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Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
STORMS CAUSE
HEAVY DAMAGE
IN new YORK
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NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Tropic
storms which in two districts were
described as Of rvclonic character,
caused heavy damage over the New
York metropolitan area last night.
The minor cyclones were reported
at Ridgefield, y. j., and Glen Cove,
l.. l., while severe thunder storms
swept other districts. At Glen Cove
and Seacliffe. l.. l.. witnesses re-
ported the descent of watcrSpout
and Il wall of water comparable to
It tidal wave
One man was killed and another
reported missing during the storm.
Six persons are known to have
been injured. Thirty five houses, Il
church and a lumber yard were des,
troycd. Property damage was esti-
mated at half "a million dollars,
The storm lasted for more than
three hours and the rainfall in
pieces WAS nearly an inch and q
half Low lying streets were
flooded and many sections We're two
feet under water.
Witnesses to the storm ut Glen
Cove reported that they had seen a
Wat,rspout corkscrcw inshorC from
the ocean as the thunderstorm des-
ccndcd The storm spread ruin along
the ocean front.
At Sracjffc several bungalows
were shaken down. John Conroy
and Joseph Goodman were injured
when thrir bungalow collapsed upon
Them.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
Brawley Starts
Clarke Club

With an initial enrolment Of 40
members last night, a Clarke for
Senator Club was organized in
Brawley and according to reports
from that city today the member
ship has been increased to 200
names.
Sam Rowe of Westmorland was
chosen president of the club and Ii.
G. Baughmln of Brawley was elect
cd secretary A vice president viii
be chosen among Clarke supporters
IN Ell Centro.
Rowe, VINO has Hnowh Clarke for
several years, addressed the meet
ing declaring that Clarke j. the
proper man for Imperial Valley 70
support.
4 statement was read attacking
the claims of Senator Shortrdge
that he is friendly 70 the Swing
johnson bill and declaring that be
only adopted this attitude as cam
paign issue.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
LILLIAN CANNON
FORCED TO QUIT
CHANNEL SWIM
Will Make Another Effort
Later in the Week, Says
Baltimore Girl.
By MINOTT SAUNDERS
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent,

CAPE Girls NRZ. France. Aug.
17.-l.illian Cannon will make an
other attempt TO swim the English
channel, despite her experience ear
" today when II heavy electrical
storm broke out Of the darkness
above the channel and compelled her
10 abandon Il promising effort af-
ter two and one half hours in the
water.
Lillian came back here to stop
after a pluckv swim under the worst
conditions any channel swimmer
has encountered during recent sea
sons. She stepped into the water
excellent position four milcs off
shore at the end of the second
hour in the water when the storm
broke with amazing suddcnness
Several times the Baltimore girl
was lost to sight in the darkness.
The Skv was Streaked with lightn-
ing and thunder rolled ominously
overhead. The experts accompany
ing Lillian advised her to quit and
reluctantly she did so at 3:25 a, m.
Nine. Sion, champion French
woman distance swimmer, was on
beard an accompanying tug and her
sympathy was especially keen for
the girl in the water. q know the
terrorS of the channel : she said,
Tecalling the night last year when
darkness and exhaustion overwhelm-
ed her when success seemed pro-
bablc.
Lillian said today that she felt
that she had experienced about the
worst the channel could do to her
and that she was not afraid.
81 was just getting nicely warm
ed up and going good, she said,
"when the storm broke.
For an hour and Il half I smii-
ed while the lightning and thunder
alternated overhead and Il gale
swept the channel. But when the
tug became unmanageable, I was
afraid | would cry. They could not
handle If at the slow pace neces-
sary to keep abreast of me, There
WAS nothing to do but quit
THE channel certainly played
enc of its mcanest tricks on me be
cause when | started the weather
was IDEAL. y
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
Board Demands
Action By State

Imperial county supervisors are
prepared to take legal action against
the state highway commission to Sc
cure replacement of siphons and
bitches on the highway between
Hoitvillc and the Lowlinc canal if
the commission does not act in the
matter Immediately.
Decision to force replacement
was made at a meeting of the board
yesterday, when the supervisors au-
thorized County Clerk Mousscau to
request immediate action in the
matter in II letter to f. 9. Sullivan,
division engineer at San Bcruar.
dino. If no action is taken they
are prepared to istitutc legal pro
ceedings.
When the highway work was un-
dertaken the commission agreed to
replace siphons and bitches that
might be obstructed or removed.
Water users in the district have
made numerous complaints, declar-
ing requirements have not been
made.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
DOMESTIC TELLS
HALLS ACTIONS
WITH MRS. MILLS
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SOMERNlLLE. y. j., Aug. L.
The intimacy between the Rev. DR..
Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills was described today by Bar
bara Tough, formerly q domestic
in the pastors home.
TcStifying in thc preliminary OK
animation of Willie stevens aud
Henry De La Bruyrrc Carpcnder,
who, with Mrs. Hall. are charged
with the murder Of the clergyman
and his choir singer sweetheart,
Miss Tough said that a few months
before the double murder she had
seen Mrs. Mills sitting in Dr Hall 5
lap in the study of the church rec
tory.
Charles Collins. dctcctivc was
the opening witness. He told of
having traced TO Philadelphia the
tan cloak and scarf which Mrs.
Frances Stevens Hall had sent TO
a dvcinG establishment there i'm.
modiatclv after the murder Of the
Rev. Edw. w. Hall, her husband.
He declared his nurnoSe was 10
learn whether the cloak and scarf
were bloodStamcd and as far as
he could learn they were not.
The clothing had been a source
of much controversy.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
Utley To Talk
In Valley Cities

Plans for an intensive campaign
on behalf of Ernest +. Vtley. cam
didate to succeed himself as district
attorney, were mapped out last
night at a meeting of the "Ctley
for District Attorney club.
Among plans approved by the or
ganization is a speaking program
calling for appearance of Utley at
meetings throughout the valley. On
Thursday night the district attorney
will address a rally in he Brawlev
city park. On Friday he will speak
in Calipatria and on Saturday he
will address n rally at Holtville. a
mass meeting is being planned for
Monday night in FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
PRESIDENT RULES
NO INTERFERENCE
IN MEXICAN ROW
Matter Not One For This
Country to Attempt
Settling.
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PAUL SMITHS, y. y, Aug. L..
1.-THE United States government
cannot interfere in the church and
>iat" controversy in Mexico, Presi-
dent Coolidge ruled today.
His spokesman declared uncondi-
tl"nallv that under no law did this
government have authority TO in
tercst itself in such purely domes-
tie problems.
Only one complaint of seizure of
American property has been made
TO the state department., Mr. Cool
idgc 5 spokesman said. and the Mex
lean government has promised to
make immediate adjustment of the
one case
The administration will certify,
however, the spokesman declared,
that this government will do what
ii can To see our claims respected.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
HUSTON CHOSEN
STATE LEADER OF
FORTY AND EIGHT

SUSANVILLE, Aug 17.-With
Approximately 5000 Lcgionnaircs
and members of the '~omcn 5 ?nXi-
liary registered, official sessions
opened toGay in the Eighth Annual
Convention, Il the Ameri IN | O.
gion.
SuSanNille stood up brar,i-' al,l
not Z" - lc ""' tt v un1or 'ac t1>k
If housing HS :. my Vie';e = ~ it
has residents. '."Gionnai,'1 wc {
generous in praising the city $ ade-
aN1te manIEem . : of hGuSin" All,
other detail
John r. Quinn, former national
commander; George J. Hatfield, L.
S. district attorney, San Frarcis-
60. and Mrs Eliza Shepard, na-
tional president of the women :
auxiliary, were among notable ar-
rivals.
Jack Huston. San Francisco, was
unanimously elected chief officer,
or grandr chef IL carc, of the For
ty and Eight, Legion fun society,
which went into convention session
ahead Of the Legion gathering. 9th
er new officers are: Joseph Plank.
Santa Ana; Grande chef de train;
Arthur F. Guns, Stockton graudc
conducteur; ! "Pat' Silverstein,
grandc commissiaric imtendant; Rlr-
fus NJ. Whalcy, Oakland, Crande de
In porte; Executive committee, En-
met Fitzpatrick, San FranciSco; Dr.
=. l.. Hill. SuSanvillc, and Jacl,
Graham, Merccd.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
ARREST Of
.P[OTTERS
0PP0RTUNE
Developments Show Plan
For Nationwide Move
Against Government.
MEXICALI OBJECTIVE
Incoming Cotton Crop
Was Attractive Prize
For Rebels.
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SAN DIEGO, Calf, Aug. IL
Arrest of General Enrique Estrada
and his armed forces by American
authorities frustrated i military
coup that would have resulted in
seizure Of the richest district in
northern McNiro by the rebel fac
tion. il was revealed here today.
Mexieau government officials de.
clare that American intervention
saved MeNicali aud the cutire
northern District Of Lower talifor-
MIA from conquest by the military
expedition, word received here from
Alfonso rellegrin, secretary To GOV
crnor Ahelardo Rodrigucz stated.
Reports from all sections of
McNicu indicate that had the Estra-
da expedition achieved its first oh
icriiNc hV crossing the border and
capturing the rich cotton producing
center Of McNicali, violent upriSiugS
throughout the southern republic
Wonld Gavc simultaneously been
started.
With the report of the arrest of
30 suspected rcvolutiouists in Mex
leo city. 1t is asserted that Mexican
authorities had information of plots
in the state of Pucbla, Morelos,
Michoacan, jalisco, chihuahua and
in the Mexico City federal district.
The uprisingS were scheduled to be
gin when Estrada 5 forces descend.
Cd upon Tccate, Rcdondo, MeXicali
and later Tijuana.
Governor Rodriguez is in Mexico
city and border garrlsonS, accord
TO word received here, have been ~
duccd to mere handSful OF soldiers,
indicating thc Estrada 5 force of
approximately $50 would have had
llllc trouble in sweeping through
the projected district.
Seizure Of second armored truck
aud additional supplies said by fed
cral investigators I" constitute the
reserve for the l50 asserted McNl-
can rcVolutiouists captured here sun
daV, was to hc made today. accord
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Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
MOUNTAIN SPRINGS PAVING CONTRACT LET
MAzER CHARGED
With DEATH OF
CANTON EDITOR

CANTON, O., Aug. l7-Louis
Mazer, Canton underworld charac-
ter, held by federal authorities in
Cleveland, was charged with the
murder of Don h. Mcllett, publish
er Of the Canton Daily News. in a
warrant sworn out here last night
The arrest was the first since the
crime was committed more than a
month ago on Il charge other than
suspicion. MaZcr was taken yes
tcrday with Carl Studer, an asso-
ciato, on charges of conspiracy 20
violate the prohibition law. The
murder warrant was sworn out lat
cr.
In a statement issued by Joseph
Roach, Chicago criminal prosecutor,
Immediately after Justice of the
Peace Bruce Corrcll issued the war
rant, it was explained that Mazcr
was arrested entirely ON evidence
gathered by Ora Slater, Cincinnati
detective, and his assistant, George
Armstrong.
Roach also said at least 10 others
are lnNoiNtl III llI' HIuIhti. AIMING
them several members of the police
department.
Mazer is rerdy to "spill every.
thing to satisfy his appetite for
narcotics, according to reports to-
dnv from the county jail where he
is held.
''Give me one pill and II spill
everything, Mazcr pleaded follow
ing night of confinement. it was
learned from one of his iailers, a
dcputv sheriff.
County jail authorities. under or
! der from federal Officers, refused
, the prisoner drugs.
In another cell at the county Jail
was Mazer s assistant, Carl Studer,
charged by federal agents with
liquor law violation and held in de
fault of bond. lie will remain in
Cleveland unless bail is forthcom-
ing. But Mazcr will be returned
TO Canton.
Louis Mazer was identified here
today by Steve Kaschalk as the man
who drove him from Massilon to
Canton when plans were being made
to beat up the slain editor.
''That's the man who drove the
ear that hauled Pat McDermott and
me from Massillon to Canton, y
said Kaschalk, pointing out Mazer
among the investigators and Off
cials who sat silently awaiting the
identification in room at the fed
cral building.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
Flagstaff Man
Is Wanted Here

In aeccding yesterday to re-
quest by sheriff Charles Gillctt of
Imperial county and arrcsting j. ID.
Robertson, officials of Flagstaff,
Arizona, found they had picked mp
a man for whom they had been
searching for some time.
Robertson is wanted here ON
charges of issuing bad checks. Gill
lett heard the man was i'll Flag
staff and he requested officers
there to arrest him. When Robert
SON was placed in the Flagstaff
Jail he was recognized by officers
as the man they had been looking
for on bad check charges. Gillett
has been informed Robertson may
receive a suspended sentence when
his ease comes up for hearing. If
he does he will be brought here for
trial, .-.-.--. .-....l-A.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
OAKLAND WOMAN
BELIEVED VICTIM
OF STRANCLER
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OAKLAND. Calf, Aug IL
While one suspect was held in
Santa Barbara MS the possible man
iac slayer Of landladicS along the
coast, police today were confronted
with another killing of the clark
stranglcr' who has struck four
times in the bay region within re-
cent months.
Mrs. Mary NcSbit, As, local apart
mcnt house manager, was garrotcd
to death last night by an unidenti-
fled asSailant who police believe
may have posed as "A prospective
tenant.
Her clothing was ripped from her
body and marks gave indication
that she had suffered criminal at
tack.
a towel tightly knottcd around
her neck gave evidence that death
had been specifically due to strane'
ulation.
Stephen NeSbit, the woman 5 hus-
band, reported the murder. He said
he returned home about Il O'Clock
and became alarmed at his wife S
absence, After waiting a short
while. he said, he entered Il vacant
apartment and found Mrs. NeSbit 5
body in the bath room.
=. IL. Brown, under arrest at
Santa Barbara, was blamed for Il
short time by police throughout the
area in which the 'dark stranglcr
has operated, with responsibility for
some or all of the fatal attacks.
San Francisco police, however
have virtually eliminated Brown
who is reported insane, from their
Investigations of the previous
stranglings.
Mrs. Neshit is the fourth victim
of death following criminal attack
and strangulation in the San Fran
cisco bay region. The others were
Miss Clara Newman, G3, San Fran
cisco; Mrs. Laura J. Bcale, 64, San
Jose, and Mrs. Lillian St. Mary
san Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
Public Invited to
Witter Meeting

Valley voters are invited to at
tend an open meeting of the "Wit-
ter for Assembly, club tonight at
the club headquarters, l29 Sixth
street. 1t is expected the meeting
will draw an attendance from
many towns throughout the valley
a number of speakers are scheduled
to make short addresses.
Reports from the local headquart
ers continue encouraging and sup
port for the Brawlev editor is being
pledged in all parts of the county
those in charge of the club state.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
Battle Of Ants
To Decide Which
Is ExterninatOr
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Los ANGELES, Aug. IA bat
tie to death between hundreds of
red aud white ants is scheduled TO
take place in four-gallon water
jar in the Shrine civic auditorium
tonight as part of the program of
the chamber of commerce industrial
exposition.
The scheduled battle roval be.
tween the reds and the whites is an
attempt to find some antidote for
the hordcs of white ants who in
wade Pasadena and have been caus-
ing no little damage to property.
A victory for the reds in tonight =
battle will result in an importation
Of their species to Pasadena.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
Phillips Funeral
Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Charles
l.. Phillips, who died here Yesterday
morning, will be held at > p. m,
tomorrow at the All Saints church,
instead of this afternoon as origi-
nally announced. The change in
time was made Yesterday at request
of relatives. The body was sent to
San Diego last night by B. f. Lem
onS. funeral director, and will re-
main at the University Undertak-
ing Parlors on Fifth street until
time for the church services.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
Two Killed as
Plane Crashes
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WAUKEGAN, H., Aug. l7.-En-
signs George Hammer and Edward
Stone of the Great Lakes naval
training school, received fatal in
iuries today when the seaplane in
which they We're riding crashed into
Lake Michigan.
Both died within an hour after
the accident.
Hammer was a flying instructor
and Stone was an apprentice flier.
They had been flying only short
while.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17

The information contained in the
above dispatch is the best road
news that the valley has heard i'll
many months, according to George
w. BOwles, chairman Of the road
committee Of the FL Centre chamber
of commerce, who has been in con
ference with the California highway
commission for several months on
the matter Of Mountain Springs
pavement.
1t is expected that preliminary
work on the contract will begin at
once and that actual construction
will be started as soon as the heavy
summer traffic over the grade is
ended.
With the completion of the new
road through the sand hills and the
elimination of the plank road, the
Mountain Springs grade has been
the only bad stretch of road on the
main highways leading in and out
of Imperial Valley.
Grade Widened
During the past five years the
highway commission has made Inn
provement on the grade, all tending
to lead toward paving and max
ing the grade safer for drivers.
Previous to that time the grade
had only narrow road barely wide
enough for one ear. Automobiles
endeaVoring to pass on the grade had
to wait until they reached Il point
where one could turn off into Il de-
preston in the rocky walls border
ing the road.
Three years ago the grade was
widencd in many places and ears
were enabled to pass at all points
in safety. Last year the commits
sion authorized Il contract for adj
ditioual widening, also the elimi-
nation of dangerous curves and
grading.
Jam and Brcssi were the low
bidders on the contract, bids for
which were opened by the commits
sion two weeks ago.
With the completion of the Noun
tain Springs paving the running
time between the valley and noun
tain and coast points will be consid'
crably reduced and the trip can be
made much moro comfortably than
at present. The pavement will form
an important link in the borderland
trauScontinental highways.
1t is expected that the work will
hc completed early next spring.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
v ORk WILL
MENCE
YER SOON
Jahn and Bressi Are Low
Bidders Beating State
Engineers Estimate.
FINISHED IN SPRING
Will Make important Link
in TranscOntinental
Routes Crossing Valley
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SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. IL
Three contracts for the improve
ment of state highways, at an ag
gregatc cost of 100000, were award
ed by the state highway commission
today.
Construction of 20 foot wide
pavement between Imperial Valley
and San Diego on the Mountain
Springs grade, will be done by jain
and Bressi, contractors of Los An
gelcs. Their bid was $286,267. The
state engineer estimate for for
the work was $3l6,96l.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17
MINER DECLARES
HE KILLED THREE
IN SELF DEFENSE
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MERGED. CAL, Aug. l1.-Paul
Har>'q. 81, who is held in the coun-
ty Jail here for the staying of three
Of his PARTNERS after II quarrel over
the mine which the four owned,
claimed today hc was forced to
"shoot il Out TO say" his own
life.
Baran surrendered himself 70
Sheriff Mack last uight, and accord
ing 10 Mack. confessed 20 the slay-
ing of Victor Shim0niaff, T. Shas-
tin and Harry J. Clark.
The victims of the gun duel,
whicl, was staged at Lower Shylock
mine, north Of Mariposa yesterday
morning, became partners of Bar
crivcd fourth interest i'll the
mine. Disscnsion arose among the
four miners and his life was threat.
cncd. Baran claimed
"Thev had killed my dog to
show me what they would do to
me and when / saw them coming
up to my cabin with Il rifle | open
ed fire on them, Baran told
Mack. 1T was ease Of shooting
quick and wounded all three of
them with my first shots.
MARIPOST, Aug. l7..'aran
will hc charged with the murder of
his three partners when he Is
brought here from Mcrccd this af-
tcrnoon, j. X. Rowan, under sheriff
of Mariposa county, said this morn
ing. &.
According to Rowlan, Z. Shast-
ncr, one Of the victims, accused
Braan of the shooting in a dying
eattcmcrt in hospital here late
last night Victor Shimoniaff and
Harry J. Clark were dead when of
ficcrS went TO the mine after re-
ports Of a gun duel there.
"Raran shot us down about 600
O clock this morning. Shastncr is
reported to have said Just before his
death. Efforts to gain a detailed
story Of the duel from Shastner
failed when he lapScd back into
unConSclouSneSS.
A new development today was
the discovery that none of the men
were armed and that Baran shot
them with their own rifle while he
stod ON boulder above them, Row
Ian said,
The under sheriff said he had
been informed by Mcrccd county
authorities that Baran confessed
shooting his partners and claimed
that he shot in self defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17

Pimiento peppers at Santa Maria,
Santa Barbara county, are yielding
from six to eight tons per acre and
selling at $40 per ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-17

A Melted Gem potato grown at
Rainier, Oregon, measured IL inches
long, four inches in diameter and
was dug June 20.
Evening star., 1926-04-19
CAPITAL TRACTION
OFFERS BUS ROUTE
Asks Permission to Let W. R. T
Act as Agent in Running Line
to Rock Creek.

The Capital Traction CO. asked the
Public Utilities Commission today for
permission to let the Washington
Rapid Transit Co. act as it's agent in
operating the bus line from Four
teenth and Kennedy streets to the
Rock Creek Park golf course. The
request is expected to be granted.
When the traction company several
months ago agreed to abandon it's bus
line from Fourteenth and Kennedy
streets to Alaska avenue and Holly
place and give the bus company ex-
elusive rights to the territory on up
per Sixteenth street it retained the
privilege of operating the bus line to
the golf course. No reason was given
in the traction company's application
for its decision to turn over the golf
course route to the transit company.
The rate of fare proposed would
he the same as on all other lines of
the bus company-10 cents cash or
six tokens for so cents. Free trans
fers would be issued from the bus to
the Sixteenth street bus line or to the
cars of the Capital Traction Co. at
Fourteenth and Kennedy streets.
Northbound passengers on the street
cars, however, would be required to
pay cents for transfers to the busses
at Fourteenth and Kennedy streets.