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Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
Poultry Growers
Schedule Meetings

Two meetings of interest to poul-
try growers have been scheduled
for next Monday, by H. Lee Ian
derman, assistant farm advisor, the
first being culling demonstra-.
ton and the second, meeting of
the board of directors of the Poul-
try Protective association.
The culling demonstration will
take place at 2 pm. at the Bell
poultry ranch east of Holtville.
Landerman, in calling the meeting
said that this is an excellent sea-
son of the year in which to Gull
non-producers from flocks, leaving
only the producers. Non-producerS
can then be fattened and market
ed, prices being better now and
the birds in better condition.
Directors of the Poultry Protec-
tive association will consider re-
ports on the progress of tattooing
birds for the purpose of identifi-
cation, necessity in this county.
said Landerman. They will meet
at 1880 p. m. Monday in the court
house.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03

I in agony. Only three of the ami
mails were alive and even they were
glassy-eyed.
The herder spread the news far
and wide and the mystery of Sui
eide Gulch began to be legend in
southern Colorado. Nonetheless, the
next year another sheepman, caught
by nightfall in the valley, turned
out 157 head of sheep to Craze.
He noticed that they were hesi-
tant about eating the dusty grasses.
He slept, nervously, and when he
awakened, II sheep were dead.
This second visition of death
made of Suicide Gulch a no-man's
land. Herders routed their sheep
around it. Hunters avoided it. Yet
no one knew why this one parti-
cular spot Of ground should be fatal
to all the flocks which grazed there
No one cared, apparently. until
John 7. Miller of the soil survey
division of the bureau of chemistry
and soils, department of agriculture,
became interested.
Noticing that the soil was derived
from geological formation differ
ing from those in adjacent areas
and that plants which elsewhere
were odorless, here were distinctly
noxious, he sent samples of both
earth and weeds to the laboratories
here.
The chemists found that for every
million parts Of soil in the samples
there were five parts of Selenium,
poisonous non metallic element
whose mysterious properties have
not yet been fully investigated by
science.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
Funeral Services
To Be Saturday
For Mrs. HuIse

Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie
Hulse, former wife of Senator Ben
Hulse of Ell Centre, who was burned
to death Tuesday night in her home
at Boulevard, will be conducted
from the Erickson mortuary in La
Mesa at IL o'clock Saturday morn
ing.
The rites will be in charge of the
Rev. Clyde Beecher and burial will
take place at the Greenwood ceme
terry.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03

eXtortion.
Flynn said: mo federal kidnap-
ing offense was involved in the
girls disappearance She was not
taken across state line. The fact
she was missing more than seven
days was presumptive of the fact
she may have been taken across
a state line, but our investigation
discloses that such was not the
case. The only interest remain
ing in the case was the alleged
use of the mails in an attempted
extortion."
The federal prosecutor will pre-
sent evidence gathered by depart
ment of justice agents over two
year period to a federal grand
jury in Tucson beginning Mon
day. He said he had Subpoenaed 70
witnesses and that presentation
of their testimony would require
-four or five days"
after that" he added, "it's up
TO the grand jury. If there are
no indictments, the government
probably will drop the case"
June, then six, disappeared April
25, 1884, on her way home from
school. She was found, 10 days
later, chained in corrugated
iron cage sunken into the floor
of the desert nine miles from Tue
son by then Co. Atty. Clarence
Houston and her uncle, Carlos
Robles, a deputy in his office.
They were directed to the spot by
letter airmailed to Gov. B. B.
Moeur from Chicago.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
Ell Centre ElkS
To Initiate Class

Ell Centro Elks will initiate the
Hallinan class, so named in honor
of James T. Hallinan, past grand
exalted ruler, Thursday night. This
same evening is Yuma night and
members from the lodge will be
present.
A free wild duck dinner is to be
served at o'clock under the di-
rection of Charles B. Jobes, chief
kitchen mechanic, and his staff.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
GOVERNMENT TO DROP
ROBES KIDNAPPING CASE

PHOENIX Ariz, Dec. 3. (UP)-United States Dis
trct Attorney Frank Flynn told the United Press today
the federal government had wiped the June Robles
it's list of unsolved kdnapings and would seek in
dictments charges of using the mails in attempted
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03

CHOOSE WHITE Green
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enamel finish nth q
chrome finished smoke
less ash receiver Spe-
cially priced while pres
ent stocks last at
Evening star., 1936-08-14
WOMAN SLUGS MAN,
PLUNGES TO DEATH
Tried to Hang Herself After At.
tacking Suitor, Sheriff
Says.
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
WESTMINSTER, Md, August IA
Miss Grace Lippy, 80. plunged to her
death today from a third-story win
dow after, Deputy Sheriff Walter
Shipley said. she had slugged her
suitor with a hatchet and tried to
hang herself.
Deputy Shipley said John Hyde, a
stone quarry worker of near Windsor,
with whom Miss Lippy kept COM
pany," summoned him to the wom-
ans apartment and told him what had
happened. Hyde's injuries were not
critical.
Hyde told the officer he went to
Miss Lippy's apartment at her re-
quest. She asked him to open q win.
dow, Whipley quoted him as saying.
and as he did so, she hit him in the
head with hatchet.
Hyde told Shipley he was knocked
unconscious and when he came to he
saw the woman hanging in q door,
way He cut her down, he said, and
went for help. He told the officer
he returned to find Miss Lppy had
cut her throat.
Shipley said Hyde told him he ran
our into q hallway to call an officer.
Meanwhile, he said. Miss Lippy
crawled out on q fire escape and
dropped 40 feet to the ground. She
lived only q few minutes.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
RUSSIANS BLAME
TR0TSKY IN PLOT
Soviets Jail is, Charging
Counter Revolutionary
Activities.
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
MOSCOW, August 14.-Sixteen per-
sons were thrown in prison today by
the Soviet government in the biggest
counter-revolutionar plot to be an
nounced by the government in more
than q decade.
Directing the plot. said secret po-
lice who uncovered it, was the exiled
Leon Trotzky, now in asylum In
Norway.
The government charged that Trot-
ky was planning q terroristic cam
paisn, including attacks against sov-
let leaders.
1t said he had sent five agents from
abroad into Russia to help carry out
his plans.
(Only last week Trotzky was given a
clean bill of health by the Norwegian
government after he had been accused
by young Norwegian Fascists Of en-
deavoring to foment revolutions in
France and other European countries.) }
The discovery of the plot originally
was made by the Department of Do
mestic Affairs.
Two of the biggest figures in Soviet
Russia were arrested in connection
with the alleged crime against the
government. They were Leon Kane
nef, former assistant head Of the
Council Of Commissars, and Gregory
Zinovieff, former chairman Of the
Executive Council of the Third Inter-
rationale.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
HEAT MARK OF 95
H. TODAY FORECAST
Cooling Showers Tonight or To.
| MORROW Predicted to Break
! Heat Wave.

The hottest day since August was
IN store for Washington today, Al
though early relief was predicted.
Weather Bureau forecasters said the
Temperature might rise to s5 before
glndown, but cooling shower might
fall late tonight or tomorrow, send
ing the temperature to more COM
Portable levels.
One heat prostration was reported
yesterday. Edtrell Myrick, 2s, col
cred, Al Q street, collapsed in .
lunch room in the 1900 block Of Sew
snth street and was treated ut Cas-
ua1ty Hospital.
Despite the prediction for . higher
temperatrs than yesterdays top mark
Of ~, the reading at 1:30 pm. today
uas 90.
The current heat spell, most torrid
since the s5-degree temperatures Of
August 81, sent hundreds to the parks
to sleep last night, while other crowds
Iiocked 10 the river banks for Z breath
Of air.
The Weather Bureau said the pre-
dicted shower would be aided in COOL
ing the city by gentle northerly winds,
shifting from southwest.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
IN CRASH
/. OF ARMY BOMBER
Fourth Member of Crew
Jumps to Safety with
Parachute.
Ry the Associated Press.

NEW KENT COURT HOUSE. Va.
August 14.-An Army plane crashed
and burned on farm near here last
night, killing three of its crew Of four.
The fourth man, Pvt. N. D. Finn,
II. of McGuffey. Ohio, jumped to
safety with parachute.
The War Department announced
the names Of those killed as Lieut..
Willis 8. Marvin Of Riverside, Calf. !;
Pvt. John H. Mayher of McKeesport
Pa, and Pvt. James M. Crittenden Of
Roanoke, Va.
A board of investigation, composed
Of Langley Field officers, was reported
en- route here.
Another detachment from the air
base took Finn and the three bodies
back to Langley Field, leaving two
men to guard the wrecked plane.
Landing Gear Lowered.
r. A. Burton Of Beaver Dam. .
former licensed pilot, who examined
the wreckage and talked with Army
mechanics, said indications were that
the pilot was attempting to land when
the plane crashed. He said the re-
trsctable landing gear had been low
cred and slots on the lower wing, de-
signed to check the speed in landing,
were opened.
Mrs. G. p. Crump, who lived near
the scene in an isolated section of
New Kent County, not far from the
Pamunkey River said Finn told her
the motors checked" 5000 feet up.
Finn was quoted as saying the pilot
told the other three to Jump. but he
waited until the ship was 800 or 400
feet above the ground before he sue
ceeded IN opening the trap door in
the forward gun cockpit and jumping
to safety with his parachute.
He landed in . tree and suffered
q slight cut on the mouth. He dashed
to the burning ship. but the heat was
20 intense he could not reach the two
men remaining in the plane.
The body Of the other man, be-
lieved to be Mayher, was thrown from
the rear open cockpit when the nose
of the plane plunged into the ground
and the ship Tipped forward on its
back. Nearby residents said several
explosions were heard Immediately fol-
lowing the crash.
Contrary to earlier reports, the ship
was not believed to have caught fire
until it struck ground. G. p. Crump
said he saw blue and red flashes while
Evening star., 1936-08-14
$59O,0DO ALLOTTED
|. TO BOILING FIELD
w. P. A. Funds for Develop
ment Project Approved
by Roosevelt.

After weeks Of worrying over the
financial difficulties OF the Boiling
Field development project. the Quar-
termaster Corps of the Army has re-
ceived . $3.50, 900 allotment, it was
learned today, to keep the extensive
work going.
President Roosevelt approved the
allotment from Works Progress Ad-
ministration funds shortly before
leaving Washington yesterday. Defi-
mite assurance that the money will be
turned over for the expenditure soon
after it goes through Treasury cham
nels expedited plans for construction
Of runways at the Army's big air base.
Some weeks ago the Quartermaster
Corps appealed to the White House
for funds to continue the work at
Boiling, where nearly 1900 men certi-
fed by the District w. P. A. are now
employed in grading the field and
constructing runways.
Due to heavy drains on the funds
reserved for Boiling Field to do i'm
perative work at other Army airports,
hiC uiOACy AVhl6UiC 1oi ludICk ldlS lldU
been expended.
It was necessary several weeks ago
for the President to turn over SIS 900
Of w. p. A. funds to keep up the pay
roll.
While no official check was available
today, 1t was estimated about $500, 900
Of the full Boiling Field fund had
been transferred to projects outside
Washington since enlargement of the
flying field was begun in July, 1895.
As late as last June $51, ,952 was trans
ferred from Boiling Field to Scott
Field, Belleville, ILL.,, which also is
undergoing extensive improvements.
Lieut.. Col. william Ord Ryan, COM
mandant at Boiling Field, said today
only one of the four new runways Is
near completion. This Is an east-west
runway, which he said was about IS
per cent completed.
Grading of the other three runways
Is about 10 per cent finished, but the
ma jor work remains to be done. The
longest Of these runways, extending
north and south, will be . little over
1000 feet. They will have q width Of
$50 feet, with Stag bed.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
so POLICE ON GUARD
IN NEWSPAPER STRIKE
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sus-
psnds Publication in Walk
out Of Guild.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, August 14.-Fifty police
men formed q Gordon around the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building
here early today and hurriedly escorted
20 newspaper employees from . side
entrance into waiting squad cars,
which rushed them away from the
scene Of the strike called yesterday
BY the Seattle Chapter of the American
Newspaper Guild.
The workers had been In the build
ing most Of the night.
There was no disorder.
The newspaper failed to publish its
morning editions after picket lines
surrounded the building throughout
the night and early morning. Mem
bers Of the mechanical unions refused
to pass through.
Two hundred pickets were around
the building early today. The guild
strike u supported by the Seattle Gen.
tral Labor Council.
An executive Of the Hearst news
paper said plans were not completed
for resuming publication.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
SIX MINERS PERISH
IN GAS.FILLED DRIFT
Four Are Believed Killed in At.
tempt to Rescue Their
Comrades.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOUNTAIN CITY, New, August II.
Gas today was blamed for killing six
men deep In the Mountain City Copper
Co. mine.
Positions Of the bodies In . winze
on the 500.foot level convinced fellow
workers that four Of the men perished
while attempting to drag their CON-
rades from q gas-filled drift yesterday
The dead: ...-,
John Sheppard, 81. Of Wellington,
Colo; Lawrence Willis, 81, Of Emmett
Idaho; June Barr, As, Of Mammoth
Ore, and william Burns, 48; Albert
Atel, II, and Frank Tiexigra, A, all Of
Mountain City.
Supt. A. p. Lofquist directed rescue
operations.
Gas handicapped Lofquist and his
men. Compressed air was driven into
the mine to clear it Of the fumes.
oas-masked miners came upon the
bodies late yesterday ~ they pierced
the depths Of the copper mine seeking
the source Of gas. Lofquist said ga
probably had. been released from q
fissure by blasting operations.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
CLEVELAND CROWD
HALLS ROOSEVELT
President Interrupts Flood
Control Tour to Visit
Exposition.
By the Associated Press.

By Tie Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, August 14.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt arrived in Cleveland at
$40 am. Eastern standard time) to-
day to inspect w. P. A. projects and
visit the Great Lakes Exposition.
Rain threatened as the President s
special train pulled into the Euclid
avenue railroad station to the cheers
Of . welcoming throng.
Smiling broadly and waving to the
crowd of greeters. the President left
the train nearly half an hour after
its arrival.
Crowds fianked nag -draped Euclid
avenue for q glimpse Of Mr.. Roosevelt
on his ride to the downtown section.
1t was his first visit to Cleveland since
he took ONCE.
Met by Governor.
He was met by Senator Robert Bulk
ley. Democrat, Of Ohio, Gov. Martin L.
Davey and Mayor Harold H. Burton.
The President entered an open au-
tomobile inside the station. A process
sion Of 10 automobiles. preceded by
motor cycle police, formed to escort
his car.
To pay the visit to Cleveland, Presi-
dent Roosevelt interrupted his inspec-
ton Of flood areas In Pennsylvania and
New York.
The presidential train, which bore
Mr.. Roosevelt westward from Johns
town, Pa, where he viewed yesterday
at FIRST hand the scene Of last Spring S
disastrous floods. stopped for some
time during the night in order not to
arrive ahead of the scheduled time.
The Presidents automobile process
sion was to proceed from the down.
town area to the enlarged Cleveland
Airport and the new Lake Front
boulevard, both Federal works projects.
A $2,961, 900 preliminary fiood-con-
troll program for Western Pennsylvania
rivers carried the Presidents ofhcial
%. K" after his visit to the area.
Gov. George H. Earle Of Pennsyl-
vania emerged last night from an
hours conference Of the President,
Federal and State ofacials at Johns
town with An announcement of Mr..
Roosevelt's approval Of allotments OF
work-reEef funds for q start on that
districts flood projects.
It came within four hours after
the President had assured Johnstown
residents the Federal Government
would cooperate fully in taking every
possible step to prevent floods.
Mr.. Roosevelt promised this Co
operation so long. as I have any
thing to do with it." while seated In
the tonneau Of an open car. The sun
was slipping down behind the high
hills which squeeze the flood city
into . valley and increase the perils
when the Conemaugh River and
Stony Creek reach high-water stages
He had Just concluded . 30-mile
(see ROOSEVELT, Page So
Evening star., 1936-08-14
HUNTERS
AT HANGING TEAR
HOOD FROM FACE.
Rush to CoIored Mans Side
Made Before Breath
Leaves His Body.
10000 THRONG GATHERS
TO WITNESS EXECUTION
Woman Sheriff Watches, but
Leaves Springing Of Trap to
Former Policeman.
Ey the Associated Press.

OWENSBORO, KY, August IA
Souvenir hunters ripped the hang
mans hood from the face of Rainey
Bethea Immediately after the az
year colored man was hanged
here today before a huge throng for
assault upon . 70-year-old white
woman.
Bethea still breathed when q few
persons from the crowd rushed the
4-foot wire inclosure about the scaf-
fold and scrambled for fragments as
momentoes of the spectacle. The
crowd, estimated at upwards Of TO-
900, was for the most part orderly,
except for q few hoots during admin
istration of the last rites by q priest.
Mrs. Florence Thompson, sheriff,
who directed preparations for the
hanging, staged In q 3-acre lot. left
to Arthur Hash, former Louisville
policeman, the throwing Of the trig-
ger which dropped the man to his
death. She did not appear publicly.
Trap Sprung at Signal.
Hash sprung the trap upon signal
from Consulting Executioner @. Phil
Hanna at 5:2s am, Central Stand
ard time. DR.. w. L. Tyler and
DIR. B. H. Seigler. Owensboro. pro-
nounced Bethea dead at 5:44l2 am.
DR.. Tyler said the neck was broken
cleanly by the drop. He expressed
surprise that the heart beat continued
1871 minutes.
Bethea wrote his sister, Ora Fladge.
Nichols, s. c., asking that he be buried
beside his father and declaring that
he was saved"
The letter. written last night at
Louisville. where he was held from
the time of his arrest, was made
public by Jailer Martin J. Connors.
| It said:
told them to send you my body and
want you to put 1t beside my father
and I am saved and don't worry
about me because am going to meet
my Maker.
You must pray to meet me some
day In the other world 80 you must
pray. Heard sister that We will meet
some day and don't you worry at
all because I saved. Looking to
meet you some day in the other world.
30 bood-by and pray that We are to
meet again some day again."
Betrea was baptized Roman Cath
olic two weeks ago by Rev. Herman
hammers. who converted him in jail
at Louisville.
The hanging climaxed q night of
excitement in Owensboro, whose nor
NAL $4,000 population was swelled by
many thousands for Indiana, ILL.,
nois and surrounding Kentucky coun-
ties, lured by the first public hang
ing ever held In this county. The
crowd came In automobiles, wagons
and by hundreds on freight trains.
Throughout the night the specta-
tors pushed into choice positions to
watch Bethea die. Thousands milled
about the streets converging upon
the scene. Several women tainted In
the crush after the hanging.
Many Women and Children.
About half of those who fought and
showed to get closer to the inclosure
were women, young girls and children.
Babies in arms and toddlers by the
score clung to their mothers.
An hour before the execution, the
lot was full and several thousands
had surged through the gates into
the space reserved for oficials.
Towards 5 O'Clock rs the sun rose,
. crimson disk, partly shrouded by
(see HANGING, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-08-14
By TIE Associated Press.


GRUNAU, Germany. August IA
Coming from hehind in the last 500
meters, the University of Washington
today won the Olympic SCARED rowing
championship.
After Italy had maintained the lead
from the start right up to the 1900
meter mark, the Huskies came through
with a brilliant squirt to win the title
and keep unbroken American domina-
tion OF SCARED rowing competition.
Starting with 1920 when the United
States first entered SCARED Olympic
competition, American college crews
have won each time-Navy in 1920;
Yale In 1924; and the University Of
California in 1928 and 1882.
Evening star., 1936-08-14
University of Washington Wins
Olympic Cre,o Championship
Huskies Come From Behind to Defeat
Italy-Kiefer, u. S., Sets lOO-Meter
Back-StrOke Record.

The Americans squirt in the final
500 meters gave them the champion
ship by a quarter length margin over
Italy. the 1882 runner-up.
Washington was clicked in 6 min
utes 25.4 seconds. far behind the
course and Olympic record of 6:008
the Huskies set in Wednesdays trials.
Water and weather conditions, how
ever, were bad today.
Germany was adjudged the third
place finisher in q blanket finish with
Great Britain, which was fourth.
Hungary was fifth and Switzerland
sixth.
Barely length and q half sepa-
rated the three leaders at the finish
(See OLYMPICS, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-08-14
Paroled With Bradd0ck's Help,
Ex-COnvict to I AXE Publicity lob

to "employ John McGrath In my
publicity department" at no less than
$35 week and to. supervise Ibis social
activities"
The 34-year-old McGrath disclosed
he unwittingly started the chain Of
events leading to freedom when he
communicated with Braddock in an
effort to prove to the other prisoners
that he knew the champ.
There's one guy" said McGrath,
"who wouldn't 60 back on . pal. !
only wrote Jimmy for an autographed
picture Of himself because the guys
laughed ct me when I said ] knew
him.
Fright back come two pictures and
letter from Jimmy saying he'll help
ma"