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Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
IMPERIAL COUNTY
TO PARTICIPATE
IN ROAD FUNDS
By United Press Leased Wire

SACRAM ENTO, Cal, Jan. 13.--
The state of California today be
gan road construction on its new
two year road program of $4,000
900, the first unit of the 10 year
program designed to cover the state
with network of paved roads at
4 total cost of more than $120000,-
000.
The new budget was adopted aft
er a day Of wrangling and arguing
on the part of the highway com
mission. The disputes were chiefly
ever the ALLEGATION of 100000 70,
San Francisco S skyline boulevard
and the budget recommendations
for Marin county highways.
Every section of California is af-
f"cted by the huge road program
Northern California and Southern
California are evenly divided as to
the amounts they received, com
promise measure made over the new
gasoline tax increase of one percent
adopted by the 1927 Legislature and
approved by Governor Young.
The chief projects under the pro-
gram and the amounts allotted to
each include:
San Bcrnardino TO FL Centre -
Imperial, Riverside and San Bernar-
dino counties-$353,0 900.
FL Centre to Yuma, Imperial coun-
ty, $4,000.
An additional appropriation for
the sky line boulevard was promised
by the commission if $1,000,000 of
federal aid funds is allocated by the
state attorney general. OF this a
mount, Northern California would
receive approximately 100000 and
Southern California $450,000.
Southern California roads which
would also participate in this mon
ey would be the FL Centre to San
Diego highway $l5O,000; Daggett
TO Needles (Old traiD 100000;
Baggett to Nevada state line Gar
rowhead highway 100000 and
Mecca to Blythe 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
Prison Terms of
Three Men Set

Notice of the determination of
sentence of three men convicted on
felcny charges in the local superior
court was filed at the county clerk s
office this morning at the instance
Of the prison board of San Quen-
tin penitentiary.
The cases are as follows: Floren-
cia Bustamente, charge, burglary,
second degree; sentence fixed at
four years; James Gentry, charge
forgery, sentence fixed at five
years; Frank Delaney, attempted
burglary, second degree, sentence
fixed at three years.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13.-
BARRIERS who frighten he-men
into taking facials, eyebrow
plucks and other tonsorial en-
bellishments, were the object of
a police investigation here to-
day.
AS the result of the complaint
of Jan Hondek, who was sent
forth from a local barber shop,
with only one side of his hair
clipped, because, he charges, he
refused to take hair treatments,
costing So to $40, two BARRIERS
were under arrest today.
Hondek charges that William
NJ. 0 'Brien, barber shop propri-
etor and his assistant, Clarence
C. Baker, threatened to "treat
him rough" unless he took the
treatments. He appealed to the
city prosecutors office for aid.
81 knew there was something
wrong when | went into the
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
DELEGATE FROM
new MEXICO In
FAVOR OF BILL

Testimony entered by Francis
Wilson of New Mexico featured the
hearing being conducted by the
house committee on the Boulder
Dam project at Washington, d. c.,
yesterday, according to word re-
ceived at the Imperial Irrigation
district this morning from +. w.
Greer.
Wilson in testifying said that he
had come there to comply with the
upper governors resolution to hold
up legislation on the dam project
pending further negotiations but
was amazed to see Governor Hunt s
letter in which Arizona refused to
proceed further with negotiations.
Wilson declared tha New Mexico
is therefore, with the bill in a six
state compact or in anything which
California UNDERWRITERS.
His testimony followed a morning
session which was almost entirely
taken up by testimony entered by
Governor Dern of Utah, but he is
not believed to have made any ma
terial impression either for or
against the dam project.
Wilson in testifying repudiated a
number of the governors declara-
tions and according to Greer made
the best witness for the Boulder
Dam that has appeared thus far
with the exception of Phil Swing,
whom Greer declares is handling the
e;4,,o +;on IN n p,ac+arf,,l p,onpar
Public hearings on the project by
the house committee are to close
Saturday. Phil Swing will be given
the floor all day to enter the final
testimony.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
Vessel Reported
Out of Danger
by United Press Leased Wire

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan .13,-Thc
motorship Aorangi after circling
around thief rcighter Griffco report
ed today that the ship, for which
grave alarm had been felt, was con
tinuing its voyage from Seattle to
Honolulu.
"All is well,' read a message re-
layed by the Aorangi from the
Griffco early today. The message
was sent to the Inter-Island steam
Navigation Company at Honolulu
and was intercepted here by the
Mackay-Federal Telegraph Com
pany's radio station.
The message did not explain why
the Griffco sent out an appeal for
helm Wednesday night.
The Griffco carries a crew of %
men. -
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
MICHIGAN
AROUSED
BY Crime
Hickman Case Has COun-
terpart as Fiend Kidnaps
And Stays Child.
POSSES ON H u N T
Thousands Join in Search
For PerpetratOr of
Revolving Act.
by United Press Leased Wire

FLINT, Mich, Jan. 13. - Ar
aroused citizenry joined with forces
/ Of the law today to apprehend the
kidnaper and slayer of Dorothy
Schneider, 5 years old.
Dorothy, blonde kindergarten pu
! pill in the suburban Mount Morris
Consolidated school was lured into
an automobile yesterday, driven out
Of the city and murdered.
Her body was found last evening
in Penson Creek, three miles west Of
her home. IT had been mutilated
by incisions that might have been
made by skilled surgeon. The
clothing had been stripped from her
body and scattered through ra
vine.
Today posses in which private cit
iZcns advanced shoulder to shoulder
with state troopers, county sheriffs
and city police spread in all direc-
tions from the scene of the crime.
SO great was the city's revulsion
at the atrocious crime that many of
the search parties were private ven
lures, organized and led by profes
sional men, merchants and workers
from Flint S automobile factories.
Club women viewed Dorothy s
body and several told Sheriff Green
that they would be willing to aid
in the execution of the man respon
sible.
The killer would escape death
even though captured and convicted.
Capital punishment was outlawed in
Michigan years ago
The best clew to the identity of
the wanted man was furnished by
Archie Bacon, farmer who lives
near the spot where the body was
found and who assisted the suspect
ed man to get his car out of the
mud hole after he had disposed of
the body.
Bacon said the man appeared to
be about 30 years old, was five feet
10 inches tall and weighed nearly
200 pounds. He was stopped slight
ly, Bacon recalled, of light complex
ion and full faced. He wore fur
cap and gray overcoat.
Except in weight the second man
answered the description of the kid
napcr.
Police said there were blood
stains in the automobile driven by
the second suspect.
The first man arrested was releas-
ed when he convinced detectives
he had been on week S "sprce. -
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
WITNESSES SAY
SUB TRAGEDY
UNAVOIDABLE

BOSTON, Jan. 13.-Three veteran
naval officers who had qualified as
"expert Witnesses told the naval
board of inquiry here today that
the collision between the coast
guard destroyer Paulding and the
submarine 81 appeared to have
been unavoidable.
The witnesses, Captain II. D.
Cooke, commander w. II. Lassing
and Commander John ii. S. Dessez,
presented wide divergence of opin-
ion as to the distance at which the
So perscope could have been seen
from the bridge of the destroyer but
they were as one in describing the
accident as unpreventable.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
EMERSON
SEEKS TO
HALT BILL
Governor of Wyoming
Would Delay Action
Pending Agreement.
PHIPPS HAS BILL
Colorado Senator Offers
Amendment Asking For
Dam Construction.
By United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Con-
struetion of the Boulder Canyon
Dam project would be "harassed
continually' b y controversies
among the states involved unless a
compact is signed before adoption
of legislation, Governor George En-
crson, Wyoming, told the house ir-
rigation committee today, in urg-
ing delay on the Swing-J ohnson
bill until compact is signed.
~ feel sure that another year will
see some agreement among the
seven states, which would have to
be ratified by the state legislatures
in 1922 Emerson said. He ap-
pealed for delay on behalf of the
upper basin states.
''In the ,bcst interests of all,
there should be an agreement first
before any legislation is passed, y
he said.
"A good deal of progress has
been made in negotiations among
the states. Arizona has come to
the point where she will approve the
seven state compact if she can
agree with California and Nevada
on distribution of water and power.
alt will be very disappointing to
me if the three states fail to carry
on negotiations. y
Regrets Hunt Letter
Emerson regretted n letter writ
ten bv Governor Hunt of Arizona
to the committee recently declaring
the states would have to suspend
negotiations until the Swing John
son bill was side tracked.
Representative White, Democrat,
Colorado interrupted to say that
Hunt was reasonable man. and
that his letter should not be taken
too literally II. +. McCluskey, rep
rcscnting the Arizona commission
admitted to the committee he had
remarked to IL. b. Matthews, a Cal
ifornian, that the states are farther
apart now than ever.
An amendment to the johnson
bill authorizing the secretary of in
terror to construct "A Sl2,000,0O0
flood control dam at any suitable
place on the lower Colorado river
was introduced in the senate today
by Senator Phipps, Republican, Col
orado.
The only specification mcnt Toned
was that the dam should be 500 feet
high and that it should be con
structed at Black Canyon, Boulder
Canyon or any other spot the sec
rotary selects.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
State ExecutiOner
Suffers Collapse

RICHMOND HILLS, II. Y, Jan.
13.-RObert Elliott, executioner
at the electrocution of Ruth Snyder
and Judd Gray last night, suffer
ed nervous collapse today as a
result of the strain of the last "a
hours.
He was confined to his bed at
his home here and was under the
care of his family physician, DR..
Morton Hertz.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
Police Seeking
Girls AbductOr

TULARE, Calf, Jan. IA kid.
naping warrant was sworn out TO.
day against Carlos Fernandez for
the alleged abduction of Ii year old
Elvera Fernandez following the la..
ter s disappearance yesterday noon.
The alleged abductor, distant
relative of the Fernandez family.
was believed TO have headed for
Redondo or Pittsburgh, Cal, ani
police enroute have been notified
to be on the lookout.
The warrant was sworn out by
the girl s father.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
President Off
For Cuban Meet
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Presi
dent and Mrs. Coolidge, accompan-
led by the American delegation and
ncwspapermen, left here on special
train at 2:02 p. m. today for Ha-
yaha where the president is to open
the Pan-American conference Mon
day.
Several hundred persons saw
them off.
The train will stop at Miami late
tomorrow and then will proceed to
Kew West where the presidential
marty of sc will board the battle
Shin Texas for Havana.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
By PAUL R. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a
Fifteen hundred Democratic
leaders at the jackson Day din
ner here showed obvious desires
for peace within the party dur
ing seven hours of patriotic
speeches from l3 leaders. Five
scheduled speakers were still
unheard when the meeting ad-
iourned at 2:30 a. M today.
The meeting gave every indi-
cation that party leaders were
willing to 90 further now to
end their difference than they
were the last time they met in
the 1924 New York convention.
Prohibition and religion--the
two questions which h ave
caused disastrous sessions in
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
Places Tie On
Railroad Track
By United Press Leased Wire

FRESNO, Cal, Jan. l3.-Admit-
ting he placed a railroad tie on the
Atchison-Topeka and Santa Fe
tracks Just to see it scoot along
in front of the engine, Lawrence
+. Hawthorne, II, was in the county
Jail here today charged with a fell
ony.
The tie was carried several rail
lengths by a northbound passenger
train and later other trains passed
over it until the obstruction was
turned around parallel with the
rails.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
AFFAIRS IN INDIAN BUREAU
TO BE PROBED BY SENATE
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. The
King resolution for a senatorial in
vestigation of the bureau of Indian
affairs was favorably reported to-
day by the senate Indian affairs
committee.
Charges of "improper and i'm
provident administration of Indian
property have been made against
the bureau by responsible persons
and organizations, the resolution
states.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
What's Doing
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Valley theater: "Spring Few
! er."
Palace theater: "The Wiz
ard
Signal Chapter, o. E. S., No.
276 meets, Masonic Temple.
Inter-Post Council, American
Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Carrie
Townsend s, Imperial, 8 p. m.
Radio: KGEN, 5:30-6:3O pm.
TOMORROW
Southern California Horticul-
tural Commissioners meeting,
all day.
Story hour, city library, 1880
a. m.
Approved Junior matinee,
Valley theater, 2:15 p. m.
Radio: KGEN, 11:30-12:30.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
WOULD REDUCE POSTAL RATES
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Re-
duction of postal rates totalling a
bout $10,000,000 year is provided
in "A bill introduced today by Chair
man Griest, Pennsylvania, of the
house post office committee. The
measure, revising the 1925 schedules
has the approval of the administra-
ton. he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
AviatOrs Pass
One Day Mark
BY United Press Leased Wire

MITCHELL FIELD, n. Y, Jan.
13.-Flying smoothly in great cir
Gle between the north and south
shores of Long Island, Clarence d.
Chamberlin and Roger Williams at
l0:1l a. M. today passed the "a
hour mark in their attempt to bring
back the world S endurance flight
record to the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
Riot Reported In
Ohio Coal Fields
by United Press Leased Wire

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 13.
Three hundred union and non un-
ion miners rioted at the Y. and O..
coal mine No. 2 at Rush run, seven
miles from here today, according to
advices telephoned to state and
county officials.
First reports said non-union min.
ers had been injured seriously and
that the opposing factions were pre-
pairing for open conflict.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13
Polishing Up Gals Dreadnaught Yacht

spc and attendants sp and decks the u S.
await the Cooidge short from
PanAmerican Conference Serving the
Couple Stewards
Felix
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-13

Continued on page 81
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-03

A RIDE HE'LL REMEM-
BER-Exciting events have
| been the experience of Gen.
eral Aware Obregon, former
president Of Mexico. but he'll
remember, among them, an
airplane ride with Colonel
Charles Lindbergh, above
| Mexico City. obregon and
Lindbergh are shown, center.
after their fight
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07

over and decided that the offer Of the Pierce lodge
near Bruie, in the very heart of one Of the most pic
turesque regions in the United States. appealed 20
them more than any other place brought to their at
tention.
The environment is wildly beautiful, the fishing of
the best. And the president and Mrs. Coolidge may
have remembered the good times they had last year,
out in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where men
are men and boy preachers eloquent, and decided that
they would try the west again, although this time the
mise en- scene, SO to speak. Of the presidential vaca-
ton will be quite different.
There may be not the slightest political Significance
in the choice OF a spot for the presidential vacation
this year-not the slightest. IL the farmers don't like
the Coolidge veto Of the McNary-Haugen BILL going
to Wisconsin won't make him any more popular in the
grain belt than he il now. IL Mr.. Coolidge is to be
drafted" the operation can be performed with no
more facility while he is In Wisconsin than il could be
performed il he were occupying some rich mans sum
mer home on the Atlantic coast
And it may be that Mr.. Coolidge chuckled a little
to himself at the idea Of spending his vacation on the
estate Of a deceased oil mRgnate. after all the talk there
has been about oil and the republican party!
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07
The World and All
By Charles P. Driscoll
ECSTASY

There come great moments to all Ct us. Moments
when happiness or Joy or admiration so transform and
inspire US that we seem to stand outside of ourselves
and forget the existence Of our bodies and our cares.
The Greeks invented this excellent word, ecstasy, as q
name for this condition Of spiritual exaltation. Ii
means, literally, standing outside. The Greeks per-
ceived that in an ecstasy Of Joy or happiness or other
emotion, we seem TO stand outside Of ourselves, and
the body appears to go about its business without much
direction from us. Thus, a person in an ecstasy Of
love may walk homeward through snow and cold from
the home Of his beloved and keep on walking long Ter
he as passed his street. He is beside himself. Out
side Of himself. He is, as we say, "up in the clouds"
He pays little attention to what his body is doing, and
the body, left without Intelligent direction, walks on
through the cold night, although it may be very tired.
The person in ecstasy will "come to HIMSELF after n
while. He will take possession OF his body again AMI
send it back on the right road, and so to bed.
Some persons rarely experience ecstasy, while to
others this exalted state is a more or less constant
means Of inspiration and consolation. 1t is not unusual
for writers and studious persons to be ecstatic. The
person who meditates in a search for truth Is likely
to be struck "al in a heap, as We say, by a sudden
access Of intellectual or spiritual light. He may
think and mediate for years, in search Of a clue to
some important truth, and all Of a sudden the path be-
comes clear to him. He may then act in such manner
that his ~neighbOrs will think him crazy.
Saul. the young lawyer Of Tarsus, had been think
ing very hard about some cases he was prosecuting.
He was .on his way to Damascus on professional bust
ness, when, we are told. he was suddenly Struck almost
blind and dumb by the light Of spiritual truth. In a
religious ecstasy, Saul was beside himself, and pres
emily found his body picking itself up off the high
way. The body had fallen off the horse or donkey on
which Saul had been riding. Had the poor fellow been
driving an automobile at the time he was thus stricken,
he probably would have been killed by running the
car into the ditch, and humanity would be poorer BY
some wonderful letters.
On a later occasion, Saul, who had changed his name
to Paul, was making a speech before King Agrippa, and
one Of his old companions interrupted him to say,
Thou art beside myself. Much learning hath made
thee madl" And that wasn't such a dumb observation
as you might think. Pan. was beside himself in A
fcrvor of oratory and religious zeal. He was often ia
a condition Of ecstasy, as are some Of our most force
full and most misunderstood men OF all ages.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07

New air mail and passenger routes are being estab-
lished all the time. The novelty Of air traffic has al
most disappeared. Not so the romance. The Southern
Cross, il memory serves, is the fifth plane safely 70
make the flight from California to Hawaii. Yet Amer
lea awaited news Of its safe landing with baited breath.
Adventure is not foolhardiness. Every effort was
made by those responsible for this trip to make It
safe, TO prepare for emergencies, to think out difficult
ties and TO be ready for them.
This sort Of thoughtful preparation j. one Of the
causes for Lindbergh's continued success. And while,
in these new, strange, uncharted fields, even the best
prepared may meet unforeseeable and unconqueraoic
dangers, still on the whole the principle holds good.
Patience in waiting for good weather may be difficult,
when the ship is ready to sail. But so long as weather
is 80 important, the calmness which permits waiting
for the best opportunity which the present weather
wisdom can supply may make all the difference be-
tween success and failure. Some flyers have lost
their lives because they thought other people might
think them afraid If they did not start IN the face OF
adverse conditions. This fear of opinion is in itself
not only unworthy but dangerous.
The great discoveries are made by those who use
all the wisdom they can gather, and who leave as little
as possible to chance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07
Men and Machinery

A man writes to a newspaper that he thinks the
only fair way to settle the question as 70 whether
machines do provide work for the men they displace
would be for someone 20 follow through the manu-
facture or one Of these labor-saving devices. He wants
statistics to show whether the men displaced by the
machine are needed 20 mine the extra ore required. 70
manufacture the machines themselves, to service them
and to sell them as well as to sell the extra goods
manufactured.
As a rule the replacement is not so simple. The
men dismissed are apt 70 lack the training required
for the skilled processes of making. servicing or selling
the machines themselves. Their next jobs may be in
unrelated industries. Yet by and large they do find
work again and better paid work, as the history Of the
nations industry proves.
Bat following through and finding out just what
happens, and telling about It as a story Of human in
terest and not merely as a matter Of curves and dry
figures, ought TO be an attractive task for some good
writer with a taste for Investigation. Perhaps the man
who wrote his little piece TO the paper has started
something.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07
Water

A super-water system is being projected to serve
eight Ohio counties with water for domestic and indus
trial use by drawing it from Lake Erie, boosting u
over a 6O0-foot ridge. II would be piped rs much as
seventy miles from its source.
Most Of il. after il had done its work Of turning
wheels and providing power, would be allowed to flow
back into Lake Erie again.
The country has gotten used TO large engineering
plans, and this one causes no great surprise. The ter
ritory which this proposes to serve is part OF the
great american Ruhr," reaching down southeast from
Cleveland through northeastern Ohio and northwestern
Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh. This section is under
going q period Of great development. but Il cannot 70
very much farther without greater quantities of water
than its own rivers can supply. Lake Erie seems an
obvious source.
The fact that most Of the water would get back into
the lake again. however, is an important and necessary
feature. Commrnities-not TO say countries-border-
ing on the Great Lakes are not disposed to allow the
levels TO be lowered any farther. Sending the water
back filtered will also be important. Slowly but surely
peoples are awaking to the necessity Of keeping their
waters pure.