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Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
YOUNG COUPLE
ON VERGE OF
STARVATION
Home Turned Into
Replica of Prison
Death House

HUNTINGTON PARK,
CAL, Aug. %. (UP) Mr..
and Mrs. Durand V. eleven
ger were found dead, side
by side on the bathroom
floor of their home, today by dep
uty sheriffs to whom they mailed
suicide letter and the house key.
The couple apparently had end
ed their lives with the same dead
ly gas used in Nevada's official
execution chambers.
The note warned authorities to
don gas masks and use caution
because they had made of their
small home a replica of prison
death house.
While police lines held back a
crowd, firemen were called. They
opened the door with the key that
was inclosed with the note, and
opened the windows to clear out
the fumes. Then police entered
and found the bodies.
Lost Job
Clevenger, % years of age, was
discharged from his job as clerk
in a Los Angeles wholesale grocery
house Monday. His wife, clad in
a fresh new pink print dress, was
about "a. The house was stripped
of furniture indicating they had
been selling their belonging to buy
Continued on Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
RULER OF 100000
Who Has Income of 20 Million a Year
MADE COP m L. A.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. %. WR)-
The slim, athletic Maharajah of
IndOre today should be fighting an
almost overwhelming desire to viO-
late speed laws as he cruises
around Hollywood i'm his roadster
if he lis victim of the same i'm
pulses which strike the average
person.
For the Maharajah today wears
a police captains badge pinned to
his vest and for additional pr0tec-
ton carries a deputy sheriff's
badge i'm his pocket.
The ruler of nearly 100000 peO-
pie of India who has personal in
come of S70,000,00O a year yesterday
was described as "tinkled pink"
when made a member of the Los
Angeles city and county law forces.
The Oxf0rd-educated potentate
put Mayor Frank Shaw of Los An
geles at his ease by shaking hands
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28

of mandate ordering Secretary of
State Frank G. Jordan not to place
the proposed initiative on the Nov
ember general election ballot.
The decision represented a victory
for the state congress of parents
and teachers which had pleaded
the proposed amendment, if adopt
ed, would cut heavily into school
revenues.
Opponents of the repeal amend
ment argued that the title of the
measure was misleading and de-
ceptiye" and that those who sign
ed petitions to place it on the ballot
were not aware of its real signifi-
canoe. They said the proposal did
not make it sufficiently clear that
a tax on land would be substituted
for the sales tax levy.
Chief Justice William Waste, in
a 10-page decision, confirmed this
contention, holding that the title
was defective in that it permitted
misapprehension.
Justice Emmett Seawell, who
alone dissented from the opinion,
argued that technicalities should
not keep off the ballot a measure
the public wanted and that the law
should be interpreted literally in
determining what shall be placed
before the voters.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28

sdlcy bOCdy.
Blackeit, who claimed to have
met wandering prospector in the
wild country near the Mexican
border who said he was Justice
Crater, went on Strike" this morn
ing.
The 300-pound miner, who wears
enormous mutton chop Whiskers,
and who sports a big six-gun, ten
gallon hat and boots, refused to
bulge an inch in the search for
Crater until he was paid $50.
While neWSpapermen fought
sandtleas and sunburn, and the
posses of reporters, photographers
and neWSreel men sWelled to 20,
Blackiet dickered with the two po-
licemen who came 100 miles from
Los Angeles on his promise to
lead them to Crater
The auxiliary army of neWSmen
came to the rescue. They passed
a hat around and collected ap-
proximately $25.
Though the search for the miss
ing jurist neared Imperial county
today, officers at Ell Centre have
not yet been requested to give as
siStance.
The posse followed a rough road
toward rugged mountains bordering
the desert. Blackiet said they were
headed for a spot six miles distant
where he met the mysterious pros
pector claiming to be the missing
Crater.
After questioning Blackiet, Cap
tain Allen announced:
Il believe 'Blackie' knows where
this man is now. Five years ago
we had a tip about Crater being
in National City, Calf, (about 65
Continued on Page 6; Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28

and smiling as the city official fig
uratively handed him the keys to
the city in brief speech.
Deputy Chief Of Police Joseph
Taylor then requested the honor of
making the Maharajah an honor
ary police captain. The Mahara-
jah accepted the goId-plated badge
with thanks. Undersheriff A. C.
Jewell went through the same cer-
emOny for the county.
To conform the potentate's claim
that no more attention was paid to
him than to any other tourist, the
politicians i'm the corridors of the
city hall did not remove even their
cigars as His Highness Mahara-
jdhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai
Yeshwant Rao KOlkar Bahadur,
captain of the Los Angeles police,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28

Mr.. Roosevelt set out on tour
of his own the first day of his dust
bowl visit, driving into the very
yards of embattled farmers who,
overall-clad and hat in hand,
painted in simple words a vivid
picture of the effects of soaring
sun and no rainfall on their crops.
What I have seen," the presi-
dent said on his return, confirms
me in the belief that I have had
for long time-the belief that we
are going TO win on this problem"
Meanwhile, observers commented
on the intimate approach to the
drought problem adopted by the
president when he motored to the
weather. beaten homes of two agri-
culturists about 20 miles from Bis
marck yesterday.
He asked the first farmer, j. j.
Boehme about his acreage. crops,
water supply and cattle.
What about your crop prospects
this year?"
The red-faced Boehme, who re-
ferred to him as President" in
stead of the customary "Mr. Pres
ident," replied in a strong Ger
man accent:
Everything burned up, I have
Mt harvested a thing"
Mr.. Roosevelts schedule calls
for him to be in Pierre, S. D., to-
morrow for another drought con-
ference. He will spend Saturday
night and part of Sunday in Rapid
City, S. D.
From Rapid City he will go to
Salt Lake City where on Tuesday
he will attend funeral services for
Secretary of War George Dern.
After four hours there he will move
eastward to resume the drought
discussions
AS a result of the last minute
change in plans he now is ex-
pected to meet with Governor Lam
don and other state executives at
Des Moines Sept. 3 instead of
Sept. l as originally arranged.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
GEORGE ELLIS
FUNERAL HELD
AT BRAWLEY

Last rites for George Ellis, o.
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Ellis of Brawley, were con-
Quoted from the Syrian church in
Brawley at o'clock Friday after
noon. The burial will take place at
the Inglewood cemetery in Los An
geles.
Young Ellis died at Brawley
hospital at II o'clock Wednesday
night of complications following an
appendicitis operation.
During his high school and junior
college days he played football at
CaleXico and Brawley. He also was
prominent in other branches of
amateur athletics and played soft
ball in Imperial Valley several sea-
sons.
He was part owner of mercantile
establishment in Calexico and made
his home there for the last few
years.
He is survived by his parents,
five brothers and other relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
GUNS BOOM IN
FINAL TRIBUTE
TO SECY DERN

LOS ANGELES, Aug. %. Wp)-A
cannon doomed every half hour at
Fort Macarthur today in memory
of Secretary of War George Dern,
who died yesterday.
The cannonading started at 7:30
a. m. and was to end at retreat"
5 p. m. with 19gun salute. The
same gun-fire tribute was paid at
March field and officers of both
posts will wear mourning bands
and crepe on their sabers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
'MEXICALI ROSE
COMPOSER TO
BE LEGISLATOR

Jack Tenney, composer Of the
popular ballad, "Mexicali Rose"
and at one time leader of the
dance orchestra at the A.B.W.
club i'm Mexicali, was nominated
to the assembly from the Ingle-
wood district by an 0verwhelm-
ing vote at the recent election.
After he left Imperial Valley
several years ago, Tenney stud
led law and passed the bar ex-
animation last spring and was
admitted to practice in Califor-
mia.
The musician led the orchestra
for many years and was widely
sought to provide music at club
and private dances throughout
the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
VICTORIES IN
WAR CLAIMED
BY BOTH SIDES
Rebels Fail in Third
Attack on Irun |
Held by Loyalists
Copyright, 1896, by United Press)

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Copyright, 1896, by United Press)
LISBON, Aug. %. (UP)-
Spain's civil war was a con-
fusion of battles, sieges,
marches and counter-march-
es, complicated by conflict
ing wireless claims of victory, as
its sixth week ended today.
The main fighting was Irun,
key to the San. Sebastian area,
where rebels for the third day at
tackled the city and had not pene-
trated it or, apparently, weakened
the loyalist defense.
White flags were seen fluttering
from private homes on the outskirts
of rebel-held Oviedo in the north
and they were believed an indica-
ton the civil population was weak
ening in face of the long siege by
Asturias miners.
The Madrid government n =
nounced the arrival of Marcel Ros-
enberg, Russia's first ambassador
to Spain since the World war.
It was regarded an important
diplomatic development at time
when other countries are emptying
their embassies and some even clos
ing them.
Today's war news opened with a
rebel radio claim of a victory of
importance in the Guadarrama
mountains northwest of Madrid. 1t
was asserted rebels killed many
militiamen of the brilliant loyalist
commandant, Gen. Julio Mangada,
holding the Nayalperal area.
A loyalist broadcast said IS 300
pound bombs were dropped onto
building occupied by rebels at Owl
edo.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
GREEK FACES
COURT CHARGE,
$500 BAIL SET

Nick Barlas, Ell Centro Greek, was
arraigned in Ell Centro justice court
Friday on charges of contributing to
the delinquency of minor. The
Greek and 16-year-old youth were
arrested Thursday night by El Gen.
tro police officers.
Bail was set at $500 by Judge
John E. Simpson and the prelim-
mary hearing was set for Wednes-
day morning.
Preliminary hearing for Jack
Smith, accused of non-support of
minor children, was set for 2:30
o'clock Monday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
RED OFFICERS
ARRESTED IN
SOVIET PURGE

MOSCOW, Aug. 28. Wp) - Josef
Stalin's war against "Trotzkyist"
elements was continued today with
the arrest of two more high-rank-
ing red army officers suspected of
counter-revolution.
They were Brigade Commander
Dimitry Schmidt and Boris Kuz-
micsov, commander of an unidenti-
fled military unit.
Their arrest followed that yester-
day of Gen. Vitovta Punta, Soviet
military attache in London.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
Last Minute
FLASHES |!
FAVORITE BEATEN
IN STATE GOLF

DEL MONTE, Cal, Aug. 28(UP)
Jim Rea, 26-year- old San jose
youth, administered the biggest
upset of the week to fans who
have been gallerying the state
amateur golf championship when
he defeated Roger Kelly, Los An
geles, 3 and 2, today.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
Hopes for Settling
Seattle Strike Dim

SEATTLE, Aug. 28. WH-Pros-
poets of a settlement of the news
paper guild strike which caused
suspension of the Seattle Post In
telligencer for two weeks, appeared
even more remote today with the
departure from Seattle of Harvey
j. Kelly.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
Fears Quieted Over
Pope Plus Health

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Aug.
%. U.D-Pope Plus today received
several visitors, did normal days
work and went riding in his auto
mobile, thus alleviating any immed-
late anxiety over his health.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
ROUND TRIP FLIGHT
TO LONDON DELAYED

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S. - WF)
The proposed round trip flight
Of Richard Merrill, veteran trans
port pilot, and Harry Richman.
night club entertainer. 10 London
YVES postponed today until Sun
dav.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
FRISCO STAR BEATS
CHAMP IN TOURNEY

SOUTH BEND. Ind, Aug. 2S.
W.D-D0r0thy T'aung, hard-hit-
ting San Francisco star, today
ended Marion Miley's drive for
second straight women's western
golf championship upsetting the
Lexington, Ky, champion, one
up.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
STATE COURT KILLS
SINGLE LEVY PLAN
COMMUNICATION
WITH HE'LL CUT

HE'LL, Mich, Aug. %. Wp)-An
communication with He'll was
disrupted last night. John Press
ley walked five miles to Pickney
for help after three youthful hi
jackers clipped Hells only tele-
phone line. The youths escaped
after r0bbing two slot machines
in a store operated by Presley
and his brother, James.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28

RR Should Know
Warren Nice should be learning
by this time that you can win an
argument from a woman, but you
cannot get the last word. err has
been trying and failing for 10!
these many years) Warren won
his argument when Mrs. Nice and
Mrs. Faye Manley voted early this
week, but even a tip to this column
didn't get him the last word. (They
were the two who went to the
Harding school precinct clad IN
shorts) 1t was purely and simply
a case of being shanghaied on the
pretext that they were to be taken
to Kenyon's plunge, then being
dropped off at the voting place
instead, Mrs. Manley charged-and
Mrs. Nice's assent left no doubt
that Warren is fighting a losing
battle.
hunters On Run
Massie Horton, back from vaca-
ton, decided to get his shotgun IN
shape for dove season. Returning
from the repair shop Thursday
afternoon he dropped in to chat
with the boys at a local grog shop,
shotgun carried across his arm.
Massie leaned the shotgun In the
corner, where its ownership was
not apparent, and proceeded to-
explain to everyone who came in
that some chap with wild CLINT
in his eye had propped it up there,
promising to return Immediately.
Three young bachelors left their
drinks untouched en- route from
front to back door. The manage
ment finally protested that Mas
sizes story was bad for business.
Like Father, Like Daughter
Bill Clements, who weakened saf-
ter a similar resolution early this
wear. had renewed his vow Friday
to leave his daughter, Kay, at home
hereafter when he goes deep sea
fishing. Kay repeated her earlier
feat by landing the biggest fish
brought to gaff during days fish
ing this Week-and she got the
piscatorial beauty on a small rod
after tWo-hour battle. And Bill
-yasn't even runner-up.
%
Singside Seats
Latest additions to the free-view
group at the midget auto races
sighting the spills from atop an
automobile - are Baird Rehkopf,
Jerry Mullen, Bill Pennington, Lee
Nuffer, AL Caplin and family, ana
Doc L. A. Bowman. It's a wonder
the auto top held out.
O.
Sometimes They Tumble
Another group of free-viewers at
the midget run-abouts Thursday
evening added one pound too many
to their leafy perch, with disas-
trous results. One by one the
non-paying customers sWarmed in
to Tightwad Tree on the east side
of the race track, until 1t looked
like q huge swarm of very large
crickets infested the waist-thick
limb which affords good view of
the races. Then one more added
his weight There was a creak-
ing that became a cracking, and
the limb shattered down near the
bole. In Welter of arms, legs,
prayers and non- praying exclama-
tions. the free viewers hit the
ground in all directions. Now they
know how the racers feel in a
spill.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
CHEERING T7RONGS
GREET LANDON ON
CAMPAIGN SWING

TOPEKA Kans, Aug %. WP-Gov Alf M Landon o
his gubenatora job deeply graifed"
campaign swing through the farm belt
ready President
welcomed him through
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
ROOSEVELT CONFERS
WITH FARMERS IN
DROUTH>HIT SECTOR

Aug. 90 WP President Roose-
ve victory this sunaked
swirng dust from Bismarck to
jamestown, N D, today.
He head D, the afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
Tribunal Rules Against Proposed Change in
Constitution Providing Repeal of
California Sales Tax

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 49, (UP)-The California
state supreme court in split decision last night killed
the proposed constitutional amendment which would have
repealed the state sales tax and substituted snge tax
land for state raising The issued writ
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
.JuriSf Hunfed n
Hills Near Valley
Bearded Miner avith Six>G,n
Leads Posse in Search
For Missing Judge

WARMERS HOT SPRINGS, Cal, Aug %. (UP)-
After newspapermen broke mpasse by raising $25
pot" for Lucky Backiet, their bewhiskered guide a
posse searching for the missing justice Joseph Crater
of New York. moved off into the mountains Imperial
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-28
MARKETS an BRIEF

butter; Los Angeles 3zHe; butter
Fat. Imperial Valley Fob, ranch,
Grade A, 45e; manufa cturIug milk,
4Olze; route gathered cream, 3712c.
l.. A. Hny--U. $. No. I extra leafy,
$1S.5O-19.OO, u. =. No. 4, S15.50-18.0O;
u. =. No. 2 leafy. S14.5O-15.OO, u. 3.
No. =, 1880; Minneapolis flax 2O01a-
2I6A.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-02-20
DLPHTHERIA IMMUNITY
HARDER AMONG RURALS
Records Show City Children
Easier to Protect With TOxOid

DR.. E. C. Peck, health officer, who
has been going over the school rec
ord cards to determine the results of
diphtheria immunization and other
work carried on in the schools of the
county during the last two years, is
apparently getting similar results to
DR.. Cameron of Hagerstown who
studied the results in Washington
county, and found that children in the
rural schools do not become immune
to diphtheria as easily as those in city
schools where the contact with people
in crowds is more common.
The toxoid which is used to protect
children against diphtheria makes
most of them immune with one dose
but testing the children with the
Schick test few months later shows
that a great many of them need a
second dose of toxoid to make them
immune from this disease, DR.. Peck
stated. s
In sending out the diphtheria re-
quests this year to the parents, the
school records have been sorted over
and all children who have had enough
toxoid to make them immune as shown
by negative Schick test have not
been given the yellow slips to take
home. In every case where a child is
given a yellow slip to take home, a
study of the child's record showed
first that it was advisable for him to
take the Schick test this year, it was
said.
A count of thirty children made this
week who had one dose of diphtheria
toxoid in 1884 shows that II out of the
80 were made immune and 10 need a
second dose. 1t is probable that those
who are Schick tested this year will
show a similar number who will not
need second dose of toxoid, DR..
Peck concluded.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-02-20

Alfred, seven hundred years earlier.
This was the translation of the Greed,
the Lords Prayer and the Ten Com
mandments, into English, and an or
der that these be taught by every
English schoolmaster and father of a
family to his pupils and children. 1t
was while waiting for an authorized
version to be produced by the bish-
ops, that patience ceased to be a vir-
tue, and Miles Coverdale was en-
ployed at the suggestion of Archbishop
Cranmer to correct and revise the
translation of Tyndale. This Bible he
edited and published under the avowed
patronage of Henry himself.
The story of, the royal supremacy
was craven on the title page of the
new Bible. Henry, seated on his great
throne, gives the sacred volume to
Cranmer, ere Cranmer and Cromwell
can distribute it to the throng of lay
men and priests below. Hitherto men
had looked on religious truths as a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-02-20
THE MARYLAND BIBLE
SOCIETY'S CORNER
1.-THE Word of Our God Shall Stand Forever"
Coverdale's Bible

In 1885, the very year of Tyndale's
imprisonment, came from the press
the Bible of Myles Coverdale, after
wards Bishop of Exeter, the man who
after Tyndale has played the most
prominent part of any in the history
of the English Bible. He was man
of sympathetic nature and fine literary
instinct, and the attractive English
of his translation has considerably in
fiuenced the language of the author
lied, or King James Version.
Thomas Cromwell, whose adventur-
Gus youth was a fitting preparation for
the high-handed fashion in which he
carried on in later years, as King
Henry Eighth's secretary of state,
served also an apprenticeship in the
diplomacy and state craft of that day,
under the great Wolsey. His states
manship was modelled on Mechiavelli's
ideal. 1t was he who advised Henry to
declare himself head of the Church.
His rule was a veritable reign of ter
ror, and included the suppression of
the lesser monasteries, the enslave-
ment of the clergy and other despotic
measures, which led to the inevitable
ever-reaching of ambition, and his ul-
innate execution on charge of trea-
son.
However, he did bring about certain
reforms in religion, and, with his royal
master, remained true to the stand
point of the New Learning, whose con-
tention always was for intellectual and
spiritual liberty. There was no wish
for any violent break with the eccle-
siastical forms of the past. Religious
reform rather than religious revolution
was desired; simplification of doc
trine rather than any radical change
in it; the publication of worship rather
than the introduction Of any wholly
new ritual. They sought clearing
away of all superstitious growths
which obscured the true Catholicism
of the early Church. The Articles of
religion were laid before the Convo-
cation in 1886, the doctrine Of justifi-
cation by faith was acknowledged. At
the same time pilgrimages were sup
pressed, the excessive number of holy
days curtailed, and the worship of
images and relics was discouraged in
words which seem almost copied from
the protest of Erasmus.
Now the appeal of Tyndale for a
translation of the Bible which weavers
might repeat at their shutties and
iploughmen sing at their plough was
about to receive reply. The King
had promised an English version of
the Scriptures, while prohibiting the
circulation of Tyndale's translation.
The bishops allowed the work to lag,
either through Indifference or lack
of scholarship.
However, a preliminary measure
adopted before the great work of Gov
erdale began, was of supreme value
to the cause of religion, and went far
toward carrying out the dream of King
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-02-20
SPECIAL SESSION TSET FOR.
The FIRST WEEK IN MARCH
(Continued from PAGE Onel


the work halted.
A threatened "revolt" by county
members of the House of Delegates
against what Delegate Kent R. Multi
kin (D.-Prince George's), majority
floor leader in the House, termed the
domination" by Baltimore City pol
iticians, not members of the legisla-
ture. The "revolt" would involve defeat
of Speaker Emanuel 9orfine, a Balti-
more City member. Whether the move
ment will be successful remains to be
seen.
A proposal to set up teletype sys-
tenn for the State police. This would
cost approximately $65,00O yearly.
A proposal to codify and strengthen
the State motor vehicle laws. A COM
mittee headed by John Raine, Balti-
more man, has been at work on the
proposal for almost two years.
An attempt by Baltimore City liquor
dealers to abolish the present low
cost beer and wine" retailers licenses
and impose a fiat license fee of $3.50 on
persons selling any kind of alcoholic
beverages. Such bill, known as the
Baltimore City Liquor Lobby Bill, F"
was defeated in he last minute Of the
1885 regular session.