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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
Taxi Pay1nents Today
Will Be Basis OF
. .eduction, Belief

$1,164,5473O9 during the same period
a year ago.
The treasury ended the last fiscal
year with surplus of more than
$600,000,0O0 and there is little differ
ence SO far this year in the returns,
but tomorrows contributions will tell
the real tale.
Despite the 6OO,OO00OO surplus, the
administration is opposing the $780,
100000 tax cut voted already this ses-
sion by the house. This bill was
Shelved by republicans of the senate
finance committee over the protest of
democrat members on the ground that
the house cut was too large and that
it was advisable to wait until first re-
turns of the year had been made.
Chairman Smoot has announced that
several days will be required for a
study of the returns to determine their
full meaning, and he does not expect
to assemble the committee to take up
the bill again until March 25 at least.
Meanwhile he and some other adj
ministration leaders have frowned
upon the size of prospective appro-
priations, with still another heavy de-
mand expected on the government for
the pending flood. control program.
Democrats have charged openly That
the republican leaders are prepared to
block any tax cut at all at this session
but Senator Smoot denies this.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
FLIERS, VIEWING.
VALLEY FLOOD
BELIEVED LOST

LOS ANGELES, March IA t9--Of-
ficials of the Southern California
Edison company tonight announced
that two of their employees who left
here in an airplane early yesterday
to view the flood had not returned at
a late hour tonight.
Searching parties have been looking
for the fliers since late yesterday. No
trace of them has been found.
The officials fear that the two men
crashed into the flood waters and
were drowned.
The men are: Bert D. Haugh, 81
and G. w. English, both men were
chief clerks in the Edison company s
offices here. English piloted the plane
and according to the officials OF the
company he is an experienced pilot
and was an aviator during the war;
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
.D|SAR.MA ANENT
HOPES REST
CONFERENCE
Commission Appointed BY
League Meets in Ge-
neva Today
III. S. TAKES PART
Delegates Are Expected to-
Prepare Agenda of Later
Conference
U. S. TAKES PART

GENEVA, Switzerland, March IA (P
Hopes fer any eventual reduction OF
world ornaments will be raisGd or
dashed, it is believed, in accordance
with the success or failure of the pre-
lirninary disarmament conference G
scheduled for opening here tomorrow
with delegates from many nations, in
Guiding the United States, Russia and
Turkey participating.
The meeting is that of the special
commission appointed by the league
of nations to prepare the agenda of a
later international conference for the
limitation and reduction of arma-
ments, naval, land and air.
1t was at the last session of this
commission that soviet Russia startled
the world by proposing the total abol-
ishment of all armament, which
would incluoe not only the Scrapping
of all warships and guns, but the de-
struction of all factories capable of
manufacturing war material and even
the abolition of the general staffs, y
whose business is the evolving of plans
for national defense and offenSe.
Maxim Litvinoff, vice commissar for
foreign affairs of the Moscow gov
ernment, got the promise at the last
session that the Russian proposal
would be given full consideration at
the commissions next meeting. There
fore, the soviet representatives are
likely to press for detailed discus
sion and to insist on the presentation
of reasons why their scheme is i'm
practicable.
However, the main business before
the commission is what is known as
the second reading of the draft treaty
on disarmament already prepared at
previous gatherings. Almost every
body, however, will admit that the
words draft treaty." are a misnomer,
for the draft is so full of holes as to
constitute not a treaty project at all.
Wide divergenc;es among the powers
on vital problems mark it's pages.
These Emergencies exist as to the
method OF reducing ornaments. The
preparatory commission has not at
all reached the main problem as to
how much countries are to cut down
their armaments. That is the great
question for the international confer
ence itself.
The experts deemed, nevertheless,
that it would be idle to predict agree
ment as to actual reductions or re-
strictions unless the powers could
come into accord as to a common
method of reduction. The argument
is that unless nations speak in the
same argument, or rather, disarma-
ment, terms, the greatest confusion
would result and what seemed to be
disarmament, for some, would not at
all be regarded as such by others.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
ATTACK GAS RATES

PHOENIX, Ariz, March IA (P-
Oral arguments in the case brought
jointly by the Arizona corporation
commission and the Standard Oil COM
pany attacking freight rates on ,gaso-
line and refined oils from California
producing points to Arizona will be
held in Washington D. c., before the
Interstate Commerce commission on
March 20, it was announced by Amos
A. Belts, member of the Arizona COR
poration prior to his departure to-
night for Washington.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
SNOW MOTOR GOES TO RELIEF OF
RESIDENTS IN MICH.

SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich,
March IA GA snow motor load
ed with approximately one thou
sand pounds of provisions for
snow-bOund and hungry residents
of Detour, so miles south of here,
left here at 2 o'clock this after
noon, reporting an average speed of
about Is miles an hour. 1t was
hoped the machine, barring engine
trouble, would reach the isolated
upper peninsula village tonight.
Shortly after the departure of
the snow motor, DIR. John f. Dead
man, veteran dog runner, and
pioneer prOSpectOr, accompanied
by F. w. Leunin, of Milwaukee,
left by dog sled for Raber and
Detour. The dog sled is carrying
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15

SANTA PAULA. Calf, March
IA pa possible clue to the dis
appearance of many persons, re-
ported missing in the st. Francis
dam disaster, tonight was given
partial confirmation by Red Cross
agencies, in charge of relief work
here. They were declared to have
been Mexicans, who for "A hours
had hidden themselves in the mes
quite covered hills because of
fright, and reappeared today.
The clue was based on the wide
ly quoted report that a stream of
people early yesterday poured out
of Santa Clara valley towns and
over the hills to safety in the
Ojai valley. The Red Cross work
ers expressed the opinion these
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
1000 TRAMP
VALLEY, HUNT
FOR VICTIMS.
Surviving Relatives, Friends
OF Missing Abandon
All Hope
FINAL BURI AL.
Thirty Feet of Yellow Sand
Covers Homes and Loved
Ones of Living
FINAL BURIAL

SANTA PAULA, Calf, March IA
tP)-A thousand men tramped the
sand laden stretches of the Santa
Clara river valley today, and recov-
cred but a few more bodies to add
to the known toll of the st. Francis
dam disaStfu.
1--WE have done all we can, scratch
ing the surface with pick and shovel, .
one of the officers directing the search
said late today. He expressed the
belief there was little hope of easily
finding the bodies of some 300 men,
women and ci>ldren, still reported
missing.
Surviving relatives and friends of
the dead and absent, who crowded
about the doorWays of morgueS, voiced
a common thought-that they were
giving up hope. They surveyed the
muddy wastes of silt, which buried
their homelands, and probably their
loved ones, under one to 80 feet of
barren yellow sand The haggard-
faced and weary searchers declared
that probably for many it was the
final burial place.
The list of recovered dead tonight
still stood a little under 300. The
f,Ay's scare hof mud covered, piled
debris, had brought in but two bodies
at Fillmore and four at Newhall, one
or two others were unofficially re-
ported recovered in other areas.
A glaring sun all day burned pitt
lessly upon the backs of searchers and
relief workers. 1t glared down into
the torrent-torn yellow cash, intense
flying the lifelesSneSS of the devas-
tated, Sand-streWn valley.
Additional identifications made were !:
Jack Ely, year old boy.
Leon Haley, IS.
Two Edison company construction
men, identified. by their foreman, Roy
Purdy, only as Mac and Red"
The dispatch Of 200 California ma
tional guardSmen to the scene was
asked of Governor Young by G. G.
league, Chairman of the general re-
lief committee.
The guardsmen were scheduled to
relieve peace officers of Los Angeles,
Ventura and other cities, who had
patrolled the area since early Tues
day. However, when the state sug-
gested the present policing force was
meeting the situation, and offered ma
tional guard tents and other equip
ment, league rescirded the request.
The formal coroner's inquests, four
of them, were scheduled to be held
tomorrow The official actions over
the groups of victims will be held at
the four 1norgues where most OF the
bodies have been gathered.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
MEXICANS, WHO FLED BEFORE
WALL OF WATER ARE RETURNING

fleeing ones, mostly Mexicans, had
fled desperately from what they
believed would be death in a tidal
wave or other little understood
catastrophe.
The flight over the hills con-
tinued for several hours.
Inquiries in the Ojai valley fail
ed to reveal any trace of the miss
ing two or three hundred.
Today the list of families seek
ing Red Cross aid Ieaped from l6O
to nearly 400. The organization
explained this as an answer to the
large list of missing, whom they
believed were the Mexicans.
After hiding away in the Ojai
valley hills, today they filtered
back to seek food and shelter, the
Red Cross said.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
300 Dead, 300 Missing in California Disaster
= ** = Il y 4 **** 4
Four TucsOnans Are
Victims OF st. Francis
Dam Disaster, Belief

!. TUCSON, March IA P-Four
!. Tucsonans and possibly more
y were victims of the st. Francis
X dam disaster, it was learned here
* today. They are Mrs, Florence
*Craft ISaacks and her three chill
X dren. Peterson N. Isaacks, the
y woman's husband, an enploye of
y the Southern Pacific here for
+ number of years, is reported miss
y ing.
+ Mr.. and Mrs. Clint w. Harter,
X sister and brother-in-law of Mrs.
= Virginia Falvey of Tucson, are
X also definitely listed among those
+ missing. The Harters and ISaackS
* were on the Harry Carey ranch,
4 5 miles below the dam when the
X tragedy occurred
* The Isaacks were married in
X Bowie, 10 years ago, and moved
y to Tucson a short time after
y ward He was employed as a
y fireman and later worked for the
* Southern Pacific as pumper.
*
81 :* * * * * * * 81 :E * * * 81
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15

medical supplies to the two villages
for Mrs. Wallace Benson of Rab-
er, reported critically i'll, and Rus
sell GOetz of DetOur, suffering
from a throat infection. =
The decision to send out the dog
sled and snow motor was made
when it became known an airplane
could not reach the stranded viii
lage at least until tomorrow.
Residents of DetOur have been
cut off from the outside world
since Feb. 30.
The Rev. Arthur E. Heyes, rector
of st. Stephens Episcopal church
in DetOur, in a telephone conver-
satiOn today emphasized the need
for immediate relief from food
shortage which he declared had
become acute,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
BYRD, FORMER
DOUGLAS MAN,
FLOOD VICTIM
Retired COlored Soldier Is
Swept to Death in Water
When Dame Broke

Solomon j. Byrd, colored, was one
of the identified dead, as result of
the flood following the bursting of the
ST. Francis dam in California We'd
nesday. Byrd was former Douglas
resident and was q retiyed soldier,
having been connected with the 9th
cavalry and transferred to the 10th
shortly before leaving Douglas. He
left two sisters and his wife, Margaret,
at Watts, Calf.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
CHARLES E. RAND DIES

SAN DIEGO, March IA P1-Suc-
cumbing to heart trouble, from which
he had suffered for more than three
years, Charles E. Rand sc, son of
the founder of the Rand -lGcNally
map publishing firm of Chicago, died
here early today. He was found dead
in bed by his wife.
With his wife, Mr. Rand came to
San Diego from Chicago about three
years ago in search of health. His
health recently had been apparently
good.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
Z 4 = 3 = = 4 4 \ Z = = & =
Eight From Arizona
Believed Lost In Dam
Disaster In California

4 NEWHALL. Calf, March IA (F) >
Il AT least eight people from Ari- !
* zona lost their lives in the st. a
* Francis dam disaster, in the be- 4
X lief of Joe Hannah, a cook re- !
4 siding at Castaic Junction. He
X reported that on the night of the 4
X flood he saw two automobiles :
* with Arizona licenses stop at
y Castaic Junction to camp for the :
* night.
4 There was totle of at least 4
y eight persons in the two ma
+ chines,' he said. i
* No trace Of the people or the i
y machines have been found. 4
* Hannah and his wife escaped by \
* climbing up the side Of the can i
X yon when they heard the roar of y
4 the wall of water. !
* y
* * * * * * 81 & X * * * & * =
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15
ARRESTS START TODAY

PHOENIX, Ariz., March IA R-
Operators of automobiles for which
1923 license plate has not yet been
obtained will be arrested for viola
ton of the motor vehicle laws be-
ginning motorrow morning, it was
announced today by E. NJ. Whitworth,
superintendent of the motor vehicle
division of the state highway depart
ment,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-15

Copper steady; electrolytsc,
spot and futures, 141sc;
lead steady; spot, 6.0Oc.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-16

1 1:o5--Iseo Ilari, tenor 7:15-Musical favorites .:3o-''Problems of Religion" :45-NeWman orchestra SG0-WGBS-3lO ! 3o-Lucy Cooper, soprano 1 5:5o-Mrs. Walker "kindness to | Animals 1 G-U nclc Gee Bee
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 Y20--MRNI-326 1 j5:65-John Rogers, baritone | 5:lI--Elliott Sisters. duets , 5.3o-SpltZer and HerkoWitz, violin, piano
 6-Joe Davis. "Melody Man G;I5--Elwert dance orchestra ! 6:15--Nac Janoff, pianist 1 e-Manhattau Industrial Assn
 9.0-WABC-309 { 5-Dr. n. R. Hodgdon, Food" 1.&r-E Edgar Dowcll's orchestra i 4o--t Edna Mcknight, pianist 6 Conway Broadway Chat 7:0l--Colette D'AuDigpy, soprano 1:15-klng' orchestra 7:45-Boy Scouts program ! S-SChwarz Home Makers G-Branfman' Jewish hour l llh:O4--F. II. Chase, "AnimalS' Ilu:l5-Waldorf-As orchestra l1--" "Heigh- Ho' hour | i5--Granada Grill hour 1O20-WGL-29l 5-Muriel Ellis Chums
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New Britain herald., 1928-04-16

The Gypsies will be on the air at 50 for one hour. during which an elaborate program will be broadcast through WTIC. Compositions of Glinka, Weber. Schubert. Hubay and ttimsky- -korsako1f will be featured.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-16
City Items

Nine windows were broken in the Washington school Saturday, ac- cordng to complaint to the police,
 We challenge comparison Muller Mozart, Red Seal. Pony Mozart and Little Chief cigars, all leaders.-advt.
 Laurel Court Sewing society will meet tomorrow between 10 a. m. and 4:3O D. m. at the home of Mrs Clarence Boardman of Worthlngton Ridge, Berlin.
 Nash Suits, McCahe. Tel. 454.-- adVt.
 Rev. William A. Harty branch, A. 0. H. will hold a meeting in Judd's hall tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. At S:15 o'clock the Ladies' Auxiliary, A. O. H. will hold d meeting.
 Dr. Clifton M. Cooley has resumed practice afer a few days illness. Camp Clara, k. x. of A., will hold meeting tonight at o'clock at St, Jeans hall.
 1 Winthrop Council. No. :. Sons and 1 Daughters of Liberty, will hold a regular meeting Wednesday evening at o'clock at Jr. o. |. A. NJ. hall. Several candidates will be initiated and a clam chowder supper served at 6:30 o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-16
Eastern Stations

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 l12O-WGCP, Newark-26S 5-Merchants' program 3: 5:30-Alice from Wonderland Krickett's orchestra Imps 7:30-Holly Park Boys
 75O-NLIT, PhiIadeiphia-4O5 5-Newes flashes; WILT Boys [: 7:3O-Sylvania orchestra 7:3O-"Citizens' Training Camp S-Same as WIZ l1-kentner's dance orchestra 1l:30-Leroy Smiths orchestra
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 .lO-WTI. Philadclphia-i0o 7:05-Save a Life Campaign 1:l5-National Humane Week
 86O-WOO, Philadelphia-3i0 Address by Emma Johnson 7:30-WOO Trio 1:5O-R. C. o. Band, choir and art
 iSts
 9--Grand organ recital 9:25-Theater orchestra and concert 30-Neff's orchestra
 1tOO-WPG, Atlantic City-273 6:45-Organ recital: news flashes S-Dinner dance orchestra S:30--Near East Relief S:45-Artists recital a:15-Concert orchestra l0-Studio program 1O:30-Katz's Kittens dance orch. .11-Dance orchestra
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New Britain herald., 1928-04-16

The same station will broa dcast an musical program by the Hotel Bond Trio at G:5o WhiGh will include several Chopin numbers.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-16
'RELAT|VES' SEEK
 STARS 0F MOVIES
FilIndom's FaVorites Annoyed
 by Inp0stOrS

Hollywood. Cal, April &6 R - Cvnics the world over agree that the average man has more relatives than he can use.
 But a screen star! Some cinema celebrities can hardly pick up the morning paper without discovering q new relative. Anyone, it seesns, who feels the need of being related to someone picks a screen celebrity as his brother, sister, cousin or long-lost child.
 It is particularly annoying to learn that one has an extra mother. That happened to Betty Compson not long ago. In order to straighten things out she hurried over to her own mothers comfortable home near here and posed for portraits with her, leaving it to the public to deduce that the destitute woman in the east who claimed to be her mother must have been mistaken. And some years ago Priscilla Dean, on a personal appearance tour with her mother, met in Pittsburg girl who insisted she was her sister and that Priscilla's mother was destitute in nearby town.
 About the same time Jack Holt was hustling his real relatives into the lmelight to show that they were in good health and prosper o,ls, thus to offset the embarass- ment created by people who alleged they were Jack Holt's folks and starving.
 | Occasionally the attempt to es- tablish relationship to star grows 1 out of a sincere effort 10 find long i lost brother or sister whose dimly 1 remem bered features may seem to have come 10 fife miraculously on the screen. "Of course you've changed your name" letter from some fancied relative will read. but l know I could not be mis-
 taken in the face l see on the screen
 Most of the volunteer relatives. however. want money. Not that 1 they always write or come to Holly
 wood for it. Charlie Rays broth err was arrested in Seattle some lime ago after cashing numerous worthless checks on the strength of his alleged connection with the film player. And Bert Lytell had a
 brother" who worked the same
New Britain herald., 1928-04-16
Five Persons Killed and Four
 Hurt in Sunday Motor Crashes
Worst Accident Is At New London Where Three Lives Are Snuffed Out-Two Boys Meet Death
 At Stafford Springs

fractures of the hip and shoulder and possible internal injuries. Mrs. Marian A. Russell, wife of the driver escaped with bruises.
 At Stafford Springs, collision be- tween two automobiles took the lives of two boys and resulted in the seri- ous inquiry of three persons. George Jr. and Vincent Cunningham. aged i and 3 respectively. were killed. Their parents, MT. and Mrs. George w. Cunningham of Hartford and an uncle James Cunningham were taken to a hospital. A baby was un- hurt. Occupants of the other car, driven by William Condes of Nor wich, were uninjured.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-16

Hartford April 16 (UP)-Five persons were killed and four others injured in two automobile accidents in Connecticut Sunday.
 The worst accident, at New Lon don, took three lives and seriously injured a fourth occupant of a ma chine struck by locomotive. The collision took place at the unguarded Maple avenue grade crossing.
 The engine overturned the car, hurling the occupants clear. MT. and Mrs. George A. Billings of New London and Ernest w. Clark. 13, of Rockville, were killed. The driver, Henry C. Russell. 35, of New Lon don, was taken to a hospital with
New Britain herald., 1928-04-16
New York Stations

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New Britain herald., 1928-04-16
Girls!
He Likes to Hold a Soft, Velvety Hand.
Not a Nutmeg Crater

What man ever got a thrill out of holding rough, scratchy hands? And what girl isn't ashamed of them: So don't neglect them-not when it's so easy to keep them always soft, lovely and alluring in looks and touch. All you have to do is tn rub Joint Ease on them, working ii in and between the fingers for two or three minutes until it is absorb ed and you'll hardly be able to be- lieve your eyes, so smooth and silky teNtured will they become. Try thls two times week and you'll always be the possessor of hands you are proud to show. Joint Ease Is ob- tainable at all druggists. Only sue tube. The Fair Drug Dept is sell ing lots of it.