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Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24

Two Chicago women plead thst
The drudgerv Of housekeeping be
abolished. There's a fortune in il
for the man who invents can open
er that runs by motor. s.a5a -
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24
Chinese Tongs
Renew Warfare
by United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, March 24.--Two
years of peace between the Chinese
Tongs in America ended at mid
night, and within the hour ancient
hatreds famed in cities all over the
country.
Tong gunmen sought out those
marked for death and killed. six.
Two others were wounded, one prob.
ably fatally. Casualties were:
Brooklyn, n. y, two dead.
Newark, Y. j.. one dead.
Chicago, one dead.
Manchester, Conn, one dead.
Cleveland, one wounded.
Pittsburgh, one dead and one
wounded.
The peace treaty was signed at
Washington two years ago in the
presence of the Chinese consul gen.
eral and was honorably kept until
it expired.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24

An eastern writer says some of
the finest dishes used to be cooked
in paper bags. Now they re carried
home in paper bags and ready to eat
when the bags opened.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24

Two girls introduced az "busi.
ness girls - to John D. Rockefeller
we're presented with shimmering
dimes. They re good business girls.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, March o4-With
number of Americans killed or
wounded-a large number feared
dead-in the Cantonese attack on
Standard Oil Hill, Marking, Ameri,
can navy Officers at that city have
Joined with the British in an ulti.
matum to the Cantonese command
ing officer.
This ultimatum requires that all
foreigners be brought safely to
American and British warships by
10 o'clock tomorrow morning; else
they will open fire on Marking and
treat it as a military area.
Word of the ultimatum reached
the navy department today from
Admiral G. 8. Williams, commander
in chief Of the Asiatic United
States fleet. Only a short time be.
fore he had messaged that the Can
tonese had killed or wounded Amer
lean civilians, and he, Williams,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24

The American Can Co. will build
a branch on Monterey peninsula,
Monterey county.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24
TOMORROW

The boys are getting ready for
their rans-Atlantic airplane hops.
But cheer up. girls, the water will
warm up pretty soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24

An Indiana man is suing for di.
vorce because his wife cooked only
one meal for him in their two weeks
of married life. Maybe he's better
off than he thinks.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Just Another Blonde Pal
ace theater.
1.-THE Demi Bride Valley
theater.
"The Show Off, Brunk's
Tent. theater. ,'..
Pythian Sisters Temple No. II
meets, Davis hall.
Box Social, auspices Loyal
Young Peoples class, Christian
church, p. m.
B. P. o. E. No. 1926 meet,
lodge rooms.
Night classes, high school,
r. A. M. No. 100, Masonic hall.
TOMORROW
Election of school trustees,
Wilson school and high school.
all day. -.
W. g. r. U. all day meeting,
Miss Margaret Hedrick S.
Kiwanis Club Luncheon, Hotel
Barbara Worth. -.a,-'.,...
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-24

imore man says his wife
D,000 in trying to reduce.
hinly succeeded as far as
roll was concerned.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90, (R-The
full force of the administration will
be thrown behind movement to
delay final legislative action on the
tax reduction bill until after March
Is
The movement, started by Chair
man Smoot of the senate finance
committee, and supported by Secre-
tary Mellon, of the treasury and
republican leader of the senate, will
be opposed by the democrats who
already have begun to array their
forces for a counter attack
Taking the stand that postpone
ment of action until after March Is
would permit congress to act on
basis of reasonable certainty" as
more accurate information on re-
ceipts and expenditures, would be
available, the administration group
is prepared to put up stubborn
fight to hold the tax measure in the
background after congress reconveneS.
Some of the democrats, however,
including Senator King, of Utah, the
colleague of Senator Smoot, are de-
termined to block the attempt of the
republicans by going to the extreme,
if necessary, of launching cam
paign to have the tax ibll taken out
of the hands of the finance COM
mittee, and brought to the floor Of
the senate for final vote. They
contend that the country is entitled
to early relief from the 'tax bur-
den". and that the measure should
become a law before February l.
Rising to the support of the re-
publican leaders, Secretary Mellon de-
clared today in a lengthy statement
that neither the taxpayers nor the
government have anything to lose
by postponing final enactment of
the bill until after March Is, and
that delay will occasion no loss
| to the taxpayers or inconvenience
either to them or to the government
| from an administrative standpoint.
''From the standpoint of the tax
payers as the estimate of probable
revenues at that time will be more
reliable than the present treasury
estifates," the secretary added, "they
will be relieved of the risk of OBJ
tanning no tax reduction at all this
year or facing the even worse sit
uation of a bill which provides a
reduction in excess of that which
revenues permit.
"From the standpoint of the gov
ernment and particularly of this
department charged as it is with the
responsibility of carrying out the
debt reduction program, it is of the
greatest Importance that we should
be able to proceed with the full
knowledge that the revenues of the
government will be adequate to meet
it's expenditures
Secretary Melons statement was in
reply to a letter from Senator Smoot
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
Names Youth, 16, AS Ac-
complice in Staying of
Druggist ThOms.
OTHER MURDERS
Police Suspect Kidnapper
Killed Grandfather Of Pal
For Money.

. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 R--Wil-
liam E. Hickman, admitted slayer of
a child he had kidnapped and of
man he had attempted to rob,
was formally arraigned today for
the killing OF Marian Parker, but
obtained a second delay to plead to
the charges against him.
Welby Hunt, 16, confessed accom-
plice of Hickman in the attempted
robbery which ended in the killing
Of Ivy Thons, druggist, remained in
the county Jail tonight, while In,
vestigatorS scanned the suicide rec
ords of last May in the belief that
still another death might be explained
by the pair.
The latest channel into which the
detective bureau was guided through
new revelations concerning activities
Of the two former Kansas City youths
was an effort to determine whether
the death OF A. r. DriskelI, 60 year
old grandfather OF Hunt, was due
Ito a suicidal leap from the Colorado
street bridge at the west gate OF
Pasadena.
Driskells body was found at the
bottom of the arroyo on the. night
.of May 25 last. A note found on
the bridge addressed to his son, young
Hunts father, indicated that the
aged man sought suicide because OF
financial troubles.
The new police probe was spurred
by information that Driskell on the
day of his supposed suicide had
u ~ 1n,a ~
from the bank in which Hickman
and Hunt at that time were en-
plcyed. This money never has been
accounted for, police said Perry M.
Parker, father of slain Marian, was
an official at this bank
Repeated questioning OF Hickman
during last night by jail officials
brought the admission from the ac-
cused youth that he and a pal,
whom he afterwards named as Hunt,
had killed Thons while attempting
to rob the latter's drugstore in Rose
Hill, north end suburb near Pasa-
dena.
While officers went out to get
Hunt, complete confession involving
the Thoms murder, was taken from
Hickman. When Hunt was CONFRONT
ed with Hickman's account of the
crime, he too, according to officers
at the jail, confessed his participation
in the holdup and the exchange OF
bullets which resulted in the death
of the druggist and the wounding
of Hunt and a police officer.
Hickman appeared in two courts
today in company with his lawyer,
Jerome Walsh, young barrister OF
Kansas City, Mo-, who travelled across
country at the request Of the youths
mother to represent her son.
First he was taken into the court
of Municipal Judge Myron Westover,
where a complaint charging kid
Continued on Page Eight1
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30

NEW YORK, Dec. 80 P-Every-
thing that could be done by search
ers of the sea had been completed
tonight, and still no sign had been
found of the plane Dawn and its
crew of three men and a woman.
Lieutenant Commander ROsen-
dahl of the dirigibIe Los Angeles
announced that further search
would be futile unless new clues
developed. The two navy destroy
erS and three coast guard craft
which have been searching the
waves completed their task without
result and Commander Stewart,
directing the naval search, receiv-
ed permission to abandon it.
The Los Angeles is back in its
hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., and by
another day it was expected the
five destroyers would have return
ed to their routine duties. A sharp
look out will be kept, of course, by
all craft traversing the waters be-
tween Cape Cod where the Dawn
was last seen and HarbOr Grace,
N. f., its destination, but hope
had dWindled almost to nothing to-
night.
The Dawn took off last Friday
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
|. c. c. HOLDS UP
0NS0LIDATt0N
PLANS OF LOREE
Railroad Mergers FroWned
On By Commission AS
Opposed to Public

WASHINGTON, Dec. % Up = The
railroad consolidation plans of L. F..
Loree, president of the Delaware and
Hudson, were for a second time held up
today by the Interstate Commerce
commission. 1t ruled that, Delaware
and Hudson proposals to lease the
Buff 70, Rochester and Pittsburgh rail-
road, were not in the public interest
and refused to allow the consolidation.
The linkage of the two railroads
which Mr.. Loree attempted to bring
about, the decision said, would create
"the nucleus for a trunk line system
extending from Boston to the west"
Since the Delaware and Hudson does
not actually connect with the Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburgh, Mr.. Loree
presented along with his application
a contract under which the Pennsyl-
vania railroad gave the Delaware and
Hudson trackage rights to operate over
it's lines between Buttonwood and Du-
bois, Pa. This would enable the Dela-
ware and Hudson to bridge the gap
between It's own rails and the Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburgh.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
Food Dropped From Sky
Into SnowbOund Villages
For People.
SUFFERING TOLD
Rural Towns Cut Off From
Supplies by Drifts Ia Feet
High.

LONDON, Dec. 90 R)-Airplanes
and armored tanks are playing relief
roles in Eingland's great storm-the
fierceSt blizzard in some parts that
England has known in a score OF
years.
Bread. and butter were dropped
neighbOring villages in Kent, whose.
in habitants are snow imprisoned
Two airplanes from an airdrome near
London carried supplies but were
unable to find a safe landing in
the beleaguered towns The food was
placed in bags and dropped with
parachutes.
Tanks from two army stations in
Hampshire we're employed to crush
a pathway through the roads piled
high with snow For four days three
villages, Grosmort, Llanvetherine and
Llangattock, lying near the foot OF
the Black Mountain, MonmouthShlre,
have been isolated, and unless thaW
comes soon it is feared the villagers
and cattle will suffer severe privatlon.
Floods are adding to the distress.
They are widespread in the Ouse
Vdl1Cy AL W44AAO VAAN
Thames floods from Old Windsor to
Walton show little sign OF SUB
sidence.
Bleak tales of suffering in all the
snow buried counties OF southern
England and Wales were told in
London tonight, while weather ex-
perts are not yet able to foresee i'm
mediate relief from the cold which
has gripped Britain and parts OF the
continent.
on the sea violent easterly gales
have prevailed, causing distress to
shipping in varying degrees for six
days. Many rural villages are still
cut off from supplies by snow drifts
reported to be from 10 to IA feet
high.
An aged farm Iaborer of Somer-
setshire, missing in the blizzard, was
found frozen to death in the muc
and snow.
The Imperial Always service tc
Paris was resumed today after a two
days suspension. The Southern rail
was has reopened its Folkestont
to Bologne service but the Dover
Calais service is still suspended fol
the fourth day because OF heavy seas
in the channel. Hundreds of ex-
pectant travellers are stalled in botf
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
SAFETY EFFORT
Of THE ?. D. c.
SHOWS BIG GAIN
Reports at Meeting of Com
mittee Discloses Satisfy
ing Results of Work.

The regular quarterly meeting OF
the Phelps Dodge corporation safety
committee was held at the office OF
Mr. P. G. Beckett, general manager,
on December 29th. Those present
were: P. G. Beckett, vice president
and general manager, Phelps Dodge
corporation; j. P. Hodgson, manager,
Copper Queen branch, Bisbee; l. H.
Barkdoll, general manager Old Do
minion company, Globe; H. II. Hor-
ton, manager, the Moctezuma Copper
company, Nacozari;s w. M. Saben,
assistant manager, Morenci branch,
Morenci; D. D. Irwin, general sup
erintendent, Copper Queen branch,
Bisbee; H. c. Henrie, manager labor
department., Copper Queen branch,
Bisbee.
At this meeting safety and accident
prevention work Of the corporation
during 1927 was reviewed and plans
for work during 1928 formulated.
Accidents occurring at various
branches of the corporation during
1927 show approximately so per cent
decrease over the previous years
record.
While complete figures are not
available until the close OF the year
the accident records for the first II
months OF the year indicate that
the James Douglas memorial safety
trophy, which is awarded to the
branch having the best accident
record for the year, will be won by
the AGoctezuma Copper company
while the severity contest will prob
ably be won by the Old Dominion
company of Globe.
The corporation safety committee
meets quarterly at the various
branches of the corporation in rota'
CONTINUED on Page Eighth
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
To
Exert Full Power
To Delay Tax Bill

inquiring what course the Secretary
believed congress should pursue to-
ward tax reduction in order to COM
ply with the requirement of the law
calling for a yearly balancing of
the budget.
In reply, the secretary reiterated
his opinion as contained in his re-
concentrations to the house ways
and means committee that a tax
reduction in excess of $225,O00,00
was not justified and that he re-
garded the $29O,OOO,OOO reduction
measure passed by the house as pre-
senting new and serious situa-
tion.'
Estimates of probable expendi-
lures are made by the director of
the budget" Secretary Melons state
ment continued Estimates of prob
able revenue are made by the Secre-
tary of the treasury. I have con-
suited the, director of the budget and
he, informs me that he sees no rea-
son to change in any way the eSti-
mate of expenditures for the fiscal
year 1929 contained in the budget
message In this connection it should
be noted that those estimates do
not include any expenditures that
may be occasioned by new legisla-
ton; such, for example, as measures
for flood relief, financing the re-
turn of alien property, agricultural
relief, for the purchase of the So
called triangle in washington, Ga
plot south of Pennsylvania avenue
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
INSURRECTION IN
OKLA, QUITS UNSUCCESSFUL

Members of both houses, who
had persisted in meeting despite
series of unfavOrable decisions by
state courts and the military re-
sistance, abandoned their activit-
les abruptly after the senate de-
cisiOn and began to depart for
their homes, unpaid for their ef-
forts.
Shortly after the session had adj
jOurned, Governor Johnston issued
an order demObiIizing the units of
the Oklahoma national guard,
which first were called out Decem-
Der IL to prevent the house of
representatives from meeting in
its chambers and voting impeach-
ment charges.
Several senator's who spoke and
voted for dismissal of the impeach-
,ment charges made it clear they
did so, not because of friendship
for the accused officials but be-
cause they had become convinced
of the illegality of the attempted
actions.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
u S NAVY ABANDONS SEARCH FOR
PLANE, DAWN AND ITS CREW OF 4

from Roosevelt field. N. Y, for
Newfoundland, prepara t ory to
hopping from there for Europe.
Mrs. Brice GoldsbOrOugh, wife OF
the planes navigator, said today
that her husband once had told
her that in case of forced land
ing he would always try to make
land rather than come down In
me water. She urged that the
search be carried on inland.
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 29 up =
Still clinging to hope, Andrew ..
Wilson, father of Mrs. Frances Will
son Grayson, whose plane the
Dawn has been missing for several
days, prepared today to go to New
York in quest of his missing daugh-
ter. He admitted he did not know
what could be done after he ar
rived in New York, but felt he
should be nearer to those who are
conducting the search.
Until / hear beyond a doubt
that my daughter has perished, /
shall have some hope that she may
be merely lost somewhere on land"
Wilson said. "Of course, if her
plane alighted on the water there
is no chance of her being alive"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Dec.
30 R-OkIahOma's political insur-
rection, aimed at the removal of
Governor Henry S. Johnston and
at least two other state officers,
reached an unsuccessful end today.
With dramatic suddenness, the
state senate brought impeachment
activities to q close today by the
dismissal of charges voted by
house members against Governor
Johnston, Chief Justice Fred p.
Branson of the state supreme court
and President Harry L. C0rdelI "a
the state board of agriculture.
Meeting in a downtown hotel, to
which they retreated yesterday
after they had been dispersed at
the doors Of their capito' chamber
by national guardsmen under the
direction of the governor, the SEN
atOrs decided by vote of rs TO 16,
that the house of representatives
had no authority to convene itself
and vote the impeachment charges.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30

Copper steady; electrolytic
spot and futures, 14@141s.
Lead quiet, spot, $50.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
MRS. LINDBERGH LANDS
ON ST. LOUIS FIELD

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20 (R - Mrs.
Evangeline Lindbergh returning to
Detroit from Mexico City, where
she spent Christmas with her son,
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh,
landed at Lambert-St. Louis field
at g:35 p. m. today and remained
overnight.
fIans had been made to continue
to Chicago before dark but these
were cancelled when adverse
weather reports were received
from points on the route.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
England In Grip of Worst Blizzard In Years
+ y * * * y y 4 y = = + y y
Temperature In DdrOsOn
City Moderates To But
81 Degrees BelOtO Zero

* WINNIPEG, Dec. 80 tR-The
:Y cold&st wave of the winter rap
* idly descended upon western
* Canada from the arctic, and
81 promised extreme sub-zero
* weather for the New Year.
4: Dawson City in the Yukon,
:* reported a warmest temperature
* of So degrees below zero last
* night, the minimum temperature
y. not being reported. Prince Al
y. bert, Sask., had 80 below zero
* and Edmonton 20 below Win
4. nipeg dropped from % above yes
81 terday to 2 below early today.
* Snowfall was general.
* -. * 81 81 * y + & Il 81 as 's *
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
ELIMINATE DEATH CURVE

GLOBE, Dec. 29 Elimination OF
the famous ''death curve" on the
Globe-Rice highway near Cutter,
where a number OF fatal accidents
have occurred in the past six weeks,
is contemplated by the highway de-
partment, according to Perle Mcbride,
chairman OF the Arizona highway
commission Mcbride said that it is
probable a new route will be chosen
as the remedy.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
PORTLAND BANK HELD UP

PORTLAND, Ore.,. Dec. z9 GA
slightly built gunman, armed with
a small automatic pistol, held up four
employees of the Mount Scott State
bank here late today and escaped
with $1,000.
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F(lRTlS

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Real Estate
HOUSES AND EgTATEs-FOR
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LEADERS FOR 10 YEARS m THE
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Hudsors

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Bucks

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ChrysIers

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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-03-09
READ THIS AND BEGIN THIS
GREAT NEW STORY TODAY

DIANA BROOKS, beautiful
daughter Of ROGER BROOKS,
owner and publisher OF the cafawba
city Times and a chain OF nine other
daily newspapers, was kidnapped
from the v,rauia Of her home. ut
released, unframed Roger Brooks
!eduublrS his efforts to overthrow
tho corrupt city administration and
defeat politicians of the Ring and
IN. Underworld, and then himself
disappears, EDNA "TEDDY" FAR
Ef.Il.. reporter and SOB-SISTER.
accompanied by ELL cANtlELD,
city editor, and DiNNY MORRISON,
city hal reporter, wait al , 4. m. in
TIM editorial room OF the Times for
news OF the missing publisher. They
ar, Joined Gy Diana and DONALD
hEENE. literary editor of Times
ami guardian Of Teddy.
Drama has received a possible clue
10 her fathers Whereabouts, The
entire company 20 10 meet the wo-
man from whom Diana' has received
the tip. She tells them that Brooks
has been removed from his original
place OF conccalmcnt and promises
10 phone Diana OF further Develop
men'S.
Teddy. hy hor actions. hotrays to
Diana her secret love for Don.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-03-09

Diil-Whito bill creating the fedc
radio commission.
Miss Jones. who is several ye
younger than the senator, Is h
with two brothers to an estate walt
at s., G00, ZOO left by her father,
Oliver Livingston Jones.
She became known as Gene
Hosalic" in 1872 when she led
party of suffragettes on a h
through the snow to Albany TO p
sent petition for women's suflrt
to Governor Glinn and later, led
hike through the mud to WASH,
ton to present a similar petition
resident Elect Wilson on the eve
his inauguration.