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all available police officers. The Ma
tional Guard was on the scene.
striving to maintain order.
Back in San Francisquito canyon,
where once the giant concrete wall
impounded $4,000 acres of water
stood a jagged section Of concrete,
all that remained of the dam which
crumbled and caused California's
greatest disaster in recent history.
The jagged section resembled an
ugly tombstone.
Investigate at Dam
A tiny stream of water trickled
around the base of the remaining
dam section where yesterday a wall
of water Seventy-five feet high
rushed out to bring ruin and death
to the beautiful little valley below
There will center the investiga-
tionS ordered by the city of Los
Angeles, the State of California and
the officials of the Southern Cali
fornia Edison Company.
Several theories we're advanced as
to the cause Of the disaster.
William Mulholland, chief engi-
neer of the department and builder
of the dam, said the wrecking of
the structure might have beer
caused by a major ground move
ment at the western buttress of the
dam.
H. A. Van Norman, assistant engi-
neer was of the opinion that seepage
at both sides of the dam might
have weakened its foundations.
Discard Blast Theory
Other theories, that local earth
quake or malicious blast set by SYM
pathiZerS of the ranchers in some
Los Angeles water rights disputes,
practically were discarded, although
inquiry was to be thorough along
all lines.
City commissioners discussed the
feasibility of rebuilding the dam,
which collapsed less than two years
after it was built.
Lines OF communication we're be-
ing re-estaNished. Highways were
being cleared. The Southern Pa
cit1c maintained regular service be-
tween San Francisco and Los An
geles, but many of the routes lead
ing to the main line will be out for
several days.
Bridges must be replaced in
several places before roads can be
restored.
Engineers began the tremendous
task of restoring delivery of electric
power. Last night the entire area
was in darkness and workers who
sought to give relief to the survivors
groped about In the dark or by aid
of lanterns and searchlights.
City officials announced that the
Los Angeles water supply would not
suffer, because Of the many reserve
supplies. The st. Francis dam held
the second largest quantity of the
city'S supply.
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Hourly Temperatures

peared to have suffered most.
Water reached the second floor of
the modern high school building
there. More than twenty blocks
of houses had been swept away.
The debris was strewn over the
roads and flat countryside.
The flying field at Ell Rio had
been destroyed. The hangar was
f1attened and from our position
in the cockpit of the plane, we
could see a battered airplane nosed
into the ground. GroteSquely a
signboard, advertising a favorite
brand of cigars, stood - where
houses, bridges and buildings had
been washed away.
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DEHASS SUIT CLOSES
Judge Delays Verdict in
Divorce Case.

Testimony in a divorce suit
brought by DR.. T. w. DehaSs, 2l52
N. Meridian ST., against his young
wife, whom he married in 1919, was
completed before Superior Judge
w. o. Dunlavy today.
Judge Dunlavy took the case un-
der advisement, without indicating
when he will hand dow ma decision.
Mrs. Dehass filed croSs-complaint
asking $4,000 alimony.
Two days were spent in efforts Of
DR.. DehaSs to show how his estate
valued at $4,000 at the time of his
marriage in 1919 has been dissi-
pated to much lesser figure.
Notebooks showing what he has
paid for household expenses and
bills paid for materials used by Mrs.
Dehass were introduced as evidence.
Cruel and inhuman treatment is
alleged in both the complaint and
roSS-complaint.
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planes mired. Houses we're swept
from their bases and either shat
tered or deposited great distances
from their original foundations.
Bodies could be seen. Some
were in trees. Others lay half
submerged on the ground.
II R
A S we flew over this new valley
4 n of death-where once there
was a quiet pastoral scene of
thriving ranches and busy little
cities-we could easily follow the
course of the great deluge of
water.
Santa Paula, a city of 1900, ap-
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minder of tragedy lay a path of
wreckage, desolation and death.
Instead of the fertile, irrigated
valleys of the Santa Clara Basin,
lay crumbled towns, battered
down houses and bodies. Railroad
tracks were twisted into peculiar
designs just as the toy tin rail-
roads often are by children at
play.
Once great orchards were
wrecked. The trees were but sticks
whirling along in the great cur
rent of the 12,O0O,OoO.OOO gallons
Of water that was unloosed on the
valley.
An airdrome was f1attened and
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HOOVER WINS IN
new HAMPSHIRE
Secretary and Smith Carry
Primaries.
BIZ United Prcss

By United Prcss
MANCHESTER, N. H., March IA.
Solid Hoover and Smith delega-
tions were selected by New Hamp-
shire in the first of the presidential
primaries.
Tabulation of $50 out of 295 towns
and city wards today gave clear ma
jorities to delegates pledged or
known to favor the secretary of COM
merce or the Governor of New York.
Everett R. Rutter of Derry,
pledged to Calvin Coolidge, was at
the bottom of the Republican list.
United States Senator George H.
Moses was high man on the c.. o. P.
delegation, polling 2l.074 votes to
Governor Huntley N. Spaulding's
2O,211.
Although Republican candidates
for delegate t-large have not been
in the custom of pledging them
selves, all of those selected to go to
the Kansas City convention are
known to favor Secretary Hoover.
Those elected to go to the Hous-
ton convention for the Democrats
are all pledged to Governor Smith.
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there was yellow waste cover
ing the once fertile earth.
The great dam, which had been
the pride of the valley, was bat
tered like some toy. Great chunks
were thrown yards away from the
base. Some of these great bits
of concrete and steel-which had
comprised one of Americas great
engineering feats-had been float
ed along with the overflow of
water. They we're believed to
have battered down some of the
houses of the valley.
And today only that jagged
remnant of the dam stands, a re-
minder Of the tragedy.
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If the street were left open
beneath the elevated tracks,
Ford would have to move his
assembly chain from the first to
the second floor Of the plant,
because he could not bring a
switch down from the elevation
across Oriental st.
Slack and City Engineer A. H.
Moore surveyed the situation two
months ago and began negotiations
to close the street from Washing
ton to Southeastern Ave, where they
said Serious tra@c hazard" would
be created.
Confer on Changes
The engineering and legal depart
ments have conferred with the
railroad company on changes neces-
sary in the track elevation program
specifications.
Leota ST., through artery west
OF the Ford plant, will be opened
between Southeastern and Wash
ington, Slack said. Opening Of Le-
ota st. is expected to meet the OBJ
jections of south side citizens who
protested closing Oriental some time
ago.
Slack said the board of works will
close Oriental because of the traffic
hazard which would be created at
Southeastern intersection II ORR
entail st. joined it there. Delay in
the decision is in a measure respon-
sible for postponement of the track
elevation project, it was stated.
1--WE made the move on our own
initiative. I understand the rail-
road much prefers Leotac st. and the
Ford authorities, of course, desire
closing of Oriental" Slack said.
Elevation Year Away
Actual start of the elevation and
closing Of the street will be a year
off, it is believed,
Failure of the city to close Ori-
entail ST, two years ago, is partially
responsible for the Ford plant being
closed at present. according 70
George j. Steinmetz, Ford branch
manager.
Closing the street will enable the
Ford authorities to rearrange floor
space to. permit installation Of a
body building department, making
the factory an "A /" class plant,
Steinmetz said.
Ford officials desire to make all
plants complete units, it is said, and
failure of the Indianapolis branch
to open with several other branches
is due to insufficient supply Of
bodies. All bodies are shipped here.
1t is believed the body plant would
have been installed a year ago if ths
street had been closed.
Will Mean More Jobs
Addition of the body department
would boost the number of employees
from 900 to about 1,4OO or 1900,
Steinmetz said. The department
could be in operation in ninety
days after the streets closing, he
estimated.
plants with body departments
have great advantage over Indian
apolis. have been unable to get
information as to when the branch
will begin operations" Steinmetz
declared.
Steinmetz said he would advise
Detroit of the city's move at once.
Referring to a rumor that the
branch may start about April 1,
Steinmetz said. I'VE could get 60
ing within sixty days"
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BRITISH ATLANTIC FLIERS
HOURS OVERDUE AT GOAL
Hides to Die

Suffering from exposure,
Mrs. Stella M. Sonday, 54, of
IT'S Hall Pl., who disappeared
Sunday, was found beneath
the floor of her home by a
searching party Tuesday night.
Mrs. Sonday has been i'll, her
husband told police. and after
writing a note that she was
leaving for good. crawled
through an opening in the
foundation and remained in
hiding.
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PRAY FOR MSGR. GAVISK
Masses Said in Churches for
st, Johns Pastor.

Special masses were said in Indi-
annapolis catholic churches Tuesday
for Monsignor Francis H. GaviSk,
pastor of st. Johns Church and
chancellor of the Indianapolis dio-
cese, when he was reported near
detah at st. Vincent'S Hospital.
The elderly, widely known priest
was reported improved today. He
has been seriously i'll for several
days.
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FORT SITE is SOUGHT
Steps Taken to Obtain Remainder
of Vincennes Location.

Announcement was made today by
President William Fortune of the
George Rogers Clark Memorial
Commission that further steps had
been taken to secure the site of
Old Ft. Sackville at Vincennes.
He reported to the commissioners
Tuesday, at a meeting here, that the
present site of the Kuh elevator
had been acquired for $35,099 and
that steps were being taken by the
city of Vincennes to complete pur-
chase of the old blockhouse square.
This will be transferred to the
commission.
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Daughter of Millionaire Is
Passenger on Flight
to U. S.
BIZ United Presj

bV ntted PTeSs
ST. JOHNS, New Foundland,
March 14.-Capt. Walter Hinchliffe
and his companion, Miss Elise Mac
kay. millionaire daughter of Lord
Inchcape, were regarded today as
hours overdue here.
Their plane at noon had been
gone from Cranweu airdrome, Lon
don, its starting place, for thirty
three and one-fourth hours. In that
time it could have flown, even at
eighty miles an hour, its probable
speed against an unfavorable wind,
1850 miles and should have been
far past Newfoundland. 1t is just
over 1000 miles from Cranwell to
here.
No word has been heard OF them
from ships Ia sea and no report
has been received Of them being
sighted overland.
The weather is clear. The plane
could have been seen plainly wher-
ever it passed. Watchers all over
the country we're looking for it. A
sealing fleet was $50 miles east
northeast of st. Johns, watching
closely almost directly in the planes
path, but saw nothing.
Report Plane Is Heard
The story Of the fight so far has
been that of other planes which
went out never to be heard from
again-zthe entry into the gray At
lantic fog off Ireland, a few un-
authenticated reports of mysterious
engine sounds at sea or over New
Foundland, and then oblivion.
Residents Of Harbor Breton, on
the southwest coast of Newfound-
land reported having heard the en-
gines Of a passing airplane about 6
a. mr. today. The report was un-
confirmed and its Importance mini
mized here.
An unconf1rmed report of a radio
message that an unidentified steam
er had seen plane in mid-ocean
was received Tuesday night.
If the plane reached NeWfound-
land and headed down the coast, it
would not be due in New York or
Philadelphia, both mentioned as
possible objectives, before late this
afternoon.
All Others Have Failed
Preparations were made at Nit
chel field, Long Island, and at the
Philadelphia air port, to take care
of it.
Weather conditions are unusually
good. North to east-northeaSt
winds we're blowing moderately off
the coast during the night. From
early night until near daylight today
the sky was illuminated by the
aurora borealis. Today the sun is
shining and it is warm. Light north
west to southwest winds prevail. Wis
ibility is good.
The flight of Captain Hinchliffe's
plane perhaps was the most
desperate ever eSsayed by an aviator
in peace time. Experts have re-
garded it as next to impossible.
Winds almost constantly are ad-
verse. On an eastward Atlantic
fight plane is driven by favor
able winds. On the westward jour-
ney it means a constant battle
against all the elements.
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Fertile Region Is Vast Scene of Utter Desc
lation, With Prosperous Towns
Lying in Ruins
THRONGS SEEK FOR KIN IN MORGUEs
Many Victims Swept on to Ocean or Buried
Beneath Masses of Sand and
Debris in Disaster.
Dam Pictures and sidelights, Page 1, Section 2,

LOS ANGELES, March 14-Coroner Frank A. Nance
today charged that the St. Francis dam which collapsed
Monday night, constructed faultily.
1t is admitted Coroner Nance said that the dam
was not anchored to hard rock fastened to
shale and the other to a conglomerate formation
Nance said inquest into the caused by the
food in Los Angeles County would be held next week.
CAMPBELL
United
NEWHALL, Cal. March 14-With death and desoation on
hand of searchers depoyed today through
raaged Santa Clara River basn hunting the bodies of
dead in the st. Francis dam catastrophe.
AT dawn 287 bodies had been recovered the devastated
sixymie valley laid waste by the collapse of huge storage
DAM Between 300 and 400 persons still reported missing
Extent of the tragedy at last could be realized weary
searchers struggled in from isolated parts basn bringing
bodies Of victims to be placed alongside those in already
crowded morgues.
AS footh towns aWoke another day sorrow grief
stricken friends and relatives searched valley
foot horseback and in automobiles for missing persons
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BY GEORGE H. BEALE
United Press STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Copyright, 1928. by United Press

Copyright, 1928. BY United Pressl
T OS ANGELES, March 14.-The
~ jagged remnant of the once
great st. Francis dam looked up
like a grim tombstone marking
off the spot where scores of per-
sons lost their lives when an
avalanche of water swept down
upon them.
Starting from that grim re-
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A constant procession of
frantic mothers and fathers
moved through the funeral par
lors and temporary morgues to
view the roWS-of bodies.
Occasionally there was an outcry
as some one identified a victim of
the flood.
Bodies Are Mangled
Many of the bodies we're mutt
lated, indicating that the swift cur
rent had hurled them against build
ings or fences with terrific force
as they were swept down the val
ley.
The Newhall poolroom and dance
hall was turned overnight into a
morgue. Long pine boards were
placed along the walls and upon
them lay forty-six bodies brought
into Newhall from the surrounding
country.
Evidence Of the merrynaking
scenes to which the hall was ac-
customed furnished a grotesque con-
traSt.
At one end of the huge structure
wreaths of holly from a Christmas
celebration still we're on the wall,
spelling the word welcome.
More than 1000 men were mass
ing in the valley towns today to be-
gin the first systematic search for
the hundreds still missing.
In this small army were deputy
sheriffs, Los Angeles city police,
county officers and citizens who vol
unteered to aid in the work.
Many Missing Believed Safe
It was belieevd many of those
now listed as missing would report
safely when the confusion in the
valley subsidized.
But those directing the work of
rescue and relief organizations were
certain that scores of additional
bodies would be recovered before
the search ended. --...,.
Doran Storey, deputy sheriff, who
returned shortly after dawn from
the area swept by the flood. ex-
pressed belief that many bodies
we're buried in the wreckage which
extended from the mountains to
the sea.
'"Those bodies already recovered
have been in plain sight" Storey
said. .
"I saw bodies in some places
which could not be reached until the
water subsided and undoubtedly
there are many others buried in the
three or four feet of silt that covers
almost the entire. river basin .
The death toll as compiled by the
sheriff's Office here early today fol-
lows: Newhall, 49,; Ventura, 9; Ok
nard, 4; Santa Paula, So; Fillmore,
At; Moor Park; 40; Oamarillo, 9;
Piru, 81; Saticoy, s, ......
Bodies being brought into New
hall or found and awaiting transpor-
tation, 80. ....,.........
Many Of the bodies never may
be recovered, it was said, as the
force of the. flood may have car
ried them into the sea, or buried
them deep in mud carried down the
river basin by the rush of water.
Relief Work Started
Every relief organization joined in
the work. The American Red Cross
has established bases at strategic
points. The American Legion, Vol
unteers of America, Salvation Army,
and other civic and religious or
ganizations we're aiding in the
work.
The city of Los Angeles voted
$4,000 for relief work and loaned
BEST COFFEE IN TOWN. Sec
0nd cIn without charge. FIETCH-
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HONOR DEAD EDITOR
Coolidge Will Press Key Starting
New Canton Presses.

u WIItW 7 N0o
CANTON, Ohio, March 14.-An-
nouncement was made today from
Washington and received by the
management of the Canton Daily
News that President Coolidge would
press the key in the White House
Saturday morning starting the big
presses in the new home of the Can
ton Daily News.
The new home is a memorial to
Don r. Mellett, its former publisher,
who was killed in the war on collu-
sion between the vice ring and po-
lice officials two years ago.
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BAR PRESS IN HANGING
Exclude Reporters From Mcdonald
Execution March %.

BV United Press
MONTREAL. March 14-The at
.torney general of the province of
Quebec ruled today that no news
paper man would be permitted to
witness the hanging on March %
at Valleyfeld of George and Doris
Mcdonald. Mcdonald and his wife
are awaiting execution for the mur-
der of a taxi driver.
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George N. Beale Of the Los Angeles
United Press. STAFF. viewed the destruc-
tton to Santa Clara Valley from an
airplane. In the following story he
describes his impressions.
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Ends Sixty Third Year on Job

By United Press
CROMWELL, Conn, March IA
Kate Ralph, 70, completed her sixty
third year today in the employ of
j. & E. Stevens Company, manufac-
turers of iron toys. She is toy
painter.
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