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Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

superior Judge Vaughn N. Thomp-
son left no place for any verdict
which might minimize DR.. Luckett's
guilt, if he is convicted.
Judge Thompson's instructions
gave Darwin H. Wolford, deputy
district attorney, victory in another
legal skirmish with Herbert L.
Iasigi defense counsel, when the
court told the jurors that "abor-
ton" and miscarriage" are synon-
omous in the legal meaning, and
must be regarded as such by the
jury Iasigi stressed the medical
distinction between the words dur
ing the trial and in his closing
argument.
The case was given to the jury
when instructions we're read at the
opening of court Thursday morn
ing. Prosecution and defense at
torneys had completed their argu-
ments to the jury the previous
afternoon, summing up the evidence
and placing various interpretation
on the testimony of different wit
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
HEAVY PENALTY
URGED IN SEX
CRI IA { CASES

OAKLAND, July Is. UP)-Shock-
ed by recent brutalities, the Cali
fcrnia Parent Teachers Associa-
ton state board of managers NOV
ed today to provide more drastic
penalties for sex crimes against
children.
The board adopted a resolution
asking state legislation making
such cffenses felonies instead Of
misdemeanors, as they are classi-
fled currently in some instances
The resolution also demanded that
persons convicted of such crimes
be refused paroles.
when crimes are committed
against children authorities round
I'D known degenerates, of which
there are serious number" the
resolution said. MANY of these in
clude former convicts. paroled after
previous offenseS. These crimes
apparently are on the increase
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

her into his car Her younger sister,
six years old, insisted on accom-
panying Mccullough and the older
girl.
Mccullough, said officers, drove
20 his home a mile away, dragged
the nine-year-o girl by the hand
into the house, stripped off her
clothing and attempted to assault
her. Afterwards he took both girls
into Calipatria, bought them some
Ice cream, and took them home.
Questioned by Heald and Ware,
Mccullough denied that he had
attempted to attack the girl, but
admitted that he bought the young
sers ice cream.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

one truck was burned up.
Most critically injured was Ray
mond Bowman, El Centric, who was
treated at the Ell Centric hospital
for a fractured skull.
Charles Ferguson, Ell Centre elec-
trical appliance dealer, suffered
head injuries which at first were
thought to include skull fracture
Decided improvement in his con-
dition and a further examination
Thursday morning revealed that his
injuries we're not as critical as was
at first believed.
Mrs. Erma He'll, also of Ell Gen.
tro, suffered deep cuts on her face
Her 13-year-old daughter, Virginia,
was not severely injured.
Injured in another accident were
Mrs Emily Nation, Ell Centre, dis
located shoulder blade, and two
unidentified men, one believed to
be named Filpott, whose cuts and
bruises received emergency atten-
ton Wednesday night before they
left the El Centro hospital for their
homes. Fred Rivett and Maxine
Wilson escaped injury. These five
were in a car which overturned
three miles east of Ell Centre after
striking soft shoulder beside the
highway. They had been drinking.
A report that man had been
burned to death when a truck
caught fire 13 miles east of Holt
vile on the Yuma highway Thurs
day morning sent highway patrol
men to the scene. They found the
truck consumed by fire., but dis
covered that no one was in the
truck and nobody had been hurt.
Name of the truck driver had not
been reported at l pm.
Ferguson, Bowman and Mrs. He'll
were injured in three-car acci-
dent one mile west of Paster City
on the San. Diego highway Thurs
day night.
A car registered to Fred Croteau
Ell Centre, travelling east, sideswip-
ed another machine driven by Clara
Wyatt, Dallas, Tex, and then plung-
ed head-on into the auto driven by
Mrs He'll, with Ferguson and Vir-
ginia He'll as passengers. Bowman
was taken from under the car regis
tered to Croteau.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
JAPAN PLACED
ON WAR BASIS;
TROOPS LEAVE
Army Leaders Ordered
To Force China to
Admit Guilt

TOKYO, Friday, July 16.
(UP)-Emperor Hirohito to-
day approved steps taken by
the government which have
placed the empire on a war
footing and sanctioned the send
ing of the 18th division of the i'm
perial army from Kurume, in south
western Japan proper, to the North
China fighting area.
One report was that the 18th
division had landed in Dairen and
was moving towards Peiping.
Dispatch of troops from the home
army followed announcement by the
government that 100000 army re-
servists had been ordered to make
ready for call to duty.
Detailed instructions we're given
to prefectural and colonial gov
ernors as result of which more than
100,00000O japanese and subject
peoples were ready Immediately to
render service to the army and
navy which have been given full
power to humble China and force
her to pay for week of fighting
between Japanese and Chinese
forces outside Peiping in which
scores of soldiers have been killed.
Immediate instructions to mill
tary commanders in the field, ii
was understood, are that they must
force China to:
Agree to local settlement of the
North China fighting rather than
national settlement between
Nanking and Tokyo which China
demands.
Instruct the Hopei- -Chahar politi-
cal council-the North China gov.
erning body-to admit responsibility
of its 28th army for the series OF
clashes; obtain formal apologies
from the Chinese commanders re-
sponsible; and give guarantees of
non-recurrence.
Pledge herself to cessation of all
anti-Japanese activity and coopera-
ton in Japan's campaign to sup
press the Chinese Communist party.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

owns bI1e 1Illnt, Sdiu liNN liDo'
after the blast that there are "l9
men still underground and that he
believed all were killed.
Recue parties wearing gas masks
plunged into the shaft while scar
ing heat and poisonous gases still
eddied. After an interval heart
breaking to the throng of relatives
an'd townspeople at the surface
they brought out II burn.d and
blackened men.
Thousands of Sullivan county
men, women and children milled
about the mines entry.
A. f. Wilson. state mines director
and his assistant, Henry Wallace,
directed rescue crews from Vim
cennes, Terre Haute, Brazil and
other mines in the rich southern
Indiana coal fields, who came here
to ail Four of the IL taken from
the shaft were expected to die,
Sullivan hospital attendants said.
These men were removed from
the approximate center of the
Baker mine. nearly a mile and a
half back from the entry.
No one was able to give an exact
total of themen who we're working
when the explosion occurred. The
Baker mine normally employs 225
men who. work in three shifts of
seven hours each.
Excitement gripped tho crowd of
wives. sweethearts and residents of
Continued on Page 2; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

acquitted in 1921 of charge of
molesting a small girl in Holtville,
and who was freed after a grand
jury investigation three years ago
into another similar charge, will be
tried on technical charge of lewd
and lascivions conduct.
The suspect is in Jail in lieu OF
$4,000 bond fixed by Justice of
the Peace B. F. Grubel of Cali
patria. A preliminary hearing will
be held July 10.
Mccullough. according to Sheriff
Robert w. Ware and District At
torney Elmer w. Head, went to
the home of the motherless child
while her father was irrigating
Wednesday, told her he would buy
her some ice cream, and enticed
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

charge growing out of the fire at
his Lansdowne home last May 28,
was arraigned shortly after the
second warrant was issued. He was
ordered held in $4,000 additional
bail on attempted murder charges
pending grand jury action in Sep
tember.
William r. Toal, Delaware county
assistant district attorney, who OBJ
tanned the warrant for Knights re-
arrest. said his three eldest children
were insured for total of $l25,00
with a double indemnity clause in
case of death by fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

The children, Ruth, %; Sue, 19.
and Mary II, we're in their home
at Lansdowne Court. May 28, when
Knight allegedly set fire to the
house.
The Lansdowne fire was started
police said, by a candle which ig-
nited an oil soaked rope.
Fire Chief Walter F'raim said the
storeroom where the fire started
was hung with rolled paper and
lengths of oil saturated rope, Ex-
celsior was scattered ON the floor,
according to fire officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
~ AMBLING
KEPORTER


From the office of the command
ing general, Ninth Corps Area, Pre-
siiio of San Francisco, under date
of July 6, Genes this note:
"Adjutant General, Washing
ten. DC, has directed that the
name of John Edgar Crane, Order
No. 11O1, a registrant of the local
beard for imperial county. Calf, be
removed from the published list OF
draft deserters.
whereas the final report OF the
draft officials showed this man tc
be in a status Of draft dessrtion, a
further investigation OF the records
in his case discloses that he enlisted
in the British Imperial Army prior
to the date he was ordered by the
draft officials to report for military
duty"
Well, we've always heard that
Justice moves slowly. but it Geo
tainly takes the army long time
to prove it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
FATE OF COURT
B ILL PUT UP
TO CONGRESS
Roosevelt Willing To
Leave Measure in
Others Hands

WASHINGTON, July Is.
(UP) - President Roosevelt,
it was reported today, is
willing to leave up to con-
gress the decision on whether
the supreme court reorganization
hall be shelved.
90
WASHINGTON, July 15. WR)-
President Roosevelt held an early
morning White House conference
with Attorney General Homer
Cummings today, presumably to dis
euss the effect of Sen. Joseph I.
Robinsons death on the. admin
STATIONS supreme court fight.
Cummings appeared at the white
house before Mr.. Roosevelt was out
of bed. He left before 10 o'clock.
Court plan foes considered pre-
senting a motion Tuesday to re-
commit the juriciary bill to com
mittee-a motion which. if approved,
would be tantamount to killing the
program. They claimed at least SO
votes for recommital.
Some oppositionists believed it
might be better strategy to drive
ahead for outright defeat of the
court plan.
The administration forces mean
time, speeded reorganization of their
strength to carry on the battle
after a state funeral services in
the senate tomorrow for Robinson
and completion of Arkansas cere-
monies in respect to the late leader.
A group of more than a dozen
freshmen" senators on the Demo-
cratic side appeared to hold the key
TO the outcome of the court fight
and Sen. Clyde Herring, D., Ia,
said after a survey of their attitude
that he expected all but one and
possibly two to stand firm for the
substitute court bill
The loss of Senator Robinson
has put new fire into them" Her.
ring said, disclosing a conference of
the group had been called for this
afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
Navy Bombers Off
On Alaskan Hops

SEATTLE, July Is. UP)-Twenty
three U. S. navy patrol bombing
planes roared away from Sane
FONT naval air station today on
nonstop flights to Sitka and Ko-
diak, Alaska.
Last of the giant IS ton two
motored planes rose from Lake
Washington and got into formation
in the air at $50 am.
The planes started taking the Air
at lis am.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

DECATUR, Ala, July Is. W.R)-
Clarence Norris. Negro, today was
convicted and for the third time
in six years ordered to die for the
alleged participation in a mass at
tack on two white women aboard a
freight train near Scottsboro, Ala,
in March. 1881.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
LucI<etf Declared
Guilty BY jury
Farm Tenancy Bill
Sent to Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, July Is. W,P)-
The senate today approved the con-
ference report on the administration
farm tendency bill and sent the
S85 .COO,OO measure to the White
House.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

Shortly before noon Thursday the
jury indicated that it desired testi-
mony of two witnesses read again
but lunch intervened before the
jurors were taken. back into the
courtroom to hear a re-reading OF
the testimony
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
100

Only two verdicts, guilty and not guilty, were open
to the jury which began at 1000 Thursday its deli
berations in the trial of Dr. T. O. Lucket grand jury
Indictment charging abortion
In his instructions to the jurors Thursday morning,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
Suspect Held i'm
Attack on Child
Near Calipat'ria

Charles B. Mccullough, SO, twice before suspected of
crimes against children lodged in the Imperial county
Jail Wednesday night charge of attempting to GRIMM
ally attack yearold Mexican girl the Mccullough
ranch northwest of Calipatra. Mccullough who was
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
Plan to Collect $3.50, 900 Insurance Seen
Behind Setting House on Fire;
Held Under $4,000 Bail
90

LANSDOWNE, Pa, July Is (UP)-Albert R. Knight,
55 wealthy oil company executive was arrested at
his home today charge of attempting to burn three of
his children to death to collect $250000 insurance their
lives. Knight at liberty under $4,000 bail
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
Only Two Verdicts, Guilty or Not Guilty,
Possible; Wolford Victorious
In Legal Skirmish
BULLETIN

Uerdict of guilty Uas brought in by the jury try
ing Dr. T. o. Luckett charges of performing an
abortion 1855 pm Thursday, after nearly fiUe hours
delberation Immediately after the Uerct, Lee Nuffer.
defense counsel, announced he lUOuid appeal
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
Reverse English

Reverse English
Lobbyist Blue-he got the first
name from his intermittent pre-
sence in an Ell Centre hotel lobby
should forfeit it after this. Blue
whose wife writes poetry now AND
then while he works for Rio Grande
snitched one of the poems and
sent it to a newspaper in Los An
geles. 1t came into print under 6.
Brawley dateln,-and this is it
You say the sunrise is superb;
For You that's, very well.
Here where it's hot--apd l mean
Hot.
The sunrise looks like hell.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
Chas. Ferguson
Among Victims
In New Mishaps
Raymond Bowman Critically Injured In
Three-car Crackup Near Plaster
City-Fire Death UnfOunded

Imperial counys mounting fear of highway accidents,
responsible for wild but unfounded rumors of new deaths
Wednesday night and Thursday gained fuel those
two days through three accidents in which six persons
injured four automobiles severely damaged and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
Underground
Blast in Mine
Traps 81 Men
Explosion Sends Flames Into Passages;
Twelve Blackened, Burned Victims
Rescued; Others Held Dead

SULLIVAN Ind, July 15 (UP)-An explosion OF
"ine damp shot flame through the Baker soft coal mine
today trapping 81 Miners IL of whom were rescued and
10 of whom were believed dead.
Robert Templeton president of the company which
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
Al Frima DonnaS.---


Oliver Coker, the Country Club
Kid" doesn't mind a jeer now and
then from ringside-but it's going
too far when the jeers get into print
Oliver and his sponsor, Bonner Will
liams, are rather hot under the col
lar because this weeks fight card
proclaims that Oliver lost to Isaac
Blair in a recent fight, The records
say otherwise.
I'VE were both" declared Bonner
somewhat mortified to see it in
public print"
Since it wasn't the Post-Press
that made the mistake, RR might
say it was the public print which
should have been mortified
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
FATHER ACCUSED
OF PLOT TO BURN
THREE CHILDREN
Baseball Results
NATIONAL

NATIONAL
Chicago ...........012 002 000-5 IA
Boston ................000 010 000-1 s z
Carleton g. Hartnett; Bush,
Hutchinson g. Lopez.
Pittsburgh at New York. Cincin-
natl at Brooklyn and st. Louis at
Philadelphia, postponed, rain.
AMERICAN
Philadelphia 200 010 001--2 0
Chicago ..............0 900 100 O00-1 I
Caster & Brucker; Dietrich 81
Sewell
Boston ..............--.---...--... .Uoo UuV
St Louis .......-....-................. O0S
Marcum g. Berg; Hildebrand &
Huffman
New York .......521 202 COILS IA
Detroit .........,...013 oil 000-- 8 5 !
Gomez g. Dickey, Rowe, Lawson,
Russell g. Iebbetts.
Washington .... 020 600 600--2 2 q
Cleveland -. 00l $50 0Ox-6 IA !
Chase q r. Ferrell. Whitehill &
Pytlak.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15

Butter: Los Angeles SIC: Butter
fat, Imperial Valley. fob. ranch,
Grade A 46c; manufacturing milk
3Sc; route gathered cream 33is.
L. A. Hay: u. s. No. 1 leafy $1,000
2O.5O; u. S. No. s1s.00-1s.5O; u.
S. No. 2 leafy S17.00- $3.50; u. s.
No. 2 S15.5O-16.0O.
Minneapolis flax July sos.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-15
BANK DEBTS

Wednesday
$672,273.43
BUILDING PERMITS
To Date This Year
$165,862
The Washington times., 1937-11-12
PLANS FOR FUTURE

Tomorrow or the next day,
think" Stoddard suppressed any
feeling of caution he might have
had. Her voice was too deeply
tragic.
IT know social agency here in
the city which accepts volunteer
social workers. The work will be
just filing, working in the office,
helping keep up the case histories. u
whats a case history'?"
Stoddard laughed. "You. for
one"
Am ~"
There will be one of you be.
cause of your Jail record"
That's one thing I can't for.
give you for" Karen veered away
suddenly from the more prosaic
subject.
1--WE won't go into that now,
Karen. The question is, do you
want a useful job where you can
help somebody"
eyes, I honestly do. But why
can't I be where I can decide
what people should have?"
How can you decide other peo
ple's lives until you have made
some kind of compromise in your
oWn?"
81 hate compromises"
1--WE all do, Karen, but some
times they are the only way out. "
His voice was more serious than
his remark seemed to warrant.
They sat there some time in ST.
lence. Karen shivered.
you're cold"
mo, think just feel a little
lost"
Eyes, I suppose so. Karen,
promise about the job. 1t will
teach you many things you should
know. You may not like it"
I'll love i'll"
Nov let me get you some hot
coffee before I take you home"
Must go home right away?"
"Yes!" Stoddard chuckled. 1T
would never do for the champion
of the underdog to be seen out
with a wealthy young lady in
mink"
Aren't you supposed to know
any girls who have mink coatS?"
Karen smiled at him impudently.
only in a business way. I'm
not supposea to buy them coffee
and hold their hand!"
Later when they were sitting to-
gether in a little uptown restau-
rant, Karen returned to that con.
verSation: I'll buy the coffee
and then maybe you can be al
lowed to hold my hand"
THAT is just what my constitu.
entS would think, Karen"
Dick found the girl completely
diverting. different.
Sometime want to talk to you
about the girls I met in jail, :"
Karen said to him after while.
Dick moved uncomfortably:
1--WE felt guilty about that ever
SINCE" he admitted.
Don't. I liked them! I often
think Of them. I wish could do
something for them"
"We7l see. Maybe you can. Be
The Washington times., 1937-11-12
Vera Brown
Exciting First-Run NOUeL
Reckless Lady
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

Karen Mallory free after receiving mot
guy Verdict for the death of tCo a0oen Grrives home
aOth her ance, Ping Farrington and finds Prince Rant
9Oditing. quarrel starts bet1Ueen Ping and Karen hen
the Prince proposes hGt he and Karen go through aUh
their marriage plans. Ping Karen of lying to him
about the Prince Ieaves rage The Prince again pleads
has cause only to get an emphatic mo" Angered he
her of being love 1Uh Judge Stoddurd aCho had
sent her to Jail tve days traffic CHARGE At din
her family suggest Karen go to Florida, but she
fuses. Karen makes ate" to riding aOith the Judge.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
She slipped inside the and immediate peace settled
her. Although Stoddard in evening Clothes he
driving his and Karen realized instantly he did not
want his chauffeur to know of this meeting
He reached out and gave her hand squeeze When you
make promise, you keep it-right!'
Karen smiled back at him in silence.
where shall we drive'
"It does not matter"
Then she felt she must warn him.
The Washington times., 1937-11-12

"Dick, I'm afraid father may
prove a difficult enemy" she be.
gan. Stoddard patted her hand =;
did not comment that it was the
first time she had used his first
name.
I'm not worried about him;
he's my natural enemy, Karen"
"Why?"
SNOW FALLING
'Too much money" He smiled
down at her. you're my natural
enemy, too."
"How funny!"
Karen paused. "I mean for us to
be enemies"
A light snow had begun to fall,
Dick Stoddard turned into the
park from Fifth Avenue and found
quiet road where he could park
the car. Then he got out ciga
retteS and his lighter.
Nov, what's worrying you?"
"I'm-bored!" Karen made the
confession flatly.
"All right. We must do some,
thing about that"
when can I begin to help the
Mariettos?"
We've got to let them help
themselves, Karen. We've got to
let them fix up some kind of plan
and then help them carry it out
without too much interference"
But that will take a long time!
Karen was petulant. What shall
do in the meantime?"
Dick turned toward her: "Just
how serious are you about wanting
to do something useful?"
II was never so serious in my
life!"
"All right, if you mean it; I'll see
what I can do"
when can start?"
The Washington times., 1937-11-12

Ito Be COntinued)
Copyright. 1887, Public Ledger
Syndicate
Evening star., 1937-09-24
TENNESSEE DRYS
ACCLAIM VICTORY
Prohibitionists to Move for
Repeal of State Law
Permitting Beer.
~ .he Associated Press.

~ .he Associated Press.
NASHVILLE Tenn, September "A.
Tennessee drys today acclaimed their
2-to-1 victory in yesterdays prohibi-
tion referendum and planned an at
tack on legalized beer while vets in
sisted the advisory balloting was
meaningless farce"
Prohibitionists saw a great moral
victory in the results and announced
they would move shortly for repeal of
q statute that permits per cent beer.
The State is one of five whose anti
whisky laws have survived repeal of
national prohibition.
Vets noted, however, that the total
vote apparently would run nearly
100000 below that cast in 1888 when
the State ratified national repeal, and
claimed the issue ultimately would
have to be settled on local option
basis.
Majority Is 61,7l3.
With l,723 precincts reported out of
S,l60 in the State, the count Stood
For repeal, 38,O22 against repeal,
99,735. The dry majority was 81 ,7l3.
Approximately 100000 were qualified
to vote.
In the 1888 election Tennessee voted
126,942 to l20,107 for repeal of the
eighteenth amendment.
E. H. Crump, leader of the Memphis
political organization and outstanding
repeal advocate, said: The light dry
vote throughout the State, after a de-
termined effort on the part of the
drys, is conclusive proof Tennessee
will go wet when there is chance for
. clear shot at local option" Crump
opposed the referendum and did not
even vote himself.
Called Moral Victory.
I'VE feel this is the greatest moral
victory Tennessee has had since the
State Legislature voted for State wide
prohibition nearly 80 years ago." said
Rev. Robert S. Tinnon, superintendent
OF the State Anti-Saloon League
Repealist leaders had made no ef-
fort to organize their forces, contend
ing the referendum was meaningless"
since repeal victory would not have
changed the dry laws nor bound the
Legislature to change them.
The recent Legislature killed a liu-
nor legalization proposal and then
called the referendum.