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Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-29
Russians Rumored Planning New
AirpIane Hop Over Pole to America

SEATTLE July 90 (UP)-Reports that third Rus
sian Polar flight to the United States planned for the
future were partially confirmed by the United States
weather bureau here today 49,
The weather bureau admitted it had been furnishing
weather reports to Moscow for two days Prior to other
flights however, this information was sent Tor two weeks
A Vartanian Amtorg agent, who handled radio com
muncaton from the u S. signal corps here to the flers
on the previous flight. had not arrived here yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-29

WASHINGTON, July 90 CUP)-
Filler Jimmy Mattern today await
ed a decision by Secretary of Com
merce Daniel c. Roper on Mattern's
proposed nonstop flight over the
North Pole to Moscow.
It was indicated that Roper would
approve the venture. reversing a
tentative refusal to permit the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-29
1913 MODEL HITS as

CLEVELAND. UP)-W. M. Cess
ma drove here from Cadiz, O., in a
1913 automobile and averaged As
miles an hour. Operated by Cess
mas father as funeral car, it was
the first closed "horseless" in
Cadiz.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-29
ELEPHANT DEFIANT IN BATH

PHILADELPHIA U.H y Lizzie, a
big elephant at the Philadelphia
Zoo, took bath during hot spell
and it was more than two hours
before attendants could persuade
her to quit the tank. They had
to drain it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-29
CANARY BECOMES PATRIOT

PASADENA. WP)-Newton Burk-
hardt, service station owner, is con-
vinced that canaries can be taught
to go patriotic and help general
enthusiasm along that line. He,
at least, has taught one canary to
whistle Yankee Doodle"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-29
LINDBERGH HOPS
AROUND ENGLAND

BOULOGNE, France, July %.
UP)-Col Charles A. Lindbergh
landed his red and black airplane at
st. Inglevert, near here, today after
a flight from Lympne. Eng. Twenty
minutes later he took off for Dinant
in Brittany
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-29
POOL FIGuRATIyELY DRY"

AMARILLO, TIE x. UD - The
municipal swimming pool at
Thompson park will be figuratiye-
ly "dry" this summer. The city
council ordered that pool officials
prohibit anyone from bringing in
toxicants with them.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30

portion of the cost or the line. OF
purchase q considerable amount Of
appliances from the private pow
CT company
Practically one-half of Imperial
Valleys population is rural, but
power company figures show that
only 81 per cent OF arm homes
ere served with electricity. It is
The hope of the district, officials
said. to make electricity available
TO every farm home in this region
A survey by the district showed
that there arc about 2820 farm
homes occupied by potential Gus
toners in areas not now served with
electricity.
Relatively high demand for Serv-
ice where lines are available is
shown in a district report, which
list 98 per cent in well improv-
ed" homes, a 80 per cent demand
IN fair appearing" homes, and a
" per cent demand in poorer
appearing" homes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
LoyaJists Stop
Drive of Rebels
On Two Fronts

HENDAYE. FRENCH SPANISH
FRONTIER. June 30. Wp) Basque
Loyalists stopped the Nationalist
on two sectors of the Bilbao Sans
tander front, central government
authorities at Madrid reported to-
day.
One Loyalist force repulsed an
Italian motorized column along the
Bilbao-Santander highway, they as
serted.
Asturian miners, using an armor-
ed locomotive. drove into Nation
alist column IN the Valmaseda sec
tor southwest Of Bilbao. 1t was as
serted, and by tossing dynamite
sticks from the engine dispersed a
force of tanks.
Nationalists reported a steady adj
vance In the Valmaseda sector
however and claimed positions sev.
eral miles on the Santander side
of the town
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
y. S. HERMIT
WILL BE SENT
BACK HOME

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, exico,
June 80. U.R)-Joe Regan, so, Am
erican hermit who has been living
for IS years in a deserted ceme-
terry at Nava, Coahuila, was held in
Jail today awaiting deportation to
the United States.
Mexican immigration officers
found him last night, ragged and
hungry.
He said he came from Tucson,
Ariz., to live with a brother in
Pearsall, Tex. but crossed into
Mexico in 1922 to work in the
Coahuila mines. In recent years
he had lived on goat milk ano
wild corn, making his home in the
old cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30

The youth was brought here i'm
mediately and questioned.
Folice said he admitted $50 many
arrests, 1 can't remember all of
them-mostly woman trouble"
Deputy District Attorney Eugene
D. Williams said the youth told
him he had been a patient in the
Huntington Park Health Center for
a social disease.
He was said to have admitted also
that he had been arrested in 1923
on a rape charge involving a young
girl, for which he said he served
six months in the county Jail.
The arrest followed a telephone
tip from r. A. Shoemaker of the
Gorman- Mannheim Livestock Com
mission Co. of Vernon.
Shoemaker said his attention had
been attracted to the suspect be-
cause of his close resemblance to
the Eddie" described by investiga-
tors as the man who was believed
to have enticed Melba and Madeline
Everett and Jeanette Stephens to
the Baldwin Hills last Saturday and
attacked and slain them.
Another development in the in
vestigation was the appearance OF
two more little Inglewood girls, who
reported they had seen the hunted
man in his battered old automobile.
The sisters, Lilly Valerino, TO- and
Violet, 13, told Williams they fire.
quently had seen battered ole
roadster with box body, no running
board or tenders, and with chalked
slogans on the sides, described as
the killers car, in front of the
home of suspect who was ques-
toned yesterday. ...
The last time they saw the car
was Sunday, the girls said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
PRISON Err HAS
RESEM BLANCE
TO MURDE R Err
Fingerprints Sent to Los
Angeles for Definite
Checking

A prisoner who closely re-
sembles the composite de-
scription of the Inglewood
slayer of three little girls
was held in the county jail
here today while fingerprints and
a photograph were sent to Los
Angeles police for an examination
to determine if he shall be de-
tained for further investigation.
The prisoner is Myron Allen Cor
don, 33, who admitted to Patrol
man T. M Sharp and r. r. Voyles,
the arresting officers, that he left
Los Angeles last Saturday night
the night the three girls were kill
ed. At that time, Gordon told
officers, he shipped suitcase to
Phoenix by bus.
Gordon is five feet, eight inches
tall, weighs 100 pounds, has brown
hair and blue eyes and scar on
the left side of his chin. No scar
is mentioned in descriptions OF
the Inglewood killer, nor has Cor
don any tattoo mark on his right
arm, as the murderer is said to
have.
Notified of the arrest, Los An
geles requested that Gordon be
held until fingerprints and photo
graphs of him can be examined
there. There is a record against
Gordon in Los Angeles of for
mer arrest, for vagrancy, coast Of
ficerS said.
The prisoners arrest in East El
Centro was brought about by sus-
picious actions which attracted at
tention of officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30

StrlOuSly tllOuSl 10 pt Gckci W
hospitals.
The battling started when the
100 police attempted to prevent
clash between strike sympathizers
and 300 nonAstrikers returning to
the mills under an American Fed
Grafton of Labor drive to resume
production.
About 1000 persons were at the
scene of the disorder and police
Capt Joseph Canepa estimated
that at least 1000 we're struck dur
ing the fighting.
Between $50 and 400 of the 500
normally employed workers went
back to the plant, officials esti-
mated. Pickets said only 100 enter
ed the plant.
The disorder started when a
group of A. F. of l.. workers march
ed on the picket line established
by the CLIO. group.
Forty police on the scene were
reinforced oy go more. Witnesses
said the pickets were beaten off
and the workers entered the plant
CLIO. leaders charged that po-
lice aided the non-strikers. Agnes
Bachman, garment worker official,
charged Louis Friend, business
agent for the CLIO. union, was
knocked unconscious with brass
knuckles.
w. r. Woodward, manager of
the mills, charged that a group Of
II strikers we're the cause of diff
ficulties. He said they were CLIO
members.
From now on we will deal only
with the A. F. if L." Woodward
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
ELLIS PARKER
GETS SIX YEARS
IN KIDNAP CASE.
Son Sentenced to Three
Years for Wendell
Conspiracy

NEWARK, N. j., June 80.
(UP)-Ellis H. Parker, ST.,
found guilty last week with
his son, Ellis, jr., of conspir-
acy to kidnap Paul H. Wen
del, was sentenced today to serve
six years in a federal penitentiary,
His son was sentenced to three
years.
Murray Bleefield, Harry Weiss
and Martin SchlosSman, all Of
Brooklyn who were indicted with
the Parkers on the conspiracy
charge and who pleaded guilty al
the start of the trial, were not sen
fenced today Weiss and SchlosS-
man are serving sentences of 20
years to life in Sing Sing prison
following their conviction in Brook
lyn on the New York state trial OF
the case.
Sentence on the 65year-old chief
of Burlington county detectives
and his 26-year-old son was Impos-
ed by Federal Judge William CLARK
They we're convicted last Wednes
day by jury of eight women and
four men of conspiracy to violate
the Lindbergh kidnapping law. The
jury had found them guilty after
six hours and Is minutes of delib-
Grating, but recommended leniency
Under the law sentence could
have ranged from a suspended sell
tence to life imprisonment.
Ten minutes after sentence was
imposed. the defense filed with
Judge CLARK formal notice of ap-
peal to the federal circuit court OF
appeals i'll Philadelphia.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
GUNBOAT SUNK
BY RUSSIANS S
IN RIVER CLASH
Vigorous Protest by Japs
Sent to Russian
Capital

TOKYO, June 80. (UP)-
The foreign office instruct
ed Mamoru Shigemitsu, am
bassador to Moscow, today to
file a r.ous protest
aganiss an attack by Soviet gun
boats in the Amur river in which
one gunboat was sunk.
Japan alleged that the gunboats
at tacke d e-Manchukuan
soldiers in the river, where the
possession of several islands is in
dispute.
An official spokesman said three
Soviet gunboats approached the
Manchukuan side of the river and
that the Manchukuans Japanese
sank one, damaged another ano
and compelled the third to retreat.
He did net know the extent of cas-
ualties.
japanese officials believe the in
cident would be adjusted despite
its gravity
Dispatches from Moscow had re-
ported that Russia agreed to with
draw the troops who, to japanese
annoyance, had been occupying
Sennfu island, scene Of the fight.
The island is disputed territory.
Many incidents h ave occurred
along the river, where both Russia
and Manchukuo - Japan's foster
state formed out of Chinese Man
churia-claim some ISLANDS.
For two days ending yesterday
Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shi-
gemitsu at Moscow and Foreign
Minister Maxim Litvinov had been
negotiating to end the dangerous
incidents.
The dispatch from Hsinklng
made no mention of casualties.
1t was reported that the Man
chukuan foreign office ordered q
protest made to Russian authori-
ties. and a request that Russian
authorities take prompt and effec-
tive action to prevent aggravation
of the situation arising from the
clash.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30

aid ne ansWefed eNefy desCrlptlon
Of Eddie, the Sailor
When he entered the station. the
attendants held him and called
San Pedro police Officers were
rushed from here 10 San Pedro
But the man, fighting desperately,
succeeded in breaking away from
his captors, and disappeared
Previously a 23-year-old youth
was arrested at Bell Gardens, 10
miles from here, as a suspect. He
was said to resemble closely the
mysterious Eddie, the Sailor" the
chief suspect.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
ETHEL DU PONT
MAR RIES SON
OF PRESIDENT

OLD CHRISTIANA HUNDRED,
Del, June 80. U.P)-Ethel Dupont,
daughter of one of Americas great
est dynasties of finance and in
dustry, was married today to Fran
kiln D. Roosevelt, jr., son of the
president of the United States.
Standing before their families in
the flower banked Little Christ
church, where DuPonts have wor-
shipped for rs years, the third
son of the president placed the
wedding ring on the finger of his
white-gowned bride and recited:
with this ring I thee wed, in
the name of the father, and of the
son, and of the Holy Ghost"
Behind them on the right of the
church sat the president and Mrs
Roosevelt and many members OF
the Roosevelt clan. There. too, were
cabinet members and advisers of
Mr.. Roosevelt in the administra-
tion whose policies have been ana
thema to the DuPonts.
Across the aisle sat the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Du-
Pont and many another of the
DuPonts whose estates dot the
Delaware countryside.
But all memory of the enmity
of ideas that has existed between
the families seemed to have been
erased in the JOY of their chill
dren's romance.
To the stately organ professional
from "Lohengrin," the bride was
escorted slowly to the altar by her
father.
Her billowing wedding dress was
entirely of white tulle, with train
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Valley Officers
On Lookout for
Kidnap Suspect

Sheriff's officers were watching
here Wednesday for white-skin-
ned, moustached hitch -hiker, re-
ported en- route to Imperial Valley,
as a possible suspect in the Ingle-
wood Staying last Saturday of three
small schoolgirls.
Dick Bates, Brawley, told officers
that he saw a man answering to
the broadcast description of the
suspected killer. The hitch-hiker
clad only in shorts and carrying an
army knapsack, was near Indie,
Bates said, travelling towards the
valley.
Whiteness of the mans skin led
Bates to believe that he was un-
accustomed to the shorts he was
wearing. Indio officers were mott,
fled of the report.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
REA CONTRACT FOR
POWER Cash SIGNED
FIRE DESTROYS
LARGE TRUCK

Steel reinforcing bars were the
only salvage from cargo of re
frigerators. habbit and steel bars
when fire destroyed a large truck
Tuesday on the Yuma highway IS
miles east of HoltWlle.
Charles Higuera. Los Angeles
truck driver. told highway patrol
men that he was driving through
the sand hills when he noticed
smoke issuing from he rear of the
truck. He stopped. removed the
canvas from his load, and flames
burst out. They were out of con-
troll in few minutes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
MAE MUST
GO OCOURT

LOS ANGELES, June 80. U.P)-
Mae West, film star of the buxon
figure, must make personal ap-
pearance July 10 at the office of
Avery M. Blount, to reply to ques-
tions pertaining to the suit OF
Frank Wallace, who claims to be
her husband. The appearance was
timed for 10 am.
The order for Miss Vests appear
ance came from Superior Judge
Emmett H. Wilson during hear
ing on an order to show cause why
the screen star should not be cited
for contempt of court for refusing
to answer deposition questions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
TRUCK RUNS
INTO FRONT OF
GROCER STORE

A central supporting pillar was
knocked from an arcade in front
of the F. Sang Lung grocery store
at Fourth street and He'll avenue
wednesday afternoon when a truck
driven by r. E. Lee plowed into
the front of the store.
Two guy wires attached to a
telephone poll were snapped by
the truck, casaba melons were
spilled in the street and the front
of the machine was damaged in
the accident. No one was hurt.
The truck, according to Patrol
man Charles Schlanze, was shown
by tire marks to ha~u travelled go
feet after the brakes we're applied
before it hit the store.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Offices
Start Summer
Schedule Thurs.

Imperial county offices OF the
California Highway Patrol in the
county court house here will 90 on
summer schedule Thursday, Cap
tain A. f. Oswalt announced We'd
nesday.
During July and August, the Of
flee will open at am and close
at 4 pm, instead of opening at 9
am. and closing at pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
State Treasurer
Called Into Suit

PHOENIX, Ariz., June so. U.P)-
Harry M. Moore, state treasurer
was under supreme court order
today to appear July to answer
q suit filed by State Auditor Ana
Frohmiller to determine in which
fund a $53,08345 state industrial
commission dividend should be
placed
The commission paid the divi-
dend to the state public welfare
fund, now nonexistent. Moore plac-
ed the money to the funds credits,
but Mrs Frohmiller contended il
should have been turned over to
the general fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Georgia Officials
Reach Bedside of
Stricken Governor

LOS ANGELES June 30. up
Four Georgia state officials went
to the bedside of Gov. E. d. Rivers
at Cedars of Lebanon hospital i'm
mediately after their arrival here
today from Atlanta aboard an Am
ercian airlines plane.
They brought with them impor-
tant state papers requiring Gov.
Rivers signature.
Three physicians attending the
governor reported he showed inn
provement. He was stricken a week
ago with a'gall bladder infection
while attending convention here.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30

slide ma tOrlty at a special district
election June Is Now. with Car
mody's Signature completing the
agreement. only . routine transfer
Of funds IS necessary before con
stTuction begins
A part of the routine procedure
VIII be the formal order. expected
Immediately. authorizing the dis
tuct to send 100000 worth Of reve-
nue bonds TO Washington When
The bonds are delivered, REA will
make FIRST advance Of the 100000
Additional funds will be advanced
as work progresses.
REA, unlike the PWA contract
approved June l6 here, is not held
mp by any injunction suit filed by
the Nevada California Electric
corporation.
Construction of the rural cleo
trification system will be done by
the district under force account,
with district crews and materials
purchased by the district. Original
lines will serve approximately 1900
customers.
The lines will be served with
power from the districts diesel
plant at Brawley. The plant dis
trict officials hope, will be enlarged
under the PWA contract before
the rural lines are completed
The districts rural lines will be
extended to individual homes with
out cost. Heretofore. farmers have
been called upon to pay the major
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Apology Extended
For Russian Slight

WASHINGTON. June so up
Secretary of State Cordell Hull re
vealed TODAY that Admiral William
D. Leahy, chief of naval operation.
has apologized to the Soviet gov
eminent for sighting remark made
in his speech to the graduation
class of the Army Industrial col
lege.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Truck Driver Shot
To Death in Fight
CO.

CAKLAND Cal. June 30. UR-
Warren Gibbons, 54 truck driver,
was shot to death in a marital row
here today by his son-in-law, Peter
Roy Feck, Al, a painter, who sub
sequently was killed in scuff!e
over his revolver.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
REP. FISH TO
PUSH CHARGE

WASHINGTON, June 80. U.P)-
Rep. Hamilton Fish. jr.. NJ Y,
said on the house floor today that
he is prepared to appear before
the congressional tax inquiry "and
present evidence showing that
President Roosevelt is using tax
loopholes" in connection with taxes
on his Hyde Park and Georgia
estates.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Funds for CCC,
Pensions Approved
90

WASHINGTON. June 30. UR)-
The house appropriation committee
today approved a $449 100000 bill to
supply funds for the Civilian Con-
servatiou Corps, the new railroad
pension act and the Joint congres-
sional tax avoidance. inquiry.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30

tu MI CIIe SeIldUe Uy VUVt OF IoI 10
80, and will be enacted into law
swiftly
1t was the "314 OLD men" of the
senate who brought about the down.
fall of the government of Leon
Blum nine days ago by refusing
him almost the identical dictator
ial' powers which were given his
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30

INGLEWOOD, Cal, June 80. (UP)-Searchers for the
ravsher and murderer of three little girls converged
San Pedro today suspect fought from service
station attendants and fled before police arrived
The attendant who attempted to hold the by force
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Only Routine Transfer of Line Funds
Necessary Before Work Begins
On New System

Heradng pending construction of power lines to bring
electric service to 1900 rural homes REA Administrator
John Carmody Wednesday signed 100000 contract with
the Imperial Irrigation District dispatches from Wash
ngton said The REA contract approved by land
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
successor, Chautemps.

successor, Chautemps.
Chautemps and his finance min
ister, Georges Bonnet, planned to
devalue the franc Immediately,
perhaps to 25 to the dollar, and
order the suspended Bourse opened
for business tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Police Battle
100 in Hand
To Hand Fight
At Least 12O Injured in Riot as Workers
Try TO Break Through Picket Lines
To Reopen Factory

CLEVELAND, June 80. (UP)-Police battled 1,200
strikers and non-strkers at the Stone Knitting mills to-
day when several hundred workers. including tried
to break picket lines of Ladies Garment Workers union
A. c. O. affiliate At least 100 persons injured, 20
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
BAYONETS END
PICKET BARRAGE

CANTON, O., June 30. U.P)-Re-
public Steel corporation, re-opened
the gates of its big Canton mills
today after the bayonets of nation
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
Police Follow Up
Scores Of Clues
Hunt for Slayer of Children Centers on
San Pedro After Prisoner Flees
Before Police Arrive
()()

INGLEWooD, Cal June so WPA bag containing white
bodstained shirt Manila
at
in that
child Staying.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30
FR RENCH PREMIER
GETS full POWER
IN MONEY crisis

PARIS June 80. (UP)-The senate late today passed
the "fu powers" bill giving Premier Camille Chautemps
virtually dictatora powers to deal with the nations finan-
cia crisis The bill, which approved by the chamber
of deputies early today after anght session. pass
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-30

Butter: Los Angeles 80; Butter
fat, Imperial Valley, fob. ranch,
Grade A A; manufacturing milk
81; route gathered cream 32.s.
l.. A. Hay: u. s. No. leafy s20.5O-
S21.OO; u. S. No. $780, $1,000; u.
S. No. 2 leafy S17.00-S $3.50; u. $.
No. 2 I5.00-S15.5O.
Minneapolis flax S1.91-1.95.
Evening star., 1937-02-05

of local volunteers with some 1.400
Red Cross nurses and sanitary
engineers, and the United States Army
engineers, who have held their main
levee lines intact against tn. flood
1,s00, 900 Persons Affected.
Thomas Parran, jr. chief surgeon OF
the United States Public Health Ser
vice, and James l.. FieSer OF the Red
Cross said the common, everyday task
of protecting the health Of flood
sufferers and those indirectly affected
would reach 100000 persons. About
/ 200, 900 of these will be vaccinated
against typhoid. DIR. Parran estim" ted
Mai. Gen. E. M. Markham, chief
of Army engineers. saw the Ohio
River dump the greatest volume In
history into the Mississippi at Cairo,
ILL.,. yesterday; saw the river receding
at Evansville, Ind, and declared the
engineers felt they had won their
fight to hold the main levee lines in
tact. He added. however, continued
vigilance over the next few weeks
, would be imperative.
At Evansville the commission cam
vassed the Southern Indiana flood sit
uation with Gov. Clifford Townsend,
Mayor w. H. Dress and other relief
authorities. Tension at Evansville re-
laxed when martial law was lifted
from those parts Of the city not COW
cred by water, and the river started
retreating from the area Of 500 square
blocks it flooded last week.
Nearly all the public buildings in
Evansville, including the hotel where
the commission had lunch, were with.
out heat, except for improvised char.
coal burners.