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Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
BY DUANE IENNESSY
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, March 14.-The
southland bent every effort today
to bring relief to the homeless hund-
reds of the once blooming Santa
Clara river basin and to rescue
from mud and debris the bodies of
those who perished in the torrent
that swept down from the st. Fran
els dam.
Field crews of the Red Cross, Sal
walton Army and American Legion
were among the most active in the
devastated area.
A l00-bed hospital was establish
ed at Newhall.
Oxnard and Fillmore, caring for
their own, urged that relief workers
concentrate their efforts in more
needy sections.
Throughout the valley the injured
and exhausted were hurried to i'm
provised first aid stations. Drug
stores. theaters and barns were
pressed into service.
The Los Angeles Board of Water
and Power Commissioners and the
city council appropriated $4,000 to
be used in the valley.
Workers came from varied
sources. More than 800 members
of the Los Angeles police depart
ment were dispatched to various
sections of the valley, where they
are keeping order and lending aid
wherever possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
BY REUEL S. MOORE
(United Press Staff Corresponds

LOS ANGELES, March A. The
collapse of the St. Francis dam with
its appalling loss of life today was
held up to the scrutiny of many in
vestigators, seeking to find the
cause and fix the responsibility for
the disaster. =
Coroner Frank A. Nance announc-
ed he would summon scores of wit
nesses in preparation for Los An
geles' most tragic inquest which
will be held next week.
Engineers who built the giant
concrete structure, members and
employees of the water and power
commission and survivors of the
catastrophe will be called to testify
"It is admitted,' Coroner Nance
said, that the dam was not anchored
to hard rock. One end was fasten-
ed to shale and the other to a con
glomerate formation.
"Also, it was unofficially report
ed that the dam has been leaking
for some time. An employe of the
city expressed the opinion to me
that a landslide weakened the struc-
ture. We will investigate all an
gles.'
Liability of the city of Los An
geles was being investigated by the
city attorneys office.
Jesse Stevens, city attorney, said
the city would be liable for the full
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
United States To
Proceed With Its
Nicaragua Plans
BY MAURITZ A. HALLGREN
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 14.-The
United States will 60 ahead with its
LIan for supervising the Nicaraguan
presidential election next October
i'll accordance with the Stimson
agreement, despite refusal of tae
Nicaraguan Legislature to authorize
such action, it was stated in official
quarters here today after it was
learned that a compromise election
bill had been rejected.
Rejection of the bill surprised the
state department, which had been
led to believe the Liberal -Moder
ate conservation faction had won
over rough extreme conservative
votes to ensure its passage.
The original measure was fought
by Emiliano Chamorro, conservative
leader, on the ground that it was
unconstitutional.
ObjectiOnal features were removed
in rewriting the bill, this action be-
ing approved by the American gov
eminent.
Despite this effort to reach a
compromise, ChamofrO renamed op-
posed to American supervision and
mustered up 224 votes against 16
Ivy the LiberalModerate faction and
killed the bill
AS the regular session of the Mic
araguap legislature was due to end
today it was considered unlikely
that further action could be taken
at this time to legalize American
supervision.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
RELIEF AGENCIES TAKE UP
TASK AMONG FLOOD VICTIMS

a special train, carrying a crew
of 200 men to conduct a search for
bodies was sent out by the Southern
Pacific railroad.
The work of the rescuers was a
huge task. The slimv surface of
the valley was a difficult field.
Bodies were found partly conceal
ed by mud or in the wreekage of
homes where the occupants were
trapped as they slept.
The Red Cross was concentrating
its efforts on caring for the sick
and the hungry today. Those who
rushed from their homes thinly
clad were supplied with clothing as
fast as it was available.
The salvage department of the
Catholic Welfare Bureau of the Los
Angeles and San Diego diocese turn
ed over its clothing supplies. Warm
garments for women and children
and undertaking for men were pur.
chased by the bureau and sent tC
the Red Cross at Newhall.
Individual volunteers from the
Los Angeles health department
were to go into the field today.
The Southern California Edison
Company ordered its $50 men in the
valley to lend a hand wherever pos
sible.
Everything that the state can
do viii he done to aid the suffer
ers, Governor c. c. Young, who
took an active part in the relief
work, said.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
Engineer Defends
Dam Construction
Dy United Press Leased Wire

INDEPENDENCE, Cali March
14.-Critical tests and the best en-
gineering practices, approved by
scores of engineers who visited the
scene, were employed in building
the st. Francis dam, Stanley Dun
ham, construction engineer during
its erection, said today.
civilian Mulholland, Los An
geles city engineer, chose the site
and the dam was rested on solid
BEDROCK Durham declared.
"Many engineers visited the dam
while it was being built, and we
never heard any word of criticism .
The dam was practically a dup
licate of the famous Elephant Butte
dam in New Mexico. 1t was known
as a gravity type, arched upstream,
and was constructed of solid con-
crete. 1t measured 205 feet high
from bedrock and 1S5 feet from the
canyon bed. 1t was $50 feet wide
at the base and 100 feet wide at
the stream level, stretching 1925
feet along the crest.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
BY CLIFFORD DAY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent)

LONDON, March IA Golden
winged American made monoplane
was believed somewhere in the North
Atlantic skies today carrying its
two passengers-one of whom may
be the Hon. Elsie Mackay-on the
season s first transatlantic flight
attempt.
Overnight it developed that when
Captain Walter Hinchcliffe took off
from Cranwell Airdrome so myster-
iously yesterday he may have had the
pretty and titled English girl with
linn.
A close relative of Lord Incheape
early today was quoted in the Daily
Mail as saying that Miss Mackay
was in the plane,
Other sources helped confirm that
the daughter of Lord Inchape Onesof
Britain s most powerful ship own
ers, was making the flight attempt.
Attendants at the George Hotel.
Grantham, said Miss Maekay spent
Monday night and left early Tues
day-iust before the flight started
in the general direction of Gram
well.
The Daily Express printed a pho
tograph of Miss Mackay, standing
beside the Endeavor." " They said
the picture was taken just before
the surprise take-off. Miss Maekay
was dressed in flying clothes.
Hinehliffe, when he left Cranwell,
was supposed to have been accom-
panied by a "Mr. Sinclair. - Ie
Miss Mackay is in the plane, il is
assumed she used this name to hide
her identity.
The plane is enroute to New York
via Newfoundland the Daily Mail
said.
The last official reports here
were that an airplane, believed TO
be the Endeavor, passed the Miz-
zenhead light house on the extreme
southwestern tip Of Ireland. The
plane was headed to sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
KIWANIS CLUBS
HEAR TALK BY
DISTRICT CHIEF
Harris Explains Policy
of Service Clubs AT
Local Gathering.

"Servicc clubs are true products
of evolution,' stated William O.
Harris, district Governor of Kiwan-
is, in an address given last night
at the Hotel Barbara Worth to some
800 Kiwanians and their ladies from
Brawley, Calexico and FL Centro.
"Man's need for production of
those things by which he lives came
first, then his need of security and
shelter, and lastly came the social
activities. Mans life changed from
q largely rural one to an urban and
manufacturing cXistance as indus
try developed. There are, then. at
present many promotional activities
in the way of social service and
community betterment, that the
individual is powerless to touch and
that are extra governmental. 1t is
here that the service club meets a
great need in every town.
"The service club represents col
lCctive individual force, cooperation
with governmental authority, moral
support of desirable social ends,
gratuitous associated public service,
and the unity of governmental, in
dividual and associated forces.
"There is no fundamental differ
ence in service clubs. One may APP
peal TO one type of man, another to
another type, but they all meet up
on the common ground of eommun-
itv service, civic responsibility and
the development of an aggressive
and scrviceable citizenship function
ing for ALL
Before the guests sat down to
dinner "Bill' Reid led the singing
of "America' and "HAl Kiwan-
is" Rev. Myron Insko of Calexico
pronounced the invocation and the
assembled company stood moment
in silence with heads bowed in trib-
ute to the late Judge j. S. Larew.
During the dinner an orchestra,
under the direction of +. c. Rau
PLAYED the latest in snappy jazz.
With the serving of the dessert
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
LOS ANGELES WILL PLACE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR BREAK

damage, just as a private corpora
tion would, if carelessness or negli-
gence was established.
Cryer Makes Statement
'The facts so far are so obscured
that it is impossible to determine
what the city's status is in this con-
nection,'' Stevens said. We will
find the facts and report to the
proper city authorities.
eff this proves to be what is
called 'an act of God,' or if the
mishap was beyond human response
bilitv, the city cannot be held liza
ble."
The City of Los Angeles was spur
red on its inquiry to establish the
cause and fix responsibility for the
crash by Mayor George Cryer, who
made the statements:
"The city will take care of all
property damage. 1t will be some
time to determine the extent. L
personally inspected the dam about
60 days ago. Everything was found
to be ship shape"
Second day estimates of the dam
age caused when the waters held
back by the dam in San Francisqul-
to canyon broke the 1S5 foot barrier
and swept 65 miles to the sea
through the Santa Clara river val,
lev basin were in the vicinity of
s7,OOO,OOO or $S,000,000 although
such figures were only the toughest
approXimation.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
Hickman Given
Short Respite

LOS ANGELES, Cal, March IA.
because of emergency demands
on the sheriff's office resulting
from the st. Francis dam flood,
Edward Hickman, murderer of little
Marion Parker and Ivy Toms, will
probably not be transported to San
Quentin penitentiary until Friday,
it was said today.
Welby Hunt, who participated in
the Toms murder and was sentenc-
ed to life Imprisonment yesterday,
may be sent to San Quentin with
Hickman, although it is more like
ly that his transportation will be
DELAYED.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
Nurse Held On
Murder Charge
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LOS ANGELES, March IA. -
Awaiting preliminary hearing Mar.
Is for the alleged murder of Mrs.
Marie Houston, 33-year-old mother
of seven children, Mrs. Mabel Glib,
son, 81, nurse, was in county Jail
today following her arraignment.
Mrs. Gibson was ordered held
without bail by Municipal Judge
Mcconnell.
Mrs. Houston died as the result
of an asserted illegal operation at
the Burkett Rest Home in Whittier
March |, performed by Mrs. Gibson,
according to deputy sneriffs.
When arrested, Mrs. Gibson de-
MED she was responsible for Mrs.
Houston IS death and is said to have
declared she had "performed so
such operations with good results"
officers reported.
Seven children, ranging in age
from 2 to 10 years, survive the
mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
Federal Aid
May Be Offered
by United Press Leased wire

WASHINGTON, March 14.-Presi
dent Coolidge is ready to offer fed
eral aid to the stricken of the San
Francisquito Canyon disaster, Sen
ator Shortridge, Republican, Calf
ornia, said after conferring with the
resident today.
Federal government action will de-
pend upon the urgency of relief need
and word was awaited from the de-
wasted area, Shortridge said.
President Coolidge sent the fol-
lowing telegram to Governor {. u
Young of California:
cam deeply distressed by the
disaster following breaking of st.
Francis dam.
"Please extend my sympathy to
those who have suffered sorrow and
loss of property. If the army and
navy can render any assistance, or
f /, as head of the Red Cross, can
do anything to help, do not fail to
call on me.|'
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
Senate Returns
Bill To House

WASHINGTON, March 14.-Thc
independent offices appropriation
bill was sent back to conference to.
day by the senate.
House conferees at the first con-
ference refused to agree to amend
ments attached by the senate reduc-
ing the appropriation for attorneys
employed by the shipping board.
Senator Black, Democrat, Ala
bama, author of the amendments,
made the motion for re-considera-
tion and rejection of the first con
ference report.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
Officers Capture
Escaped Youth


LOS ANGELES, March 14.-Three
boys who escaped from the state
training school at Ogden, Utah, Sat
urday, were cornered by police i'll
a stolen automobile early today but
two of them escaped after their
machine had turned over and several
shots were fired by police.
One youth, Don Paulson, II, was
captured. The boys who got away
Were Lou Andrews, II, and Pat Nc
Graw, 16.
Paulson said the three made their
way as far as San Bernardino On
freight trains. AT Uplands they stole
an automobile, according to Paul
son s confession, and proceeded here.
Faulson was cut and bruised in the
upset.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
DENIES
ANY KNOWLEDGE
OF OIL BONDS
Secretary Shows Noted
Inability To Recall
Details.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 14.-The
late Fred w. Upham, treasurer of
the Republican national committee,
did not even let his confidential
secretary, A. y. Leonard, of Chi
cago, know about Harry Sinclair s
bond contribution to the Republi-
can party funds, Leonard told the
Senate Teapot Dome committee to-
day. -.-.
Leonard, who worked with Upham
from 1919 to 1925, said Upham had
no correspondence about the $780,
coo of Sinclair Liberty bonds he
received from viii Hays, then chair.
man of the Republican national
committee.
All Upham s records were des-
troyed in 1924, Leonard said.
81 do not know anything about
any Liberty bonds which might have
been received from Hays Leon
ard said. "Upham did not discuss
that with me-
Leonard also said he knew moth.
ing about lease of the Teapot Dome
M ol ltStiNt lO l)lutldll ana
not recall that Upham wrote any
; letter to the then Attorney General
/ Daugherty, and Postmaster Genera
! New protesting against lease of thu
Dome. Leonard could not recall tina
/ Colonel Robert w. Stewart of The
Standard Oil of Indiana visited
tpham So office. Nor could he re
member any letter Upham wrote New
III ging that the Dome be given tc
Stewart. Leonard also denied any
knowledge about distribution of the
bonds among the wealthy Chicago
Republicans.
The committee then adjourned. A
subcommittee composed of Chair.
man Nye and Senator Norbeck, Re,
publican, South Dakota, will meet
|. tomorrow in Chicago. Norbeck re
placed Senator Bratton, Democrat
New Mexico, who is unable to &C
as originally planned.
The committee cannot consider
prosecution of any one involved in
the 100000 Sinclair contribution
lecause the statute of limitations
has expired, Senator Walsh of Mon.
tana, revealed today.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
0LDFIELD AGAIN
MAKES DEMANDS
UPON COOLIDGE

WASHINGTON, March If
Chairman Oldfield of the Democrat
ic national Congressional committee
renewed today his demand that Pres
ident Coolidge require return of
contributions made to the Republi-
can national committee by Harry
F. Sinclair in bonds of the Contin-
entail Trading company.
Disclosures before the Senate
Gil leasing investigating committee
have established beyond question
that whether President Coolidge
knew it or not, certain members of
his cabinet did know that at least
part of the loot of the Teapot Dome
ell transaction was used to finance
the Republican party, Oldfiel]
said.
"Upon President Coolidge, there
fore, not only as president, but as
the party leader, there devolves a
duty not only to 'clean house by
forcing the restoration of this ILL
cit money to Harry +. Sinclair, but
to aid Senator Walsh and his col
leagues on the Senate committee in
running down all the facts about
the scandalous transactions.
cup to this time neither the pres
ident nor any member OF his admin
istration with all the facilities at
their command, has aided one parti-
Gle in the task which Senator Walsh
has carried forward almost single
handed.'
Hays Termed Fence
Meanwhile in the Senate, Will H.
Hays, former chairman of the Rep.
ublican national committee was
charged by Senator Caraway, Demo
crat, Arkansas, with having acted
las fence, disposing of stolen
property ill handling the 100000
Harry Sinclair bond contribution.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
and the present chairman, William
M. Butler, were unpatriotic and
shirked their duty in failing to dis
close that Hays had asked them to
act as dummies to shield the Sim
clair transaction, Caraway said.
Hays knew all the time former
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14

At 10 a. m. today the Stinson
monoplane Endeavor in which Cap.
tain Walter Hinchliffe and at least
one companion believed to be the
Hon. Elsie Mackay were trying to
fly to North America from England,
was overdue at Newfoundland.
1t had been estimated that the
plane should have reached New.
foundland by 8 a. m. Its destina.
tion is as mysterious as the other
features of the flight. :
No certain report had been receiv.
ed of the plane since it crossed
the west coast of Ireland at $3.50
a. m. yesterday and headed west.
ward. An unidentified ship was re-
ported in midocean without confir-
nation, as having seen the plano
yesterday.
At 10 a. m. the plane had been
gone 30H hours from Cranwell
Airdrome. At a net cruising speed
of 80 miles an hour, the Endeavor
should have passed the Newfound.
land shore line.
1t was assumed that it would be
heard from soon, perhaps well iR.i
land, if it ever was to be heard
from. i
The alternative was that the
plane had joined the only two that
ever had got a considerable dis
tance away from the Irish coast on
a westward North-Atlantie flight
the French White Bird and the
British st. Raphael. s
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
santa CLARA FLOOD DEATH LIST MOUNT|N|
British viator Believed to Haze Been Lost al
l.. A. To Absorb
Burial Expenses

LOS ANGELES, March a.
The city of Los Angeles will pay
all funeral expenses of victims OF
the St. Francis dam disaster, the
board of Water and Power Com
missioners, decided toGay.
The city will take full respon-
sibility for burial, it was announ'
ced.
D. c. McWatter, local Red
Cross chairman, anu j. Arthur
Jeffers, Pacific coast manager
for the Red Cross, conferred with
the commissioners today and are
to make recommendations regard
ing the funerals.
The Water and Power Commits
sioners' action was taken TO
avoid Potter's Field burials.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
Smith and Hoover
Win In Primaries
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MANCHESTER, n. H., March 13.
Hoover and Smith delega-
tions were selected by New Hamp-
shire in the first of the presidential
primaries.
Tabulation of 250 out of 295 town
and city wards today gave clear
majorities to delegates pledged or
known to favor the secretary of
commerce or the governor of New
York.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
What's Doing
TONIGHT

Imperial Singers concert, GU.
HIS. auditorium, $50.
Chamber of commerce direct
ors meeting, 7:3O.
Midweek meetings, all church
es, 7:30.
DeMolay pyramid, Masonic
temple.
FOE. No. 1859, at 452 Main.
Indoor baseball, Wensley ave-,
Wilson school, 7 p. m.
Palace, ''Tillie's Punctured
Romance
Valley theater, ''The Devil
Dancer"
Tulane Theater, &c So This Is
Love"
TOMORROW
Rotary club luncheon, Hotel
Barbara Worth.
Election of officers, Woman S
Ten Thousand club, 2:30.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14
CONTINUED on page 3)
Three Killed In
Santa Fe Wreck
Nv United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, March l4.-Threc
persons were killed and several in
iured when the Santa Fe passenger
train the Scout, eastbound, was de-
rallied at Yampai, Ariz., at Halo
y. m. last night, according to advices
received by the Santa Fe offices
here today.
The dead:
Tom Bailey, Needles, Cal, en-
Gineer.
- Bailey, fireman.
-- Daugherty, mail clerk.
Another mail clerk whose name
was unlearned was reported serious
ly injured. Several passengers were
slightly hurt.
Advices which were delayed by
destruction of communication lines,
said the engine, baggage and mail
ears turned over, while ears occup-
led by passengers left the track but
remained upright. A broken rail was
given as the cause.
Relief trains were dispatched
from Needles, Cal, and Seligman,
Ariz.,
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14

OF Plane
RECEIVED.
Newfoundland Authors
ties Give Up Hope for
Hinchliffe and Party.
is LONG OVERDUE
Nothing Heard From Vet
eran Flyer Since Leaving
England Tuesday.
BY United Press Leased Wire

BY United Press Leased Wire
ST. JOHNS, N. F., March IA.
Hope was abandoned by mar
inc and other authorities at noon,
eastern standard time, today
that Captain Walter Hinchliffe
and the Hon. Elsie Mackay, had
succeeded or could succeed in
their attempt to fly the Atlantic
from England.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-14

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New Britain herald., 1928-06-15
BOND MARKET HAS QUIET TENDENCY
Trading Dull and Price Move
 mentS Are Irregular

New York. June Is Pe-Trading was dull and price movements ir- regular in the bond market today. with tendency toward lower levels. Buying support of the past two days was missing in early trading and traders seemed to fear further strin- gency in the credit situation as re- suit of decreased gold reserve and other developments which have cast q somewhat gloomy aspect upon the immediate future of bond prices.
 Price movements were small, but in the industrial group were mainly downward. although Dodge Brothers debenture 6s extended their gain. Coppers were soft.
 Rails showed some improvement, especially Canadian Pacific deben- turc As, Katy first As and St. Louis X San Francisco 6s. A few utilities also advanced. notably West Penn 5s. up more than a point.
 The foreign list was steady.
 T. S. government obligations were soft.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-15
Christian BuchllOIZ

Christian Buchholz. 54 years old, who was stricken with heart at- tack at his temporary home in Westfield and was hurried to New Britain General hospital yesterday. died of heart disease this morning.
 Dr. John Purney. deputy medical examiner. viewed the remains and B. c. Porter Sons. undertakers. were given permission to prepare the body for burial.
 Born in Russia Poland in 1874. the son of Martin and Eva (komm) Buchholz, he came to this city sev- eral years ago. He lived here at in- tervals, depending where he was employed. For the past three weeks he was working in Westfield and was living there with his employer. He was a carpenter by trade.
 Surviving him are a brother. William, of this city. and sister in Europe.
 The funeral will be held in Er. win chapel tomorrow afternoon at { o'clock with services to be con- ducted by Rev. A. C. Theodore steege. Burial will be in Fairvie~ cemetery.