted an amendment
changing the unqualified indorse-
ment recommended by Governor
Frank F. Merriam.
Senator Slows amendment would
memorialize congress to give con-
sideration to all old age pension
plans, and points out that a pen
sion program must Of necessity be
federal rather than state project.
The original administration-spon-
sored resolution flatly recommended
immediate congressional adoption of
the Townsend plan in all its details.
The senate defeated the measure a
week ago. Reconsideration was de-
layed while Merriam supporters
sought to shift votes.
Senator Ralph Swing, San Ber-
nardino, moved today to reconsider
the resolution without debate. Sem
stor Culbert L. Olson, Los Angeles,
insisted the senators should be per-
niitted to argue. Stow submitted his
proposed amendment, and action on
the controversial subject was d.
layed pending discussion of another
bill.
Lengthy floor arguments develop
ed in both houses, with the senate
considering a bill by Senator Leon
ard j. Difani, Riverside, to repeal
present laws requiring the highway
department to call for two typty OF
bids on paved road projects, and
the assembly discussing bill tight
ening provisions of the sales tax.
Curb Expenses
Difani's bill drew fight between
cement and asphalt interests. Mean
while, the assembly ways and means
committee warned that unjustified
departmental expenditures will not
be countenanced by the legislature
this session.
Mrs. Florence TMner, director,
of the department of social welfare
appeared before the committee to
support her departments request
for $396,000. She said many new as
sistants were needed to handle in
creasing demands Tor aid. Seventeen
additional field agents, a director of
the division of old age security
and 19 office workers should be ad-
ded, she said.
Assemblyman c.. c. Cottrell, San
Jose, chairman of the committee,
told her:
Mrs. Turner, you must justify
every expenditure you propose. I am
convinced in my own mind that
there is too much overlapping and
that this criticism toward your de-
partment is perfectly just. You will
rot receive one cent for expenditures
you cannot justify"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
SAN FRANCISCO
CANNOT AGREE
ON FAIR SITE

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10. U.P)
The proposed San Francisco Bay
World Fair, tentatively set for 1888,
staggered today under blow which
may mean collapse Of the entire
project, leaving the field free to
Los Angeles to conduct its own
Boulder dam exposition that year
without opposition.
The blow was delivered by the
San Francisco board of supervisors
who for the second time refused to
approve the Yerba Buena Shoals as
the site for the proposed fair, plan
ned in celebration of the construc-
ton of the San FranciSco-Oakland
and the Golden Gate bridges.
The Yerba Buena Shoals is the
choice of the Corporation of Mer-
chants, Industrialists, and Bankers
formed to finance the fair. They
have declared that under no con-
siderations would their money or
their backing go to any other site.
But the board, by a six to five
vote, indicated that it wants the
exposition held on the mainland
perhaps at Lake Merced, North
Beach or South Basin.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
FIRE
VOLLEY INTO
INDIAN CROWD

KARACHI, India, March 10. (UD
"A platoon of the Royal Sussex re-
giment fired 49 rounds into mob Of
more than 10000 rioting Moslems
today, killing % and wounding 10.
The firing occurred in last des-
perate effort to prevent a mob,
mostly semi -lawless hillmen from
the northwest and Baluchistan
frontiers, from entering the city and
attacking Hindus,
1t was the first serious renewal
of Moslem- Hindu religious hatred in
several months.
The rioting was preciptated by the
secret execution at a. m. of Abdul
Quayan. a Moslem who was hanged
for the murder of Hindu.
The fanatical mob disinterred the
body of Quayan, who was Chachi
hillman, from the grave four miles
from Karachi, where his family had
buried it, and elevated him to mar
tyrdom.
The mob carried the body shoul-
der-high toward Karachi with the
intention of paradina through the
streets.
Authorities believed such a pro-
cession would lead to communal ri
oting, since this is the Hindu holy
festival season. The troops there
fore fired.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Rorchers Attend
Housing Meeting

Interested farmers met last night
at the court house with j. D. Muz-
zey, representative of the federal
housing administration, to discuss
the ways by which farmers may
avail themselves of the provisions
of the act. ....=.
The requirements for loans, the
various provisions which relate to
improvements, new construction,
permanent improvements an d
equipment attached to the proper
ty were all discussed. 1t is hoped
to organize local committee to
carry information to the various
rural communities in the county so
that farmers may take advantage
of the credit facilities offered them.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Mc[VER BARRY CITED BEFORE SUPERIOR COURT
Assert Mother
Admits ThrolUing
Baby Into Canal

After three days of intensive in
vestigation on the part of Frank
Raney, deputy coroner and member
of the sheriff's staff, Dorothy Aver
EFT, %, and Ralph o. Averett, 80,
were arrested near Brawley and
booked at the county Jail last night
Tor questioning in connection with
the death of week-old baby whose
body was found in a canal south
west of Brawley Saturday morning.
Mrs. Averett is said to have con-
fessed at the county Jail that she
had thrown the body of newly
born baby into the canal but that
the infant had died an hour after
birth. County officials are still in.
vestigating with the possibility that
charges might be filed against the
Averetts sometime today. Just what
these charges might be was not stat
cd.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Affidavit Makes
Charge Against
Ohio Governor

COLUMBUS, O., March 10. (U.P)-
Contents of one of the affidavits
on which Harry l.. Hopkins, federal
relief administrator, based hi S
charge of shakedown against
Gov. Martin L. Davey'S campaign
committee were revealed today CC-
receipt of the documents from
Washington by the Ohio attorney
general and county prosecutors at
Columbus and Toledo.
The affidavit, sworn to by Will
liam R. Mcnamara of Camp Chase,
O., director of commodities distri-
button for the state relief admins
tration, asserted that Mcnamara
had been requested by John Nc
Comb of the Democratic campaign
organization to collect $4,000 to
meet a deficit and to insure re-
tanning his job under the Davey
administration.
The affidavit was made public
just after County Prosecutor DON
aid Hoskins, Columbus, announced
he would summon persons involved
in Hopkins evidence before a grand
jury next Thursday.
Davey said he welcomed an early
trial on the charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Of
[AMSON HIT
BY WITNESS
Telephone Operator Says She
Heard Accused Tell Woman
OF His Love For Her

SAN JOSE, Calf, March 10. U.P)
"A prosecution witness today Gre
ated a sensation in David Lamson IS
second trial on charges of wife
murder by relating how Lamson
allegedly told Sara Kelley, blonde
Sacramento divorce, that he loved
her and "didn't give a damn" if
the whole world knew it.
The testimony was drawn from
Mrs. Elsie Hail. Stanford university
switchboard operator. She said she
overheard the remark during tele-
phone conversation between Lam
son and Mrs. Kelley two weeks be-
fore Allene Thorpe Lamson was
found mysteriously dead in her
bath tub in the Lamson IS residence
on the edge of the Stanford cam
pus on Memorial day, 1888.
81 heard him ask when he was
going to see her, Mrs. Hall relat-
ed. "He said he couldn't wait
much longer, that he loved her
dearly.'
"She answered, you must be
careful. They'll hear you in the
office
"Then he said, Il don't care if
they hear us. I don't give a damn
if the whole world hears US
Mrs. Hall IS story, unrevealed un-
til today, was a smashing blow to
defense contentious that the asso-
citation between Lamson and Mrs.
Kelley was strictly business one.
The state has argued that the
defendant IS association with Mrs.
Kelley supports its contention that
Lamson murdered his wife with a
length of pipe because of marital
maladjustment which actually had
shattered the peace of the Lamson
home, regarded by friends as serene
and ideally happy.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
MUST EXPLAIN
WHY OFFICES
NOT GIVEN UP
Order Issued On Petition By
Hatch And Bratton To Judge
Thompson Today
ACT UNDER POLITICAL CODE
Hearing Ordered To Be Held
Next Monday As Five Days
Notice Required

The long arm of the law has
again been invoked in the battle for
possession of the irrigation district
offices of treasurer and ASSESSOR
collector. This time initiative has
been taken by E. N. D. Hatch and
Charles A. Bratton, possessors OF
election certificates who have been
denied access to their offices by F.
H. McIver and Winnie Barry, in-
cumbents.
Hatch and Bratton this morning
secured orders signed by Judge
Vaughn Thompson requiring Miss
Barry and McIver to show cause
why they should not be compelled to
deliver up the books, records, keys,
combinations to the safes and other
requisites of office to the plaintiffs.
Monday morning at 10 o'clock in
department No. of superior court.
They could not be made returnable
sooner because the law demands
that notice of five days be given the
respondents in such cases.
Hearing on this action will follow
along much the same lines as pre-
vailed last Friday when an injunc-
ton against Bratton and Hatch was
ordered dissolved by Judge Mundo
of San Diego, with this exception,
that Mondays hearing will be con-
cerned with another and totally diff
ferent chapter of the political code.
This directs a former incumbent to
deliver such papers and records to
the actual incumbent or else be
compelled to do SO by the court.
Possession Not Necessary
In this instance, it was pointed
cut this morning, the actual in
cumbent" is taken to mean persons
who are possessed of a certificate Of
election and who have otherwise
qualified for the office. Actual pos
session is not necessary in these
qualifications, it was further stated.
McIver and Barry have continued
to remain in possession of their Of
fices and indicate that they will stay
there until definitely ousted by
court order. Bratton and Hatch
have made no move to secure pos
session of the records or keys by
force and are using every legal
means possible, pending the decision
of the appellate court in the man.
damus proceedings brought before
it, to determine the legality of the
district election of February 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Asks $4,000 In
Alienation Suit

Charging that the defendant
had alienated the affections of her
husband. Carrie Peterson has
brought suit in superior court
against Mrs. M. Grabel asking dam
ages of $4,000.
The complaint states that on De-
cember 6, 1928, plaintiff was mar
ried to Vernon Peterson in Omaha,
Nebraska. On February 20, 1885, at
Winterhaven, according to the COM
plant, the defendant sought to
prejudice the mind of said Vernon
Peterson against the plaintiff and
ALLEVIATE his affections from her. and
ever since has sought and endeav-
ored by subtle contrivances, by
coaxing and by promising to induce
him to separate from the plaintiff
and to leave and desert her."
The complaint alleges further
that on March 16, Vernon Peterson
was persuaded to leave his home
with plaintiff and live with the de-
fendant.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19

ON MORTGAGES
RECOMMENDED

SACRAMENTO, March 10. W.p)-
Anot her mortgage moratorium
measure was on it's way through the
legislature today after the assembly
judiciary committee had stamped
"do pass" on the proposal sub
mitted by Assemblyman William
Moseley Jones, Los Angeles.
The bill was the same measure,
modelled after the so-called Mime
sofa plan, that threw the January
session of the legislature into a
deadlock and necessitated a COM
promise emergency measure which
will expire September 1.
The Jones proposal provides that
before foreclosure proceedings are
instituted, the case shall be sub
mitted to a superior court, the
judge of which must determine
what shall be paid, all factors
taken into consideration. The law
provides, however, that insurance
and current taxes must be main
tanned with a proviso permitting
payment of delinquent taxes over
a 10-year period.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
SCRIBE GETS
STORY FROM
BOLD OUTLAW
Texas Newspaperman Says He
Was Kidnapped By Raymond
Hamilton To Keep Pledge

HOUSTON, Texas, March 10 W.1
Raymond Hamilton, southwest
desperate, kidnapped a newspaper
man last night to 'get my side OF
the story before the public"
The outlaw was accompanied by
Ralph Foltz, former convict.
The newsman was Harry McCor-
mick, reporter for the Houston Press
who said in a copyrighted story to-
DAY that he was held prisoner most
of the night.
Hamilton and Foltz talked to Nc
Cormick for more than two hours.
then bound and gagged him and
left him locked in his automobile
on a country road between Hemp
stead and Navasota, west Of here.
Mccormick was found and re-
leased at 7:30 a. m. today by R. c..
Waller, a farmer The reporter said
the two bandits made no attempt
to harm him.
"All 1 want is to get my story be-
fore the public" Mccormick quot
ed Hamilton as saying.
Thus Hamilton made good his
promise TO Mccormick when he was
tried at Huntsville, Texas, for mur-
dering Major CroWson, an Eastman
prison guard. The .newsman was CO.
vering the story. ....-
''They may put me i'll the death
house." Hamilton told Mccormick,
But I'll get out, and when do I
am going to look you up and tell
you my side of the whole story"
Hamilton escaped from the death
house last July %.
Mccormick said he received an
! anonymous telephone call at his
home last night.
1.-The caller said he had some in
teresting information about East
ham prison farm" Mccormick said.
HE said that if I would meet him
he would turn over his information
TO me-"
The reporter met young man
who got into his automobile and
pressed a As caliber pistol against
his side.
Don't get scared he said, We're
gonna take ride, but I'm not gon-
ma hurt you," Mccormick quoted the
man.
Raymond Hamilton wants to
see you"
The man, Foltz, forced McCor-
mick to drive several miles from
Houston. When they stopped an
other car containing Hamilton
drove alongside.
The outlaw assured the reporter
that he would not be harmed but
said they would have to tie him
before they left.
Then, Mccormick said, Hamil-
ton talked with him for two hours.
"Ill never give up" Hamilton
told Mccormick. Ralph (Foltz)
and I are going to stick it out to-
gether-and I hope both of us will
live to be old men.
You heard it said that I'm
killer" Hamilton continued. We'll,
never killed anybody, and I
don't want to kill anybody"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
DRASTIC PROGRAM TO CURB ALL
WAR PROFITS READY FOR SOLONS
Commission Headed By Senator Nye Would Limit
Salaries To $4,000 And Draft Indus
trial Executives

for war is more important than
merely taking the profits out of it
after it has started" he said.
These II points were included in
the plan:
l. To take SO per cent of the first
six per cent profits of corporations,
and 100 per cent on all over that
in excess profits.
2. To limit all individual income
to $4,000 and to take all over that
in income taxes.
8. To impose income taxes on ev-
erybody from $1,000 or less up in
sufficient amounts to cover war
expenses.
4. To assess and collect income
taxes quarterly out of income as 1t
is made.
5. To check numerous methods of
defeating income tax levies.
6. Publicity of all salaries immed-
lately upon declaration of war.
7, Industrial management draft
all general officers of corpora
tions to be registered in a draft
of management and when deemed
necessary inducted into military
forces of the United States.
8. Close all commodity exchanges,
forbid speculation in commodities,
fix commodity prices at proper
PARTIES and allocate to essential
professors.
9. Regulate all new private fin
ancing through. war finance agen-
cy.
10. A war finance corporation to
assist in financing of essential war
industries.
II. Communicating of essential
industries and services.
IL. Licensing industries, estab-
lishment of priorities in purchasing
and when essential, price fixing u
< The program was the commit
tees answer to the McSwain wal
profits elimination bill pending in
the house. The McSwain proposal
drafted after Mr.. Roosevelt appeal
ed for legislation to outlaw excess
sive war time incomes, would freeze
prices of all commodities at the
outbreak of any conflict.
THAT plan is futile save as a
minor auxiliary weapon" Nye said,
speaking before his committee.
"The profits in war, spiraling of
prices and the uncivilized scramble
for the shameful fruits of ma
tional disaster can be prevented in
only one way, and that is to pre-
vent the initiation at the begin
ming" the committee held.
1.-The initiation can be prevented
in only one way. And that is by
checking the force which creates
and that force is huge borrowings
of the government"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
NeuU Group Joins
Striking Sailors

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10.
U.P)-A new labor dispute Develop
ed today on the San Francisco wa
terfront where union sailors en-
ployed by Pacific coast oil tanker
companies are already on strike.
The latest walkout was that Of
60 members of the Scalers' union.
an organization affiliated with the
International Longshoremen's as
sociation. They left their jobs at
the American-Ha Steamship
company pier in protesting en-
ployment of five men who they
said were non-union workers.
Longshoremen working on other
AT Co. boats followed their asso1
ciates in the walkout, tying up un-
loading of the freighters Golden
Dragon and Texan.
An I. l.. A.-sponSored union, the
Warehouse and Cereal Workers
union, also is on strike at Crockett.
where their walkout and picketing
closed the California and Hawaiian
Sugar corporation refinery, largest
in the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Gas Used To Dust
Man From Home

Because he had barricaded him.
self in his home at 125 South Second
street early this morning, refused
TO come out and threatened police
with a 12~gauge shotgun, officers
were finally forced to use tear gas
bombs to subdue Joseph Spinola
and bring him to headquarters
where he was booked on a charge
Of drunkenness, disturbing the
peace and shooting firearm within
the city limits.
The first report of impending
trouble reached headquarters at 4
o'clock this morning and stated that
Spinola had locked himself in his
home and was doing a bit of fancy
target shooting with the shotgun to
the dismay of the entire neighbor-
hood The riot squad answered on
the double quick but was unable to
oust Spinola until the tear gas hand
grenades were brought into service.
1t took two of these bombs to bring
Spinola out into the open and then
the rest was a matter of routine.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19

WASHINGTON, March 10. U.H-
A broad program to eliminate war
profits was put forward by the SEN
ate munitions committee today af-
ter a six months investigation of
arms manufacturers.
1t would include drastic taxa
ton plan to limit all individual in
comes to $4,000 in wartime.
Committeeman arranged to dis
cuss their conclusions with Presi-
dent Roosevelt later today.
A program will be submitted to
the senate in a preliminary report
by the committee on April l. 1t
was drafted by John T. Flynn, &C.
onomist and student of stock mar
ket activities.
Chairman Gerald P. Nye Rep
North Dakota, announced the plan
would be followed eventually by
recommendation to reduce profits
in war supplies in peace time.
"The committee believes that
taking profit out of preparations
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Grapefruit Men
To Meet Tonight

Tonight's meeting OF grapefruit
men promises to be of vital inter-
est to the industry and every grow
er is urged to be present since rep
resentatives of the AAA, the Cali
fornia- Arizona pro-rate commission,
the California Fruit Growers EX-
change and the agriculture extern
sion service will be there.
Important problems of price,
market conditions will be discuss
ed. The meeting will be held in
the court house at 7:45 tonight and
is called by the citrus department
of the farm bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Facing
Federal Charge

Earl Shelton was arraigned before
Dorsey Whitelaw. U. S. commits
sioner this morning on charge of
transporting stolen automobile
across the state border and was re-
manded for trial in federal court
under $1,000 bonds.
Shelton was arrested here by traf-
fic officers last week and a check
up showed that he was wanted by
federal officers on the automobile
charge 1t is said that he had
brought stolen car from Missouri
to California.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
Committee Kills
TLUo Amendments

SACRAMENTO, March 49, U.p)-
Two proposed constitutional amend
ments to provide for assessment OF
property on an equity basis only,
and making all governmental bonds
taxable in the future, were dead to-
day as result of adverse action
by the assembly constitutional
amendments committee.
The proposal to assess taxes on
an equity basis brought objections
that it would remove too much
property from tax rolls and put a
premium on mortgaged property.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-19
FRANCE ALSO
DISTURBED BY
LONDON MOVE
French Feel England Should
Have Consulted Them Before
Replying To German Order
LEAGUE MAY BE INVOLVED
Whole Question Of Rearmament
May Be Presented At Geneva
Meeting
BY United Press

Developments today in the Euro
pean situation:
Great Britains note to Germany
on ornaments aroused resentment
in Berlin because of its intimation
that Forthcoming negotiations must
be based on the Versailles treaty.
France was annoyed at Britain
because of her single-handed action
in making representations to Ger
many, instead of combining with
France and Italy in joint represen-
tatons. The French cabinet will send
q note of protest to Berlin tomorrow
and Italy is expected to do like
wise
Abyssinia appealed to the League
of Nations for intervention in her
frontier dispute with Italy. The ap-
peal will necessitate a meeting of
the council at which the German
situation also may be discussed,
with ire United States invited to
send an observer.
Foreign Minister Pierre Laval is
expected TO go to Moscow to talk
things over with Europe's greatest
military powers. Anthony Eden OF
Great Britain also will go to Mos
COW after he visits Berlin.