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Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
BOOTLEGGERS PLEAD GUILTY

c. W. King and A. c.. Bingham
were arraigned before Judge l.
Mayfield yesterday afternoon, both
charged with unlawful possession
of Intoxicating liquor. Both enter
ed pleas of guilty to the charges
and were sentenced to pay fines of
500 each or spend 100 days in Jail.
Bingham furnished the necessary
cash and was released while King
was remanded to the county Jail in
default An effort, however, was
being made today to gain King $
release.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
FOR
AVIAI0RS
lessons
Intensive Search For
.Nungesser and Coli
Is Kept Up.
iINO TRACE FOUND
Fate Of French Flyers
Does Not Deter Others
From Attempting Trip

By United Press Leased Wire
NEW YORK, May 11.-Rumors
that the Cunarder Liner Gamer
onta, now ON the mid-Atlantdc,
had picked up Nungesser and Coli,
the French Paris New York avia-
tors missing since Sunday, circu-
lated so widely this afternoon
that the Cllnard Line radioed the
Cameronia for information.
The ru1nors originated In Bos-
ton. Radio stations Of the gov
ernment, the Independent Wire
less and the Radio Corporation
of America were without any con-
fiImation Of the ruror, as was
the Cunard Line.
NEW YORK, May 11.-iHope that
Captains Charles Nungesser and
Francois Coli might be safe con-
tinued to fade today but it did not
deter plans for further attempts to
conquer the Atlantic.
Neither did the apparent fate of
Captain Saint Roman and his two
companions in the south Atlantic
dishearten the Americans, who still
planned u nonstop overseas flight.
Every possible agency in the
United States and Canada concent
rated on the search for Nungesser
and Coli, missing since shortly af-
ter they flew away from Lebourget
Air Field near Paris, more than 80
hours ago.
With Saint Roman and his COM
panions, they made the second dar-
ing French expedition to come to
grief within a week. Saint RO.
mans plane, enroute from Senegal,
Africa, to South America, has been
missing since last week and repeat
ed search off the South American
coast failed to reveal the slightest
trace of it.
Nevertheless, Clarence Chamber.
lain and Lloyd Bertaud insisted that
on Saturday, weather. permitting.
they would take off from Curtiss
Field, near New York, and at.
tempt to fly to Paris as tribute
to Nungesser and Coli.
At the same time, Charles Lind
berg, American aviator, arrived in
st. Louis from San Diego, enroute
to the Atlantic seaboard to try his
luck. Commander Richard f. Byrd
in New York, still planned to make
his attempt in the plane America.
although he did not intend goine
ahead Immediately. He indicated
his services would be available to
join the search for Nungesser and
Coli, if he could be of assistance.
Other Cases Cited
Cold and fog united to lessen the
chance that the pair who have
flown for 10 years in war and peace
would be rescued.
Many observers believed that un-
less they were already safely aboard
some fishing smack or tramp steam
er unequipped with radio, they must
be lost, possibly still in the float
ing cabin of their plane, White
Bird, possibly under the sea, or
even ashore on some frigid island
of the north.
Despite the chances against them.
many who remembered their daring
escapades of the past clung to hope.
citing the cases Of Harry Hawker
and Commander MacKenzie-Grieve.
who were prematurely given up for
dead when they attempted trans
Atlantic flight in 1919; of the lat'
Commander Rogers, Y. S. N. who
floated for days in mid-Pacific in
seaplane and was rescued with all
his crew after his safety had been
despaired of, and of other examples
of luck that has followed the pion'
eers of the air.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
'OPLAR BLUFF PLANS WORK
OF REBUILDING Al ONCE

,were taken. Crews of men working
IN the debris continued to find bod
les and several in hospitals were
not expected to survive.
Stories of bravery and horror
were told by rescue workers eXplor'
ing the ruins. The new Melbourne
hotel was the scene of the greatest
suffering. A three story brick
structure was crushed like nut un-
der a hammer. Twenty bodies in
all have been recovered from it's
ruins. '....
The body of one man found in
the wreckage of pool hall was
clutching a knife in the right hand.
His throat was cut and apparently
he had used his one free hand to
escape burning to death. He has
not been identified.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
MRS. DRUMMoND SHOWS
CHANGE FOR WORSE

FRESNO. May 1l.--A shadow
fell over Mrs. Clara Drummond, %,
as she did yesterday and "appears to
bed here today in her asth day of
sleep. H.. ..'
"She does not look as good today
as she4did yesterday and appears to
be failing" hospital attendants
said in reporting her condition.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
Woman Injured as
Train Hits Auto
BY United Press Leased Wire

PASADENA, May l1.-Mrs. B.
Yorba is fighting for life at the
Pasadena hospital today, having
been injured when Union Pacific
train struck the automobile in
which she was riding late yester-
day.
Mrs. F. G. Bailey, daughter Of
Mrs. Yorba and driver of the car,
and her son, Frederick Bailey, S,
escaped with minor injuries.
The train striking the car at the
Congress street crossing carried it
and the occupants 60 feet.
Mrs. Yorba suffered spinal and
internal injuries.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
Suicide Attempt
By Bank Clerk
by United Press Leased Wire

BERKELEY, Cal, May H.
Walter Porteons, "a, Los Angeles
bank clerk, is near death in hos.
pital here today Of selfinflicted
bullet wound.
He attempted suicide. police say,
in his room in a local hotel when
his girl-wife refused to leave her
Sorority house at the University
of California, where she is a stu
dent, and come to his room.
Mrs. Porteous is registered at
the university at her maiden name
of Aileen Kinebrew Of Taft. They
were married June 3, 1926.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
ARRESTED ON LIQUOR CHARGE

James Terry, 40, of Holtville was
arrested this morning by U. S. Mar
shall c. d. Hartshorn on warrant
charging him with unlawful pos.
session of one and one.half gallons
of Intoxicating liquor.
The warrant for his arrest was
issued from an affidavit made out
BY a federal officer. Terry was
arraigned before L. S. Commission.
er C. E. Scott this morning His
case was continued over until Mon
day and he was released on his own
rccognizance for appearance at
that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT
various

Mid-week services. various
churches.
Chamber of Commerce directors
meet.
Children of Divorce Valley
theater.
Gift night and Down the
Stretch Palace theater.
El Centre chapter, Order OF De.
Molay meets, Masonic hall.
F. o. E. No. 1859 meets, Ger
mania hall, imperial.
Young Peoples Club meets, st.
Mary's hall.
Hi TOMORROW H..
Rotary Club luncheon, Hotel
Barbars Worth. ~.,,. ..-..
Music section, 10000 Club,
bridge luncheon at Mrs. E. j.
Maack's.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
QUARRY WORKER KILLED
by United Press Leased Wire

SONORA, Cal, May 1l.-Domen-
leo Jacomeeti is dead today from
injuries he received near here when
he was struck on the head by a
large rock while working in a
quarry.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
SALESMAN KILLED BY AUTO
BY United Press Leased wire

>TULARE, CAL; May ll.-Search
is being made today for the hit and
run driver who was blamed for the
death of F, D. Peart, Sacramento
Evaporated Milk salesman, by n
coroner 8 jury here. "
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11
sUNMAID DIVIDEND MAY 81
By United Press Leased Wire

ny NV" ''S"S '~""e"
FRESNO, Cal, May ll.-Persons
holding 7 per cent stock Of the Sun
Maid Raisin Growers Association,
Delaware Corporation, will be paid
$4,000 dividend on May 81, ac.
cording to an order by the board OF
directors. 1t will be the regular
quarterly dividend.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-11

The Farmers Cooperative Creamery
at Payette, Idaho, will manufacture
condensed buttermilk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
WESLEY HEIGHTS BUS
EXTENSION is DENIED
Public Utilities Commission to In
spect Center Trolley Poles
on Georgia Avenue.

A petition of the Northwest Subur.
ban Citizens Association for an extern
sion of the route of the Wesley
Heights motor bus line to Forty first
and FeSSenden streets was denied to-
day by the Public Utilities Commits
sion on the ground that present traffic
does not justify the extension.
The commission also decided to
make an inspection of the center troll
ley poles on the Georgia avenue line
of the Washington Railway & Electric
Co. Removal of the poles from the
pillow pit at w street to Rock Greek
Church road already has been ordered
by the commission, and consideration
is now being given to O. proposal to
remove those from Rock Greek
Church road to Buchanan street.
Earl v. Fisher. executive secretary
of the commission, was authorized to
confer with officials of the Washing
ton Rapid Transit Co. regarding a
proposal to substitute the new type
gasoline electric driven buses for its
present gasoline-driven type. The new
busses are said to operate more quiet
ly than the type now in use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
COTTON BROKER SHOT
TO DEATH IN AUTO
Young Widow Companion Tells
Police Three Highwaymen Kill
ed E. B. Hogan.
BY the Associated Press.

MACON, Ga, March lie. B.
Hogan, wealthy bachelor and senior
member of the cotton brokerage firm
OF Hogan & Levie here, was shot to
death on a lonely road near here late
last night while driving with Mrs. Eva
Tanner, a young widow. She told the
police that three highwaymen who
drove up in an automobile and stopped
their machine shot her escort after
demanding money.
Mrs. Tanner said she jumped from
the automobile after imploring the
ho1d-up men not to shoot and ran,
screaming for help. She was found
later by a passing motorist, who
found Hogan lying dead in his auto
mobile.
Hogan, she said, had answered their
demand for money by a movement as
IL to reach for his pocket, when one
Of the men shot. Just before that, he
had said, she quoted him: Take
my car, take everything that / have,
but don't kill me-" Officers found he
had not been robbed of either the
money which he carried or jewelry
valued at some $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17

my mechanic and / were deaf for two
days.
Shaping the body has given lot
Of trouble. The curves are so delicate
and so scientifically worked out that
they have defeated even the most
skilled draughtsman. Wooden molds
have been constructed from the draw
ings and then planned down to the
last fraction.
Another point is the springs. Each
leaf is polished like a looking glass
to reduce friction, while there are
four shock absorbers Of the largest
size to each axle.
Both gasoline and oil are filtered
twice before they reach the engine
There are two oil gauges and two oil
tanks to each engine. The car takes
a gallon Of gasoline a mile and car
ries enough to run for half an hour.
Last and by no means least, the en-
gines and the entire transmission are
mounted on a three point suspension
system, with ball-and socket joints to
take up any strains or twists in the
chassis under the enormous stresses
to which it will be subjected.
Tires Present Problem.
Then there Is the question of tires.
When / went to the greatest tire
manufacturers in the world and asked
them to make tires which would stand
200 miles per hour, they held up their
hands in horror at the mere idea
After months of research, they pro-
duced special tires, which they have
been able to test to destruction only
on specially designed machines.
They are not certain, but they hope
that these tires will be. able to stand
a speed Of 200 miles an hour for just
seven minutes.
I hope so, too, for my life depends
on it!
England has no space large enough
in which to test this car at full speed.
In fact, to test the engines at full
speed we were obliged to fit water re-
sistance brakes to the back-hubs in
the workshop and rev" the engines
up. We have found that they come
we'll up to the standard expected.
The building in which the car was
completed was partially destroyed in
order to get 1t out, since in the days
when the building was constructed no
one ever dreamed that 1t would be
the birthplace of so vast a machine.
And this brings me TO another diff
ficulty. In order to get 1t to America,
I had to pick the Berengar1a, which
Is one of the few liners that had a
large enough hatch to take the car.
The greatest care had to be exercised
in hosting 1t aboard in order to avoid
damage to the machine on which
time, thought and money have been
expended and on which SO much de-
ponds.
I also had to bring to America a
complete set of spare parts, weighing
many tons, since, Of course, almost
every piece Of this elephantine mon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
SALM SUIT OVER,
ATTORNEY HOLDS
Countess to Get Son and
Count to Receive Around
%S5O0,OOO, Is Report.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 17-Count
Ludwig Salm Won Hoogstraten's long
drawn separation suit against his
American heiress wife, the former
Millicent Rogers, today appeared all
over.
With the Austrian count and his
countess both on the other side of
the Atlantic and with trial of their
cease scheduled for resumption in Su-
preme Court here on Monday, his at
torney was authority for the state
ment that the case had been settled.
Reports agreed that the countess
would receive custody of the three
year old son, Peter Salm, born in
New York, and that the count would
get between $500 and $500, 900 of
the Standard Oil fortune of his wife's
= father, Henry Rogers. There were
also reports that the countess would
get a divorce in Paris.
Says Suit Settled.
Returning from abroad after inter-
viewing both parties to the suit. who
are travelling in different parts of
Europe, Herman B. Goodstein, attor-
ney for the count, said:
I'm a few days 1t will be a matter
of record. The suit has been settled. ="
1OouSIeln maze HSnl OF the report
ed money consideration for Salm.
Some reports were that Goodstein
would receive fee of 100000.
Attorneys for the countess and for
her father were more uncommunica-
tive. Mr.. Rogers, who refused his
blessing to the marriage of his
daughter to the count. was reported
cruising in the West Indies.
Case Twice Adjourned.
In the trial of the case, which has
been twice abruptly adjourned, the
reading of love letters written by the
countess encountered vigorous objec-
ton from her counsel. A dislike for
further similar publicity on the part
of the Rogers family is seen as a rea-
son for her fathers consent to COM
promise.
The count and Miss Rogers eloped
and were married at the municipal
building in New York. Her father
never received the count, but went to
Paris some time after the marriage
and brought his daughter home. Salm
is now on the Riviera. Here during
the litigation now settled he declared
his intention of becoming a citizen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
BY MAI. III. O. ID. SEGRAVE.

never. IN the history or motoring
has so much engineering knowledge
and experience been brought to bear
in the design and construction of a
single car as in the case of the
Mystery" or flush Hush" car, which
is the name given spontaneously by
the English press to the monster |
have brought to Florida.
Only a favored few were admitted
to the building where it was built,
but l noticed that every one who
saw it for the first time gave a gasp
of establishment
Take the chassis, for example. 1t
has been handmade of Orders IA
inches deep. strong enough to make
railroad bridge. Take the gear
wheels, some of which are bigger, and
all Of which are stronger, than those
used to drive an electric train. Take
the back axle, which would be too
strong to use for Pullman. Take
the chain drives. which are larger
and stronger than those used on the
biggest motor trucks. Take the body.
which Is polished aluminium. The
cover ''fiivver," while the angle iron
used to strengthen the whole would
stretch two blocks.
Huge Brake Drums USe0,
Take the brake drums, which are
the size of the wheels of a Ford, and
have been turned from solid ingots of
high tensile steel, each weighing $50
pounds. They now weigh 81 pounds
apiece and are lined with cast iron.
The engines are amazing. Each
has IL cylinders. Each cylinder has
four valves and two spark plugs.
There are eight magnetos, each with a
separate switch on the dash, while
there is a master switch to cut out the
lot in an emergency. The dashboard
carries no less than % separate
instruments.
With the exception of the chassis
and the body, every single piece of the
car has been cut out OF solid forged
ingots of specially invented high
tensile steels. Nothing has been left
to chance, and this long and expensive
method is necessary in order to use
the grain of the steel the right way
and to make sure that there will be
no hidden faults or cracks in the ma
terial.
Even a simple part, like a front
axle swivel, has taken one man and
one machine a whole fortnight to
carve from the solid.
Why were all these precautions?
The answer is that in order to keep
the weight down the factor Of
safety" In the design Of each part has
been cut lower than any one ever has
dared to do 1t before.
The standard Sunbeam practice Is
a factor of safety of eight. In the
Mystery car 1t never exceeds four
and half. If it did the car would be
too heavy.
Never before has a car of this
colossal size been "cut from the
block"
Exhaust Noise Deafening.
need not describe the engines
too infinitely, as most persons know
roughly what an airship engine looks
like. I may say, however, that each
has IL exhaust pipes, only a few inches
long, and that after each engine test
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
BURNED CAR JAILS THREE
Machine Destroyed After Georgia
Flogging, Is Charge.

SOPERTON, Ga, March II R).-
Sheriff w. l.. Thighpen of Treutlen
County, Joe Lee and Henry McLendon,
the latter farmer, were arrested
again today on warrants charging
them with burning the sheriff's auto
mobile the day after the fiogging of
M. M. Flanders of the Soperton News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
Postal Heads Seek
To Eliminate Odd
Holiday Card Sizes

Odd sizes of mail matter cause
a rift in the smooth running of
the postal machine. AS a result.
the postal authorities are striv
ing to eliminate from the mails
large and small Christmas. New
Year, Easter and other special
cards
Progress has been made, but
instructions have gone out to
postmasters TO continue their
efforts with manufacturers and
distributors to keep the cards
within reasonable size. The
smallest size recommended is 2A
by 4 inches; the largest. by 8
inches.
Cards and letters beyond those
limits are objectionable because
they cannot be run through can
ceiling machines, requiring hand
postmarking and other extra
work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
S15,0l0FOR RIVER
WORK HERE URGED
Jadwin Proposes Sum for
Projects In and Contiguous
to Washington.

Allotments of $4,000 for local
river and harbor work and snagging
and dredging various projects in the
Washington engineer district are
recommended by Maj. Gen. Edgar
Jadwin. chief of engineers. in a re-
port which has the approval of Sec
rotary of War Davis.
Included in this total is $4,000 for
work at Washington and 100000 for
dredging the Potomac River below
Washington.
OF the appropriation of $4,000 for
work in the Potomac River at Wash
ington, $4,000 will be used in prepa-
ration of a new deposit basin for re-
ceipt of Potomac River dredging in
lieu of Columbia Island, now part of
the Arlington Memorial Bridge prof
ect This new basin probably will be
below the railroad bridge at Gravelly
Point. where new levees will be
started.
Other Items Here.
Other items to be expended at
Washington are $4,000 to operate and
| repair the inlet and outlet gates of
the Tidal Basin; 81, 900 for mainte-
| nance and care of the Government
| plants and property.
! The allotment of 100000 for work
in the Potomac below Washington will
be extended in continuing the dredg.
ing and channel deepening in seven
shoal channels between Washington
and Colonial Beach, Va 1t was ex
planned that work at Naval Magazine
Shoal has been completed and that or
Kettle Bottom Shoals and Colonial
Beach is now in progress. Dredging
Of this project is to continue at Mar
shall Hall, Mattawoman opposite In
dian Head and Smith and Maryland
Points below Quantico.
/ The allotments for dredging and
snagging work in the vicinity OF
Washington include: $4,000 at Deco
guam Creek. Va; $4,000, Nomin
Creek, Va; $4,000, Rappahanocl
River, Va; $4,000, Mattaponi River
Va, and $4,000. Pamunkey River, Va
| Sal 500. 900 for Nation.
Appropriations totaling approx
mately $41,500,000 were recommended
for the entire country.
Allotments for other projects near
| Washington, but outside the Wash
ington engineer district, include
$640,O0O for the inland waterway
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
HUNDREDS OF DYING
LIE ON BATTLEFIELD
Nicaraguan Conservatives Lack
Medical Equipment to Care
for Wounded.


MEXICO CITY, March 17.-Huq.
dreds of Nicaraguan Conservative sol
diers are dying on the battlefields Of
Nuv Muy and TERRA Azul for lack OF
medical attention, say dispatches re
reived by Pedro Zepeda. envoy here
for the Liberal Nicaraguan regime I'M
der Dr. Juan Sacasa.
The Liberals are unable to attend
them as their medical supplies are in
SUFFICIENT for their own needs, the dis.
patches say. Zepeda charges that the
American authorities have forbidden
the entry of such supplies for the use
of the Liberals.
The Liberal envoy is informed that
the casualties on both sides In the
Muy Muy battle were heavy. The
Liberals launched a bayonet charge
after seven hours of firing. routing
1900 Conservatives under Gen. Reyes.
who left 10 dead on the field.
Countless wounded" the dispatches
add, ARE crawling along the road to
Nina Verde seeking medical attention.
and many are dying from exposure and
exhaustion"