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New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
100 Known Dead as Structure Holding Back Almost Billion and Half Gallons of Water Colapses, Send- ing 75 Foot Wave Tearing Through San Francis quito Canyon Near Los Angeles During the Night Everything in Valley Swept Before Avalanche on Way to Pacific 0cean-lnvestigation Started.

Los Angeles March 13 (AP)Moe than 100 persons were swept to death early today in San Fancsquto Canon north of here when St. Francis da mpoundng part of the Los Angeles water supply burst and unoosed 75 foot wall of water into the narrow valley.
 List May Reach 4GO
 Officials expressed fear that the death list might reach 4O0 telegram received at the sheriffs office here from Eugene scalu undersher in charge of rescue work said that 100 bodies had been recovered where the floor waters en- tered the Santa Paula and Santa Clara rivers
 Ten bodies taken from the canyon this nonino and were placed in a morgue at Saugus.
 Flood Quickly Spends Itself
 So great was the volume of water that poured through the wide break in the dam that despite the 36OOO acre feet of supply in the big reservoir the flood spent itself in few hours When dawn broke the devastated areas only small stream left where in the tragic hours the early morning death to degree that be known days ever WAS done By this time the vanguard of the thousands of was on the scene and systematic search of the areas was begun ~
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Wallace Barnes Co. Tax Bill Plea Rejected by Board at Washington;
 Verdict Disposes of $94,5SS Case
Deductions Made in Computing War Income for ca, 1919 Not Proper, According to Ruling-Petition Was Based on Deficiency Determined by
 Internal Revenue Commissioner

entitled 10 file an affiliated tax ra- turn for the year 1919.
 In dlsposing of the second aucS- ton the board refused 10 allow ae q deductlon an expenditure Of St6.- i?9.6n made by the Barnes concern to adapt it's plant to prewar condi- tions. The firm had expended about S42".oao in arranging it's plant to handle war contracts in 1q1, and 1918.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Famous British Fier Takes Of From Snow. Covered Field Without Announcing Destina- ton of Flight in Stin- son Monoplane.
His Wife Admits That He Undoubtedly Is Heading for New York City-Re. ported Seen Passing Irish Coast.

London. March, 13 (AP)- The Evening News says that before leaving Cranwell Cap tain Walter Hinchlitfe left this message:
 T am starting out from Cranwell on an attempt to fly the Atlantic.'
 At 8:l0 o'clock this morn- lng, with Captain Gordon Sin clair, he went up at Cranwell all'drome, in Linconshire, in his plane Adventure" on what was at that time thought to be an unknown destination.
 His agent. a few hours later, said that he was bound for America, and Mrs. Hinchlitfe admitted to the Associated Press that New York was his objective.
 At 1:30 in the afternoon an al'plane was reported passing over Mizen Head. a cape of southern Ireland, County Cork. E little more than 400 miles rom CranwelI, where Hinch- fife hopped off. This informa- lion came from the lighthouse keeper at Mizen Head. and the coast life saving service in the same area also reported the passage of plane over Crook haven about the same time.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Hartford Men Arrested
 By Policeman in Darien

parien, March IS R,-Officer Amos Anderson made his sixth al- rest within q week early today when hc captured Thomas Grimes. 21. of 1928 Broad street, Hartford, and Robert Young. G4. of S4 West street. Hartford, on charges of transportinr liquor
 Grimes was driving an automobir, i'll which Young was q passenger when Anderson stopped him on thn post road and discovered 55 quart bottles Of whiskey secreted bcncati the rumble seat.
 Unable 10 furnish bonds Of sl. .0nr each. they were held pending ar raignmcnt on Saturday.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Rep. Brand Demands That
 Hoover Resign Position

Washington. March 13 R}-The long expected Willis-Hoover debate broke in the house today with one Of the participants. Representative Charles Brand of Ohio. republican, demanding the resignation of Sccre- tary Hoover from the cabinet in the interest of economy and in the in terest of fair play in politics"
 Brand also charged Mr. Hoover with financing his presidential cam paign 'to very large extent" out Of tha federal treasury.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
MELLON, BUTLER IN BOND DISCLOSURES Both Tell How Hays Tried to Get
 Them to Buy Bonds LATTER MAKES ADMISSION
Former Chairman, However. Insists He Did No Wrong and Did Not know Source of CcrtitiCates-tc- >cnts Walshs Questioning.

Washingt on. March 13 iPj
 Win II, Hays. former chairman
 of the republican national com
 mitteo. told the senate Teapot
 Dome committee today that he
 had lost a lot Of money dealing
 Tn Sinclair Consolidated oil
 company stock.
 Hays said he had both
 bought and sold the stock Of
 the company in which Harry
 r, Sinclair lessee of Teapot
 Dome, is heavily interested.
 about l92%
 Washington. March Is lPl-The 1lorts ot q republican national chairman to dispose Of bonds turn d into the party treasury by Harry r. Sinclair were traced through an other graphic chapter today by the 5nute Teapot Dome committee.
 Mellon and Butler
 Two outstanding republican lead CTS, Andrew W, Mellon and William NJ. Butler. told the senators who Will Hays had sought unsuccessfully to parcel out consignmCnts of bonds to them in 1928, while Hays was republican national chairman. in exchange for contributions to the party war chest.
 Haya himself corroborated this s'imo1 te16 rdenha that he 1hk; ,HeTs said be N z h. h,'. .1ntormation u J. E feA Ass,o,iy before the M l,cca use he felt it was
 ains His silence sEt2 mcrciessly during wo N6airs on thc witness stand Mellon. who has been secretary Of | ee treasury since the beginning of tho Harding administration, insisted that he also had kept quiet these last four years because he could not see how any good purposc would ho served by disclosing that Hays had approached him.
 "''N c' tJtt tOUus
 Mellon said he Understood tho >3".ooo in bonds rendered him by jnc then party chairman came from Sinclair. Butler. now republican ma 'lonal chairman, testified he did no. know the source of the so5,oon Hays sought to give him in ex- change for q 'contrihution" of like 10 the national committee. Each thought the purpose was 10 prevent the record from showing the whole bond contribution came from one source.
 rounding the committee table and raising his piercing voice as he re- pil"d 10 his inquisitors. Hays 1c- clarad he took full respousjh,)ity for having asked Sinclair 70 contribute. and for 'h. methods he subsequent ly adopted 10 get the soGo,eOo of sinclair bonds out of the freasury's strong box. When Sinclair made the contribution. Hays said he knew nothing of the Continental Trading and the s2,000. 0nO profit it piled up and dsbursed mystcri- ously after Teapot Dome was leased to Sinclair
 Calls Question Unfair
 When Hays said he had not pro.
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New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
DESOLATE SCENES
 IN WAKE 0f FLOOD
!. Dsbds, lIondIy Animals, But Few Signs d Human Life
RANCHES LAID IN RUINS
Harry Carcy's Place Nrcrko,l- Masonic Home Used as d Nlorguc Many Pathetic Sceilcs Greet Eve of Spectators.

Newhall. Calf. March 13 lP- san Francisquito Canyon, yesterday one Of the most beautiful in this section of the country. today was buried under layer Of yellowish sand, ranging from a few inches to 50 feet in depth.
 clCtrus groves and small ranches were in ruins.
 When St. Francis dam broke, q wall of water 7a feet high ragged down the canyon. Several hours later i' had dropped to harmless streak, winding it's way through the yellow sand.
 No Sigu Of Life.
 Along the banks of the canyon were stray bales of hay. bits of Nrechage. q wandering. homeless dog or two and here and there a hedrasgled chicken, but not a sinsle sign of human life.
 Eugene BisCailluz. under sheriff, who rushed here from Los Angeles, surveyed the dasolate scene and eN- l.i N'''7N' Nii1 '-ilti 'ilti i'ltdl " 1ll' yellow carpet that covered the csn- yon were tho bodies of virtually every one of moro than loo persons who lived between its walls. 4 few bodies, he thought. might have been swept towards the sea. and he di- rected his men to search for these lower down.
 Al seven o'clock five bodies lay in tho Masonic lodge rooms at SauEus. which had been commandeered for q noreue.
 Movie Ranch HutnesI
 The Harry Carey ranch where the film actor owner has staged many ro1eos. was q picture of ruin Everything had been covered by the rush or water except the owners co'ta-e.
 pitiful IiSurr.
 On hillock there stood the riti- ful figure of a woman huldIeJ m vivid red sH Heater. urinciry her hands, She told an Associated Press correspondent she was Mrs. Russell Hallen. Her little daughter had lived with her srandmother up San Fran cisquito Canyon.
 She pointed 10 the place where the Srandmother's home had stood. beside q cottonwood tree.
 T. was nothing but q tahle-lik ke surface of yellow sand and the cot tonwood tree had been stripped even Of it's bark by the wild waters.
 srotesque figure in q long fur coat waded up and down the dwin- ding stream which followed in the wake of the 75 foot high torrent. II was kimmy Errachow. a rancher, half crazed by the disaster, search- ing for the bodies of his wife and baby.
 The dam itself had sent out one warning of disaster as its crumbling walls loos"d the flood on the can yon. br. C. '. Ashley, owner of a Sanliar'um at SauSus. reported that shortly atfer midnight he saw two tremendous flashes, evidently from the breaking of power line. Scent
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New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
BERLIN RESIDENTS
 FIGHT ROAD LINES Appeal to Superior Court on
 Highway Dept. Ruling GROUP OF 25 INVOLVED
New Limits Established EN Conmjs- eioncr Macdonald Gut Through Front Yards. Lunch Cart Garage, and store. Appellants Claim.

Upwards Of 20 property owners on Pennington road. Berlin. have retained counsel to appeal to the uperior court from the action Of State Highway Commissioner John \. Macdonald in relocating the boundaries of the highway and it is expected that there will be q battle Tn tine courts as the new bounda- res cut of large portions of the pro Perty of the appellants, running through buildings in some instances. il is claimed.
 Recently. the property owners ro- celvcd notices that the new bound aries were effective in accordance, with Sec. d9, Chapter 26&, of the Public Acts Of 1925. and when the maps were filed in the office of the town clerk. 1t was disclosed that front wards were almost eliminated in some instances. while q building m which IS q store owned by Louis to0foggi has the new boundary cut ting through it and the lunch cart "' ti'' 'ii NlitN 1iuI!St ulSo IS GIN ll- ed by the line. The garage of the Berlin Auto Sales has the new boundary running through the of nee. and other properties will be brought directly onto the highway if the new boundaries arc allowed to stand
 The law offices of Donald GafinsA Nyr'l r. Gaffaey and i.ee.A.,<;1l
 have given tpotifw1 hf appca sfuf following prorerttiowners: .Apt6lN1 Sarracino. Louis confeggi. Maria Farasco. Piotro and Rose Gianoni, Anthony, Nicolas. Rosa and Mary taroso, Elam and Louis klby, James and John Garritv. Angelo and Bertha Lucca, Delphlnc M. Woods. John Nanina, Olmpia Van ina, Angelo pedemont, Peter An celini. Nincenzo Pce.lmont, Albin and Anton \. Holmquist. also for tn" Norton and Achilli properties. It is understood others will also ap- peal.
 The relocated boundaries on larmlnston road provide q highway Gb feet in width. II is q Colonial highway and extends through Ken sington and into New Britain along torbin avenue. Whether or not th, state highway department intends to relocate the boudaries in this city Is not known. but it was said today that if action 10 this end is taken. many properties will be affected by having front yards greatly reduced in size
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

London. March IS lP' -- Mrs lIinchliffe informed the Associated Press late today that she believed her husband was headed for New York.
 Mrs. Hinchliffc thought when her husband started carly today that he might be merely transferring his base to Ireland. but when informed pf later developments she admitted that the mystery flight vas towards
 New York.
 Is Terribly Anxious When hope was expressed by the Associated Press reporter that her husband would strike fine weather he remarked:
 You cannot hope it any more rhan I do. l am terribly anxious. Mrs. Hinchliffe said her husband 1ad not told her specifically that he vas starting today. but his agent otified her in the afternoon that the transatlantic flight had begun. Weather Is Good She assumed that this information " bS NO'It dS Sile hllt" HJT IuS- nand was planning flight to New York. although the time was not definitely set.
 The meteorological office informed Mrs. Hinchliife that Captain Hinch fife had made inquiries about the Atlantic weather and was told that ocean conditions were fairly good Had Plenty of Fuel. London. March Is lP-Captain Walter Hinchliffe's agent in London tated this afternoon that 1ptain Hinchliffe who left CranNell this morning on mystery flight with s1fficient fuel to carry him 5000 miles. intended an attempt to fly he Atlantic.
 Meanwhile no word had been re- celved at four o'clock this afternoon If the airman's whereabouts since his hopoff at $40 o'clock this morn- ing.
 Much mystery has been attached to the preparations which Captain Hinchliffe has been making Il re- cent months to establish nonstop record and to fly the Atlantic from the east to the west, a feat never yet successfully performed. The distance between Cranwell and Halifax. N. S. is approximately a.oG0 miles. we'll within the range of the S,oao-mile fuel supply which llinchliife's plane. the "Adventure' carries.
 Two of the half dozen attempts mad" in the past year 10 cross from Europe to America ended fatally fine first was the Nungesser-' 'oli eA- I.cditicn Which resulted in the loss Continued on Page Siy)
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Hunts Missing Child
ve,patcllcS Irom Ncxhal1

Ne"hal'. Cal. March rS lR-re, persons are known to have heen N''i'1 and official fears were ex pressed that as many as 4Ap nor. may nave perished in ar oyerwbein,. Ing avalanche Of water which .weo, through san Francisquiio canyon north Of here with the breaking or st. Francis dam shortly before A. m. today.
 I" hat caused the retaining parape. or the great reservoir of the Los Angeles city water system to give way suddenly was almost as much of a mystery as the number of dead that lay buried beneath the deep covering ot yellow sand which now carpets the pretty little valley.
 While thousands of officials from Los Angeles city and county. aug m.nted by additional thousands or volunteer ranchers and farmers from the NoWhall and Saugus srca siushed through the wastes sec rching for bodies. officials Of the city water system surveyed the broken laR The theory most credited ~aa that
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New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
WOMAN FLYER DIES AS PLANE CRASHES Pupil With Lady Carbery Also
 Killed in Fall HUSBAND SEES TRAGEDY
Lady tarbCr, iS Third Prominent Hriton to hc killed Within short space rf Time in lnlI of an Air plane.

Nalronl. l\cnya, AtrlGa. March 'S. -lPA-I.a .ady Carberv. wife Of Baron Carbery Irish peer. was killed yes ,crday in an airplane crash. 4 pupil named cowie with whom she was flying also was killed.
 The plane lost speed while flying and went into a spin. Lord Carbery saw the accident from the airdromc.
 Lady Carbery had F, en takinr I'D friends for short fIignis during the afternoon. She was gl ins Mr, fEQDie 2 practice flight Kit 1u.i eyN when Inc crash oce earres'" 2 l. Y Is Third I'attiity Lady CaJb.ry is the third r ,n'. nent Eritoi, to be killed thi.. 8 short space of time ir an airplane crash.
 Flight licutCnan, $. N. kinkea ] British speed pilot and Schneider cup racer, was killed yesterday near Southampton when his plane dived into the seq while he was attempting to break the speed record.
 Flight Lieutenant Iyor Mcintyre. who flew around Australia in 1924 in 9o flying hours. was killed today in crash at Melbourne, while stuntinc.
 Lady Carhery was Maia Ivy Ander- son Of Nairohi and was Baron Car hory's second wife. She married him in 1929. The couple had spent their time between California and the barons' coffee farm ln Kenya colony. Last November he announc- ed that lie intended 10 take out final papers and become an American citizen. Prior to that he dropped the lis" of his title simply styling him self John tarherN.
 Married at [.
 Lady t'drherr was seventeen years old when she married. She was inc daughter of Alfred Anderson.
 pretty. petite and enthusiastic aviator. she took hcr air certificate late in 1927. Later Lord Carbery presented her with q moth airplanc "hich she flew around konya on shopping and pleasure expeditions.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
NANCY MILLER IS
 BEING CONVERTED
American Girl Becoming Hindu
 Through Native Rites
TO WED EX.MAHARAJAH
Seattle Girl Is Immersed In River Is Part of Ceremony In Which She RenOunccs Her Christian Faith,

Bombay March Is UP)-Miss Nancy Ann Miller Of Seattle under went the first half Of her con, orsion to the Hindu religion today in prep- aratlon Tor her wedding to the for mer Maharaiah of Indore.
 4 priest began the induction o, the American girl into the religion Of her future husband. The cerc- mony was held in privacy on the banks of the sacred river Code vary near the holy city of Nasik. It lasted half an hour,
 The priest placed mark on Miss Mlliers brow to mark her as a Hindu woman. She then perform cd the ceremony of Puja before 8 sacred fire. AfterNard she bathed herself in the waters of the Code vary.
 Girl Sad
 An Enslishman who saw tn ceremony said that Miss Miller seemed very sad. and that ,hey.erc- monies she was forced to 20 through seemed to impose great strain on her.
 At the end Of her immersion +4to the river Miss Miller took the oat!, ronouncing Christianity and prom lslnS to adhere to Hinduism for the rest of her life.
 The remainder Of the ceremony will be held this afternoon.
 Miss Miller had been on a fruit dict for three days, in order 10 purify herself after a life of beef- eating, sinful in Hindu eyes. Before the sacred fire on the river bank. lit by friction of two pieces of wood. shc sacrificed rice balls which sh. had prepared and cooked herself. The ritual required also that she write with a diamond ring in 2 golden platcful of rice the Hindu name the officiating priest gave her.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
TUE WEATHER:

N'w Britain and vicinity: Ih rca>tng cloudiu"se and warmer. folIowcd by rain be- cinninc late tonight or Wed Ueetlas.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Uncertainty Exists

London, March Is R,-Iu an at mosphere of uncertainty as 10 whether her conversion 10 Hind,.sul would be legal, Miss Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle today continued in
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New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

Estimates placed the total number oi dwellers in the canyon area at "a lttle more than 500.
 Survivors there were, but thev came ill struggling groups and thetr total had not caused rescue officials 10 cut their estimate of possible loss of life as the forenoon houm passed.
 A deep layer Of sand was left on the canyon and 1t was believed ,hla covered the bodies Of many vtctin,s of the disaster.
 William Mulholland. Los Angeles cl'S engineer, expressed the opinion ; '9at seepage had caused a portion or the hill at the west side Of ths uam to crumblc. causing the col- lapse Of the huge structure built ahout year ago. He discreljted reports that an earthauake had wrecked the dam.
 In its pell mell rush 10 the sea the flood travelled through dozen. n, miles Of territory. sparsely settled and through which only totterinx mes of communication in normal times are available
 The tremendous wall of vate, tore through the ranch of the film actor. Harry Carey, devastating ii. ne tate of 80 Indians who had been living on the property at leas, uh'l short time ago, was unda. 'ermined. Some persons repor4cA they left the canyon several day. ago.
 olA'een farmers living near fh. aetors cabin also were unaceoun,ea for.
 Nrcckace Of every de~r;nt;o, was strcWn for miles a,one th. ''arro" canyon which winds its pie turesque way into the rolling hj,,s noffhWard from Saugus. Orchard. s'raeh areas and all manner of raheh equipment. with fowl ana livestock were swept away by fh. waters
 \ bit Of all the human tragedies that attend all disasters wa. pres- eht when an Associated Press .t,r correspondent penetrated the strick ca area before dawn had mounted over the giant peak of the mou,. 'ains.
 Hunts Missing Child
 woman. hysterically "rihsms her hands, slusbed in ana ao"h searching for her mt..,r, cI''iu' there a man, a pi.iful fr,,r. ciothod only in hathrobe. sohbinr- iF ran a'n'lessly from point 10 noin, seeking the bodies of his wife ana baby.
 when the flash cr the eho-, ,,r- cu'ted h'Sh power line at the dan, 'nrs" fs Shastly warning lsh, .o me southward. one man. so far q. 's hno"n, sensed the coming a,sas. "r- He was pr. (. C. Ashley, cvns- VI sanltarium at Sausus He or- dcred all his assistants "a stand ,v ana prepare 70 render a,d.
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Washington. March Is tPl The t forts ot q republican national chairman to dispose Of bonds turn 'd 1nfo the party treasury by Harry f. sinclair were traced through an other graphic chapter today by tho Gtnut0 Teapot Dome committee.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

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Nogales international., 1928-09-28
(SEAL)
CERTIFICATE OF INCREASE
OF CAPITAL STOCX
(COMNOAJ(

John B. Swift. President and
Joseph Hummel, Jr., Secretary. OF
the Eagle-Picher Lead COMPANY
duly authorized in the premises
and acting on behalf of said Com,
pany, do hereby certify, that ON
the 18th day of May, A. D. 1920
the authorized common capital
seock OF said Company was fully
subscribed for, and an installment
OF ten per cent on each share of
su;1 sueh $40 stock had been paid; that on
said DAY, by vote of the holders
OF a majority of all the stock Of
SAID Company, at a stockholders
meeting called by a majority Of
IT'S directors. and held at the office
OF |ne Company, in the City of
Cinclnnatl of Hamilton County.
Ohlc. (due notice of which was
gwen according to laws and at
winch meeting all the holders of
me common capital stock of said
company were present in person
o. or py proxy, and notice by pub
hea1lon and by letter of the time
pace and object of such meeting
n.avlng been given it was on mo.
tion, Resolved, that the common
capital stock of said, The Eagle
r ,cner Lead Company. be increas-
ca from Nine Million Dollars So
oo0.0OO. its present common can
Irai stock to Twenty Million Dol
lars, $20, 100000. the increase di-
t vlaed into one hundred an ten
thousand (110,o00) shares of one
hundred Dollars $4,000 each:
and further, that the President
and Secretary of said Company be
instructed to file certificate of
snch increase with the Secretary
OF State" which is done accord
ingly.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. The
aforesaid John B. Swift, President.
end Joseph Hummel, Jr., Secre-
tary, of the Eagle-Picher Lead
company, acting for and on be,
haif OF said Company, have here
unto set their hands this goth dav
OF October A. D. 1922.
THE EAGLE-PTCHER LEAD
COMPANY.
BY John 3. Swift, President.
Joseph Hummel. Jr., Secretary.
(SEAL)