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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14


Several houses on the river side
of Fillmore were carried away while
orchards almost a half mile wide
were. cleaned away leaving scarcely
"a twig.
And that little Pete Labara," laugh
ed "Scotty." "He hollered to his
folks to run but they said the noise
was just the wind. Pete. 16 years
old he is, grabbed his 10 year old
sister with one hand and his IL year
old sister with the other and ran to
the hills Stayed there all night, he
did,-ha ha-without stitch OF cloth
ing on, but saved the two kids. Petes
the old man and his wife are gone
and good neighbors they were too"
1t had to be dragged from "Scotty'
Gordon that he himself had braved
the waters when he answered the cali
with other hill neighbors this morn
ing and brought ashore eight bodies.
And the women-rows OF them
sitting at the doorways Of improvised
morgues. Some of them with steps
of children at their sides Others
with oh, so pitifully empty arms"
There weren't men folks in those
groups and no one wondered why.
Men were absent from the morgue
watch, for those who were not dead
tiveS and friends.
Throughout that trip from valleys
end to valleys end not a weeping
woman was seen. A Mexican woman
with a babe in her arms sat stunned
beside the peach trees brave bloom
on the sharp banks of that terrible
yellow-red scar through the valley
that wiGened from the San Francis
quito canyon.
The only available vehicle for hire
at Fillmore was a large heavy trou-
ble-S shooting automobile with a der
rick mounted on the rear. 1t thun-
dered along the sometimes mud-en-
quilted pavement on. the valley side.
'That's Ramona-S nome" quoth the
driver, as he pointed out the ranch
houses maze famous in the California
romance. The low, tree-Shaded adobe
buildings were untouched by the tor
rent, but nuge slice was taken out
of the orange orchard of the ranch
on which Ramona'S home stands and
which sold, only four years ago, for
100000.
A speeding car was met.
There goes c. c. Elton" said the
driver. Just last week he ped $1O2,-
600 for his ranch The flood just
about wiped the orchards out"
The little hillside main street town
of Piru, first reported to have caught
the full blast of the flood. was skirt
ed entirely by the grasping waters.
It's orchards in the lower part of the
at-this-point narrowed valley, were
turned to more fields of sandy silt.
From Piru up the tragic valley
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14
Night Watchman Pays With Life in Heroic
Efforts to Warn l70 Men in Labor Camp

Los ANGELES March roaring wave mountain
crashed down San Fancsquito
night Watchman at
attempt ms until He
his sm.
1he Watchan Locke
the equipment Of the Southern
construction of pole line between
at this camp officials here stated
THESE % had definitely
six bodies had of
According
cabin
the lives.
to
and temporary line built
counties addition
line carrying the entire load of the Los Angeles
service disrupted when the city plant destroyed
employees the station
believed They ii.
his
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14
MELLON AND BUTLER WASH HANDS
OF TEAPOT DOME LIBERTY BONDS
BEFORE SENATE INVESTIGATORS

tional republican chairman said they
had not sOoken sooner because they
had refused in 1923 to have anything
to do with Hays plan Of bono, allot-
ment, and saw no reason WHY their
knowledge OF it wouid be valuable
tc the public.
The third occupant OF the witness
stand was Hays himself. Under a
two hour rain of questions he main
tanned that he had done nothing
improper and argued with committee
members that recent disclosures did
not contradict the testimony he
previously had given the committee
under oath. 1t Was these disclosures
that led Senator Robinson Or Ark
ansas, the democratic floor leader OF
the senate, to declare en- the senate
floor yesterday that Hays hao SUD
jected himself to the possible charge
of perjury"
Hays propose! for getting some OF
the $260,000 in Sinclair bonds out OF
the republican party treasury as cx-
planned in the testimony, was to
deliver parcels Of them to Secretary
Mellon and Others the recipient in
each case to make a contribution or
like amount to the republican ma
tional committed That would make
it appear that the money came from
various individual subscribers, and not
i'll one lump FROM the original donor.
while at the same time the individual
subscriber would be nothing out OF
pocket.
Mr.. Mellon told the committee he
declined to accept on those terms
the $4,000 in bonds sent him by
Hays because he did not want to
make contribution that would APP
pear to be something it was not.
He knew the bonds came from Sin
clair, he said, but did noC suspect
any connection between the contri-
button and Sinclair's lease OF Teapot
Dome. Mr.. Butler, in the same way,
refused to accept a S25,OOO consign-
ment OF bonds, even though he did
not know, he said, that Sinclair was
the original source. Both Mellon and
Butler we're approached by Hays late
in 1923 after the Teapot Dome in
quiry began, but before it developed
into a national scandal
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14
HOUSE MEMBERS
Continued from Page Ore)

control legislation should be given
preference over the naval program.
This protest, however was of no avail.
Once the bill gained the right OF
way, Representative Andrew, republi-
can, Massachusetts,, who drafted the
naval committee report on the meas
ure, opened discussion by urging house
approval of the proposed construction.
He said the cruisers and aircraft car
rier would provide only for the i'm
mediate needs of the navy; that the
ships were not proposed ia n spirit OF
competition, with the navies of other
powers, and that when completed the
American navy would be second 10
that of Great Britain.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14
VETERAN
lContinued From eags Onel

the course of the day from her hus-
bands business associate that Captain
Hinchliffe was off on the Atlantic
flight.
Later Mrs. Hinchliffe learned from
the meteorological office that her hus-
band had inquired about the Atlantic
weather and had been appraised that
ocean atmospheric conditions favored
SUCCESS. Hinchliffe's wife believes his
goal is New York
In sleepless anxiety Mrs. Hinchliffe
reclined tonight close to telephone
awaiting a hopeful report of her OAR
ing husbands attempt.
The Stinson plane Adventure, ;"
which Captain Hinchliffe is plotting
left the Cranwell airdrome at $40 p.
m. 1t was loaded with fuel for long
journey-3,0O0 miles or more, and 1t
required o run of the full length OF
the field, more than mile, before the
plane took the air Then, in strong
westerly breeze, it sped in the direction
of Ireland
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14

was Gesolate waste of sand and
uprooted, mangled shade trees. The
orchards which checker boarded the
lower va.?cy in its mile width had dis
appeared On an acre-sized mound
at bend of the river below steep
hillside, Wa sthe remains of the Edi-
son cmopany construction camp.
Not az tented camp remained. but
instead it was an auto wrecker's de-
light.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14
Survivor Tells Thrilling Story Of Rescue
From Swirling Flood By Only Surviving Son

NEWHALIs Calfy March ID oF9-C H. Hunck the
hospital
from the swirIng waters the flood just
of being saved. @ahs Id
"Our house" sad
the DAM When the water hit the house
built a thing but
myself cnng to what turned out to be part the home
j on
last
long, my going
hung
"ThenI must have nOated for messOnebOdy
darkness
it / of my sons.
h
/ wonder if they saved the other boysg"
did the the bodies for
whom he inquired lay a temporary nearby.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14

Much mystery has been attached TO
the preparations which Captain Hinch-
life has been making recently to eS-
tablish nonstop record and to lily
the Atlantic from east to west, a feat
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-14

WASHINGTON March 13 pa
cabinet officer and past and a
present chairman OF the republican
national committee were asked today
by the senate Teapot Dome commit
tee to explain their silence Of more
than four years regarding the effort
of Will Hays, party chief in 1920,
to dispose OF securities paid into the
republican treasury by Harry r,
Sinclair
Two of the witnesses, Secretary
Mellon OF the treasury department,
and William M Butler. present ma
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45-46
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his birthday anniversary. Six
tables of five hundred was played
after which tasty lunch was serv-
ed. Those present were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Louie Borgmann and daugh-
ter lone, MIR. and Mrs. Everette
Lux and family from Long Pra-
irie; Mrs. Thiesen and daughter,
from Eden Valley; Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Bergman, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bergman, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. Harrison, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lux,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Steffes, Mrs.
F. E. Minette and son Ed, Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Schoenhoff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Steffes and
daughter Mary Ann were dinner
guests at the Ferd Bergman home
Sunday.
Ferdinand Borgmann Jr., spent
Monday at the Ralph iSteffes home.
Mary Margaret and Catherine
Ann Prasch spent Monday after
noon at the Nick Schwartz home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Schlichte,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Schurman and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Prasch
and Johanna .Jesok were supper
guests at the Nick Schwartz home
Sunday.
Ben Determan spent Sunday
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Determan.
George Strauss and daughter
Elizabeth spent Sunday at the
Mike Allen home.
John Wolfe and Alvin Wolfe
and Harold Dean spent Wednes-
day evening at tic Joe Determan
home.
Hubert Ley was a business call
err at the Determan home Sunday
night.
Cecilia and Catherine Allen are
spending their Easter vacation with
their parents Mr.. and Mrs. Mike
Allen.
Miss Dorothy Schwartz spent the
week end with her sister Mrs. Ed
Schurman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd Borgmann
and daughter Irene and son Ferd
Jr., were supper guests at the
Ralph Steffes home Sunday.
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Excerpts from the Herald of
so Years Ago

| The Sank Centre House has been
receiving a new coat of paint this
week. So has Charley Benefits
house.
Almost a Fire.-On Thursday
morning the roof of Mr.. o. F. Car
ver's house took fire. A few min
utes lively work and a liberal ap-
plication of water eXtinguished the
flames.
But few farmers have been in
town this week, their attention be-
ing taken up with getting in their
crops. Merchants ride out more at
this season Of the year than at
any other. ..... '.
The new carpet was put down in
the hall of Star in the West Lodge
this week. It looks rich and
elegant. The lodge is under obi
cations to the ladies and few of
the brethren who generously gave
their time and labor to the per-
Torrance of the no small task.
New Store.-4Mr. Thos. H. Lind
say, who purchased the Stock of
Kellogg, Chase & Mayo at Sheriff
sale, has opened a general store in
the same building, and invites the
people of Sank Centre and vicinity
to call and make his acquaintance.
He went East the first of the week
to buy goods, and will in a few
days be prepared to serve the pub
lie with a stock complete in every
particular. Call at the new store
and see how they sell goods there.
The Sank Centre Brewery is now
turning out an article of beer in
ferior to none in the state. The
proprietor, Mr.. Geo. Bruber, is a
good honest German, who will not
use anything but hops and malt,
and his beer is entirely free from
the poisonous drugs used so eX-
tensively by dishonest brewers. AS
the manufacture of beer is licensed
by the government there should be
officers to inspect it and thereby
prevent the use of poisonous drugs
in this manufacture. George says
he would be pleased to have such
an arrangement, and would will
I lingly see his beer turned into the
river if any other ingredients than
hops and malt were found in it.
School Items.-In the spelling
match last Friday in the Grammar
School, George Heath, Lizzie Hub
bard, Ida Davis and Flora Pike
stood up the longest. They missed
| in the order in which their names
are given. The sasr one of the C
Iclass to miss was Amy West.
| On Monday last Eddie Walker
and George Crouch played truant.
It is high time that these boys, and
all others addicted to this shame
full practice, were made to under
stand that they must either come
to school or stay at home. Fayette
L. Cook.
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</-~T a. An Epic of the Air
NV Col. Charles
Lindbergh

Copyrighted

Field, which commenced in March,
provided my examinations mao
been passed satisfa ctorlly. ,
Accordingly on the twenty-thlrd
of January we took off from Lam
bert Field in five below zero wealth
err and headed for the sunny south.
Our first stop was at Perryville,
Mo. where we visited with some
of Kinks friends for several
davs, and carried nineteen pas
sengers. After leaving Perryvllle3
we flew to Hickman, KY, and
landed in a soft field east of town.
We had passed out of extremenly
cold weather and the wheels OF our
plane sank several inches into the
southern mud. When we had re-
fueled and attempted to take off it
was impossible to ger enough speed
to lift the tires out of the mud. so
Klink got out and / tried to take
off alone. On the third attempt
the ship gained enough speed for
the wings to begin to carry a por-
ton of the load and keep the
wheels from sinking so deeply !;
then it was only matter of a few
more feet before I was off,
1 picked out a bayfield, a little
further from town, which appear
ed to be a little more solid than
the first, and landed. BY that time
it was too late to make another hop
before dusk, and as even the new
field was too soft to make it adj
visable to carry any passengers,
we left the Canuck tied to fence
and went into Hickman for the
night.
The first effort to take off the
following morning was unsuccess-
full; also the second. We could
not gain a speed of over five miles
an hour over the soft ground. FL
nally, with the assistance of sew
eral men pushing on each wing,
we got the ship to the top OF a
gentle rise which gave US enough
of a start to take off without SER
ious difficulty. We stopped once
in Tennessee for fuel; then at
Friar Point, Mississippi, where we
landed in an old cotton field and
tied down for the night.
The Canuck had only one fuel
tank with a capacity of twenty
three-gallons, or enough to last
for two and a half hours. By leav-
ing half an hour for locating a
landing field, which was quite diff
cult at times, we had enough gas
oline remaining for about one hum
dred and twenty-five miles in still
air. If we were bucking a head
wind it would be just that much
less.
We spent the night with one of
the plantation hands near the field
and the next day in seeing the
country and carrying a handful of
passengers. In the evening we Wis
tied "hanted" house with a party
of the younger residents, but were
unable to find any chants"
Our next stop was at Hollandale,
then Vicksburg, where we landed
in little field six miles north of
town by slipping in down the side
of a small mountain and ground
looping before striking a stump.
After a day seeing Vicksburg we
flew to Clinton, where the passen-
ger trade was quite lively and an
other day passed making sightsee-
ing flights.
(To he Continued)
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Eashbacks
20 Years Ago
Excerpts from the Herald
&C On Wars Aoo

of 20 Years Ago
The water in Sank Lake has
been rising very rapidly the past
few days.
The party of Northern Pacific
surveyors that were working here
last week relative to stub line
to the grounds of the girls indus
trial school finished up their work
Friday and returned to st. Paul
| Saturday morning. Their report
will be made soon and it will not
be long before there will he some
thing doing out at the north end
of Main Street.
Two car loads of creosoted rail-
road ties stood on the track at the
Great Northern station day OF
two during the past week and at
tracted considerable attention. The
treatment makes them practically
indistructible. Ties thus treated
are used extensively.
A. M. Madison caught a run
away team Tuesday afternoon that
started somewhere on Main Street
and which went tearing westward
on Third street. At Mr.. Madsen's
corner the team veered and would
have run into the porch on Mr..
Maisen's house had he not caught
them and placed them in a barn
No damage was done.
The second alarm of fire in three
days was turned in about eleven
o'clock Friday morning. The de.
partment turned out promptly and
ran to a house near Our Lady OF
the Angels Catholic church, where
a burning chimney in house oc.
cupied by the Morris sisters had
started things. Careful investi.
cation showed that there was nc
blaze, though the chimney had
been smoking. There was nc
danger at any stage of the game
but the inmates of the house were
frightened and sent in the alarm.
The mayor of Melrose has issued
an edict abolishing slot machines
and all forms of gambling from
saloons and other places of bust
ness. This includes dice shaking
and card playing. The order
which took erect April 1, will be
trictly enforced, says the mayor.
Several automobiles were out
for an airing last Sunday, o. H
Schleusener took a spin for the
first time. There were others.
It is given out that the village Of
Sebeka has been made a division
point on the Great Northern branch
line running north from Sank Cen.
tire. Park Rapids has been the di.
vision point but Sebeka is said tt
be more convenient. The Great
Northern will lay a side track anc
put in round house at Sebeka al
once.
Street Commissioner Joe Miller
was out with force of men Mon
day cleaning the cutters of thei1
winters accumulation Of filth
Good progress was made. During
the night the weather, which fol
several days had been mild anc
springlike, grew much colder ane
there was a hard freeze, opera
tons had to be suspended temper
arily.
A party of young people passet
through here Saturday noon witt
a seventeen pound pickerel the!
claimed to have speared in LAX
Osakis. The fish was a monste
and attracted considerable atten
ton. E..
| Sunday, Monday and Tuesda,
were warm spring days. Tuesda,
being like summer with the mer
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-12
CHAPTER VIII

When the period of instruction
was completed l flew the old Jenny
I'D to my students home in Iowa
and, after watching him make a
few solo flights from his home
field, left on a train for Lincoln
NV last sight of the old Jenny was
as it passed two hundred feet over
the station near the centre of the
town-and my parting instruction
had been to keep safe gliding an
gle when over the city, and under
no circumstances to come below
fifteen hundred feet.
went to Lincoln to get an 5.
v. A., which is a two-place Italian
pursuit plane, and fly it back to st.
Louis. But on arriving | learned
that it was in the old Pulitzer
Field near Omaha and in question
able condition. It was reported
that some cows had eaten all the
fabric off the rudder. Cows and
mules are fond of the fabric COW
ering, and it is not uncommon to
hear of a plane being completely
stripped by these animals in few
minutes. On the other hand,
have left machine unguarded in
the same pasture with cattle for
days without having them touch it.
And during the two weeks l spent
at Maben, Mississippi, there had
been a number of mules in the
same pasture with my ship, yet
they apparently never came near
it.
We filled the back of a touring
car with a new rudder and other
spare parts and drove to Omaha
the next morning.
The S. V. A. was in even worse
condition than had been repre-
scented. In addition to needing a
new rudder, part of the lockstitch.
ing had broken in the wings, and
as a result the fabric was very
loose. The radiator had developed
a number of leaks, which someone
had ATTEMPTED to stop by dumping
in a pailful of bran. And when
eventually did get it started, the
engine stripped badly and would
not "rev" up over LOO R. P. M.
At last we decided to attempt
to fly the ship to Lincoln, where
it would be much more convenient
to work on it, and 1 took off with
a suffering motor and with the
centigrade five degrees below boil
ing. At the end of five minutes
the needle was crowding the peg at
lis degrees, and in fifteen min
utes the water expansion tank ex-
ploded. landed in a stubblefield
and hired the farmer to hitch his
team to the ship and haul it to a
fence corner next to his house,
where l left it to be taken apart
and hauled to Lincoln by truck.
I passed the month of December
transforming in Illinois and in
January went to Chanute Field to
take the entrance examinations
for a flying cadet.
On one occasion while at LAM
bert Field l had made a short flight
into the Ozark TO o;ilills with Leon
Klink, an automobile dealer win,
had bought a Canuck that fall and
was just learning to fly it. After
/ returned from Chanute Field and
was waiting for the results of my
examinations, we ae ,Cided to make
a pleasure flight through the south,
transforming only enough to maxi
current expenses, Il possible. Klihk
wanted to learn to fly, and at the
same time take a vacation, while
my only objective was to keep fly
ing and at the same time be ready
to enter the next class at Brooks
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NOTICE

In the recent foreclosure of a
mortgage on a house and lot in St.
Cloud, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank lager
were named as parties. / wish it
to be known however, that the
foreclosure was not against their
property for they sold this house
and lot several years ago. The
reason their names Were mentioned
in the foreclosure notice was be-
cause the law required it.
45-46 MRS. MARY DICKHAUS.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-12
NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS

The licenses on all dogs owned
in Sank Centre expired April 1.
BY direction of the Mayor and City
Council all dogs owned in the city
must be properly licensed and
have a 1928 tag not later than May
1. All unlicensed dogs in the city
after that date will be picked up
by the police department.
Jos. MilleE
45-46 Chief of Police.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-12
MUST KEEP CHICKENS UP

Many reports have reached the
Police Department that chickens
owned in the City are permitted to
run at large. This is unlawful as
an ordinance makes the owner per-
hitting chickens to run at large
guilty of a misdemeanor. Do not
compel your neighbors to bring
you into court to enforce this Or
dinance.
Joseph Miller,
45-46 Chief of Police
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curry up to 80. Wednesday was
colder and that night there was a
hard freeze. Thursday morning
winter overcoats were in demand
again.>
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-12
South Sank Centre

A number of friends and rela-
tives surprised Ferd Borgmann
Sunday evening, the occasion being
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-12

Miss Olga Hougnton r, turned to
her school at Fulda, Mimi, Mon
day after weeks vacation at her
lone in Sank Centr,.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-29
Aged Romeo Must Pay
 For Endearing Letters

LONDON. England, March % Even eighty-two-year-old -Ro- meos may write endearing letters to fifty four year old Juliots. They can also be forced to pay damages for not living up to their promises of marriage.
 This was demonstrated when James Robinson was hailed be- fore a local court and ordered to pay f $50 damages to Miss Mar garet Thomson for failure to fulfil promise of marriage.
 The aged wooer gave Miss Thomson snowdrops in the spring and roses in the fall for many years. He also provided her with a diamond and ruby engagement ring and carried chocolates to her regularly on Sunday when he went to take her to morning service. He prom ised to marry her when he could sell his land in Alberta, so Miss Thomson explained in court. but finally ceased to pay her atten- ton on the plea that he could not afford to marry.