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Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

grammar school pupils were con-
Quoted during the year with the
assistance of teachers in the public
school system. The advancement of
class of retarded problem children
one grade in reading was attributed
directly to a stimulated interest in
books through these instruction
periods.
During Good Book Week, the
library was fortunate enough to
secure the services of Mrs. Rita
Freeman Reardon, who told stories
to large groups of children. Num-
bers of catalogs of approved juvenile
books were distributed to parents
and children.
Volumes Increase
The library now owns 28,183
volumes, of which 68l are works Of
reference and 1718 volumes were
added by purchase, binding, and
| gift during 1934-35.
The number of volumes per capita
is 8, and per registered borrower 4.
| A total of tbs borrowers were add
ed this year, making grand total
of 59O7.
The total circulation of books yor
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
PALM GROVE IS
PLANNED FOR
4TH STREET 7

AS part of the program to beau
tify the city, move was made by
the city council in session last
night to plant a palm grove on the
east side of Fourth street at Wens-
ley avenue. The council approved
the plan and authorized Mayor
Anderson and Phil knights, city
engineer, to draw up an applica-
ton asking for WPA funds to do
this work as a project under the
new federal setup.
The grove will be planted on
blocks IL and IL of the Second
addition. This property has been
decided to the city from the Brown
estate to be used as public park
for the city. In its deliberations
last night the council stressed the
fact that this will not be consid-
cred a public playground area but
simply a beautiful spot at the
south entrance to the city.
The council will meet with
Claude Beelman. Los Angeles ar
chitect, at 2 o'clock tomorrow af-
ternoon to consider new plans
drawn up for the proposed COM
bination city hall and library. Two
sets of these plans have already
been discussed by the council and
library boards and the latest plans
will include suggested changes in
the former sets.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
PROBE
LEARNS MORE
ON TELEGRA|NS
Witness Testifies Deliberate
Effort Made To Destroy Or
Conceal Evidence
BY RONALD q. VANTINE

WASHINGTON, July he. w.
OBrien, employee of an Associated
Gas and Electric Co. subsidiary,
told the senate lobby committee to-
day that it was a true conclusion"
that deliberate efforts were made to
conceal and destroy evidence of the
firms 100000 campaign against
the Wheeler-R -Rayburn utilities bill.
Records were destroyed on the
eve of congressional investigation
and payments made by cash or
personal checks on orders of his
superiors, O'Brien said, in relating
what Sen. Lewis D. Schwellenbach
Dem0 Washington, characterized
a policy of concealment."
OBriens testimony came as the
committee learned that:
Associated Gas & Electric paid
for more than 1000 kilograms dis
patched to congressman from War
ren, Pa, and additional kilograms
of unknown number from other
points protesting against the utili-
ties bill.
Warren kilograms were signed
with names taken from a city di-
rectory because r. w. Heron, util-
tiles employee, took it for grant
ed" the people were against the
bill.
Records of the campaign at War
ren, Erie and other Pennsylvania
cities were destroyed on orders from
DnnaI cnnIIritinC "
ecutive to clear out your files" be-
cause they were "cluttered up"
Paid in Cash
Payments of $4,000 for protest"
kilograms were made in cash or Or
ders from the same source. Lobby
funds against the bill SO far re-
vealed total over $1,000,000.
O'Brien testified he was instruct
ed to clear out his own files on the
utilities campaign and passed the
word along to divisional offices in
Pennsylvania. He said he received
$500 from the Ithaca investment
office headed by Beach to pay for
kilograms and dispersed $4,000 in
cash. He insisted however, that
there was nothing discriminatory to
conceal.
AS the senate inquiry proceeded,
Rep. Hamilton Fish CRepD New
York, called upon the house for
eign affairs committee for investi-
cation of lobbying by war and navy
subordinates against
pending in congress.
Fish asked the inquiry on the
basis of evidence revealed by the
senate munitions committee invest
igation.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Mx& RozN~,
Q 1855. Aslsasrhs sysksssas. lna
MPLOYEES ON
NRA STAFF To
Be DISMISSED

WASHINGTON, July 18 (U.P =
Four thousand federal employees
today dread the postman's ring,
fearing the mail will bring word
that they have been dropped from
the Blue Eagles shrinking payrolls.
The staff reduction at NRA, per-
haps the all-time greatest in any
government agency, at least since
the world war, goes on day by day.
Eleven hundred and one employees
already have received notice of dis
missal.
We're doing clean cut job, :"
said one of the firing squad" "It
must be done humanely," said
James F. O'Neill, New York banker
and acting administrator Its
being done shameleSsly" said one of
those reduced"
The peak of employment at NRA
found 5,100 persons helping to ad-
minister the codes which were in
validated by the supreme court.
These workers were scattered
through II office buildings here, g.
500 of them, and the remainder in
So field offices throughout the
country.
Bradish J. Carroll, Jr., assistant
to O'NeiIl on personnel problems,
said today that of those dismissed,
about 4C0 had been placed in other
government jobs, or had found jobs
for themselves in government or
private industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Copy Of PoWer
Application Is
Sent To Capital

A copy of the application made
by the irrigation district for funds
to carry out its power development
and distribution program has been
presented to federal officials in
Washington, D. c., according to
information contained in letter
received at district headquarters
this morning from Phil D. Swing,
special district representative A
careful study of this document is
being made by the officials, the
letter stated.
This is not the formal applica-
ton for these funds as that docu-
men is still in the hands of state
officials to whom it had to be
given for examination and appro-
val before being sent on to Wash
ington. 1t was filed in Sacramento
some weeks ago and will probably
be forwarded to Washington in a
short time.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
CAPONE AIDE IS
ASSASSINATED
BY GANGSTERS
Familiar Chicago Style Used In
Staying Of Man Whom Police
Had Been Unable To Get

CHICAGO, July 18. UP)-Louis
(Two-Gum Alterie, one of the last
of the old guard Of Chicago gang
land as organized by Al Capone,
was asSassinated today in a typical
gang killing.
Alterie, who operated a dude
ranch in Colorado when the heat"
became too great in Chicago, died
on hospital operating table at
9:45 a. M, an hour after he had
been ambushed as he left his hotel
home with his attractive wife, Erma
Alterie.
Mrs. Alterie was unharmed deS-
pite the fact she was within few
feet of her husband when he was
moved down with machine gun and
shotgun bullets.
Capt. Daniel Gilbert, who with
other Chicago authorities has spent
years trying to obtain a conviction
against Alterie on major charge
of law violation, said the man who
finally ended his spectacular gang
land career probably were rivals in
IIlS ldDOT ulllOIl TdChtG.
When Alterie was not in Color
ado in the quiet seclusion of his
ranch he was leading the Chicago
Flat Janitors Union Local No. 25.
Gilbert speculated that he likely
had been trying to muscle in" on
other business and so brought
about a renewal of old-time Chi
cago gang retribution tactics.
Just as Chicago gang killings
have been dramatized on stage and
screen with the Slayers hiding
themselves in a building across the
street from the victims home, so
Alterie went to his death today.
Woman Not Hit
1t was a bright sunny morning
as Mrs. AIterie came out Of the
hotel few steps in front of her
husband. Alterie perhaps turned
to speak a word to the doorman.
In any event he was far enough
behind his wife when they turned
into the street that his asSaSsins
found him an easy mark without
so much as touching the defense
less woman.
The killers guns were poked from
shaded window in the building
across the way. AS soon as they
had laid down their barrage and
before police arrived the room was
vacated. 1t was a furnished room
in a house that the landlady said
she had rented two days ago.
In it police found evidence indi-
eating the assassins had maintain
ed a long vigil waiting the day
light appearance of their victim.
Cigarette stubbs Uttered the floor.
On the bed was an automatic rifle
and a shotgun. The rifle was
equipped with telescope sights,
There was also trunk in which
the weapons apparently had been
smuggled in.
Witnesses said Alterie threw his
arms about his head, as if to shield
himself from the bullets, spun
crafty and collapsed on the side
walk when the, barrage began.
He was taken to hospital where
an emergency operation was at
tempted to save his life but there
he died. Surgeons found nine
bullet wounds in his head and SiX
in his left shoulder.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
|MAHAN CLUE
REPORTED At.
ESCOND|DO

SAN DIEGO, Calf, July 18 tUP
While officers searched for Will
liam Mahan, fugitive George Weyer-
haeuser kidnaper, in the Salt Lake
area, deputy sheriffs here today
sought man answering the alleged
kidnaper's description.
A group of citizens, including
former sheriff Ed Cooper, reported
to the sheriff'S office man who
looked like Mahan" was seen in the
Golden Peak Tavern at Escondido
last night.
According to sheriff's deputies,
the man told diners he had just
come "in from Washington" and
was there at the time of the kid
naping.
He was said to have been very
much interested" in the outcome OF
trials in the case.
LOS ANGELES, July 18 U,D-On
advices from San Diego that man
resembling william Mahan, fugitive
George Weyerhaeuser kidnaper, had
been seen in Escondido, deputy
sheriffs and federal officers watch
ed all highways leading from San
Diego to Los Angeles today,
Sheriff Eugene w. Biscailuz as
signed deputies to patrol highways
with orders to halt and question the
suspect, reported to be driving a
blue or green roadster.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Mar, Hurt When
Struck By Timber

While standing on a street cor
ner in Holtville at O'Clock last
night, Leslie Whitlock was struck
in the back of the neck by a piece
of timber protruding from a truck
driven by Walter Nanni, of Holt
vile, according to a report filed at
the sheriff's office.
Whitlock suffered a broken neck
and possible fractured skull by the
accident and is in a serious con-
dition at the Holtville hospital, ac-
cording to information received
here this morning. The accident
happened when Nanni started to
turn his truck at the corner. The
protruding timber, the report states,
had no warning signal attached to
it,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Filipinos Fail To
Giue Air Franchise

MANILA, July 10. W.P) - The
Philippine legislature today recessed
until September % without acting
upon the general tariff bill or the
grant of franchise to Pan-Amer-
ican Always for landing base.
H. NJ. Bixby, Pan-American vice.
president, was asked today whether
the line would proceed further on
an experimental basis, which is
possible without a franchise, or
whether it would undertake direct
flights between Guam and Hong
kong, eliminating the proposed
Manila stop.
Bixby refused to make any COM
mitment.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
DIPLOMATIC DEAL TO JUSTIFY ITALYS POSITION
House Passes Bill Banning Suits Over Gold Clause B
TWo Injured AS
Autos Collide

Bradford Kilgore, IT, and Miss
German Thibodeaux, Is, both of
this city. received painful injuries
in an automobile accident which
happened on the highway four
miles south of Brawley at $3.50 o.
clock last night according to re-
ports filed here.
The accident was caused when
E. Rodeman of BraWley, stopped
his car on the highway shoulder in
order to eXtinguish blaze which
had started in the engine. S. B.
Weeks, followin gbehind Rodeman,
pulled up and parked his car on
the highway when another car dri-
ven by C. l.. Zinn, El Centro, drove
into the rear of Weeks car in
juring the two persons.
They were taken to La Solana
hospital for treatment where their
injuries were pronounced not SER
ious. Several stitches were neces-
sary to close some of the gashes
on head and face which bled pro-
fusely.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Santa Ana Girl Is
Winner At Salinas

SALINAS, Calf, July 18. UP
Barbara Rowland, II, senior at
Santa Ana high school, today was
chosen CALIFORNIA; representative
outdoor public high school girl, at
the Salinas rodeo.
Miss Rowland, the daughter OF
Fred c. Rowland, mayor of Santa
Ana, competed against AZ other
contestants.
The winner is dark haired and
weighs 140 pounds. She is five feet
ia inches tall.
Only the winner was announced.
Miss Rowland will be introduced
with the other candidates when
Governor Merriam officially opens
the rodeo today. Her reward for
winning will be a free trip to Ha-
Waii.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Planning inherited
Flight Over Line

LOS ANGELES, July ID. W.H -
Bernadine Lewis King, slim young
holder of the womens world upside
down record, planned today to be
the first feminine flyer to make an
inverted crossing from Mexico to
the United States.
She said she would take off
from Aqua Caliente tomorrow fore
noon and fly inverted to San Diego
or Oceanside. She will be escorted
by Capt. Claude Morgan of the
sheriff's flying squad.
Miss King established an official
world record several weeks ago
when she remained aloft 25 min
uteS, &c seconds.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
SAN JOAQUIN
TEMPERATURE
SHOW DROP

FRESNO, Calf, July Is U.p -
Slightly lower temperatures here and
a decrease in humidity today
brought temporary relief to Fresno
and the central San Joaquin Valley.
The official thermometer reading
at noon today was 80 degrees and
the humidity 81 percent as COM
pared to 102 degrees and 26 percent
as recorded yesterday. There were
no reports of proStration cases.
While the heat was expected 70
increase during the afternoon
weather bureau officials did not be-
lieve it would approach the maxi
mum of Ill degrees set Tuesday.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, July 18 OR
"A light south wind today caused
a break in the heat wave here,
thermometers registering 10 degrees
below the high marks of yesterday.
At noon a temperature of 90 was
reported by the weather bureau,
compared with 102 at the same time
yesterday.
In the upper valley, however, the
mercury continued to reach high
marks today, with cooler weather
predicted for tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
MINE VICTIMS FOUND

VAN LEAR, KY, July 18 W,P) -
Bodies of seven of the nine men
trapped by an explosion and cave-in
at the Consolidated Coal company'S
No. 5 mine here were brought to
the surface by rescue crews today.
Rescue workers dug the bodies from
the debris after being hampered for
II hours by a fire which followed
the gas explosion.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
PRESIDENT Of
CHINA 8 SON
IN HOT SPOT.
Father Disapproves Of Marriage
To American College Girl Now
Admitted By Younger Man
BY RALPH TEATSORTH
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

COLUMBUS, O., July 18 U.R)-K.
M. James Lin, foster son of Lin Sen,
president of China, was in a real
matrimonial quandary today.
jimmy" who began a lightning
courtship with Viola Brown, "a, five
-ten-cent store clerk, shortly
after he began studying at Ohio
State University last spring, said
today there no longer was any
secret about his marriage to Miss
Brown in Ashland, KY, last Sunday.
But Jimmy said he felt very ill"
after he had been informed of vari-
Gus cable reports from China which
stated that his foster father dIsap-
proved of his marriage to the white
girl, and that he had been married
a least once before and had several
children in China.
Reports of his previous marriages
he denied.
THAT is not true" Jimmy told
the United Press. Americans can
not understand. My father, he has
many political enemies. China, she
has SO many political parties
He was shaken noticeably by
word of his fathers disapproval. He
asked that the news dispatch be re-
peated.
THAT, 1 can believe" the dapper
looking Chinese youth said. That,
I think, is the truth. My father, he
does not yet understand"
Writes To Father
Lin said his father would under
stand when he received letter
mailed here yesterday. That will be
in about three weeks he said.
"This is my business; not my
fathers business" Lin said. Il in
tend to stay married. Perhaps we'll
take an apartment close to the Uni
yersity soon"
Mrs. Lin, nee Miss Brown, spent
last night with her husband at his
rooming house. She decided not to
be interviewed and remained in her
room. The landlady said she had
been crying.
NANKING, China, July 18 W.P)-
President Lin Sen telegraphed from
his vacation retreat today to the
United Press, responding to an in
quiry regarding his attitude to the
reported marriage of his nephew
and adopted son, James Lin to
Viola Brown, of Columbus, Ohio. He
said:
Concerning the matter regarding
which you asked, disapproye."
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
SENATE FIGHT
EXPECTED To
Be RED HOT"
Measure Rushed Through By
Democrats After Abbreviated
Debate Permitted
REPUTATION" CHARGED
Republican Members Assert
That Government Seeking To
Sidestep Honest Debts

WASHINGTON, July 18. U,P)-
The house today passed the ad-
ministration's bill barring gold
clause suits against the govern
ment. and sent the measure to the
senate where it faces bitter fight.
The bill prevents government
bondholders from filing court claims
to collect, because of alleged losses
due to gold devaluation, $1.69 on
each 81 invested in government Sc
curitles before the gold action was
taken.
It was rushed through tn e
strongly Democratic house after
abbreviated debate in which Re
publicans charged the government
was proposing Reputation" of con-
tracts.
The bill. they asserted, would af-
feet the credit of the government
by causing loss of public conf
dence in federal obligations. Hold
ers of $4,000 100000 in government
gold clause" bonds would get cash
for their securities at the devalu-
ated dollar level, but the bill pre-
vents them from starting action in
the court of claims for the full
gold clause" value.
BY passing the bill, the house was
left with but three major must"
measures in the way of adjourn
ment. These are the Guffey coal
bill, federal liquor control bill and
tIoo fou YipI, f11pocI1rn
WASHINGTON, July 18. U.P)-
Sen. William E. Borah (Rep0 Ida
ho. opened a senate battle against
one section of the proposed Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act amendments
today shortly after the goVernmtnt
had declared it would continue to
seek collection of processing taxes
in all cases except that of the
Hoosac Mills.
Borah opposed a provision deny
ing taxpayers the right to sue for
recovery of payments if the act is
found illegal.
Il do not think" he said. you
can take from citizen the right
to go into court to right wrong
done him by the government"
He said the tradition that the
government must give its consent to
be sued was "grievous fiction, that
was started when the king could
do no wrong and in those days he
usually did nothing but wrong"
He said many leading jurists held
that consent of the sovereign was
not necessary for a citizen to sue.
Sen. Joseph T. Robinson, CDem),
Arkansas, said the provision was
merely to protect the government
as the processing taxes had all been
passed on to the consumer.
I've had large number of tele-
grams from small independent COM
panies," Borah said, "who were
unable to pass it on"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Heat Claims TuUo
Valley Residents

Yesterdays heat, which reached a
maximum of ll5 degrees, was
blamed for two deaths in the county.
one at Westmorland and one at
Brawley.
Henry Barron, Westmorland resi-
dent, was found dead in his bed late
yesterday afternoon and Gabriel
Ponce succumbed to a heat stroke
in Brawley earlier in the day.
No inquests are planned In these
gases, the eoroner's office reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
BY FREDERICK KUH
United Press Staff Correspondent

I United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON. July ia diplomatic
deal to justify Italys drive against
Ethiopia and give Emperor Halle
! Selassie the choice of war or uncon-
ditional surrender to the powers
terms was indicated today as the
British cabinet met to discuss the
crisis.
The League of Nations Council
will meet at Geneva between July
Is and August to consider the
Ttalian-Ethiopian situation.
But meantime, Great Britain is
urging a pre-council meeting Of
the three allied nations, Britain,
France and Italy, to work out a
plan which would avert the posi-
bility that some small nation repre-
Sented in the council might defend
Ethiopias cause.
Britain is urging also that Italy
itself raise the Ethiopian crisis in
the council, and outline its COM
plants and its demands.
Technically, the council is sup
posed to meet July 25 to name a
neutral chairman, with a deciding
vote, for a joint talian-Ethiopian
commission named to rule on re-
sponsibility for frontier clashes.
Actually there seemed an in
creasingly large chance that the
whole Ethiopian problem would be
considered, and the council invited
to decide that Ethiopia needs the
civilizing influence of Fascist Italy.
Basis for such a course would be
the slave trade, which Ethiopia
promised to end when it was adj
mitted to the league, and Italy's
complaints of attacks on its nations
ais by Nomad tribesmen.
Neither France nor Britain wants
war between Italy and Ethiopia.
France has begun to worry about
its railroad from Djibouti, seaport
of French Somaliland, to Adds
Ababa, and wants to make sure 1t
will be regarded as neutral terri
tory if there is fighting. This
might be a difficult matter, as
Ethiopia would want to use it for
troop transport. Brlta1n'S interests
in Keyna colony and the Sudan,
bordering on Ethiopia, would not
be served by war.
ROME, July IS. W.R)-France has
proposed that Italy be granted a
protectorate over Ethiopia similar
to that of Great Britain over
Egypt, it was learned from author
itative sources here today.
Spirited diplomatic exchanges
have passed among France, Italy
and Great Britain in the last few
days with the three powers at
tempting to reach a settlement in
the Italo-E Ethiopian dispute.
France is willing to concede
greater share to Italy in Ethiopian
affairs, it was said authoritatively.
but now has learned that this is op-
posed by Great Britain.
Forthcoming decisions by the
League of Nations were expected to
Continued on page Sd
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Dionne Babies
DrauU Tourists

NORTH BAY, Ont, July 18 W.P)---
Almost as many tourists visit this
northern Ontario city-attracted by
the Dionne quintuplets-in one week
this year as did in a month in
former years, the tourists informa-
ton bureau reported today. Cali
lander. where the babies live at the
Dafoe hospital, is less than IL miles
from here.
DR.. Allan Roy Dafoe. their
physician, is beseiged daily by be-
tween $50 and 200 visitors who ask
endless questions about his charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
IRISH POET DEAD

BOURNEMOUTH, England, July
l8. UP)-George Russell, Irish poet
known throughout the world under
his pen name "AE," died last night,
He was g. Russell was editor for
many years of the Irish States
man" He made a most successful
lecture tour of the United States in
1880.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
MOZEE FUNERAL HELD

Funeral services for Eliza Mozee,
$40 South Third street, were held
today at 2:30 .. m. from the chapel
of B. E. Lemons with Rev. Thomas
j. Hughes of the A. M. E. church
officiating. Burial was in Ever
green cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
Baseball Scores
BY United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE

At New York r H E
st. Louis 1000 010 900 03-4 8 O
New York ...... 100 900 900 00-1 10 O
Coffman and Hemsley; Ruffing,
Malone, Deshong and Dickey.
AT Philadelphia r H f
Cleveland 200 900 32O-5 9 O
Philadelphia 900 200 14x-7 9 l
Hudlin, l.. Brown and Phillips:
Marcum and Richards.
At Boston r H E
Detroit ................ .030 200 003-8 8 1
Boston 100 900 000-0 8
Rowe and Cochrane; w. Ferrell
and r. FeIrell.
At Washington R H E
Chicago 100 Ill 1904 8 2
Washington ......002 300 10x-6 13 2
Tietje, Salveson and Sewell;
Newsom and Bolton.