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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
WEAKEN
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DEFENSE:
Court Allows Admission
of Famous Fall to Do
heny Letter.
COUNSEL OBJECTS
LittletOn Asserts Fall and
Sinclair Sought to Aid
Nation.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. - The
government won ITS first legal Skin
mish in the Fall-S.nclair Oil con
spiracy trail today when over de-
Tense objection, it obtained admis-
sion of Fall s famous letter of July
1927 to +. l.. Doheny, California oil
magnate, asserting that he (FalD
then was in complete charge of the
government oil reserves.
The victory came just before
luncheon recess after a morning in
which Martin Littleton, defense
chief, had told the jury former See
rotary of the Interior Fan and Har-
ry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, would
prove they were acting in the in
terest of national defense in signing
the Teapot Dome oil lease.
Littleion had declared he would
show Fail received no bonds from
Sinclair after granting the lease.
Insertion of the Fall letter was
considered an initial blow to the de-
tense, since it had indicated it
hoped to prove that others than Fail
were responsible for the naval oil
policy which finally resulted in
turning Teapot Dome over to Sin
clair with an understanding that he
should furnish fuel oil to the navy
i'm return.
Justice Butler of the United States
Supreme Court, in one of his decis'
ions annulling the Teapot Dome and
Elk Hills leases, characterized the
letter rs written in can exultant
mood
G. w. Holland, lawyer for the
United States Geological Survey
identified official documents bear
ing on the ease and Prosecution
Chief Owen roberts read to the jury
several acts of congress concerning
leases of government oil lands.
s. II. Quigley, second government
witness certified the Harding exeeu'
tive order of Nav 81, 1921 trans
f,rring jurisdiction of the oil re-
serves from the navy to the interior
department. (The order was revok
ca by President Coolidge last spring
after the United States supreme
court annulled the Elk Hills lease
as unauthorized.)
DR.. George Otis Smith, director of
the geological survey-an interior
department bureau--called as the
third witness, produced huge red
white and blue map of Wyoming oil
fields, with Teapot Dome reserve III
white. the Salt Creek field in blue
and other public land in Red.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Gales Family
In Wrecked Train

Ell PASO, Texas, Oct. 10 Six
persons were killed and several in
.jurcd when a band of 60 armed men
dynamited a passenger train between
Villa Reyes and ,Iaral del Berrio,
south of San Luis Potosi, at 7 a. n.
Tuesday, according to Mexico City
dispatch received here today by Ell
Continental, Spanish language news
paper.
Members of .the family of Prcsi-
dent Gales were on special car in
the train, which was bound from
Laredo to Mexico City, the dispatch
said.
The dynamite was exploded be-
rcath second class coach near the
front of the train. The engine was
derailed.
The injured were taken to Mexico
City and federal troops were sent
in pursuit of the dvnamiters.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Strikers Ignore
Picketing Order

DENVER, Colo, Oct. 19.-Strik-
ing coal miners in the Walsenburg
and Aguilar districts today threat
ened to ignore anti-picketing orders
issued by the Colorado Industrial
Commission.
Interest in the statewide walkout
of 5000 mine workers eentered in
the southern Colorado fields~- Little
trouble was expected in the north
crn fields where the miners are on
a sympathy strike with 7. w. w.
seeking more pay and fewer work.
ing hours.
The anti-picketing demands of the
State Industrial Commission were
read by officers at Walsenburg and
Aguilar last night. More than $50
men at the Aguilar meeting unani-
mously decided to disregard the or
der.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Long Beach Clerk ]
Held BY Police
nv United Press Leased Wire

LONG BEACH, Calf, Oct 49,
George A. Mcclure. clerk of the
Long Beach Municipal court. was
held here today without bail follow
ing his arrest on charge Of at
tempting to sell evidence connected
with a criminal trial.
The evidence consisted Of NOR.
phine tablets and other drug articles
held in the case of DR.. G.. III. Coul.
thard who is alleged TO have violat.
ed the state poison act.
According TO police. DR. Coulthard
communicated with them when Me-
Clure offered to sell him evidence 10
be used in the prosecution Of his
case. When Mcclure appeared IN
collect the sum of 1900 which WINS
TO hind fine transaction, he was TAX.
en- into custody.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Germany's Mine
Strike Serious

BERLIN, Oct. 19.-Middle Ger
manv's mine strike took serious
turn today when, enraged at the en-
plovment of men they held to be
strike breakers, strike leaders called
out those men who had been man
ming the mines pumps.
1t was the employment of tech
meal emergency corps that caused
withdrawal of the "safety menu
who operated the pumps and kept
the mines from being flooded.
Mine owners were fearing a pro-
longed strike, involving loss of their
new Scandinavian markets to Great
Britain. ,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
THRONGS ATTEND TRIAL OF
GENERAL PETLURA'S SLAYER

yesterday the prosecution was
not certain whether Schwartz
bard would be recalled or
whether some of the other $50
witnesses would take the stand.
With eyes cleaning. Schwartz.
bard faced the judges and
packed courtroom yesterday and
eXultantly recounted how he
shot to death in May, 1926, the
anti Bolsheviki general whom
he held responsible for melting
riots in Ukraine in which thous-
ands of Jews were killed.
Swartzbard's lawyers held
that massaeres instigated by
General Petlura brought death
to more than $4,000 Jews. On
the stand Schwartzbard flour
ished Ukrainian newspapers re-
porting the alleged massaeres.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Heat Wave Hits
All of Southland
by United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19.-South-
ern California sweltered today while
temperatures climbed TO break rec
ords.
At noon the thermometer in Los
Angeles registered "a degrees break
ing October high temperature marks
Of the past four years. Indications
We're, according to Colonel H. b.
Hersev of the Weather Bureau, that
today's heat might reach 95 degrees
or more.
According to Jersey, all South
ern California was experiencing alb
normal weather.
The heat wave was credited to a
high pressure area over the southern
Rocky mountains and to desert
winds sweeping the southland. Her
sey said the wave would likely con
tinue several days.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
CARROLL PREPARES TO LEAVE
FEDERAL PRISON AT ATLANTA

"Does he suffer depression''
"No, y was the response.
"'t is better to say he is hui
inflated to an extreme.
DR.. Nellans denied, however,
reports that there was ANYTHING
the matter with the producer IS
heart and in reply to specific
question as to whether he
thought Carroll would be able to
go back to producing PLAYS said:
Ono, I don't Nobody with
the sensitive temperament of
Carroll can go out of the prison
the same as he came in. y
Meanwhile Carroll maintain
ed his customary close mouthed
'composure, waiting for the pa
role which was approved by
Attorney General Sargent at
Washington yesterday.
Warden John Shook indicated
the actual release would occur
tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Alabama Plans
Probe of Khan

MONTGOMERY. Ala, Oct. 10. -
Attorney General Charles C. Mccall
Of Alabama announced today he is
planning statewide investigation
Of the Ku KluX Khan in an effort to
show conspiracy to defeat Justice in
masked flogging Investigations he
has conducted.
In a biting denunciation of al
legged efforts to intimidate witnesses
in Crenshaw county flogging trials,
opening November 81, Mccall said
he would "literally fill up the iails
of the state IF threats against wit
nesses are continued"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
BY EDWARD w. LEWIS

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 19.-As
Earl Carroll prepared today for
his parole from the federal peni-
Tertiary here, DIR. Charles p.
Nellans, prison physician, told
the United Press "he did not
think Carroll would be able to
return to Broadway revue pro-
ducing,''
DIR. Nellans attended Carroll
after the producer was brought
here on stretcher from Green
vile, S. c. to begin his sentence
of 366 days for perjury in con-
nection with his famous "bath
tub party" ease.
els he well;'' the physician
was asked.
"Physically he weighs from
20 to 40 pounds more than he
did when he arrived" DIR. Mel
lans replied.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Intends to Prove
Economy of Plane

SAN DIEGO, Cal. Oct. 49, An
"around America flight at a cost
Of five cents a mile viii be attempt
ed by Claude Ryan, a local aviator,
he announced today. He has not
set the starting date.
Ryan's proposed flight will in
Guides Seattle, Detroit, New York;
back by way of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Fuel, deterioration of the plane s
tires and motor will be figured in
the mileage costs, he said.
81 want to prove that the oper-
alton cost of a plane is less than
that of an automobile, or at least
not any more Ryan said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Maine Primary
Law Is Victor

PORTLAND, Me-, Oct. 19.-The
direct primary law has won a two
to one victory in Maine, returns
from yesterday s referendum showed
today.
Returns from 5S4 out of 633 cleo
ton precincts, representing AGO of
the $40 cities and towns of the state
showed:
For repeal, 1880.
Against repeal, 39,194.
The direct primary was defended
by Governor Ralph o. Brewster, who
waged vigorous campaign for re-
tention of the present system. He
urged voters not to repudiate the
"forward STEP taken Is years ago,
when the direct primary was adopt
ed.
The forces that fought for re-
turn to the old system were led by
former Governor William II. Cobb,
Judge Albert M. Spear and Judge
George L. Emery, once chairman of
the Republican state committee.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Denied Lipstick
Girl Runs Away
by United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1S.-Monica
Hardiman, Is year old San Francis
60 girl who ran away from home be
cause her mother prohibited her the
use of lipstick, was held at Juvenile
hall here today pending her return
to the northern city.
She was apprehended by members
OF the Glendale police force who
searched every southbound train fol
lowing notification of her disap-
pearance. The Glendale Officers ac
eompanied her to Los Angeles where
she was turned over to juvenile au-
tlorities.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
What's Doing
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Chamber of Commerce dinner,
Hotel Barbara Worth, 7 p. m.
Radio KEEN, 5:3O-6:30 p. m.
Baseball: Firemen VS. Ameri-
car Legion, Wilson school
grounds, 7:30.
Mid-week services, various
churches.
Stereoptican lecture, First Bap-
fist church.
"Jewels of Desire Palace
theater.
''The Road to Romance, Val
ley theater.
Foreign Adult English class,
Eastside school, 7 p. m.
Oasis Shrine, w. S. of j., Ma
sonic Temple, p. m.
City Council meets, 7:30.
Young Peoples Club meets, st.
Mary's hall.
TOMORROW
Rotary Club luncheon, Hotel
Barbara Worth.
Radio KEEN, 12:15-1:15 p. m
Woman's Ten Thousand Club
meets, $50.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Drive Slowly By
Schools" Is Order

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. 10
Orders to arrest any person driving
in excess Of Is miles an hour past
a school house where children are
entering or leaving were issued to-
day by Frank G. Shook, chief of
the Division of Motor Vehicles.
State traffic officers were told to
charge such persons with reckless
driving.
The division s order resulted from
check of records, which showed
that more than score of school
children were killed or injured by
motorists during the first two weeks
of the present school term.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Michael's Health
Carefully Guarded

BERLIN, Oct. 19.-Fearing that
five year old King Michael might
be exposed to infantile paralysis
prevalent in Rumania, his mother,
Princess Helena, has taken him to
a resort in the Carpathian noun
tains, according to dispatch from
the Telegraph Unions Bucharest
correspondent today.
The dispatch said case of the
disease had been found in the royal
palace.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
ENGLISH GLASSES CHANGED

Announcement that classes in
English for foreign adults will be
held at the Eastside school, instead
of at the Lincoln school as originally
planned, Miss Marian McGlashan,
Americanization teacher announces.
Glasses will be held on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday evenings at
7 clock, with the first session Mt
the Eastside school planned for to.
night.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Yes, Well Have
Nary a Banana

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct. 10.
Gales destroyed millions Of
banana trees in the northern sec
ton of Jamaica, reports showed
today.
What the effect will be on
crops in future years, has not
been determined.
Starting in the afternoon, the
gales continued into last night.
Torrential rains had blocked
roads at several points.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
S'IIit and Run
Car Kills Girl

OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 19-Police
searched today for hit-run driver
who yesterday ran down and killed
Isabelle Forlow, u, and seriously
injured Vera Gerhard, IA.
The girls were returning from
school and were crossing street
when struck. A third girl was push
cd by Isabelle and Vera from the
path of the onrushing automobile
in time to escape injury.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
BY JOHN O'BRIEN
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

PARIS, Oct. 19.-Corridors of
the Court of Assizes were
thronged today with throngs
seeking admission to the murder
trial of Samuel Schwartzbard,
blond Jewish watch maker, who
has confessed to the assassina-
ton of General Simon Petlura
to "avenge the Jewish race.'
Hopeful that the understood
"avenger" again might be
placed on the witness stand to
continue the dramatic story
which he narrated exeitedlv at
the opening session, representa-
tives of six nations jostled and
elbowed, making restraining eff
forts of gendarmes almost futile.
When the trial was adjourned
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
BINGHAM URGES HARRINGTON
FOR PHILIPPINES OFFICE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Sena-
tor Hiram Bingham of Connecticut
today recommended to President
Coolidge that Governor General Wal.
lace R. harrington of Hawaii, be
made governor general of the Phil
rpine Islands to succeed the late
Governor General Wood.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
CAR VICTIM UNIDENTIFIED

MARTINEZ, Calf, Oct. 19.-The
identity of a man believed to be
j. A. Driscoll of Brookings, Ore,
former resident of Marshfield,
Ore, who died in a hospital here
late last night from injuries receiv-
ed in an automobile accident had
not been definitely established to-
day.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
MOVIE STARS CONDITION
NOT BELIEVED SERIOUS

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19.-While
his condition is not considered seri-
Gus, Adolph Menjou, film actor, will
be forced to remain in the Califor,
MIA Lutheran hospital at least two
more weeks, his physicians said to-
day. Menjou is suffering from
acute stomach trouble. His physi-
elan does not believe an operation
will be necessary.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
cLUNE FUNERAL FRIDAY

LOS ANGELES. Oct. 1o.--runer.
al services for w. II. Clure 81. pie.
neer motion picture producer rnd
theater owner win be held Mere Fri
dav. IL was anpnunced today M
died Yesterday from the effects ~ q
stroke Of paralysis.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
SAN FRANCISCO'S OLDEST
NATIVE SON TO BE BURIED

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10
Funeral services for Joseph M. Mir
amontes, SO, San Francisco's oldest
native son, were being arranged to-
day. Miramontes died yesterday
from injuries received in an automo-
bile accident. He was born in Mis-
sion Dolores in 1889 and clearly re-
called the early days of the city.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-19
Hail the Returning Legion Head!

E. spaffod national
greeted conquerng hero when
They
gangplank
a waiting
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15

DECOYED INTO THE power of an alleged criminal
gang by woman passenger planted aboard cross
country stage operating from Los Angeles into Colorado
Miss Joyce Jones reported having been doped and wed
to an already married Police will ask Federal
action in running down the ring which said to have OBJ
tanned possession of several passengers in this
manner. -.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15
BY International News Service


NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Seven
persons are missing and are feared
to have been drowned as the re.
suit Of a collision in New York
harbor early today between the
French liner Paris, seventh largest
steamship in the world, and the
Norwegian steamer Besseggen.
The collision occurred half a
mile south of the Statue of Lib
erty. The Paris, outward bound
for Cherbourg, struck the Besseng-
gen amidships as the Norwegian
vessel suddenly doomed across her
bow. Her port side crushed in by
the terrific impact, the Besseg-
gen sank almost Immediately.
Twenty-six members of the Bes-
seggen's crew were saved by life
boat crews from the Paris and
ferryboats that answered the Paris
siren call for aid.
The remaining seven, trapped in
the stoke and engine holds, are
believed to have lost their lives.
The crew OF the Besseggen had
no time to launch boats, and those
who escaped did so by jumping
from the deck of the vessel, a
sugar freighter, as the doomed
boat lurched over on it's side and
settled in less than five minutes.
The Paris resumed her voyage
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15
I6KLLED WHEN LNTERURBAN
SMASHES BUS TRAILER

ALI of the victims lived in In.
dianapolis. Charles o. Poisel, who
was killed outright, was an official
of the indianapolis Board Of Trade.
The demolished trailer was at.
tached to a bus. also crowded with
passengers. The bus had cleared
the crossing but the trailer was
midway on the tracks when the
speeding interurban crashed into it..
The front end of the interurban
was demolished but only the motor
man and conductor were reported
hurt.
The truck was owned by the
Foster Engineering Service.
The motorman, at the city. hos
pital. said he whistled for the. cross.
ing and didn't see the truck until he
was about 40 feet from it.
A Tragic Case
One of the most pathetic survivors
of the crash was Mrs. Won Glascock
who lost five members of her family
in the accident. She lost her hus.
band who was killed instantly, her
sister. Opal Merriman: her brother,
Lee Merrinafl and her cousins, Mr.,
and Mrs. Frank Meredith. Mrs.
Ethel Merriman. her sister-in-law,
was seriously injured and may die.
Chief of Police Claude Morley
ordered the arrests of Merrill and
Titus, crews Of the interurban, and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15
OP'SSHOT HITS
ANOTHER COP

pPolice versus Police" might we'll
be the technical phraseology OF the
strange occurrence of early today
when Policeman Joseph NJ. May.
nard, colored, 80, night patrol
driver of the Third precinct, was
shot in the leg by Policeman Walter
A. Walker. of the Seventh precinct.
The two policemen were among
four who were sent to answer a
burglar call at the Smith Brothers
Grocery, 2477 M st. N. W., shortly
after 8 o'clock this morning.
All gathered about the building
and Maynard says that he saw the
burglar jump out of a window.
The policeman gave chase down
the alley and Walker mistaiking
Maynard for the burglar, called to
him to halt. Maynard failed to hear
the call and continued. not realizing
his danger.
Fearing that the burglar was
going to escape. Walker then drew
bis revolver and fired, the bullet
grazing Maynard's leg.
The latter was then rushed to
Emergency Hospital where his
wound was treated and he was later
allowed to go to his home at 6371z
Callen st. N. e.
Walker, who is attached to the
Seventh precinct, had been sent to
the Third precinct for reserve duty.
He was the senior member Of the
party and was directing its activi.
| ties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15
b. InternatIonaI News servlee

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. Is.
Sixteen dead, six believed fatally
injured and IL others seriously hurt,
was the toll today Of Indiana's most
disastrous grade crossing accident.
The tragedy occurred last night
shortly after 8 o'clock when a
Union Traction Interurban car, re.
turning from Newcastle, Ind,
smashed into a bus trailer carry
ing more than so members of the
Sahara Grotto to a barn dance at
TT. Benjamin Harrison.
The interurban car, said to be
going so miles an hour, struck
the crowded trailer at the Twenty
first st. and Emerson Ave. cross.
ing, on the outskirts of Indianapolis.
The dead: Mrs. r r. Rhodes,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Meredith, Opal
Merriman, Harold Wolford, John
Watson, Lee Merriman, Ralph
Parker, Charles v. Wheeler, Won
Weber Glasscock, William N.
Hodges, Charles o. Poisel, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Dallas, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Jones.
Is Killed Outright
Thirteen of the victims were
killed outright. Robert Dallas and
Mrs. Frank Meredith died several
hours later in a local hospital.
Several others of the more seriously
injured are not expected to live.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15
SEVEN LOST AS PARIS SINKS
CRAFT IN N. Y. HARBOR
All Times staff Photos

three hours and half later following
the crash.
Captain, Wife, Baby Saved
Among the % to be rescued were
Captain Ludwig Hassell, SO, his
wife, Gudrun, and his four-year-
old daughter, Arne. They were
picked up by the crew of the fer.
ryboat Brooklyn.
The Paris left her pier. at the
foot Of West Thirteenth street at
1870 a. m.
AS she proceeded down the main
channel she picked up speed.
Before boats could be launched
the Besseggen went down by the
stern, few members of her crew
clinging to the bow as 1t pointed
skyward and disappeared.
Only those having ready access
to the deck were able to get away
at once. The Black Gang
stokers and engineers below-were
trapped.
The ferry boat Brooklyn, south
bound from the Battery to St.
George. was the first vessel to
reach the scene. Nearly all the
members of the small crew were
assigned to lifeboat duty, dropping
boats oversize and searching over
the waters with little to guide them
in their rescue work but screams
| of the freighter's crew.