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Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
WORKER ADMITS
BRUTAL CHILD KILLING
MYSTERY NOTE
CLOUDS DEAD
WOMAN'S FATE
Hitch-Hiker Believed
Victim of auto on
CalexicO Road

An answer to mystery sur
rounding the supposed hit
run death of Mrs. Emma
Louise Brown on the Cal
exico- Yuma highway Sunday
night was sought Monday by Dep
uty Sheriff Robert Parrish.
Without the shoes or purse Mrs.
Brown had when she left home
about 4:1O pm. Sunday to hitch
hike into Calexico, the 43-year-old
matron's body was found at 8:45
pm. Sunday lying about two feet
from the edge of the Highway. I'M
prints of tire were visible on the
right side of her face from chin
to scalp. The left side appeared
to have been pressed against the
pavement by a great force.
Should Mrs. Browns death be
found to have been accidental, she
will be listed as the 3lst victim of
fatal auto accidents in Imperial
county this year. ......
The body was found by Claude
Ritter, Ala Ethel street, Calexico
Driving along the highway, Ritter
saw the woman Stagger and fall,
he told officers. His story, and the
fact that there were no signs of an
accident where the body was found,
as well as the disappearance of her
shoes and purse, led to the belief
that she suffered fatal injuries at
some other place.
Albert l.. Brown, the victims hus-
band, together with Mrs. Brown and
her daughter Kitty Bowen, and a
neighbor, Bill Rorick, had engaged
in a drinking party which lasted
almost a week at the Brown home
seven miles east OF Calexico on the
Yuma highway, witnesses said
Empty wine jugs and beer bottles
were found scattered about the
house.
Rorick and Miss Bowen left the
place about noon Sunday. Mrs.
Brown told her husband about 4:l0
pm. that she was going into Cal
eXico for cigarettes and bread. Fol-
lowing an old habit, she thumbed
ride in passing roadster, Brown
said. At that time she wore a print
dress, slipon shoes and carried a
white purse. She. was clad only
In the dress when found.
Rorick and Miss Bowen returned
to the Brown home at about $50
pm.
About three hours after that Rit-
ter saw Mrs. Brown on the high
way, watched her stagger and fall,
and stopped to investigate.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

the planes reported position.
Confirming the Itasca report, the
naval radio station at Wailupe, near
Honolulu, copied cryptic message
which said
"28l north Howland. Call KHAQQ
Beyond north. Don't hold with us
much longer. Above water. Shut
off"
Operators said the key transmits
sion of this message was poor, that
the message consisted of fragmen-
tary phrases scattered through a
carrier signal believed from the
Earhart plane.
Three operators copied the mes
sage.
The Moorby also repeatedly heard
the same signals.
Technicians explained a carrier
signar-the feeble whistle which
may guide searchers to Miss Ear.
hart's rescue-is a radio signal sent
out continuously from voice trans
mitter.
In the present case the trans
mitter is phone set, which car.
ries the voice signal on it on the
same frequency.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
COURT BILL TO
COME BEFORE
SENATE TU ES.
Debate Limited to Two
Weeks on New
Measure

WASHINGTON. July s..
(UP)-Administration lead
ers in the senate prepared
today for swift consideration
of the compromise judiciary
reorganization bill scheduled to
come before the upper chamber for
consideration tomorrow.
1t was reliably reported that de-
bate-which opens Thursday would
be limited to two weeks in an eff
fort to obtain a swift vote and pos
sible early adjournment of congress.
However, supporters of the meas
ure intimated continuous session
would be resorted to in an effort
to break any filibuster initiated to
block consideration.
Discussion of such a tactic les
sened as time for debate approach
ed Many senators were said to
feel that opposition of this nature
would secure rmfavorable public
reaction.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

Chief Cromer, Mrs Hansen retract-
ed the statement that she stabbed
her husband, and still later ad-
mitted the act again. officers said.
Asked why she used a knife
against her husband, Mrs. Hansen
said he was jealous
What was he jealous about2" an
officer asked.
"Oh," Mrs. Hansen replied, He
was Just jealous like all men are
Jealous"
Mrs. Hansen later added that
her husband had beaten and abus-
ed her for several years. and that
II was only when he started to be&f
her again tonight that she stabbed
him, she said, IN self defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

murder charge, which may be filed
against her Monday.
Hansen's death late this after
noon followed party at his house
in which he, his wife and visitors
had been drinking beer The Han
sens were alone in the house when,
Mrs. Hansen said, her husband gave
vent to his jealousy and she stab
bed him during the fight that fol-
lowed. He died almost Immediately
The knife entered thee body high
the center of the chest.
Mrs Hansen ran outside, where
Burleigh Adams was standing in
front of the house talking to an
other man.
I've stabbed him." she gasped.
Later, under questioning by Police
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Combine to Raise
Prices Charged

WASHINGTON, July 5. W.R)-The
federal trade commission charged
today that rs leading cement man
ufacturers banded together to elm
mate pvice competition and raise
the cost Of cement to the consumer.
The commission issued a COM
plaint alleging violation OF the
federal trade commission act ana
the Clayton antitrust act against
the Cement Institute, an unincor-
porated association whose member
ship produces 95 per cent or more
of all cement made in the United
States.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
NAZI WINS IN
SPEED DASH,
MAYS THIRD

ROOSEVELT RACEWAY, West
bury, N. Y, July S. -W.R)-BernA
Rosemyer, 27-year-old, tow-headed
German, sped to victory today in
the second annual .300-mile Van
derbilt cup road race before 10000
spectators. The "Nerveless Nazi'
negotiated the twisting, treacherous
90-lap course in record time in his
l6-cylinder Auto Union iuggernaut
Richard Seaman, Englishmar,
was second and Rex Mays of Cali
fornia third ..-'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

aroused Inglewood, were booked for
protective purposes"
"A statement from a material
witness indicates that another crime
may be solved" Fits added.
Dyer was trapped by morbid Curl
osity to again see the bodies of his
victims. Attention was drawn to
him when he watched almost hys-
terically when the bodies were dis
covered in the ravine Monday and
was among the first to offer to help
carry them away.
His case will be placed before the
Los Angeles county grand jury to-
morrow or Wednesday and mur-
der indictment will be asked, ac-
cording to District Attorney Buron
Fits. If convicted Of murder be.
Continued on Page 6; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

dustrial accident, only coincidental-
ly connected with the Fourth OF
July. Automobile accidents, soar
ing temperatures and a railroad
accident accounted for the others.
The dead were:
RAYMOND Stroup, 20, son of H.
Stroup of San Bernardino, employe
OF the Preceding Car Service OF
Los Angeles, killed at 1920 am.
Sunday when he leaped from a
platform at the Holtville Packing
company shed in Holtville into a
puddle of water beside a Pacific
Fruit Express car, holding an elec-
trio cord and connection in his
hand. He was taken from the pud-
die by Chris Westgard, local man
ager of the preceding company.
Heat Victim
Jess jenkins, SIS, BraWley, who
was overcome by the heat near the
Brawley police station Saturday
night and died. He had been drink
ing a large quantity of wine.
George Schmand, 35, native OF
Arkansas, who died Sunday after
noon at the Garin rooms, Fourth
street and Broadway, from a heat
attack brought on by a tWo-day
drinking orgy. He was drinking
gin. His nude body was found on
his bed, with a wet towel on his
head.
An unidentified Mexican, killed
at 1902 am. Sunday morning by a
switch engine on the Holtville-Ei
Centro branch railroad tracks two
miles east of Ell Centre, while he
lay across the tracks, evidently
sleeping off a drunk. His left arm
was severed from his body, and his
skull fractured. The body was
found about SIS yards from the
north-south highway connecting
Brawley and Calexico. Taken to
the county hospital, the Mexican
died about am. Sunday.
Raul Gotta, 3 year-old son of Mr.,
and Mrs. Juan Gotta of BraWley,
killed when he stepped in front of
an automobile driven by Cecil B.
Myers on TX" street in BraWley
Saturday night. The child was the
county's 30th accident victim of the
year.
Mrs. Emma Louise Brown, 43,
possibly the victim of hit-run
driver on the CaleXico- Yuma high
way two and a half miles east Of
the Ten Foot Drop. (See separate
ctorU colump a.
In addition to the death calls,
police and deputy sheriffs in vari-
Gus Imperial Valley communities
were kept busy with minor infrac-
tions of the law. Ell Centre police
reported the largest number of ar
rests, including 10 for drunkenness.
four for disturbing the peace and
one on petty theft charge. Braw-
ley and Calexico police reported 10
arrests for each department, most
of them for drunkenness.
Fire Dept. Inactive
Fire departments, usually most
active on July Fourth holidays, were
inactive most of the time. The Ell
Continued on Page 6; Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

and expected to reach II ABOUT 6:So
psf tonight.
The Itasca's report was forward
ed to Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau, Washington. IT fol-
lows:
"Interception of ragged transmits
sion indicates possibility Earhart
plane still afloat 281 miles north
of Rowland.
Bearing radio directional finder
Rowland confirms approximate
position. We will arrive indicated
position this afternoon
The ItaSca has been searching
the Howland area since Miss Ear
hart and her navigator, Fred Moo
nan, overshot Howland island Fri
day on their round the world flight
from Lac, New Guinea, and were
forced down out of fuel.
The u. S. Swan is one of dozen
United States warShips rushing to
the rescue.
Unofficially it was learned the
Itasca picked up a signal from Miss
Earhart at am, psf.
This signal. combined with others
believed flashed by Miss Earhart,
repeatedly enabled navy cartogra-
pliers to plot comparatively small
triangle of ocean within which 1t
was hoped the famous woman flier
and Noonan would be found.
The Itasca was 275 miles from
the center of the triangle at 4 am.
psf.
At that time the British freight
er Moorby was 80 miles from the
spot.
The latest position report from
the Swan, also at am, psf, plac-
ed this vessel 420 miles northeast of
or 220 miles due east OF
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Property Turned
Back to Owners

The Ella Culberson property at
WeStmorland, closed under abate-
ment proceedings last year when
Superior Judge r. D. McPherrin
held it was community nuisance.
was returned to the owners Satur-
day by Sheriff Robert w. Ware
when the abatement period expired.
The property, operated by the
Culberson family, was padlocked
May 20. 1886, after an investiga-
ton revealed that it was used as .
house of i'll fame where young
white girls entertained Filipinos.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Widow Takes Own
Life With Pistol

SAN JOSE, July S. -UR-Mrs
Mae Clark, so. widow of Paul Clark
former mayor of Willow Glen, was
found shot to death in the bath
room of her home today in what in
vestigators SAID was a suicide.
Police said Mrs. Clark used an
automatic pistol to shoot herself
They broke through the locked
doors of her home after neighbors
reported she had been carrying the
gun with her for several days.
Clark died five years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
1000 TROOPS
CALLED TO AID
PLANTS OPEN
Four Big Factories to
Start Operations
Tuesday

CLEVELAND, July 5.
(UP)-A force of probably
1000 national guardsmen was
expected to take over the
Cleveland strike zone today
in preparation for Tuesdays re-
opening of four big Republic Steel
Corp. plants.
Encouraged by weekend of mass
demonstrations at strategic strike
centers, union leaders declared that
they had "juSt begun to fight" and
predicted that the plants would not
reopen despite militia protection
and a sheriff's proclamation re-
stricting picketS.
"They say they're going to open
up" Clinton S. Golden, steel Work.
ers organization committee sub-re-
gional director, said. "You watch
them-they won't open up.
tom Girdler chairman of Re
public and his associates are 60
ing to find that every pound OF
steel they make is going to cost
them twice as much as it costs
other companies"
Company officials claimed that
resumption of operations in struck
plants continued steadily and that
they expected reopening of all four
mills in Cleveland, where more than
5000 normally are employed, to put
the principal Ohio steel centers
back on almost normal basis.
Developments over the Indepen-
dence day weekend included:
CLEVELAND-Poli shifts were
strengthened in preparation for re-
opening of the Steel and Tube,
Upson, Corrigan Mckinney and
n. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
1,S21,OOO Employed
On WPA Projects

WASHINGTON, July S. UR)-W
PA. Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins has announced that 1921 ISL
workers were employed on projects
of the Works Progress Administra-
ton during the week ending June
26.
More than $4,000 have left the
rolls in two weeks, reports show
Employment totalled 1,945,79 dur
ing the week ending June 2. One
week later it had dropped to 1866
GIT.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
1000 SEEK SLAYER
AT INGLEWOOD JAIL

lNGLEWOOD, July S. -tUP)-
An est i'm ted 1000 citizens
swarmed around the town Jail
early today and demanded to
know whether Albert Dyer,
confessed slayer o. three little
InglewoOd girls, was there.
Capt. ~ E. Muir warned the
against violence but permitted a
committee of three" to be TAX
en- through the Jail to see for
themselves that Dyer had been
removed to Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Mercury Climbs
To 113 ON Sunday

Temperature fed short of the lit
degree seasons high Sunday when
a maximum of 1l3 was recorded in
Ell Centro. A high of 1903 was re-
corded at noon Monday, with hui
midity figures running generally
higher.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
BANK DEBTS
LEGAL HOLIDAY
BUILDING PERMITS
To Date This Year
S145,362

Butter: Los Angeles 33; Butter
fat, Imperial Valley. fob. ranch,
Grade A 45c; manufacturing milk
81; route gathered cream 321ac.
l.. A. Hay: u. S. No. ieafy S2O.5O-
S2I. 90; u. S. No. $18.O0-SI9.0O; u.
S. No. 2 leafy $17.O0- -$17.50; u. s.
No. 2 I5.00-S15.50.
Minneapolis flax July $2.02.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

The Wrong Moment
Herbert Hughes, deputy coroner
in whose hands rests practically all
the business of the coroner's office
at normal times, suddenly became a
quite unpopular individual Monday
up around the Imperial county
sheriff's office, where his fellow de-
puties hang out. Herbert, 1t seems
left on his vacation Sunday night
and Monday there were no less
than five inquests to be conducted.
A Long, Cool Smoke
Sheriff Bob Ware startled his
aides Monday by appearing at his
office with something that looked
like a baby zeppelin between his
teeth. 1t was a cigar a foot long
and a couple of inches around, and
the sight of the sheriff following
it around the office was enough to
cause Wonderment. One deputy
suggested that perhaps the doctor
had limited the sheriff to one cigar
a day, but the most likely sugges-
ton seemed to be that, what with
the temperature what it is, Bob Is
getting just as far as he can away
from the fire at the end Of the
cigar.
OF All Days
Did anyone notice that the flag
atop the telephone company's
building in FL Centro was hanging
by just one corner Monday. Ana
this the day after the Fourth, too
Now It's Over -
Jerry Robertson, RR hears, al
most prolonged his own marriage
ceremony Sunday, much to his own
embarrassed discomfort, by repeat
performances on what he had to
say. RR, who understands COM
pletely, got by with grunts, which
the minister interpreted somehow
of other into the words they shoul5
have been. Evidently Jerry's grunts
were not unintelligible enough.
The 49th State
Said Les Rogers passenger, Ell
route home from San Diego sun
day night: THAT looks like a Wis
consin license ahead"
Said Les. squirting. Nope. It's
Milwaukee"
A Seasonal Note
RRs own personal advice to job
hunters: Stay out OF newspaper
offices. They're among the lew
places where the only holidays are
Sundays'-tha is, some Sundays
Other Sundays, you're liable to be
ierked out of a restful snooze by
the hair Just because somebody has
been thoughtless enough to incite
a riot, commit murder Of ROB
bank. (Now that's out OF our sys-
tenn
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
ELECTRIC CORD
EXACTS TOLL
Youth Killed When He Leaps Into Pool
With Extension in Hand; Heat Takes
Two Lives; Child Perishes

Six persons dead, several others were injured,
arrested in Ell Centre alone and home was gut
ted by fire in the aftermath of the boodest Fourth OF July
weekend on record in Imperial county.
Drunkenness played part in every death but one
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Ship Speeds TO
New Position
To Aid Amelia

HONOLULU, July s. (UP) Navy headquarters at
Pearl Harbor disclosed the guard cutter asca had
radioed the u S. S. that Official information indi
Gates Amelia Earhart down 281 miles north of Rowland
isand The tasca reported speeding to the spot
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Knife Used
By Wife in Fatal
R0WOver Jealousy

BRAWLEY July 5.-Mrs Ed Hansen, 43, Saturday
night stabbed her boxmaker husband to death with par
ing knife at 1922 B street here because he Jealous
like all jealous she told Police Chief Lon Cromer.
Mrs. Hansen taken to the county Jail pending q
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
/ DID | T!'
HE SCREAMS
AT OFFICERS
Crossing Guard Breaks, Shuddering,
Weeping as He Tells of Luring
Girls to Their Death

LOS ANGELES, July 5. (UP)-Albert Dyer,
essed slayer of three little ngewood girls whose bodies
he ravshed after he sranged them to DEATH held in
the skyscraper Los Angeles jail today.
Dyer who made the ACQUAINTANCE of the children while
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Baseball Results
NATIONAL

NATIONAL
First game
New York 900 300 030-6 l5 {
Boston ................ 600 001 0l0-2 10
Melton and Mancuso; Gabler,
Fette, Birkofer, Ostermueller and
Lopez
Philadelphia POI 600 000-3 9 0
Brooklyn ..........O01 600 000-l 4
johnson and Grace; Hoyt and
Phelps.
%
AMERICAN
Chicago ...........0 900 003 010-4 10
Detroit ................ 800 900 02x-8 8 ]
Kennedy, Dietrich and SeWell,
Poffenberger, Russell and Bolton.
Washington 020 003 0O0--5 - 0
Philadelphia 900 100 110-3 0
Deshong and r. Ferrell; Caster
and Brucker
First game
Boston ...............OO0 900 000-0 6 !
New York ........2O9 900 31x-15 16 0
Wilson, Olson and Berg; Ruffing
and Dickey, Glenn.
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PAGE SEVEN

day that there would be no worry
about what to pack for Johnny's
and Maryis lunch-that lunches
would begin Monday.
Miss Mary Phipps has returned
OF Marion, Va, after spending sew
eral weeks with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Phipps.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lanier is at home
after visiting her children in w.
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Farmer.
from Piney Greek, spent Sunday
with Mrs. Farmers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Owens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Atwood, of
w. Va, spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Atwood.
Miss Fannie Phipps have returned
to Winston-Salem after visiting her
parents.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-11-04

And he must find time to run
down to the "a debts, seeking ways
to avert its bankruptcy, at least for
a time. He was wondering how
far he dared go against Dunn's
order that no penny of Wheeler
money should ever be CHANGED in
the 81. Dunn would be game to
split the works wide open if he
didn't like the way salvation had
been obtained. It was up to Wheel
Ter to find ways to get around that,
taking care that the girl would
never guess any obligation to him.
That last was what Dunn feared
most.
But though his mind was lay
ing out routes and plans far out
side of the Red Rock country, he
was somehow not surprised as
Marian now came and joined him
here. To think about any phase of
this killing case, or of the immi-
nent run of Horse Dunn's cow king
dom, was to think about her. After
all, the "a was her brand, and her
future was interlaced with its flu
ture. So now as he looked up at
the sound of her light quick step
it seemed natural, somehow ex-
peoted thing to see her standing
there in his door.
This is a lonely night" she said.
Nothing anywhere in this night
intends to Sleep"
II guess that's SO. But it's near
morning now"
Without high heels and with her
hair light and loose about her
shoulders she should have looked
smaller, but she did not. He
thought he had never seen her so
slirnly tall, SO gravely steady.
Perhaps that was partly the effect
of what she wore. Because he had
never seen her dressed as she was
now, he had suddenly sense of
how little he knew her, after all;
just as he did not know what she
wore when she slept, how could he
know what went on in her mind
when she was alone-or ever?
She was wearing pajamas, but
their black silk was cut like Rus
sian smock, with a high collar of
soft black silk about her throat,
and close cuffs at her wrists, so that
standing against the dark she was
all a part of the dark, except for
the bright ivory of her face and
her hair.
About this costume, which was
strange to him, there was barbar-
ic dignity, as if it were not some
thing to sleep in at all, but the
ceremonial dress of some forgotten
priestesS. It was strange to see
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-11-04
METHODISTS PAY UP

Last year when it was evident
that Lake Junaluska, the Methodist
assembly grounds was about to be
lost to the church on account of a
big Indebtedness, DR.. w. A. Lam
beth, of Winston-Salem, was ap-
pointed to make campaign to save
the property.
A little more than $1O5,OOO was
subscribed and every cent pledged
by North Carolina Methodists has
been paid, the last $25 being sent
in last week. Every amount pledg-
ed has been collected with the ex-
ception of four made in other states
and amounting to only $78. This is
indeed a wonderful record.
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this vision here, standing beside
spare saddle that had been flung or
the floor under a tangle of brides
on wooden peg. Everything
around her was cow country, but
she-was something else, some
thing lovely from beyond the hills
"a daughter of two worlds.
She came and sat beside him or
the bunk. did you find out any
thing more from Old Man Coffee?
I thought you'd get more out Of
him if I left you alone"
"Not very much. Old Man COT
fees been a disappointment to me
in a way. Sometimes I think he
doesn't know anything about it."
Il wonder"
Marian, what are you going to
do?"
what is there for me to do? One
of two things-stay here or 60 to
Inspiration to be near Horse. OF
course, he ought to be out of there
in few days."
ct wouldn't count on that, Mari
an. They can't make case against
him-not even the beginnings of q
case. They know that. But what
they want to do-and can do is
to tie up the "a finances by max
ing the case look as ugly as pos
sible. They'll point out that Dunn
was the main one who would be
expecting Flagg there; and proba-
bly, make Flagg's share of the mon
ey the motive. Of course that's
ridiculous. But for their purpose
all they need to do is to raise the
question and then cause delay
in clearing it up"
Her eyes were on distance be-
yond the walls-smoky eyes, drow-
sy, even misty on the surface; but
behind them was that continuing
deep glow of slumbering fire, the
smouldering light of greaT re-
serve vitality.
"I'd 60 east now, if I were you"
he told her. we'll fight this thing
out, and save out of it what we
can-you can count on that. But
this isn't a good place for you any
more. There won't be anyone here,
except couple of cow hands to
keep an eye on things. And it
would drive Horse crazy to have
you in that hornets nest in 1nspir-
alton"
"But you-?"
"Tll be gone. I have to back
track Bob Flagg a little further. I'll
have to go to Flagstaff; then may
be down-country. God knows how
long I'll be gone. 1t looks like a
dim, crooked trail"
She considered this. "When are