davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1928-04-17
GAMES TODAY.

GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Phi1a. At New York Phila. at New YORK.
p1stnn NJ Rronklwn Cincinnati at Chicago.
Chicago at 81. Louis: Boston at bfookl5n.
Pittsb b at Cincinnati
Evening star., 1928-04-17
AREY WINS AT TPAPs.

PIrJEHURsT. y. c. April II tI7.-
". 3 Arey of SalisourT y c. vc1
the doubles championship az the No-Ja
and South trarshootilg tournament oy
breaking IS oE+ OF 100 targets.
Evening star., 1928-04-17
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
YEsTERnA1.s REstLIs

T. ItNUAl = HEl8N Ut
Pittsburgh. 3 Cjse5nnati. 1.
Philadelphia. : Ne.v York, 5.
Boston. 2 Brooklya. g.
Chicago. g. 81. LoDis. 3.
Evening star., 1928-04-17
Hy tie Asso=aisd Prs.s

Ew YORK. April II. -- Eight
teams well matched on paper
form the basis for confidence
Of President John Conway
Tonie ard nWnerS Of Tnfprr1a-
Evening star., 1928-04-17

AEDLOT base ball leagues are
making final preparations fer the
opening Of their respective sea-
sons. Merchants League got the
Evening star., 1928-04-17

" AWES IUWWNNFTH :
Washington at Phila
Detroit NJ ST, Louis,
Chiraro nj Cleveland.
New York at Boston,
Evening star., 1928-04-17
BIG LEAGUE LEADERS

By the Asaoeaasaa Prs.
Evening star., 1928-04-17
By JOHN T. KELLER.

~ HILADELPHIA, April IT.-Gooss
CFoSlin may have a sore throw
inS arm. but his batting eve
4 certainly is not dim these DAYS
rl,A husky Goose for some
Evening star., 1928-04-17

lawn diamond. Cali Lincoln 1924 for
games.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
Hoover Receives
Two Dollars From
Youthful Admirer

PALO ALTO, Cal, Aug IL
Herbert Hoover 5 campaign fund
has been swelled by two dollar
contribution from little boy who
heard of a similar one dollar con-
tribution to the campaign of Gov
crnor Alfred +. Smith, and desired
to raise the Democrats by one dollar.
Correspondence between Hoover
and the boy, Bob Taylor, 243l
Crescent Road, Charleston, w. Va,
was announced today et Hoover
headquarters.
81 like your spirit, and | like
your picture-it shows the kind OK
fellow it would be good to have on
one s side in scrap, Hoover
wrote the lad.
Hoover said the contribution had
been forwarded to the treasury Of
the Republican committee.
The nominee set about To clear up
the California campaign situation
today in preparation for his depart
urc east. Among his callers were
Alex McCabe, political manager for
Senator Hiram johnson, of Cali
formia, and Thomas Finn, Reputli-
can leader of san Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
DUPONT PRESENTS
$4,000 CHECK
TO SMITH FUND
Ky nrted I.ress Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Aug. IA contri-
button of $4,000 was received by
Eemocratic nu:.ona. campaign
headquarters today from Pierre :.
Dupont, chairman of the board of
General Motors and +. !. Dupont De
Ncmours and Company.
Dupont who recently declared for
Governor Alfred f. Smith, sent the
check direct to John j. Raskob, ma
tional chairman.
The $4,000 check was the largest
contribution made so far to the
Democratic campaign fund. Raskob
said the Democrats will place no
limit on the amount of individual
contributions.
"l think there is no objection to
campaign contributions of any size
as long as they are made public and
used properly for educating the
voter,' Raskob said.
Dupont, in declaring for Smith
last week, emphasized that the chief
issue was modification of the pro-
hibition laws and that he was for
the New York governor because he
favored modification.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
MYSTERY WOMEN
in MELLUS CASE
ACCOUNTED FOR
Alleged Chicago Clue
Proves To Be Without
Foundation.
By United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Aug. l4.-All the
mystery women in the Mrs. Myrtle
Nellus case had been exhausted to.
day and apparently none possessed
any information valuable either for
the defense or prosecution of Leo
+. Kelley, butcher boy, charged
with the staying
Mrs. Marcelle Barbanell was the
last questioned. She appeared volun-
tarilv at the district attorney 5 of
flee and said that, while she was a
friend Of the dead woman, she knew
nothing of the events leading to the
Staying.
Before she was questioned, autho-
rites sought Mrs. Barbanell on the
ground she possessed valuable in
formation.
\ woman named in telegram
purporting TO come from q Chicago
police officer was found to have
nothing to do with the case, it was
said.
According to the wire, she had
said she received $4,000 to leave Los
Angeles until the Mellus ease was
over.
Kelley will appear in court to-
morrow to ask his release on $4,000
bail. The motion for release on bond
was made at his preliminary hearing
yesterday when August - was set
as the date for trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
CONVENTION OF
LEGION TO NAME
OFFICERS TODAY
by United Press Leased Wire

STOCKTON, Cal, Aug. 14.-No-
mlnatlon of departmental Officers
was to occupy prominent place on
today's program of the California
department, American Legion, in
tenth annual convention here.
Interest i'll the election centers on
the office of departmental com
mander, for which there are five
active candidates, each with an en-
thusiastic following, and a close con
test is expected.
Besides nominating officers for
the state department, the legion
naircs today were to choose dele
gates at large to the national con-
vention at San Antonio, Texas.
The entertainment program was
to open in full swing today with
competition in athletic events as
the. chief attraction.
South Pasadena post bugle and
drum corps We're awarded first
place in the drill contests last night.
with the Long Beach post a close
second. Teams representing Pasa-
dena, Redlands, Riverside, and
Santa Barbara finished in the order
named
In the band contest, Zane Irwin
post of San Francisco, won first
place. Ontario post was awarded
second place and San Pedro post
finished third.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
SMITHS SPEECH
OF ACCEPTANCE
NEARLY READY
by United Press Leased Wire

ALBANY, y. Y, Aug. l4.-With
one of his most important confer,
cnces of the year behind him, Gov
srnor Alfred l.. Smith, Democratic
presidential candidate, devoted his
time today to completing his speech
of acceptance.
The speech was practically finish
ed at a. m, today. The last of
the "copy' will be sent to the
printer before night and it is ex-
pccted that distribution will be
made to newspapers and press as
sociations tomorrow.
II is understood that the speech
will run G000 to 1000 words and
that il will take about an hour to
deliver Smith will devote great
deal of time to farm relief and pro
hibition. The next most important
topic to be discussed it is believed,
Will be reorganization of, and hon
osty in, federal government.
Smith and his friends today ex-
pressed themselves as satisfied at
the outcome of the conference he
had Yesterday with nine farm lead
crs from middle western and south
ern states headed by George y.
Peek. of Moline, HIS, an ally of
Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, in the
preconvention campaign.
The farm leaders and the Cover
nor all insisted that politics had
not been discussed by them, but
that they had devoted their whole
time to talking over the subject OF
farm relief
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
SMITH-STRAT0N
FEUD RESTING
in DEADLOCK
by United Press Leased Wire

ALBANY, n. V, Aug. H.
Governor Alfred f. Smith will meet
DR.. John Roach Straton in the
pastor S own church, Calvary Zap
tist, and nowhere else to answer the
pastor S charges that Smith is the
greatest menace to moral forces in
America, the governor intimated to-
day.
The intimation was contained in
Smiths acknowledgement of Stra-
ton s reply to the governor re-
quest that he be permitted to an.
swer the assertion in the church.
GREENWOOD LAKE, n. V, Aug,
l4.-Dr. John Roach Straton, who
has accepted the challenge Of Gov
crnor Smith to debate or Straton =
charges that the governor is ga
foe of moral progress, today CON
sidered means of enforcing the pro
hibition law on church property he
recently purchased.
lie was informed, he said, that a
bottle of whiskey had been purchas-
ed at the Sterling Forest hotel,
which DIR. Straton purchased for
the Greenwood Lake Christian as
sembly. He had insisted to William
Hecht, lessee of the hotel, that
liquor and card playing be banned
in the hotel. Straton said.
Straton blamed the Mullen Gage
enforcement act repeal for such con.
ditions.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
VAST AREAS OF
INDIA RAVACED
BY BIG FLOOD
Breaking of Glacier Dam
Threatens Destruction
to Many Settlements.
BY G.. M. DYCE-KEELE
nited Press Special Correspondent


KARACHI, India, Aug. 1.-THE
ice barrier near Lehin in the Kora>
koran mountains, still held today
and the valley of the Indus river
was safe from inundation for the
time being at least.
Two days of tense anxiety were
ended when it was discovered that,
due to mistake in lighting signal
fires, word spread through India
that the barrier had gone out and
tons of water We're pouring down
on the villages of the valley.
The mis-read signals spread con
sternation throughout India.
Because of the lack of telegraph,
facilities up the valley, the true
state of affairs was not learned for
48 hours. -
The government, to facilitate
more accurate dissemination of in.
formation about the ice barrier
henceforth, ordered an airplane to
proceed to Lehin on observation
duty.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
REPORT DECLARES
WILD TRIBESMEN
co ON WARPATH
Ry United Press Leased Wire

LONDON, Aug. lii-Wahabl
trihesmen, mostly those under com
mand of Faisal Ed Dowish, again
are ON the warpath and in recent
raid on the encampment OF an
Atieh tribe killed everyone IN the
village, the Jerusalem correspondent
Of the Daily Express said today
The Dowish tribesmen have been
aided bv those of the Maan, trans
.Jordania district and all are closely
aligned with the Emir Abdullah OF
trans-J ordania.
lraq authorities and the British
air force are keeping alert with
armorcd motor ears ready to BRING
an end to the uprising.
Well Informed persons, the cores
pondcnt said, are of the opinion the
new menace is due to the failure OF
the recent Anglo-lraq negotiations
concerning refusal Of the Trad gov
crnment to demolish military out
DOStS,
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
Alleged Forger
Arrested Before
Check Is Cashed

A shaking hand sent Willie
Hearen, 10, of Holtville to Jail this
morning. g..
Deputy Sheriff Tom Sharp was
standing at the counter in a local
pool hall this morning partaking of
IN iced drink when a young man
stepped up to the counter.
"Will YOU cash this check for
mc'' he asked the attendant.
AS he made the query he held out
the check. His hand trembled con-
siderably. Deputy Sheriff tSharp
noticed the wavering hand and eyed
the youth. He then grabbed the
cheek from his hands.
You forged this check didn' t
you.' the deputy shot at the youth
The youngster denied it. He told
the deputy that his name was Lee
Blake and said that was the name
he had put on the check. The name,
however, was Black.
The deputy took the youth to the
county Jail. There he admitted that
his true name is Hearen and he is
also said to have admitted making
out the check himself. 1t was
made against the account of "Jim -
Weathcrbie, a rancher of the Holt
willie district.
Hearen said that he had worked
for Weatherbie for a time. No
formal charge has been made
against Hearen as yet but it is ex-
pected that he will be taken before
Judge Mayfield this afternoon and
charge of forgery entered against
him.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
BRITISH WRITER
SAYS JAPANESE
KILLED CHANG
BY D. G. BESS
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent


SHANGHAI, Aug. 14.-Putnam
Weale, British author and expert
on Chinese affairs, charged today
that General Chang Tso Lin, gener-
alissimo of North China, was assassi
mated by Japanese gunmen hired by
Japanese militarists.
We1le. who formerly was Chang
an investigation at Mukden, Man
churia, of events toward the close
of the civil war, when Chang s
train was bombed and he was NOR
tally wounded.
lie urged that the japanese gov
crnmIat courtmartial those respon-
sible.
Weale also reported that Chang
Hsueh Liang, military governor of
Manchuria, is seriously i'll from his
recent experiences.
Putnam Weale is a psuedonym for
Bertram l.. Simpson, a British writ
cr of wide international experience
and long student of Chinese af-
fairs.
lie formerly was adviser to the
president of China as well as to
Chang Tso Lin. He is descendant
through his maternal grandmother
of General Israle Putnam of Ameri-
can revolutionary war fame. In
1917 he was married to Miss Louise
parrott, of San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
Using
Disguise To Hide
From Reporters
by United Press LEASED Wire

PARIS, Aug. l4.-Henry NJ
Blackmer, American oil man, whose
extradition is sought by the United
States government is not hiding from
the authorities but from reporters.
The American has adopted dis
guises to trick photographers who
try to follow him everywhere. He
wears huge hornrimmed glasses and
a soft hat pulled low over his face.
Considerable delay was predicted
today i'll the progress of the extra
dition case, in which the United
States seeks his return on charges
of perjury in connection with the
income tax.
Complete papers in the matter
have been turned over to the minis
tiers of foreign affairs and justice
by the United States embassy. The
Quai D'Orsay insists the ease will
be studied the same as any other
oxtradition proceeding, which means
little progress until the vacation
season is over.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
BREAK BETWEEN
JAPAN AND CHINA
NOT ANTICIPATED
BY H. c. BURMAN
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Aug. 1i-Danger of a
break between Japan and the
Chinese Nationalists over the Man
churian situation was considered
less acute by well informed obser-
vers here today.
The reported accession of Chang
Hsueh-Liang, military governor of
Manchuria, to Japan $ insistence on
the ending of negotiations for an
approachment with Marking was
regarded as easing the situation.
The general feeling was that all
three parties are ANXIOUS to con-
tinue peaceful negotiations, because
failure might mean military action
to prevent enrrorchm2 m2nt either
by Japan or the Nationalists IN
Manchuria.
Japan s position was understood
10 be that her favored position IN
Manchuria wculd be threatened by
an alliance between Muk.len and
Marking, although she conceded the
Nationalist position in Nanchuria
as part of China.
The japanese protest WIS believ-
cd to have been FASTENED by the re-
cI.-t successful agreement between
Creat Britain and the Nationalists
in settling co.,i. :.s"titr for the
Nanking riots. Japan's isolated
position in China was thus accen-
tuated.
Statements that Japan was con
sidcring blockade in Manchuria
to protect her interests there were
considered here as nothing but un-
confirmed reports. Japan apparent
" was handling the situation firm
" but with utmost care.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14

Swapping Stock

DETROIT, Aug. 14.-John j..
Raskob, who resigned his executive
position and Pierre $. Dupont, who
offered to resign from General
Motors, after aligning themselves
with Governor Smith 5 presidential
campaign, are selling General
Motors stock and reported to be
buying Chrysler stock, George Il.
Ilassctt, veteran financial editor Of
the Detroit News stated today. The
complicated political situation pres
ages drastic realignment of financial
interests in the motor industry, ac.
cording to financial gossip, Iiassett
said
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
FEUD WILL BE SETTLED

LOS ANGELES, Aug. l4.-A
feud between county supervisors and
Mrs. May H. Rindge, owner Of the
Malibu Rancho, viii be settled
amicably as soon as the parties can
be brought together, her attorney,
NJ. r. Mitchell, said today.
County, officials asserted an at
tempt to make a tideland survey
was thwarted by guards employed
10y Mrs. Rindge. Mitchell claimed
Mrs. Rindge merely wished county
authorities TO sea her before start
ing the survey.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
None Injured
In Explosion
by United Press Leased Wire

HAMMOND, Ind, Aug, 1.-THE
Hammond fire and police depart
ments reported separately this after
noon that no one was killed and no
one injured in an explosion and fire
at the Indiana Sanitary Pottery
Company plant here.
The building was destroyed.
Earlier reports had said eight to
Is persons were inside the building
but investigation established that no
one had been working there since
it closed last Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION
WILL BE CALLEDBY GOVERNOR

datiOns to clear up the taxation
confusion resulting from action
of the United States and Cali
fornia supreme courts in the
Arnold VS. Hopkins test ease.
State revenue amounting to
$22,000,000 is said to be jeopar-
died.
The commission is recommend
ing the submission by the legis-
lature of a constitutional amend
ment to be voted on at the
November election providing a
tax of net incomes and abolish
ing the present franchise tax.
II has also recommended
fixed tax on intangibles.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
Changes Made In
Mexican Cabinet
by United Press Leased Wire

MEXICO CITY, Aug. l4.-Arturo
Nj, Elias, Mexican consul in New
York City, may become member
of the cabinet, it was rumored here
TODAY.
According to FL Grafico, Elias
is leaving New York for the Mexi-
can capital tomorrow.
1t is reported also that Gilberto
Nalenzuela is IA cabinet prospect.
Luis Leon today assumed the post
of secretary of agriculture which
has been vacant for several months.
There is general expectation that
President Gales will not make
many new appointments owing to
the shortness of the remaining
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
Northern Banker
Claimed by Death
By United Press Leased Wire

san ANSELMO, Cal, Aug. H.
John G.. Raas, 6S, multimillionairc
president of the Lyons California
Glace Fruit Company of San Fran
cisco, and prominent in San Fran
cisco and Marin county banking
circles, died at his home here carly
today.
Raas had been in i'll health for
several months.
lie was the founder of several
banking institutions in Marin coun-
ty Immediately after the panic of
1907.
Most of these later were absorbed
by the Mercantile Trust Company
of which Raas was director.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
BY G. M. DYCE-KEELE
United Press Special Correspondent

KARACHI, India, Aug. Ii
Vast sections of India bordering on
the Indus river were threatened
with inundation and possible com.
plete obliteration today as millions
of gallons of water poured through
the area after Ii glacier dam had
burst.
Attock, Chhachh, and Ladahh are
among the more populous cities in
the Nowshera and Kashmir districts
facing floods from this great tor
rent.
The thousands of residents through
the Indus valley are fleeing to near
by mountains. Hospitals, bazaars
and public buildings were evacuat-
ed under military supervision. In
some of the villages panics were
reported.
The disaster started when a
glacier dam on a tributary of the
Indus, about 40 miles beyond Le-
hin in kashmir, burst Sunday night.
The glacier had formed a lake
1900 feet up in the Korkoram
mountain range. The lake was nine
miles long and 800 feet deep while
the great restraining glacier was
about 1900 feet thick and more
than 1000 feet wide.
Primitive Signals Used
The first break found the pent
up waters smashing. down the
mountain side onto the calm and
peaceful Indus valley, and roaring
along through the fertile fields that
form on each side of the long river.
Thousands of residents began to
flee hurriedly. Tho speed( with
which the water moved forecast
that the Nuba and Shaddn districts
probably would be destroyed within
a few days. Attock probably will
be reached Thursday.
There are no telegraphic COM
munications through this well set
tied area. However, cannons were
placed in strategic positions and
chains of bonfires lighted.
The cannons and bonfires will
advise the natives as the steady
stream of water continues its ad-
vance.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
WESTERN TRAINMEN VOTING
ON PROPOSAL TO STRIKE

committee, representing the rail
roads, offered the employees the
desired increase if they would
agree to the abolishing of rules
restricting the use of two loco
motives to train and limiting
the number of ears which may
be hauled by two locomotives.
If this was not acceptable, the
managers offered as an alterna-
tive a 6 II percent increase.
The brotherhoods declined to
arbitrate the proposals, officials
said because the issues have
been the subject of four pre-
vious arbitrations under the
Railway Labor Act and need
not be arbitrated again.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
by United Press Leased Wire

CHICAGO, Aug. l4.-De-
clning proposals to arbitrate
new wage dispute, 10000 train
men and conductors of western
railroads convened sectional
meetings in various cities today
TO vote ON a strike.
Members of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen and the
order of Railway Conductors
have been seeking a 7 u per
cent increase in wages. A com.
mittee of the brotherhoods met
a committee appointed by the
railroads here last week to
negotiate the proposal.
The managers conference
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
GILDA GETS NEW JOB

LONDON, Aug, l4.-Gilda Gray,
American dancer, famous as the
original exponent of the shimmy'
has signed l2-weeks contract with
British International Pictures to
play the leading role in forthcom-
ing film "Piccadilly. - The salary
was not disclosed, but it was said to
be the largest ever paid a film
player in Great Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
Women Golfers
True To Form
By United Press Leased Wire

INDIAN HILL CLUB, Winnetka,
HIS, Aug. l4,-Favorites ran true
to form today in the first rounds of
match play in the western women S
golf championship.
The titlists and veteran tourna-
ment players won most of the is
hole matches for which the 32 sur
vivors of the qualifying round yes
terday were paired.
Mrs. Harry Pressler of Pasadena,
Calf, defending champion, led off
with to 3 victory over Miss
Virginia Ingram, Sunset Ridge, Chi
cago.
Mrs. Gregory Lifur, California
state champion, eliminated Mrs.
Melvin Jones, Chicago, and 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
Beauty Favored
Above Religion
Nv United Press Leased Wire

by United Press Leased Wire
CHICAGO, Aug. 14-Ameri-
can women last year spent five
times more to save their beauty
than ON the salvation Of their
souls.
Religion costs them an average
Of nickel day, while beauty
costs them 25 cents every "A
hours.
Those statistics were introduced
today by Miss Francis Martell,
secretary of the American Cos
meticians Society, before its an
rual convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
HE IS LUCKY MAN

TllOM,ASTON, Conn, Aug. Ia
Edward Stevens celebrated his 99th
birthday in the house in which he
was born and always has lived. The
house has been owned by Stevens
family for $50 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
JEWEL THIEF ARRESTED

LOS ANGELES, Aug, l4.-Louis
krause, said to be wanted in San
Francisco in connection with the
disappearance of jewels belonging
to ii. Abrams, of III Market street,
was arrested here today on a charge
of grand theft.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-14
Perhaps Cop
Forgot Tower

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IL
Councilman w. F. Tower, of
Glendale, appeared before the
Los Angeles police commission
today and reported that a Los
Angeles police officer recently
brought two quart bottles Of
whiskey to Glendale friends. On
advice Of Chief of Police Davis,
Tower withheld the name Of the
officer pending an investiga-
tion.