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Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
Slayer OF Officer
Kills Self When
Posse Closes In

GREELEY, Colo, July 25 U.P)-
Jack Printz, who last night shot
and killed a Greeley police officer,
killed himself today when posse
surrounded him in a sand pit five
miles west Of here.
AS the possemen opened fire up
on him, he turned his pistol upon
himself, firing one shot through
his head. He also was struck by
several bullets fired by officers. He
was taken, unconscious, to Greeley
hospital, and died there at $50 a.
m. without speaking a word.
Printz, a Colorado convict pa
rolled only five weeks ago from the
state penitentiary at Canon City,
was arrested last night in the rail-
road yards here by Patrolman A.
Wickstrom. He was taken to the
city Jail and turned over to Lee
Whitman, 80, night desk sergeant.
Wickstrom left the Jail, leaving
Whitman alone to book the prison.
er.
Two shots sounded, and persons
rushing toward the Jail were in time
to see PrintZ run out of the build
ing. They entered and found
Whitman dying, shot once in the
heart and once in the abdomen.
Posses at once took up the search
for the slayer, and surrounded him
early today in the sand pit.
Knowing that he was armed.
they took no chances, but began
firing when it appeared he planned
to resist. 1t was then that Printz
shot himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
Bank Robbed At
Chandler, Ariz.

CHANDLER, Ariz., July 25. UP)
Two 1.-TWO gun" bandits held up
and robbed the Valley National
Bank Exchange here of 5000 today,
kidnapped the cashier, and then pro-
vided him with a stolen automobile
in which to return and spread the
alarm.
The cashier, Clarence Baldwin,
said two men, each armed with two
revolvers, entered the exchange
shortly before 2 p. M, scooped up
the available cash and forced him
to accompany them.
Nine miles from here, he said,
two other men in a second auto
mobile joined them and they left
him, blindfolded, in the car in
which he had been abducted. The
machine was found to have been
stolen recently in Colorado.
Sheriff's posses patrolled high
ways in all directions from here,
confident that capture of the rob-
bers was a matter OF hours,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
Popular Couple To
Leaue Ell Centre
For Los Angeles

Mrs. Velma Macdonald, popular
employee at the local office of the
California Telephone company, was
honored at a farewell party by her
associates in the company club
rooms Tuesday night. and was CIV
en- a handsome present as a token
of their esteem and good wishes.
Mrs. Macdonald has been trans
ferred to the company's Los Angeles
office, her transfer coinciding with
that of her husband, Traffic Off
Ger j. @. Macdonald, who has been
shifted from the Imperial county
to the Los Angeles traffic squad.
During her service with the tel
ephone company Mrs. Macdonald
has made many firm friends among
company employees and patrons,
the latter commencing her highly
for her uniform courtesy and eff
cheney.
Traffic cops are not supposed to
be popular" Captain Frank Oswalt
said today, "but Mac has achieved
real popularity among Imperial
county motorists and his fellow
members on the Imperial county
squad regret to see him leave but
wish him luck in his new position" )"
The MacDonalds have a host of
friends in all parts of the county
who wish them every happiness and
success in their new location. They
plan to leave tonight or Friday for
Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
MYSTERIOUS CIGAR BOX CENTER
OF SENATE UTILITY LOBBY PROBE
Package Around Which Suspicion OF Bribe Is At
tached Might Have Contained Books On Livestock
Raising According To Witness

consulting a dapper assistant, Car
penter also said his son, John Jr.,
gave Patton box of cigars 1.-TWO or
three days" before the vote.
Committee Investigators, however
said the package that had intrigued
them was not a cigar box but a
cardboard bundle.
While the senate committee pur-
sued the package mystery, the
houses lobby Investigators went in
to details of the 100000 campaign
against the bill by the American
Federation of Utility Investors.
Hugh S. Magill, president of the
organization, took the offensive at
the outset of his testimony by
charging that President Roosevelt
used the $5,000,000,0O0 relief fund
as a lobby fund of taxpayers
money" in an effort to force con-
gressmen to a vote for the death
sentence"
Robinson Mystery Witness
Bernard B. Robinson, affable
$18,0 8,0O0-a-year head of B. B. Rob-
inson Co., Chicago securities firm,
told the house lobbying investigat-
orS how he had spent $7,285 in
Washington since February in his
own feeble" effort to induce con-
gress to reject the utility death
sentence"
Robinson was the mystery" wit
ness whom Chairman John j. o.
Connor had promised to produce
OConnor had said that the wit
ness threw lavish entertainments.
Dapper and smiling, Robinson
said he came to Washington at 8
sacrifice to his personal business tt
work against the utility bill on be.
half of his personal investment!
and as an independent observer
for the Associated Gas & Electric
Co., which he said paid $6,409 oi
his total expenses. He said hi'
firm dealt principally in A. G. anc
E. securities.
But it was the senate committee
mystery box that held the most at
tention.
Carpenter said Joe A. Worsham
general counsel for the Texas Pow
er and Light company, which Car
penter heads, had recalled the
package of livestock books after the
incident was brought up yesterday
in the senate committee.
"Mr. Worsham told me-" he said
that on one of the times Mr.. Pat
ton visited me at the hotel, he
carried a couple of books on live
stock raising. Mr.. Patton knew that
my sons were interested in live
stock"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
WILL ROGERS
FLYING WITH
WILEY POST

UNION AIR TERMINAL. BUR-
BANK, Calf. July 25. W.P)-Wiley
Post, round the world flyer, accom-
panied by VIII Rogers, film come
dian, and Mrs. Post left Union AIR
Terminal at 1:20 p. m. today In
mystery flight" that may take
them to Seattle, on the first lap
of a projected trans-Pacific hop 20
Russia.
Although a mechanic said the
three were just making a practice
flight, last-minute preparations in-
dicated they may be bound for Sc
attic.
Rogers, appearing suddenly at
the airport. hastily bought couple
packages OF chewing gum and two
magazines, as though preparing
for a prolonged flight.
The plane, swift Lockheed Or
ion. was loaded with 260 gallons 0f
gasoline.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
GOVERNOR Of
SOM ORA NOT
To CE 7 JOB

NOGALES. Son. Mexico. July 25.
U.P)Doubt that Governor elect Ra-
mos, against whom residents of
Magdalena paraded in protest sew
eral weeks ago, ever will take office
as head of the Sonora state gov
ernment, was expressed only here
today.
Ramos, a Gales supporter, was
unoppoSed at the last state elec-
ton and was named to succeed
Rodolfo Gales, son of the former
Iron Man" of Mexico. He was to
take office September 16.
The governor elects friendship
with General Gales was mentioned
here as the probable reason he
would not be inaugurated.
At the same time, it was reported
A. G. Villasenor, former mayor of
Nogales, was a guest at the home
of President Lazaro Cardenas in
Mexico, D. F., and was tryin g
TO prevent Ramos induction into
office. d, -
Villasenor, former Gales sup
porter who broke with his chief re-
Gently, is an important political
figure in this state.
Meantime, a guard of soldiers
thrown about the custom house
late Tuesday night to prevent a ru-
mored attempt by "Callesistas" to
seize it, was removed. Military au-
thorities said they expected no
trouble in this section.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25

vent if possible any increase being
made in the valuations of county
real estate. The county represent
atives had brought with them lists
of sales in the county and other
records pertaining to real estate
values here.
1t was showed through a scrutiny
of the sales lists that this property
had been assessed on an 1928 aver
age. With the 10 per cent increase
this will now be in the neighbor-
hood of 80 per cent of the sales
value.
These figures were disregarded by
the board, Foulds said and the raise
ordered made. This county received
one of the lowest increases in as
sessed valuations. other counties
having these valuations raised
much higher prcportionately, he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
UNPERTURBED
BY CONSULAR
RESENT MEN 7
LaGuardia's Refusal To Give
License To German Alien May
Be International Incident
CITIZENS ISSUE THREAT
German-Americans Declare City
Head Will "Be Sorry" For
Defying Their Wishes
BY FRED MYERS
Inited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 25. NU.P)-May-
or Fiorello H. LaGuardia emulating
in way the anti-King George
campaign of former Mayor William
Hale Thompson of Chicago, pro-
fessed himself unperturbed today
by his precipitation of an interna-
tional dispute over a masseurs Ii
cense He dared Nazi Germany to
do its worst.
Speaking through its New York
counsel general, Gustav A. Mueller,
Germany, took him at his word.
Mueller said his government would
take prompt measures" to answer
the mayors refusal of a maSSeur's
license to a German citizen.
I'VE haven't decided what our
action will be-" Mueller said, "but
this case isn't closed"
Eight hundred German -Ameri-
cans, in a meeting sponsored by
the friends Of new Germany ap-
proved the consul generals def
with boos and Kisses at every men,
ton of LaGuardia's name. Angry
speakers said 100000 New York
citizens of German extraction
would make the meddler sorry"
Even so serious a diSaffection
among voters left the mayor un-
touched.
This is a great big thing" he
said, land it's worth fighting for.
This order of mine shall be car
ried out
Denies License
The order denied the application
of an unnamed German alien for
a maSseur'S license on the grounds
that Germany has Disseminated
against American Jews. A German
American treaty provides for re-
ciprocal courtesies in such cases
but LaGuardia argued that Ger
many had nullified it by the dis
examinations he alleged. Consul
General Mueller denied existence
of any truth in the charge.
"And in any event." he said, at
is for the state department, not for
Mayor LaGuardia, to decide II
treaties have been violated He
said he probably would report for
mally today to the German am
bassador at Washington.
LaGuardia's constituents were
much less automatically voiced
While uniformed "Nazi" storm
troopers maintained order, national
President Joseph Schuster of the
Friends of New Germany asserted:
"It is none of the mayors darned
business to meddle with any treaty
between two friendly nations. 1t Is
about time that he minded his own
business.
Germans in this country have
natural rights and by God they'll
fight for them"
Others, all speaking in German,
accused the mayor of inaugurating
a Jew-inspired campaign OF ter
rorism against Germans. Schuster
said the national executive council
of the Friends of New Germany
would be called to discuss a protest
to President Roosevelt.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
FOULDS AGAINST VALUATION BOOST
Farm Bureau Secretary Believes Action Detrimental
To State Taxpayers

"I think it will be detrimental to
California taxpayers to have these
assessments raised" Scott B. Foulds
secretary of the farm bureau stated
this morning in commenting on the
recent order of the state board of
equalization that all assessed valu-
ationS of property in this county be
raised 10 per cent. Foulds and
Charles Halliday, assistant district
attorney, represented Imperial coun-
ty at a hearing before the state
board on this matter in Sacramento
last week.
Foulds bases his opinion on the
belief that these new valuations
will have an effect on levyine
boards as they give an exaggerated
idea of the real values of real estate
at the present time.
He stated that he and Halliday
had gone before the board to pre-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
FIRM GRIP ON
MEXICO HELD
BY CARDENAS
Say President May Prosecute
Canabal For His Activities In
Creating "Red Shirts"
BY JACQUES D'ARMAND
United Press Staff Correspondent

MEXICO CITY, July 25.-Presi-
dent Lazaro Cardenas remained
firmly determined today to nor
malize conditions in two widely sep
arated states in which ousting of
unpopular leaders was demanded.
There were widely circulated but
unconfirmed rumorS that he in
tended to prosecute criminally
Tomas Garrido Canabal, leader of
the Nazi "red shirts" for Is years
dictator of Tabasco state. He was
expected at any time to dismiss
Gov. Rafael Villarreal of Tamauli-
pas state, besieged in his palace at
Ciudad Victoria near the Texas
border by angry peasants, while
2500 peasants camped at Mata-
moros, across from Brownsville,
Texas, demanding that he go.
Dispatches told today of revolts
in 81 municipalities in the state, led
by Tampico, the great oil port
against Villarrears allegedly op-
pressive administration.
In the presence of Silvano Barba
Gonzales, minister of interior
whom Cardenas ordered to Ciudad
Victoria to investigate the Tam
pico city council last night broke
| off relations with Villarreal anc
! fired all officials in the area whom
Villarreal appointed.
Rumors concerning Garrido Can.
| abal revolved around his own be.
hind the sceres rule in Tabasco-
: he holds no public office-and hi!
responsibility, as leader, for riotinE
and shooting by the red shirts.
Prevent Flight
There were reports from reliable
/ sources that the department oi
communications issued orders thai
no airplane in which Garrido Can
abal was an occupant should be
permitted to leave the country.
1t was reported also that Car
denas intended to remove parlia-
mentary immunity from Senator
Ausencio Cruz, one of Garrido Can
abals men, who according to wit
nesses led a group of red shirts
at Villa Hermosa, the state capi-
tai, in an attack on liberals in
which 10 were killed.
A new military zone command
ant and a new governor took over
in Tabasco state on Cardenas' or
ders, replacing men held too friend
ly to Garrido Canabal.
CardenaS was praised through
out the country today for his ac-
ton. Church, educational and
newspaper sources were jubilant
that Garrido Canabal, bitterest en-
emy among public men of the Ro-
man Catholic church, had been
challenged in such forceful man
ner.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
Slayer To Hang
At San Quentin

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calf,
July 25. U.R)-Ellis J. Latona, Los
Angeles murderer, today awaited
execution on San Quentin's gallows
for the Staying of Jose Flores, for
mer Arizona convict, whose body he
attempted to use in an insurance
plot.
Barring unexpected intervention,
Latona will be hanged at 10 a. m.
tomorrow. His 10-year-old son, ac-
companied by his mother, visited
him for the last time yesterday,
just before Latona was transferred
from a prison cell block to death
row.
Latona killed Flores, then sought
to substitute Flores body for that
of cousin in an attempt to COL
lect $4,000 insurance.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
TELEGRAM To
LEAGUE SENT
JUST IN TINE
Blames Ethiopia For Collapse
OF Previous Efforts To Settle
Difficulties Peaceably
WARFARE MAY BE AVOIDED
Move Does Not Halt Plans Of.
Mussolini To Create Enormous
Italian Military Machine
WARFARE MAY BE AVOIDED

GENEVA, July 25. U.P)-Italy
telegraphed to the League of Ma
tions today, expressing willingness
to seek a settlement of her dispute
with Ethiopia by arbitration.
Italy blamed Ethiopia for the
collapse of previous efforts at ar
bitration. isfG
The telegram to the league was
signed by Fulvio Suvich, undersec-
tary for foreign affairs. 1t arrived
just as the time limit for arbitra-
ton, fixed by the council, was about
to expire.
1t said arbitration was interrupts
ed because of the fact that the.
Ethiopian government advanced at
Scheveningen (the Netherlands town
where the arbitrators metz its
claims for discussion before the
commission of subjects excluded by
the arbitration agreement"
Italy's telegram said she had not
flied Ethiopia on July IA that she
is willing to renew arbitration url-
der certain conditions and had sent
a further communication to Adds
Ababa on July %, asking Abyssinia
to instruct her agent to withdraw
claims advanced and thus enable
the commission to continue work"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
Broken Car Wheel
Cause Of Wreck

KEMMERER, Wyo., July 25. WP)
The Union Pacific streamlined
train, "City of Portland" was de-
rallied II miles west of here late
yesterday when a wheel of a cen
ter car apparently broke.
Not one of the rs passengers
aboard was even bruised, and the
crew likewise escaped injury
The train plowed on for three
fourths of a mile after leaving the
tracks, and tore down a small tool
house and water pump beside the
tracks. Several windows of the
train were cracked but the shat
ter-proof glass prevented injury to
passengers.
Traffic over the line was resum-
ed early today.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
Film Comedian Is
DiUorced By Wife

LOS ANGELES, July 25. U.P)-
Lee Moran, film comedian, fire.
uuently came home intoxicated
quarrelson.e and argumentative, his
wife, Bernice, testified uere today
as she was granted a divorce on
charges of cruelty.
He also made a practice of MAX
ing dinner dates with her and then
falling to show up, she said
The Morans married in June,
1927 and separated last May.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
rial Of Hindu
Opens In Court

N. D. Inder Singh went on trial
before a jury in Judge Vaughn
Thompson's department of superior
court this morning on a charge of
assault with intent to commit mur-
der. He is alleged to have wounded
another Hindu, Mala Singh, with a
shotgun during a quarrel on a
ranch near Imperial early this
year.
Defendant is represented by Ed
gar Hervey, San Diego attorney,
while D. H. Wolford is conducting
the prosecution for the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
BY RONALD G. VAN TINE
United Press staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, July 25.-John
w. Carpenter, a sun-tanned Texas
power official, leaned forward in
his chair at the senate lobby COM
mittee hearing today and suggested
that a mysterious package which
has excited Investigators interest
may have been only bundle of
books on livestock raising.
The package purportedly was
passed to a congressman the day
before the house voted on the util-
tiles death sentence" 1t was re-
vealed as the committee continued
its inquiry into utility lobbying
against the bill.
Carpenter, who couldn't remem-
ber about it yesterday, confided to
the committee today that a bundle
of books was carried from his hotel
one day by Rep. Nat Patton Dem.)
Texas.
They were wrapped in a newspa-
per-" he said.
Speaking quietly and frequently
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
COFFEE SHOP ENTERED

Mrs. F. c. Martin of the English
Village coffee shop reported to po-
lice this morning that while she
was absent from her place of busi-
ness earlier this week someone en-
tered and stole all her cafe equip
ment. She stated that the build
ing had been thoroughly ransacked
and everything movable taken
away. Police are investigating.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1885, BY United Press)
ROME, July 25.-Forty thousand
militia officers are undergoing spe-
cialized training to give military in
struction to 100000 youths of the
classes of 1915, 1916 and 1917, 1t
was learned today.
Under the program envisaged.
Italy within two months will have
100000 men and youths under
arms or receiving military training.
These are exclusive of all other
able bodied men in the country
who on the new Fascist Saturday
afternoons" are being given the
basic requirements for military SER
Metaphysical training and disci-
pline in mass movement-and the
boys from 8 years up in the two
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25

At st. Louis (1st game)- R H E
New York 900 300 000-3 II 2
st. Louis ..,........0l0 900 000-l 5 l
Schumacher, Stout and Dan
ming; P. Dean, Haines, Walker and
Delaney.
At Pittsburgh r H E
Philadelphia .02l 100 022-8 IL 0
Pittsburgh ......-010 400 013-9 13 3
Pezzulo, johnson, Davis and Will
son, Jorgens; Swift, Bush and Pad
den.
At Chicago r H E
Brooklyn ........... 900 900 110-2 5 2
Chicago ..........0 003 900 10x--4 10
Clark and Lopez; Carleton and
Hartnett.
Boston at Cincinnati, rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
Baseball Scores
BY United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
NATIONAL LEAGUE

All games postponed, rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25
lSz7gi@70o &9g&
SR SAYS!

BEVERLY HILLS, July "a.
(SpeciaD-Good deal of news in
the papers last day or so. Re-
publicans feel very confident Of
taking over the government in a
year and a half from now, but
some of 'em like Bert Smell and
Ham Fish think that's little
long to wait, and they are sug-
gesting letting Roosevelt out now
and taking the thing over them
selves at once. They holler about
the constitution, well its says you
are elected for four years, but
what's a constitution when your
boys need the work now. Ham
and Bert are giving Mutt and
Jeff a run.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-25

Boston at Cincinnati, rain.
The Washington times., 1935-01-31

T. Marye, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adolph Casper Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Hewitt Myers, Col.
and Mrs. Arthur O'Brien, the
Misses Patten, Mrs. James H.
Patten, Mr.. Joseph P. Tumul-
ty, Mr.. and Mrs. William Wal
Ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Warren.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Mitchell
Palmer and Mr.. and Mrs.
Malcolm McConihe were the
guests of Justice and Mrs. D.
Lawrence Groner, at their table.
Judge and Mrs. Clarence Norton
Goodwin had as their guests Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Richberg, Mr..
and Mrs. Wayne Taylor and Mr..
and Mrs. John A. Kennedy.
Guests at Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
V. Fleming's table were Mr.. and
Mrs. Sidney Taliaferro, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Distler and Mr.. and
Mrs. John F.. Crosby. Mr.. and
Mrs. James Clement Dunn enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. F.. Lamont
Belin and Mr.. and Mrs. Philip o.
Coffin. Senator and Mrs. Key
Pittman, Senator and Mrs. j.
Hamilton Lewis, Senator and
Mrs. Warren R. Austin and Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke
had a table together. Mr.. and
Mrs. Reeve Lewis and Capt. and
Mrs. William w. Galbraith
shared a table.
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose had
as guests at her table Senator
and Mrs. James F. Byrnes, Gen.
and Mrs. Frederick w. Coleman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll B. Merri-
man, Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. R.
Ogilby. Mr.. and Mrs. Louis S.
Owsley and Brig. Gen. william
E. Horton. Mrs. Loose was in a
gown of pale pink m o ir e
trimmed with ermine and Mrs.
ByrneS' gown was of white
satin sewn with brilliants.
The chairman Of the Board of
the National Recovery Admins
tration, Mr.. S. Clay Williams, of
Winston-Salem, N. c., and Mrs.
Williams had table as did Mr..
Arthur D. Whiteside, member of
the Board of the National Re-
covery Administration, and Mrs.
Whiteside; and the Chairman of
the Board of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board, Mr.. John H.
Fahey, of Boston, and Mrs.
Fahey.
Miss Kathleen Moran, of
Brookline, Mass, wore white
satin, with touches of gold, with
a broad band of white fox
edging the tunic, and her sis
ter, Miss Clare Moran, was in
black velvet with diamond clips.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley F.. Reed,