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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-04
Wendell kidnapping Probed

DU ONtCCn ITCSS
NEW YORK, April New York
authorities laid a groundwork to-
day for kidnapping charges against
three or more men that may keep
the name of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann, and the "unsolved" mys-
teries of the Lindbergh kidnapping,
alive in the courts for many months
District Attorney William F. x.
Geoghan of Kings County Crook
lynn intimated that an investigation
of the confession" of Paul Wen
del, diSbarred Trenton attorney,
that he kidnapped Charles A. Lind
bergh Jr., would create scandal
high in New Jersey politics.
There was indication that Federal
Agents had entered the case.
He asked New Jersey authorities
to send Wendell, still held without
bail in Trenton under murder, kid
mapping, and ENLIGHTENMENT charges,
to New York City today to repeat
his charges that his confession was
extorted by torture. He also lin
vited" Chief Detective Ellis Parker
of Burlington County, N. j., close
friend of Gov. Harold c. Hoffman,
to come with Wendell to explain how
Wendell came into his custody last
week.
BY United Press
NEW YORK, April 4.-Dr. John
F. (Jafsie) Condor, whose testimony
played a major role in convicting
Bruno Richard Hauptmann of kid
mapping and murder, had mo COM
ment" to make today on Haupt-
mann's execution.
The radio to which Condor usual
" listens almost constantly in eve
nings in his Bronx home was
turned off several hours last night
before Hauptmann died. When the
executioner threw the electric chair
switch in Trenton, "Jafsie" was i'm
mersed in book in a deep arm
chair in his pleasant living room.
A few minutes later friend tele-
phoned another member of the fam
lily that Hauptmann was dead. The
educator to whom Hauptmann had
sent word that God will judge be-
tween us" sent out word that he
would say nothing more about the
case and a short time later lights in
the house were eXtinguished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-04
GAS, CAT DON'T MIX

Sparks From StrOklng OF Tabby'S
Fur May Cause Explosion.
By United Press
TORONTO, Ontario, April A.
Never stroke a cat when there's
gasoline around, w. j. Scott, On
tario fire marshal, warns. Scott
said he had heard of cases where
sparks generated from a cats fur
had caused gasoline to explode.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-04
MAKES SWISS CHEESE

Alaskan Dairyman to Market Prod
uct in Seattle.
By United Press
HOMER, Alaska, April A.
Dairyman Alfred Kohler has begun
the manufacture of Swiss cheese
on a large scale, and plans to mar
'Set the product. in Seattle. His
dairy is in the Kenai Peninsula ag-
'icultural center.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-04

Official Cert fled BY
n. n. n. as ssCeeP-
stakes sUissner orer 80
other cars in Gilmore
Yosemite Economy
Run, Jan. 9, 1886.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-04

The larger cars, in the Supercharger
class, were literally overwhelmed.
The principle of the Supercharger
las brought to the lower price field
for the first time by the Graham
brothers-is the most revolutionary
development of the last 10 years.
1t couples unmatched economy with
the smoothest and most brilliant
performance you've ever known.
Try the Graham Supercharger be-
fore you buy. Drive the sweepstakes
winner-the car that beat them all!
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

prices of meat animals.
Prices of all farm products thus
far in the year have averaged slight
ly below those of last year. Total
farm cash income, including gov
ernment payments, was IL per cent
higher in the first half of 1896 than
in the same period last year.
With the effect of the drought
on total farm income as yet un-
certain, farm income for the second
half of 1886 will depend to a con-
siderable extent on prospective crop
yields. Prices of many commodities,
such as grains, potatoes, fruits and
vegetables, eggs and dairy products,
however, are likely to average
higher than in the latter half of
1885 says the bureau. Marketings
of meat animals from supplies that
are now larger than a year ago are
likely to be further augmented by
some liquidation in the drought
area. These considerations, togeth-
er with a probable maintenance of
the improved consumer demand for
food products, the bureau says, in
dicate that farm income from prod
ucts sold during the next six
months will be higher than in the
second half of last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

months this year included SILL
100000 in payments compared with
$286,000,000 in similar payments in
the same period last year. The total
cash income of farmers in June,
including rental and benefit pay
ments, was $639 100000 compared
with $685., 100000 in May 1896 and
$468, 100000 in June 1885.
Cash income of farmers during
June from the sale of farm products
was estimated at $582 100000. This
figure represents an increase of
100000 over the same month
last year and compares with $685.
100000 received in May, 1896.
Rentals and benefit payments
paid out in June on contracts en-
tered into in 1885 and June cotton
price adjustment payments amount
ed to $57,000,000, compared with the
total of government payments in
May of $5900O,000, and in June
1895, of $30,000,000.
The increase in cash farm income
from May to June was due to the
more than seasonal increase in the
sharp advance in potato prices, and
unusually heavy marketing of cat
tie, and to the seasonal increase in
income from hogs, butter and WOOL
A noticeable advance in hog prices
during June, despite the larger sup
>olies of all kinds of livestock, re-
rcted an improvement in consum-
cr demand for meats. There was
no noticeable forced movement of
livestock in June from the drought
area, although in the first two
Ayeeks of July receipts of cattle at
\ De principal markets were running
38 per cent and of hogs 81 per cent
higher than in the same weeks a
year ago.
II Per Cent Higher
For the first half of 1896 cash
income from farm marketings in
the United States was II per cent
higher than in the same period of
1886 and was the largest for the
period since 1880. This gain in in
come over year ago was mainly
the result of larger marketings of
grains, fruits and vegetables, and
the larger marketings and higher
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

end. Crops escaped damage, B. A
Harrigan, agricultural commits
sioner, said.
Rain IN Mountains
Heavy rains fell in the Laguna
mountains and lighter rain in San
Diego. Skies were overcast
throughout southern California
Sunday. For the first time in
many days, the maximum temper
ature in El Centre dropped below
100. 1t was 81 degrees Sunday.
The minimum Monday morning
was II, a range of only % de-
grees. Mondays noon tempera-
ture topped the maximum of Sun
day when SO degrees were recorded
at the official weather station.
The forecast for southern Cali
fornia was fair Monday night and
Tuesday, slightly overcast, with
thunder showers in the mountains.
Arizona suffered most from week
end storms.
Esther Mary Carroll, 4, was
drowned when her familys tent
home was swept away by flooded
wash at Sunnyslope Saturday. Doz-
ems of shacks and cottages were
damaged or destroyed.
j. ]. Johnson, so, Negro cotton
picker, was killed by a train near
Buckeye, when, blinded by a severe
duststrom, he walked onto the
tracks.
Bob Townson, 45, Phoenix power
company lineman, was injured ia
tally Monday morning when he fell
from a truck on which he was rid
ing to repair damaged lines.
Sudden Thunderstorm
No estimate of the damage to
power and communication lines
could be made as some communities
were unable to report their plight
for hours.
The principal damage to the lines
was caused by a fierce, sudden
desert thunderstorm which struck
Saturday night unroofing many
small homes, destroying packing
sheds and starting a number of
fires in various Salt River Valley
towns.
Sunday nights storm, whipped
into the Arizona district on a high
wind, became a cloudburst within
a few minutes, and washed out
sections of railroad tracks and high
ways. Principal damage to rail
lines was near Tucson, where sew
eral hundred feet of Southern Pa
cific tracks were damaged
Highways were made impossible
in many sections by the water and
debris brought down onto the desert
by washes. The principal roads,
however, were passable again Mon
day morning, although many coun-
try roads still were deep in mud
and debris.
Serious as was the damage,
ranchers and farmers generally
hailed the storm with joy because
it brought new water supplies just
when ranges and waterholes were
drying out and facing stockmen
with serious losses.
While central Arizona and the
Parker dam area were digging out
from the muck and debris of Sat
urday night and Sunday storms, a
new deluge on the California side
of the line Monday morning tore
out already damaged railroad rights.
of-way, and turned the Colorado
river aqueduct into a raging river
Storm waters were roaring agair
in six-mile area washed out or
the Santa Fe Phoenix line. The
canal that will carry Colorado riv-
er water to Los Angeles was run.
ming one-fourth full with water ano
debris. 1t was raining at King
man, Ariz., and Needles, Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
SIXTY ATTEND
ENGAGEMENT
ANNOUNCEMENT

More than go friends and rela-
tives gathered at the A. Fiore home
in Redlands Sunday to hear the an
nouncement of the engagement of
Miss Josephine Maggie, Ell Centro'
and Anthony LAMA Pittsburgh, Pa.
The marriage will be solemnized
during the Christmas holidays.
Following an old italian custom,
Mrs. Pasquale Maggie, nearest rel
ative of the bridegroom to be, pre-
sented the engagement ring to the
BRIDE -to-be.
Miss Maggie is a graduate of
Fairfax high school in Los Angeles.
LAMA, since his arrival from the
east has been employed by the
Maggie Brothers. Inc, firm in Ell
Centro and Los Angeles.
Present at the engagement party
we're: Mr.. and Mrs. Carmelo Mag
gio, Ell Centro, parents of the bride
elect: Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Maggie
and family, Los Angeles; Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Maggie and family, Hol-
lywood; Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Maggie
and family; FL Centre; Mr.. and
Mrs. Pasquale Maggie and family,
FL Centre; Mr.. and Mrs. Salvatore
Maggie and family, Long Beach;
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Maggie and
family, Ell Centre; Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Maggie, Imperial; Mr.. and Mrs. j.
V. Tarvella and family of Venice;
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Denti and family,
Inglewood; Miss Rosalie Marquilo
of Los Angeles; Guy Maggie, who
is spending the summer with has
parents in California, being on va
cation from st. Louis, Mo, medical
school.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
MAN MAPPING IN
STREET KILLED

LOS ANGELES, July 27. U.P)-
A man, who, becoming Sleepy"
lay PROSTATE in the street early
today, and two others lost their
lives in weekend traffic accidents.
Lester MILESTONE, "a, was run
over and killed as he lay in the
street. Elroy Gilliland, 20, who
was driving the automobile, was
exonerated by police after the vic
TINS girl friend told officers that
she walked on home after Whet
stone insisted on lying down for
a map"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
Imperial Valley Press

Published every afternoon ex-
cept Saturday and Sunday (Sat-
urday afternoon issue now sue
ceeded by The Post-Press. Sun
days) by the Imperial Valley
Publishing Company, 625 state
street, Ell Centre, California.
Entered at Ell Centre, California,
post office as second class mat
ter.
Paul Jenkins, Publisher; George
Bennitt, General Manager; Rus
sell Bennitt, ry-treasurer;
Ed. Fitzhugh, Managing Edi-
tor.
NJ. C. Mogensen &c CO., National
Advertising Representatives.
Member California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Subscription hates: &c per copy.
In conjunction with The Post
Press; per month 60c: Paid In
Advanre: months, $1.65; 8
MONTH. S3.SS: On. Year. SS. 90
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
SUICIDE REPORT
SCOFFED AT BY
SNAKE KILLER

LOS ANGELES, July 27. UD -
Robert S. James, convicted rattle
snake slayer of his seventh wife,
was to confer with his attorneys
today in an attempt to evolve some
means of escaping the gallows.
The reG-haired barber was guard
ed closely to prevent any possible
attempt to kill himself, although he
scoffed at the thought, saying he
did not believe the state would hang
him.
James y to appear before Su-
perior Judge Charles w. Fricke to-
morrow to hear the death sentence
pronounced and a date of execution
set.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
CHANCE FADES
FOR DISCIPLINE
OF COUGHLIN

VATICAN CITY, July 27 U.P)-
Possibility of Vatican disciplinary
action against Father Charles E.
Coughlin faded today.
Bishop Michael J. Gallagher, CT
Detroit, his immediate ecclesias-
tical superior, announced after a
conference with Monsignor Giu-
seppe Pizzardo, Pope Plus closest
political adviser, that Pizzardo had
not SO much as heard Of Father
Coughlin until the recent sensa-
ton of his calling President Roose-
velt a liar, carried his fame across
the Atlantic
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

The Seattle Indians have signed
Levi Mccormick, Washington State
College outfield star, for tryout.
He is of Indian extraction and has
drawn favorable comment in the
northwest by his allround play. Nc
Cormick will report to Manager
Ruether when the Tribe resumes its
home stand, July 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
SOUGHT
ON PEACE PLAN

LONDON, July 81. U.R)-Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, opening
debate on foreign affairs in the
house of commons today, expressed
the governments hope that Ger
many and Italy would accept Bri-
tains invitation to attend a five
power Locarno conference on Euro
pean peace in London. France and
Belgium would be the other nations
represented.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
SEVEN HURT
IN ACCIDENTS
Continued from Page ID
on the Yuma highway.
Hit Rear of Truck

t1II wear VI lTuCh
Jose Ochoa'S arrest followed two
accidents. In the first Rosario Or
tiz, 81, Seeley, driving a sedan, and
Lola Ortiz Ochoa, %, were injured
when the car driven by Ortiz struck
the rear of a truck driven by
Achille Basquez, 20. Brawley, on the
San Diego highway four miles west
of Ell Centre at $50 pm. Sunday.
Ochoa, riding in the Ortiz car, es-
capped injury, but was taken to the
county hospital for examination. He
was released.
Going to his home in Brawley,
Ochoa got his own automobile, pick
ed up a friend and continued
drinking party which had started
before the first accident. Driving
on the highway a miles east of the
Brawley Main canal, he swerved
to the wrong side of the road, side
swiped a car driven by Mrs. P. R.
Names, Is, Brawley, stopped his
machine and fled across field,
Patrolman Mitchell reported. He
was arrested in BraWley Monday
morning and held pending a pos
sible hit-run charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
SherwOOd's Cafe-Air Cooled for
Your Comfort. (M17.TF)
BUYERS LEAVE
FOR SHOWINGS

Mrs. A. M. Robinson, Ell Centro,
Mrs. Amy Young, Calexico, and
Mrs. Myrtle Rice, CaleXico, buyers
for Edgar Brothers hardware stores,
left Imperial Valley late last week
for Los Angeles where they will
attend market week shoWings of
wholesale lines.
While at the showings the buy
ers will select fall season china
ware, novelties, lamps and other
appliances for sale in the Edgar
Brothers stores.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

Walter (The GreaO Mails, who
holds an executive job with the
Seals, donned a uniform, July 7,
and did relief pitching duty, as
Portland routed his club, to 4.
The Beavers collected IA hits off the
combined benders Of Pitchers Stutz
Cole and Mails.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

Jack Salveson, Angel righthander,
seems to have the Indian sign on
the Seattle Indians. Salveson has
beaten the Tribe four in a row by
scores of 3 to l, to l, to and
5 to 2 He gave a total of % hits
and allowed only four earned runs
in the quartette of conquests.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

Owner Bill Lane of San Diego
says he made no mistake when he
traded Pitcher Ed Wells to Seattle
for Hurler Howard Craghead.
Through July II, Craghead had won
five games and lost one for the
Padres. On July TO- he shut out
Oakland, l to 0, yielding six hits.
The week before, the big right
handler gave Los Angeles only two
hits, as the Padres won, 2 to O.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

League President W. c. Tuttle oc-
cupied box seat at Sacramento
park, July 8, and saw the Missions
administer a to 0 setback to the
Senators in a night game.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
CASH INCOME
SALE OF PRODUCTS
~ BETTER THAN 1885

Cash income of farmers for the first six months of
1886 aggregated So 100000 increase of $685. 100000
the same period in 1885 when cash income totaed
$2956 100000 according to estimates by the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. The total for the first SIX
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

Southern California Generally
fair tonight and Tuesday but un-
settled at times over mountains and
morning fog near coast, no change
in temperature, gentle northwest
and west wind off coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
&Mbat1@!
LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Los Angeles and Nicinity-Gener
ally fair tonight and Tuesday with
morning fog or clouds; unsettled in
little change in temper
ature; gentle southeast to south
west wind.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27
1COME OF FARMERS DURING 1886 SHOWS INCREASE
0UNTYBNEFS

Still Alarm-El Centro firemen
Sunday night eXtinguished a blaze
in a mattress found in a parked
automobile in the 100 block on
South Eighth street. The owner
of the machine was not identified
New Pants Shaper at Marsh's.
Gives the right size every time.
Phone 435. (J2D
Building Permit-A permit was
issued to Harvey Kenyon Monday
morning to make repairs valued
at $50 TO a residence at 217 North
Tenth street.
-oo-
sherwood's Cafe-Alr Cooled fol-
Your Comfort (M17-TFO
In Police COurt-Joe Lopez, "a,
Pedro Rubio, "a, Felipe Contreras,
so, George Russell, 81, and John
j. Fitzimmons, 40, were sentenced
by Judge Lee Nuffer of the Ell
Centro police court Monday to
pay fines of $40 each or serve
five days each in Jail for drunk
enness. Contreras and Fitzim-
mons are serving their sentences.
The others were released on prom
ises to pay their fines.
SherwOOd's Cafe-Air Cooled for
Your Comfort. (M17.TF)
90
Drunk Driver Jailed - Samuel
Mesa, so, was sentenced by Judge
Lee Nuffer of the Ell Centro police
court Monday morning to serve rs
days in the county Jail for driving
while drunk.
90
Trucks For Every Service-Pianos
and household goods, moving and
storage Phone l, Pioneer Truck
and Transfer Co.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-27

BRING DROP IN
TEMPERATURES

Continued from Page ID
end. Crops escaped damage, B. A
Harrigan, agricultural commits
sioner, said.
Evening star., 1936-04-11

at 1870 am. a tailor's delivery man
failed to get an answer when he rang
at the door.
Heard No Sound of Struggle.
Persons in adjoining apartments
said they heard no sound of struggle.
John Fiorenza and Theodore Kruger.
the delivery men, said they first no.
ticed leg sticking out of the bath
tub. Then they saw the body and
called Andrew Mings, the building
janitor at % Beekman place. Swan
Frederickson, superintendent OF a
nearby building, also came.
They were among the II in the
first group questioned. Today the
police planned to question the tailor
and his delivery boy. to study the
fingerprintS and await the findings OF
the autopsy.
Meantime, they virtually had aban-
doned the possibility that the crime
was committed by a robber. Although
Mrs. Titterton'S purse was empty. q
platinum ring was left on her finger.
Mrs Titterton. a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Evans of Dayton, Ohio,
married her husband, an EngliShman,
six years ago.
Graduate of Cambridge.
He is a graduate of Cambridge Uni
versity, where he studied oriental
Languages and medicine. In 1924 he
came to the United States and studied
at Harvard University. From 1925 to
1927 he was associate editor o. the
Atlantic Monthly Magazine. Later he
was an executive with the Macmillan
Co.. publishers. He joined N. B. c. IN
June, 1882.
In New York, for time, the couple
lived in section descriptively known
as "Hell's Kitchen" but with increas-
ing prosperity they moved to the
fashionable Beekman section overlook
ing the East River.
Mrs. Titterton, using her maiden
name as nom de plume, was writer
of literary reviews and in the August
issue of the magazine Story had pub
lished a work of fiction, Il Shall De-
cline My Head" At the insiStence Of
Story's editors she had started novel
which was to have been the first
of Story Press.
Mrs. Titterton had attended Antioch
College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, and
came to New York in 1925. From a
job of bookselling in department
store she turned to literary reviews.
She and Titterton we're married in the
Little Church Around the Corner Oc-
tober S. 1929.
Titterton, himself, is a well known
book reviewer.
Evening star., 1936-04-11

Italy TO Abolish Slavery.
ROME, April. II H-A Stefani
Gtalian) News Agency dispatch from
Evening star., 1936-04-11
MORTGAGE BANKER.
HITS HOUSING ACT
Mclean Says Title !
Forces Institutions Into
Unsound Policy.
ey the Associated Press.

9y the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April Ill. A. NC
Lean, president of the Mortgage BANG
ers' Association of America, said To-Day
the Nations banks were forced into an
,nsound investment policy under
operation of Title II of the national
housing act.
In a statement distributed to mem
bers. Mclean said 10 per cent OF all
H. A. insured mortgages were han
died by banks and trust companies,
IL per cent by national banks alone,
and declared:
"Our association has always con-
tended that commercial banks ought
not to fill their investment portfolios
with mortgages unliquid except for
rediscount privileges. for the prin-
cipal reason that few Of them have
the trained personnel necessary TO
properly appraise mortgages and sur
round them with the necessary safe
guards.
Future Held Clouded.
"Yet under the operations OF the
F. H. A. this is exactly what is being
done in many respects. At the same
time the F. H A, the Government
agency that has experienced more
periods of transition and uncertainty
than any other. again enters period
in which its future is very clouded
and unSure.
"One faction is advocating that the
Government appropriate several hun
dred million dollars for direct loans
on second mortgages on low-cost
houses. Such program would prob
ably mean that home owners would
get a mortgage of 60 per cent OF the
value of the property and 20 per
cent second mortgage from the Gov
ernment. Any requirement that the
so per cent loan be insured by the
r. H. A. would seem to be out of
order.
Fears Complete Breakdown.
Another faction is advocating that
the F. H. A. extend the insurance
coverage to 80 per cent Of all houses
costing $4,000 and over. Such a pro-
posal Is entirely unsound. 1t would
mean the complete breakdown of
F. H. A. operations under title II.
1T is absolutely inconceivable that
responsible mortgage lenders and
banks will knowingly lend up to 80
per cent of the value of the property.
Such a move. if it comes close to
becoming a reality. will no doubt con-
vince many of the real unsoundness
of lending up to 80 per cent on the
value of property"