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Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Radio Service
To Be Extended
To Many Cities
by United rress Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-Ex-
tension of its international radio
service to 80 cities in the interior
United States is proposed by the
Radio Corporation of America in a
plan made public today for presen-
tation to the Federal Radio Cons
mission.
In addition to making its inter-
national radio circuits available to
all parts of the country, the corpora
TONS plan proposes to provide
domestic rad:0-telegraph service
"fully competitive with existing
domestic wire line companies. -
Holding that reductions in rates
ON messages would be certain re-
suit of such added competition, Col.
Manton Davis, attorney, said it
would be of great benefit to COM
munities now without radio serv.
ice
The applications for short wave
frequencies included in the corpora
tion's plan provide for system of
trunk circuits joining -four local
cities from which shorter circuits
will radiate. The focal cities selected
are New York, San Francisco, Chi
cago and New Orleans.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
N. Y. CARTOONIST
ADMITS SER WING
AS POWER COUNSEL
Maintains His Cartoon
Work Not Influenced
BY Committee.
Bv CECIL OWEN
ted Press Staff Correspondent

1
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-De-
tails of an arrangement whereby
the Joint committee of National
Utilities Associations paid to Al
bert r. Reid, New York cartoonist,
about $4,000 yearly for serving as
an advertising counsel were des-
cribed in the Federal Trade Com
mission power inquiry today.
While receiving this amount from
the committee, Reid testified, he
continued his syndicate cartoon sery-
ice to about 30 dailies and 200O
weeklies throughout the country.
Arrangements for his employment
by the committee which ran from
Aug. l, 1927, to June /, 1928, were
made by "word Of mouth ano
there was no contract, Reid said
During that period, he assisted III
editing propaganda literature dis
tributed by the joint committee.
In response to questions, Relc
maintained that his cortoon service
was not influenced by his connect
ion with the committee. he salt
that of $50 cartoons in that period
only six or seven dealt with govern
ment ownership, Muscle Shoals OF
Boulder Dam.
Prior to his connection with the
committee, Reid said he was
newspaperman and cartoonist IL
/ Kansas and New York and main
tanned a news service in New Yorl
| since 1920.
He first proposed to the commit
tee can educational program y con
| sisting of cartoons and reading mat
ter, but this was rejected. There
after he cooperated in preparation
of booklets and other literature fo
the utilities.
Because two of the three witness
es summoned for today were unable
to attend on account of illness, th
commission adjourned its hearini
until next Wednesday, Oct. 3.
Announcement was made that o.
Wednesday, Oct. 10, the commission
will begin questioning of witnesse
from the Pacific Coast states.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Price to Appeal
Death Sentence
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26.-Jack
Price convicted of the murder OF
Maurells Adams, his common-law
wife, will appeal the sentence OF
death passed on him by superior
Judge Aggeler, Deputy Public De
fender Richard Byrd announced to-
day.
In ordering Price to be hanged
at San Quentin December II, Judge
Aggeler denied motion for a new
trial and declined to modify the
verdict returned by the jury.
The state claimed at the tria
that Price shot Miss Adams wher
she was about to desert him for an
other man.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
POWDER MAGAZINE
EXPLOSION KILLS
40 IN MOROCCO

MELILLA, Morocco, Sept. 90
The powder magazine of the an
cient Spanish fort of Caberizas
Rajas exploded today.
Forty persons were killed and
goo injured, some of them probably
fatally.
The explosion demolished the old
citadel, on a rocky hill overlooking
the town.
All houses around the citadel were
destroyed.
Melilla is a seaport on the north
ern coast of Morocco, belonging to
Spain. 1t has a Spanish garrison. It's
citadel on a rock contains large
magazines.
Women and children were among
the dead. 1t was feared many of the
injured would die.
The explosion occurred at l a. m
Relief work was hampered by the
darkness.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Rehabilitation
Work Retarded
by Heavy Rains
by United Press Leased Wire

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Sept
o6-The tedious task of rehabllta-
ton continued slowly today in the
hurricane swept area where 2,2oo
persons are believed to have per
ished.
The number of known dead stood
at 100 as Howard Selby, Red Cross
director, departed for Washington
to confer with President Coolidge
and Herbert Hoover and to place
full data on the flood situation be-
fore government officials.
Heavy rains continued to retard
progress of gangs of workers en-
gagged in the rehabilitation program
The medical department of the
local Red Cross chapter estimated
1000 persons not on Selby's known
death list, had perished in the hur-
ricane and subsequent flood.
The department said 2,sSl fam
lies, representing 1920 persons,
were homeless.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Brides Pleas
Fail To Gain
Mates Release
Nv United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26-lt was
only a lovers quarrel, but William
II. Jobelmann,. movie publicity di-
rector, will have to finish his 81
day jail sentence despite the wishes
of his bride, Dorothy Clark, on
whose charges he went to jail.
The young actress latest matri'
monial adventure came to light with
Jobelmann 5 arrest. She married
him in Reno, Nevada on August TO-
shortly after divorcing Livingston
Day.
Domestic discord between Doro
thy and her latest husband flared
up when he came home late for sup
per several nights ago. She refused
to admit him and he crashed the
glass in the front door to gain en-
trance.
He was arrested on battery
charge preferred by Dorothy. Now
she wants him released, but police
insist that he must complete hi
sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Flyers
In Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept.
EBERT Hassel and Parker ID,
Cramer, the American flyers who
were rescued after forced landing
in Greenland, arrived today aboard
the steamer Fulton.
They were greeted by H. Perci-
val Dodge, United States Minister
to Denmark, and the Danish polar
expert, Peter Freuchen.
Hassell announced in an inter
view that upon his return to the
United States he would try to ar
range for the financing of another
attempt to fly across the Atlantic
in 1929
Hassell and Cramer announced
they would sail for New York
aboard scandinavian American
liner on Oct. 4.
The reception to Hassell ano
Cramer was comparatively quiet.
The program of the flyers here
includes a luncheon by Dodge,
banquet to be given by the Geo
graphical Society and a luncheon by
the Newspaper Politiken.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
N0CHAN(;E
EXPECTED
IN MEXICO
Portes Gil, President
Elect, to Carry On Gales
Policies.
ACTIVE FIG u r E
Little Hope of Change
In Church Issue During
His Term.
BY GESFORD FINE
United Press Staff Correspondent

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 26-Emilio
Portes Gil, square iawed sportsman
and lawyer, stands at the head Of
the government of Mexico today at
the comparatively youthful age Of
81 years.
1t took the joint session of the
senators and deputies only % min
utes to elect Portes Gil provisional
president yesterday, for his was the
only name printed upon the ballots
hat were distributed to the MEM
bers of congress. Two hundred and
seventy-seven votes were east.
Although Portes Gil is one of the
most striking personalities in Mex
leo, his election will mean little to
the outside world, for he has pledg.
ed himself to carry on the policies
of President Gales, under whom he
served as minister of the interior
and head of the cabinet. He also is
governor of Tamaulipas, state
bounded on the north by Texas and
on the east by the Gulf Of Mexico.
Portes Gil will take office on De
ccmber /, quitting his post as min
lister Of the interior two weeks be-
fore the Inauguration. He will be
provisional president until Febru
arv ), 1880 A constitutional pres
ident will be elected on the third
Sunday in November, 1929.
Is Active Figure
Since his early manhood Portes
Gil has been an active figure in the
changing and violent political scene
of Mexico. His elevation to the
presidency was made possible by
the assassination of President -elec'
Obregon, who was slain by Jose DE
Toral.
Throughout Portes Gil's career he
has been a rcformist and he put
through a prohibition law that vir
tuallv drove the saloons out OF
Tamaulipas.
In view of Portes Gil's strict en-
forcement of the religious laws "a
governor of Tamalipas, it was sale
that Catholics held little hope of
settlement of the church issue dur
ing the provisional period.
Portes Gil's life has been crowded
with action. In 1919 he worked II
behalf of the presidential candidacy
of Obregon and was imprisoned
several times for his activities.
He was severely wounded III 1917
while acting as second for hi
friend, Lopez De Lara, who had ar
ranged a duel with Luis Cabaliero
Caballcro's friends arrived early a
the rendevouz ond opened fire
wounding both Portes Gil and Lara
The records show that POrtes iii
is the sixty-eighth president of Mex
leo since 1921. That includes th'
provisional executives, one of whom
held office only ~ minutes.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
PAL0MAR BLAZE
GETS NEW START
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26.-With
half a dozen other fires in South
ern California reported under con-
troll attention was directed today
to the attempts to check the flames
raging in the Palomar district in
San Diego county.
Men from other fire lines were
called in to combat this blaze,
which was threatening to sweep
Barker, Blythe, Mendenhall and
Will valleys clear of timber.
Forest Supervisor j. Z. Elliott is
sued call for 800 additional men
and with total force in excess of
1900 expected to be able to turn
back the fire sometime today.
Elliott said there was no ap'
parent danger to any towns III the
vicinity of the blaze.
On the Riverside side of this fire
which started in the Cahuilla noun
tains almost on the county dlvld-
ing line, the situation was said to
be under control
Six hundred men were on the
fighting front in Mill creek in San
Bernardino county and were said
to be whipping the forest fire there
under control. Ten thousand acres
have been blackened i'll this sec
ton, it was estimated.
A blaze which broke out III the
Swartout canyon near the Los An
COLES county recreation camp was
checked by $50 men late yester
day.
Only two "live spots' were re
ported in the Ridge route fire sec
ton and the volunteer fighters
were being withdrawn from the
| lines l.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
GENERAL
ACT Wins
APPROVAL
League of Nations Takes
Important Action As
Session NearS Close. i
STEP FOR SECURITY
Act Embodies Principles
of Geneva Protocol;
Result of Much Work. )
BY HENRY WOOD
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent1


GENEVA, Sept. ga concert.
ed move for world security and
peace was made by the ninth assem-.
bly, of the League of Nations to-
day. 1t was the final important ac-
ton of the session now closing, and
perhaps its most tangible accom-.
plishment.
The assembly unanimously ap'
proved a general act" respecting
arbitration, conciliation and the pa.
cific settlement of disputes.
The general act constituted the
leagues final work for security.
Coupled with the Kellogg anti-war
treaty, it was counted on to remove
the last pretext of "insecurity" as
reason for q nation s refusal to
disarm.
The act embodies the majority OF
the principles of the defunct Ge-
neva protocol and is a result OF the
past years work of the league g
security commission.
It embraces three model unilater-
al treaties on the pacific settlement
of disputes and model bilateral
treaties on the same subject, pro.
viding for mutual assistance amt
non-aggression.
The league will submit the gen.
ersl act at once to all member ma
tions. 1t will be accompanied by q
+ recommendation that nations VINO
feel their security threatened under
take at once the negotiation of the
model treaties outlined in the act,
on either a collective or separate
basis.
The assembly adjourned after to-
DAYS proceedings.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
NO ACTION TO Be
TAKEN AGAINST
MRS. WLLLIBRANDT
BY PAUL R. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 - The
inner council of the Hoover Curtis
campaign organization here has de
cided to keep hands off the prohi-
bition campaign waged against Gov.
Alfred f. Smith by Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, assistant attor-
nev general, it was learned author
itatively today.
Herbert Hoover, the Republican
nominee, Chairman Hubert Work Of
the Republican National Committee
and President Coolidge who has
control of Mrs. Willebrandt are say
sing nothing about her activities.
Their friends and avisers maintain
there is nothing else they can do.
The position of the leaders IS
that Mrs. Willebrandt is a govern
ment employee who can speak any
time she desires on prohibition or
other subjects. They contend they
do not have authority to dissuade
her from making further attacks
along the line of her recent speeches,
as has been suggested by several
prominent Republican officials and
Newspapers.
! Consequently Mrs. Willebrandt is
planning an amphfieation of her
! campaign. She has an engagement
to speak Oct. 6 in Kentucky, and
later may go into several southern
states including Tennessee and
North Carolina where speeches now
are being arranged for her.
CHICAGO, Sept. 26-Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, assistant Unit
ed States attorney general, will con
tinue speaking in the interest of the
Republican national campaign, 1t
was announced today by Congress
man Walter Newton, director of the
speakers bureau of the Republican
campaign headquarters here.
Newton made it clear that Mrs
Willebrandt had been speaking as
regular campaign speaker of the
party, but he added that some OF
! her speeches had not been made un
der full authority of the headquar
ters.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Farmer-LabOr
Candid ate TO
Support Smith
Nv United Press Leased Wire

CHARLOTTE, n. c., Sept. 20
The FarmerLabor party has lost its
candidate for vice president.
DR.. II. q. Alexander, the nominee,
withdrew in telegram to party
Headquarters at Denver and said he
would support Governor Alfred T.
Smith.
Alexander, for years an active
figure in farmers activities in tins
state, praised the Farm-Labor plat
form in some particulars but con
demned ga plank which seeks to
discredit the Catholic church, and
of course, is u thrust at Governor
Smith.
"I was not a Smith supporter
before the convention but | am
now,' he said. of this was a
campaign address for Smith, hund-
red or more facts and logical con-
clusions could be given to back up
my position that Smith is by long
odds the better candidate than
Hoover.p
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
OUTLINE PLANS
| OF JUNIORS AT
LIVELY NEE Ting
Breakfast Call Brings Out
Many, Puts Snap in
Session. :

Ham and eggs proved popular at
the barbara Worth hotef TINS morn,
ing when more than 80 members OF
the Junior Executives division or
the FL Centre Chamber of CONNER
ce turned out for its first regular
meeting and breakfast.
Among the guests at the gather
ing were Morris A. Penter, San
Diego newspaperman, }. ). Cameron
of the senior body and Robert Hays,
secretary of the senior chamber.
Each gave a short address.
Cameron was the first speaker
End briefly outlined the purposes
of the junior organization, welcom-
ing it to FL Centre and congratula-
ting it on the excellent showing 1T
has made in "getting up before
breakfast to do business. -
Penter in short talk declared
that his paper, the San Diego Union,
would rcdouble its efforts to work
with the valley in favor of Boulder
Dam and the AllAmerican Canal
pro ject and commented briefly on
the progressive spirit displayed by
the junior executives.
After the meeting was called to
order Secretary Hays gave a short
talk in which he outlined the views
of the senior chamber i'll relation
to the proposed creation of a re-
treational center on the 40-acre
| Legion tract just north of the city.
The Junior executives went on re
cord as in favor of doing anything
post of the American Legion in ex-
tending greetings to the delegates
to the American Legion National
! Convention at San Antonio, who will
stop in FL Centre Il week from Fri
| day. A committee of one was ap
! pointed to confer with the Legion
| committee, offering such assistance
/ Reports On "Style Show
! Reports were submitted by chair
men of the committees working on
! the "Style Show to be sponsored
/ by the junior executives at the new
! West Coast theater and on the
/ opening program of the new theater
The date for tn e" Style Show
! has been set for October ~ and the
committee reported considerabl,
progress in arranging the program
Tentative plans for the opening of
! the new theater were outlined anC
! the committee instructed to reserv,
! loo seats in the theater for the
! Junior executives.
4 IL "
record in favor of the campaign tC
! be waged in this city in connection
with National Fire Prevention
week. The president was authorized
to appoint a representative of tho
body to offer Chief Tom Reams OF
the fire department any assistanc,
the organization could give.
Members of the general committe,
to arrange for the liallowe 'en Bal
TO be held in the Barbara Wort
hotel were named. Gilbert Prestol
was selected as chairman. Othe
members include c. d. Rector, Rus
sell Lewis, w. l.. Bennington, b. l.
Major, ii. j. Colburn, II. G.. Purl
John Angel and Donald Freeman
This committee will hold specia
meeting in the chamber headquarter
at 1;30 O'Clock tomorrow night.
In closing this mornings meetin,
the Junior executives extended
vote of thanks to w. r. Conway
proprietor of the Barbara WORT
hotel, and to the dining room staff
for the ecexllent service rendere,
AT the breakfast meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Military Service
Will Be Held For
Lieut.. Cornelius

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Sept. Go
Military services will be held here
either tomorrow or Friday for 1t.
w. l.. Cornelius, army flyer, who
fell to his death after mid air
crash at Rockwell Field yesterday
Following the services the body
will be sent to Antler, Oklahoma.
An unofficial report of the col,
lision which took Cornelius life al.
ready has been forwarded to Wash.
ington.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Aged ProspectOr
To Be Sentenced
To San Quentin
Nv United Press Leased Wire

FRESNO, Sept. 26-Found guilty
by jury in superior court, Charles
A. Koehn, 67-year-old Kern county
desert prospector today faced q
term in San Quentin prison for at
tempting to blow up the home of
Judge G. f. Beaumont with a deadly
bomb last May.
The verdict, which recommended
lcniency, convicted the old "desert
ratD on two counts of attempted
murder and malicious use of explos-
ives. The penalty for the first of
tense is from one to Is years impris-
onment and for the second not less
than one year.
Sentence will be pronounced Fri
day by Judge Barnard.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Four Men Will
Hang November
9, at San Quentin
Nv United Press Leased Wire

SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Sept. 26.
-Four men will hang here Nov. 9;
unless the law interferes, it was
disclosed today.
George Costello, Louis Lazarus
and Joseph Murray, sentenced to
hang for killing an Oklahoma bank
clerk, and Leong Wing, convicted
of murder in Solano county, will be
executed on that date.
Leo P. Kelley, found guilty of
killing a Los Angeles woman, will
90 to the moose Nov. %.
If execution orders for Nov. 9 re-
main the same the men will be TAX
en- to the gallows in pairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
WHAT'S DOING

TONIGHT
Baseball meeting, Press Of
flee. 1880 y. nj.
Airdome Theater - The
Fleets In
KGEN--6 to 1880 p. m.
@. of g. directors meeting,
7:30 p. m.
TOMORROW
Rotary club luncheon, Bar
bara Worth Hotel,
Radio KGEN-11 to 1890.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
p Philadelphia
Officers jailed
For ExtOrti0n
by United Press Leased Wire

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26.--
Twenty two policemen were locked
in city hall cells today, charged
with bribery and extortion after the
biggest haul of the protraeted
crime investigation here.
District Attorney John Mona
CHAN, completed last night five hours
grilling of % policemen
They were arrested and suspended
from the force.
All the policemen served under
Captain Charles Cohen, the 23rd man
seized in the haul. They are charg-
cd with accepting bribes from boot
leggers.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Italian Actress
Marries Writer
at Aqua Caliente
By United Press Leased Wire

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 26.-Rosa
Rudami, italian screen actress and
Conway Fox, motion picture writer,
were married in Aqua Caliente,
Mexico, today, according to word
to friends here.
Miss Rudami is known through
her vampire roles on the screen
while Fox formerly was an archi'
tect in Chicago and Palm Beach.
The engagement of the couple
was announced yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Bandits Loot
Chicago Hotel
By United Press Leased Wire

CHIC AGO, Sept. 26.-Five bandits
entered the fashionable Flamingo
apartment hotel on the south side
early today, locked the clerk, JAM,
tor, and bell boy in a room and
escaped with several thousand dol
lars in cash and jewelry.
The men took about 5000 from
the hotel safe, but no estimate
could be given of the other. loot as
it was taken from Is of the hotel s
fifty safety deposit boxes. A hur'
ried check up among guests caused
police to believe the loot was
large.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
ARIZONA METHODIsTS
TO MEET TOMORROW
by United Press Leased Wire

PHOENIX, Ariz.. Sept. 26--With
head of the Methodist Episcopal
Bishop S. R. Hay of Houston, Texas,
churches of the Pacific Coast, at
tending, the annual Arizona State
Conference of the Methodist Church
will open here tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
YOUTHS DETAINED
IN HONOLULU
Nv United Press Leased Wire

HONOLULU, Sept. 26.-Pollee
here today detained Chester Valen-
cia of Ventura and Thomas Field
of Pomona. Eoth arrived here as
stowaways ON the Rakuyo Maru,
The boys were penniless.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE
by United Press Leased wire

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26.--Dcris
MAY. screen actress, today was
granted divorce from Wallace A.
Macdonald, film actor, on charge
of cruelty. Macdonald did not con-
test the ease. The couple was mar
ried in May 1921.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
LOS ANGELES AQUATICS
SUPERVISORS RESIGNS

ny United PresH I.eased Wire
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26.-The
resignation of Major II. r. Carter,
for five years supervisor of aquatics
for the city of Los Angeles, has
been announced. G. p. l.. Nichols
of the department of physical edu'
cation at the University of South
ern California, will succeed Major
Carter.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-26
Only One of Famous Trio Left

left, second of the Army Three Mus
accident IS appeared with
Lieut. j. Williams killed during daring air
the Air held recently
Col Charles Lindberg
the picture A. Woodring
the right
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-23
HALL
SCHOOL HIT
BY FIRE

The Gunston Hall school on
Florida Avenue Northwest nea :
Nineteenth street was seriously
damaged BY i fire Of unknown
origin early today, less than !
month before the return Of girl
students from vacation.
Firemen of Number . Engine
Company who responded to q
local" alarm found they were I'm.
able to quench the blaze, and an
other alarm was turned III which
brought five other companies.
Further assistance from the IRE
departments rescue squad was
required when the firefighters found
they were unable to enter The
building because OF dense smoke
The rescue squad members dOnned
gas masks and entered, breaking
several windows to let the fumes
out.
The laundry. kitchen and servsat
quarters were badly DANA ged, AMI
firemen were forced to chop holes
IA the stage Of tI1e second floor
auditorium when the fire spread up.
wards.
No one was in the building EXCEPT
the principal, Miss Mary Glider
sleeve, and a servant No one was
nurti A resident OF the Cordova, an
adjoining apartment house, dis.
covered the blaze.