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Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
.ICKES SEEKS
NEW WAY TO
CONTROL OIL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. U.H -
Harold L. Ickes, oil administrator,
today said the supreme court de-
cision invalidating the hot" oil
provision of MIRA emphasizes the
necessity for specific and adequate
legislation" for government con-
troll of the petroleum industry.
Indications were that federal Of
ficials were considering a move to
have congress declare the industry
a public utility and give the gov
ernment complete control over
production, refining and market
ing.
Admitting the adverse ruling of
the court on Section &C of MIRA
"is a serious setback" Ickes said:
while we intend to do the best
we can with the means still avail
able to us, the basic remedy rests
with congress.
THE decision of the court, in my
opinion, emphasizes the necessity
for specific and adequate legislation
to effectuate a rational conserva-
ton program designed to prevent
the waste of oil and gas resources
and to prevent the Generalization
of one of our largest basic indus
tries" -.
Simultaneously administra t i n
leaders indicated belief that regu-
lation of the industry would come
before this congress.
Speaker Joseph w. Byrns said:
81 personally think that congress
should pass at this session some
oil administration legislation.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
LARGE CROWD
SEES OATH Of
OFFICE TAKEN
Assumption OF Duties In His
Own Right Marked By Simple
Ceremonies.
HATFIELD ALSO SWORN IN
Inaugural Addresses Delivered
To Assembly During Joint
Session.
HATFIELD ALSO SWORN IN
BY GEORGE E. HELNIER
United Press Staff Correspondent

OmItu fftSS StdI1 Correspondent
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 8. U.R)--
Frank Finley Merriam was inaug-
urated today as 28th governor OF
California.
In ceremonies made colorful by
their simplicity and the attention
crowded into the assembly chamber,
the former Iowa farm boy took the
oath of office administered by Will
liam H. Waste, chief justice of the
state supreme court.
81 do solemnly swear that I will
support the constitution of the
United States of America and the
constitution of the state of Cali
fornia, and that will faithfully
discharge the duties of the office
of governor of California according
to the best of my ability Mer-
riam repeated, with right hand up
raised, as the hushed assembly
watched and the camera flashlights
glared.
The governor then gave his in
augural address to the joint meet
ing Of the two legislative houses,
calling upon the lawmakers to CO.
operate in correcting evils which
contributed to the collapse of the
old economic order.
Upon the completion of his ad-
dress, Lieut.. Gov. George j. Hat
field, San Francisco, took an identi-
cal oath of office, administered by
Federal Judge A. F. st. Sure. In
his address, Hatfield pleaded for
"social justice without socialism. -
Excerpts from the addresses
of Governor Merriam and Lieu
tenant Governor Hatfield will be
found on page g.
Legislators expected to accom-
plish little work on this day of
ceremony and celebration. A recep-
tion in the governors office this
afternoon and a formal guberna-
torial ball in the municipal audi
to1ium tonight were designed to
climax the long political fight made
by Merriam in his climb to the gov
ernorship.
The flood of bills seeking TO raise
new revenue to meet the states ex-
penses, devise more popular meth
ods of handling unemployment re-
lief, and solve other economic and
social problems will start in earnest
tomorrow.
Appointment of committees to
handle the hundreds of bills may be
delayed several days. Organization
of party ana inner-party blocs have
not been completed in either house.
and it was considered doubtful
whether many appointments would
be made until the new lieutenant
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
FEDERAL AID
MAY Be GIVEN
NEW HIGHWAY

Manager Robert Hays of the FL
Centro Chamber of Commerce to-
day received telegram from Col.
Ed Fletcher, state senators from San
Diego county, reading substantial
ly as follows: 81 am happy to in
form you that Earl Lee Kelly, di-
rector of public works, announces
in his federal budget an alloca-
ton of $4,000 from Federal Public
Lands Road Fund for completion
of grading and oiling the Colorado
Valley Highway which we hope will
become U. S. No. SO, extending from
the north end of Imperial county
to Needles. Bids for construction
will be advertised for by April l.
Fletcher added to his telegram,
"NoW let's complete the missing
link in Imperial county at the
earliest possible date.D
1t is believed by Hays that the
road referred to by Fletcher extends
from the town of Palo Verde on the
borders of Imperial county in Palo
Verde valley to Blythe, and thence
generally northward along the Col
orado river to Vidal and Needles
This is not the route favored by
many Imperial Valley folk who
wish to see a direct road from Nj
land to Desert Center, connecting
there with the Los Angeles Aque-
duct System of Roads to Vidal. The
road from NI1and to Desert Center
would require, it is stated, far less
construction than would a road
from INLAND to Blythe.
"Ihere would also be the addi-
tional advantage, said Hays,
"that a road running more or less
north and south from INLAND to
Desert Center would serve travel
going both ways. In other words,
a traveller going east on the Indio-
Blythe route might be induced to
turn south and come through I'm
perial Valley if the road branched
at Desert Center, whereas there
would be no chance of his going all
the way to Palo Verde valley and
then turning back and travelling
again westward to INLAND and I'M
perial Valley.
The road to which Colonel Fletch-
er refers from the town of Palo
Verde and Blythe to Vidal is a part
of the state highway system and
has been already partially improv-
ed. 1t is a road that necessarily
would be slated for improvement in
any event, but the question is, des-
pite its improvement, whether it
will serve Imperial Valley as well
as the proposed route from INLAND
to Desert Center, following thence
the Aqueduct System, it was stated
at chamber of commerce head
quarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
SAYS C0NDON
PRETENDED To
Re ECCENTRIC

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 8. U.p)-
DR.. John F. (Jafsie) Condor has
pretended to be an eccentric since
he became the Intermediary in the
Lindbergh kidnapping, to mislead
the many persons who have sought
to "pump" him on the case, his
bodyguard, Al Reich, said today.
"He didn't want to insult peo-
ple,' Reich said, $50 he rambled
off to other things when they asked
him questions he thought h e
couldn It well answer
Reich and Corporal Samuel j.
Leon, New Jersey state trooper,
agreed that Condor would be a
brilliant witness.
"Wait until you see him on that
witness stand" Leon said. "It
will be great and I don It mean at
DR.. Condor IS expense. He has al
ways been able to speak well on
any subject with extraordinary in
telligence.'
"He is the strongest man, ment-
ally and physically, of his age in
the country" Reich added.
The bodyguard said he was con-
vinced that the mysterious "John"
who received the ransom intended
to kill Jafsie afterward, because he
had permitted his face to be seen.
He said that during the momentous
transaction in st. Raymond cem-
etery "John" fidgeted with a gun.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
PROGRAM Of
INAUGURATION

SACRAMENTO, Calf, jan 8. Up)
Inauguration festivities today in
cluded the following program:
Joint assembly of the two legis-
lative houses, called to order at
noon by w. P. Rich, president pro-
tenn of the senate, and Edward
Craig, speaker of the assembly.
Invocation by Rev. George M.
Rourke, pastor of the First Presby-
terian church, Long Beach.
Administration of oath of office
to Gov. Frank F. Merriam by Will
liam H. Waste, chief justice of the
state supreme court.
Orchestra: Hail to the Chief"
Introduction of Governor Mer-
riam by Senator Rich.
Inaugural address by Governor
Merriam.
Firing of the governors salute of
10 guns.
Administration of oath of office
TO Lieutenant Governor George j.
Hatfield by Federal Judge A. F.. St.
Sure.
Introduction of Hatfield by
Speaker Craig.
Address by Hatfield.
Benediction by Rev. Robert Arm
strong, bishop of Sacramento.
Reception, 2 to 4 p. m, in COVER
nor's office.
Formal ball, 9 p. m, in Sacrament
to municipal auditorium. Governor
Merriam, escorting Mrs. Ralph
Clock, Long Beach, will lead the
grand march.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
H|GHL|GHTS
Of ADDRESS
BY GOVERNOR.

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 8. U.P)-
Highlights of Governor Frank Fin
ley, Merriam IS inaugural address
to the legislature:
1.-The people expect from you and
from me the fullest exercise of in
telligent, devoted, energetic and
unselfish attention to the critical
problems confronting this COM
monwealth.
Government itself cannot indef-
initely assume the responsibility
for meeting all the demands OF this
depression and this emergency.
"Before we shall attain complete
economic balance however, we must
eliminate the evils which aggravat-
ed and, in fact, contributed to the
collapse of the old economic order
from wssch We now are emerging.
"We shall complete the current
biennium with deficit OF approx
imately $30,000,000. II we do not
adjust our tax needs to emergency
conditions We shall have a further
deficit of approximately 100000, 600
during the next biennial period. -
"'Public funds must be raised
and disbursed, but not one unneces-
sary dollar be sought from taxpay-
ers.D
90. the unemployment relief
program Is a continuing obli-
CATION which we neither can nor
desire to shirk.
81 am in hearty accord with the
announcement of President Rocse-
velt that every needy unemployed
man and woman able to work
should be required TO do 30 in ex-
change for compensation from ems
ployment.D
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
"a aW1aA
SNA SAYS:

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7. (Spe-
ciaD-See where Mussolini and
Foreign Minister Laval have de-
cided to let Austria have a king.
You know I didn't know this till
I was in Vienna last fall, but
Austria really wants the king.
Can you imagine that? The
nearest we can come to under
standing that is an American girl
wanting a man with a title. It's
a musical city, cafes and lot
of bright colored uniforms, and
a king and some waltzes is about
all they want.
SO France and Italy are going
to give 'em Archduke Otto. You
would wonder what they have to
do with it.
That's Europe for you. Aus
tria and Hungary's business is
everybody's business. These Haps-
burgs have gummed up about all
of Europe.
Yours,
Mx& R1N~.
g 1885. McNaught Syndicate. Inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
District AUards
Bond Printing

Printing of bonds for the irriga-
ton district bond refunding pro-
gram was awarded to the Jeffries
Banknote company of Los Angeles
at a meeting of the district board
held this morning The contract
calls for the printing of 1850 bonds
at a cost of $3,443. j. H. Dimmitt
represented the printing company
at this mornings meeting.
The district voted to declare the
plan operative at a meeting held
late last month while awaiting a
hearing on the matter in federal
court the end of this month. The
districts action followed a similar
one taken by the bondholders' COM
mittee in Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
Democrats Will
Honor Jackson

Democrats of the county will
gather tonight at the Dunlack hotel
in Brawley for the annual Jackson
day dinner, under the auspices of
the Democratic club of Imperial
county.
Dinner will be served at o clock
and prominent Democrats, includ-
ing Scott Weller of Los Angeles
and L. Navotney, of San Diego,
will make addresses.
A delegation of Yuma Democrats
will also attend the affair.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
Kingsford-S d-Sn1ith
Man Of Mystery

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. U.P)-On
the eve of his sailing for Australia,
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. who
makes his living flying over oceans,
gained new title today.
He became a full fledged man of
mystery.
Not one of the knighted flyer IS
friends in Los Angeles could locate
him today to plan for an appropri-
ate farewell tomorrow before his
sailing on the Monterey.
Sir Charles was said to be in San
Francisco, in Oakland, in Seattle,
or on yacht somewhere off the
Pacific coast"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
BY LYLE C.. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1885, by United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-"New
dealers" are hopeful that President
Roosevelts $4,000, 100000 recovery
and relief program will provide use
full employment for at least 100000
individuals this year.
That appears to be the minimum
expectation from the public works
plan if it operates in practice as
well as it looks on paper. The en-
ployment aggregate would be made
up of:
/. 100000 persons shifted from
the dole to public works.
2. From 3,500,000 up re-employed
privately. (Tentative estimated.
OF greatest concern as this un-
precedented program is launched
is the possibility that local relief
may not be able to absorb the l.
100000 dole recipients who are to
be stricken from federal relief rolls.
There appears to be less official
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
Valley May Get
Light Rainfall

Possibility for rain in Imperial
Valley exists according to indica-
tions reported this noon by Fred A.
Baughman, local observer for the
U. S. frost service. Should there be
q rain it will probably be light and
there is no frost danger for the
next two days.
Cloudy weather prevails over
Southern California and at noon
the coast reports stated that there
was no rain at that time although
skies were overcast generally.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
Boys Lead Girls
In Local Births

Boys nosed out the girls by one
vote in December, according to the
report on births for this city, COM
piled by DR.. Warren F. Fox, city
and county health officer.
There were 13 boys and IL girls
born during the last month of the
year. Seven of the girls were
white, three were Mexican and
there was one each, Filipino and
Japanese. Twelve of the boys were
white and one was Filipino.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
STATE GIVES
=. SEVERE BLOW
To DEFENSE
Aged Man Says He Saw Accused
With Ladder Near Lindbergh
Residence.
TAXI DRIVER TELLS0F NOTE
Defendant Mumbles Liar AS
Witness Points Him Out In
Courtroom.
TAXI DRIVER TELLSOF NOTE

BENNINGTON, N. j., Jan. 8. W.R
Two more witnesses today linked
Bruno Richard Hauptmann with
the kidnapping and murder Of the
Lindbergh baby.
Mandus Hochmuth, 87-year-old
PTussian army veteran and resi-
dent of Hopewell, placed his hand
on Hauptmanns knee and swore he
saw him near the Lindbergh home
in an automobile at noon on the
day of the kidnapping.
Joseph Perrone, New York
taxi-cab driver, testified in midaf-
ternoon that Hauptmann was the
man who gave him a note to de-
liver to DR.. John F. Condor, inter-
mediary in the negotiations with
the kidnaper.
Three persons have now branded
Hauptmann as being implicated in
the crime.
Col Charles A. Lindbergh already
has testified that Hauptmann's
voice is the one he heard in St.
Raymonds cemetery calling Hey.
Doktor" to Condor. Lindbergh ad-
ded that he believed Hauptmann
guilty. .e
The identifications of Hauptmann
by Hochmuth and Perrone came as
smashing surprises, and defense
counsel vigorously attacked the
testimony.
AS compared to evidence previous
ly disclosed at the Hauptmann ex-
tradition hearings in New York and
by police investigators, the states
case now seemed much stronger
than could have been expected.
Perrone told how a man had ap-
proached his taxicab in the Bronx
and handed him a note with in
structions to take it to Condon's
home.
1T that man here in corTt?" ask
ed Attorney General David T. WAL
entZ.
"He is" Perrone replied.
"Step down from the stand and
point him OUT" Wilentz said.
Perrone walked across the 80 feet
that separates the witness chair
from Hauptmann and clamped a
heavy hand on the prisoners
shoulder.
"That's the man." Perrone said.
you're liar" Hauptmann NUT
tered, too low to be heard by any,
body except those sitting directly
behind him.
BENNINGTON, N. j., Jan. 8.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MandtlS
Hochmuth placed a palsied finger
on Bruno Richard Hauptmann to-
day and identified him as the man
with ladder he saw near the Lind
bergh estate a few hours before
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was kid
naped and murdered.
The aged and bewhiskered resi-
dent of the Sourland countryside
hobbled across the tense and silent
courtroom where Hauptmann is on
trial for his life and laid gnarled
finger on the defendants left knee.
This is the man." he said in a
cracked voice. His attitude carried
all the conviction that he could
muster.
Il saw his face like a man who
had seen a ghost. He was in a
dirty green car. saw part of lad
der"
Thus, the state of New Jersey
struck its first smashing surprise
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
GOV. MERRIAM INAUGURATED AT SACRAMENTO
Hauptmann Identified By Two More Witnesse
YOUTH VICTIM
OF FIRST 1885
AUTO TRAGEDY
The first automobile fatality

4 The first automobile fatality
of the current year occurred
last night when Earl Price, II,
of Holtville, died at the county hos
pital of a basal skull fracture re-
ceived in an automobile accident
late Sunday afternoon.
Price, according to the report
filed by Frank Raney, deputy cor
oner, collided with a car driven by
Ernest Hill of Long Beach at an
intersection near the Alamo store
at 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Earl
Williams. riding with Price, sus-
tanned a broken shoulder but no
one else was injured.
The body was removed to the
Hems-Rugg funeral parlors in CAL
eXico where an inquest will be held
tomorrow morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
DATA ON RIVER

A further decrease of I20 Sec
ond feet is noted in the E0w of
the Colorado river for today at
the Grand Canyon station, to-
days reading being 1920 second
feet. The diversion remained at
the 24OO second foot mark of yes
terday with the spill at 148O sec
ond feet.
No other readings were receiv-
ed at irrigation district head
quarters today, nor was any in
formation obtained from Yuma
relative to weather conditions in
the upper basin or along the
watershed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
COLD ANNOYS PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Up =
For the second successive day
President Roosevelt remained to-
day in his White House study, still
suffering a slight head cold.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
Senator Hulse Taken
To Capital Hospital

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Jan. 8.
W,P>-Senator Ben Hulse, Imper-
ial county, today was taken to
the Sutter hospital suffering
from a serious cold. Physicians
said his condition was not criti-
cal but that he would have to
remain in the hospital for several
days.
Rumors that Senator Hulse
Hulse was seriously i'll at the cap
ital have been current through
out the city for the past two
days. His local office was un-
able TO check on the rumors and
The Press communicated with
the United Press bureau at Sac
ramento, asking for information
on the senator's condition, the
above dispatch being received late
this afternoon.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
Soviet Film Maker
IsAWarded Medal

MOSCOW, Feb. % QN.SO'
The Soviet movie trust is celebrat-
ing its fifteenth birthday, and to
mark the event the Central Execu,
tive Committee of the U. S. s. r.
is awarding the Order of Lenin,
the Order of the Red Star and
the Order of the Red Banner Of
Labor to outstanding cinemakers.
One lately in Hollywood, Sergei
Eisenstein, perhaps the best
known of all Russian film pro-
The Washington times., 1935-02-28

ducers, the director Of storm
Over Mexico" and "Potemkin," re-
ceives the title of Honoured Man
of Art.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
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Evening star., 1935-04-24
CRIPPLED CHILDREN
SOCIETY WILL MEET
District Association to Take Ac.
tive Part With Interna-
tional Group.

When the International Society for
Crippled Children holds its fourteenth
annual convention at the Mayfiower
Hotel May S to 8. the recently reor-
eanized District of Columbia Associa-
ton for Crippled Children and Dis
abled Adults will take an active part.
Plans for participation are already
being made under leadership of Mrs
Cary T. Grayson, recently elected
president of the District organization
The association also Is undertaking to
continue supplying transportation for
pupils at the Weightman School for
Crippled Children and to make a COM
plete census of the crippled children
OF the District.
Cooperating with the local group
Is a newly formed Medical Advisory
Committee composed of Dr. A. B.
Bennett, president of the District
Medical Society: DR.. Curtis Lee Hall
of the Kiwanis Club, DR.. G. w. Lead
Evening star., 1935-04-24
Midget Autos Popular.

Midget automobiles are leading in
popularity in Germany this year.
Evening star., 1935-04-24
TEXAN IS JAILED
IN W|FE'S DEATH
Murder Laid to Him After He
Says Son Shot Her in
His Sleep.
Nv tho Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
GREENVILLE, Tex, April 24.-S. P.
Daroen. who told officers his attractive
32-vear- -old wife was killed by heir
Young son as the latter walked in his
Sleep. was held on a murder charge
here today.
II never expected anything like
this" the Caddo Mills. Tex, filling
station operator protested tearfully
after he had been informed of the
charge against him. Il expected an
inquest. but nothing like this
Darden. who was arrested after at
tending his wife's funeral, said he was
awakened early Monday morning by a
eunshot and saw his 8-year-old son
Jackie standing over the bed where
the woman lay. shotgun in his
hands and still asleep.
Jackie says he cant remember
what happened"
District Attorney Henry Pharr said
II would have been physically impos-
sible for the child to have fired the
weapon. He also disclosed that Darden
recently had obtained for himself and
his wife Joint insurance policy. con-
tanning clause providing for extra
indemnity in case of accidental death.
The amount was not disclosed.
The 33-year-old Darden burst into
tears upon being brought to the jail
and asked if he had a statement to
make.
It's the first time I ever was in
jail in my life" he said. What am
I charged with? They tthe arresting
off1cers> told me they wanted to bring
me to Greenville for examination.
Later Darden told the prosecutor he
would be ready to go before the
grand jury.
Evening star., 1935-04-24
NATIVE LIFE SHOWN
IN MISSION EXHIBIT
Booths at Catholic University
Show Customs of China.
India and Palestine.

A mission exhibition depicting ma
tive life in foreign lands, particularly
those countries for which the religious
communities at Catholic University
are training is being held all this week
at the university's gymnasium.
1t is the first time In history OF the
university that such combined ex-
hibit by religious orders has been at
tempted.
The exhibit opened Monday with a
pontifical high mass at $50 am. In the
crypt of the National Shrine of the I'm
maculate Conception. Most Rev. John
M. McNamara, auxiliary bishop OF
Baltimore. was the celebrant. He was
assisted by Very Rev Charles Barry
deacon. and Very Rev. Francis P
Goodall, subdeacon.
Archbishop Cicognani day" was
observed at the exhibition yesterday
Today is Bishop Mcnamara day;
Thursday. Bishop Ryan day: Fri
Evening star., 1935-04-24
ARIZONA COUPLE DIE
IN AlRPLANE CRASH
Nv tho Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, April 24-Mr. and
Mrs. Carl F. Denkman. Tucson, Ariz.,
were killed and their bodies burned
beyond recognition when their air.
plane crashed last night near Fort
Hancock.
The bodies were identified by E. Y
Pettus, Department of Commerce in
spector, a personal acquaintance. He
relied largely on metal belt buckle
bearing Denkman's initials, and the
woman's wedding and engagement
rings, found in the ashes.
No witnesses to the actual crash
were found, but persons at Fort Han
cock said they saw the plane, With
its motor missing. flying low over the
post before the accident.