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Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
RECTOR PRAISES
SUBJ IME FAITH
OF WASHINGTON
II, tinted Press LcaScd Wire

VALLEY FORGE. Pa. reb. a.
Gcnrg, Washington had sgch u 9"-
found faith that bc believed thr re-
suit of the Revolutionary Wn WIS
Gods win.
This was fho opiu.oo g.vaa to-
day by Ir Herbert ". hurh, rector
of the Valley Forge Washington
Memorial church near tine spot
whore Washington is Supposed 60
have lnr'. in tine SNOW to pray fer
victory while his barefoot soldiers
iramped the SHOWS,
Dr. Burke, who is an authority ON
Valley Forge history, said that for
the first time this winter Valley
Forge lay mCor a snow blanket as
dur.ng the Revolution when the
con mandor prayed for aid
While most Nmcryant are
familiar with Washington 5 faro
wcll address ms President, his t1rc-
wen to his soldiers is his valedi.tory
prayer for the American people when
Washington commonds the govern
mcut Of our country and the Off
Gals in charge Of it TO God ~ Tia"
rector aid.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
TAX COMMISSION
PROGRAM sure
TO Be OPPOSED
BY HOMER l.. ROBERTS
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Feb. o.
stormy opposition to the California
tax commission 5 program for carry
ing out the / per cent income tax
on banks and business corporations,
adopted at the November election. is
expected 10 break Monday morning
in the assembly.
This measure, introduced by As
Semblyman Percy West of Sacra-
mcnto, fails to provide for 10 per
cent offset for real estate taxes paid
locally, as sought by real estate in
tcrcsts at public hearing on the
proposal.
The tax bill, in whatever shape it
is finally agreed upon, must be
adopted next week, it was pointed
out, as the tax levy is made, accord
ing to law, the following Monday.
Considerable interest centers
around the substitute tax proposal of
Asscmblyman Morgan Kcaton of
Long Beach, which appears to be
gaining support Keaton would
place a per cent tax ON net incomes
Of banks and finance corporations.
All other business corporations, eX-
ccpt public utilities, would be taxed
as at present, on shares of their
capital stock,
Kcaton's $ measure, it is under
stood, has the support of the state
board of equalization.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
COMM|TTEE ON
PREPARATIONS IN
SHORT REC ESS
BY SAMUEL DASHED
UNITED Press Staff CorresDondent

iOn1red PreSS SLa11 Co1EeSpondeIlI)
PARIS, Feb. 22.-The committee
of reparations experts decided to-
day to suspend active work until
Monday to permit its subcommittee
of five to elaborate further its re-
port ON procedure. Sir Josiah
Stamp, of Great Britain, submitted
part of the subcommittee S report
this morning.
Although the official American
spokesman Indicted the adjourn
ment merely was perfunctory, be-
cause the week end was at hand, il
was understood from other sources
that the delegates had reached a
stage where satisfactory figures re-
garding Germany's first annuities
still were not obtainable.
The United Press was informed
the subcommittee had evolved a
workable plan both for annuities
and for the method of their trans
ferS which it will continue to study
in detail.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
OLD Staying IS
REVIVED THROUGH
W0WAN'S STORY
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Feb, 22.-Five
men, connected by Marie Allon
Kelly, SO. with the death in 1914 of
Francis Lewis Clarke, Spokane,
Washington, multi-millionaire, were
sought by police today.
Mrs. Kelly, who said her con
science drove her to tell what she
knew of the affair, was held "A a
material witness pending an inyesti-
CATION of her story and the finding
of those named by her as the prob
able slaycrS of Clarke.
Clarke. who made his fortune in
real estate and mining, was an out
standing Pacific Coast figure at
the time of his disappearance Jan
uary II, 1914. His body never was
found and it was generally believed
that he committed suicide by Jump
ing into the ocean at Santa Barbara.
According to the story told by
Mrs. Kelly, she was capitalizing ON
her attraction to men when She met
Clarke, "a live one in Los Ang-
cles.
The amount of money Clarke
carried with him attracted her at
tcntion as well as that of five men
with whom she was closely acquaint-
ed.
Zone day Clarke asked me to 90
to Santa Barbara With him and
did, - she slid. 80 We motored there
and registered at the Hotel Potter.
He left me and said he would he
back in few minutes but he never
returned.
"The next morning l went back
to Los Angeles and the next thing
| heard about the matter was three
months later when one of the boys
walked up to me in a san Francisco
hotel and handed me $500.
She said she was told the money
was her "cut on the Clarke Job >
and when she sought more informa-
ton she Nyas told to shut up and
don be fish. -
Police files disclose that Clarke
and his wife were staying in Santa
Barbara and ON the night of Jan
uary II he took her to the train and
She left for Spokane
Clarke then dismissed his chauf-
fer, Walter Shute. Three days. later
ShUte notified police his employer
had disappeared. No really tangible
clue to his death or Whereabouts
ever was found
Mrs. Kelly, who said 81, divorced
William Kelly Of san Francisco,
shortly after their marriage in 1918,
was tried several times for cXtor-
tion and blackmail but always was
acquitted.
Police have not accepted her Story
but are making every effort to
check and Substantiate it.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
HOOVER DEY0TES
ATTENTION TO
CABINET JOBS
Four Mentioned AS Sure
TO Be Included In New
Official Family.
BY THOMAS T.. STOKES

Omitted Iress Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Fob 22.-Pr.si-
dent elect Hoover celebrated tae
birthday of The first President -
the T.. :. by dovotiug q large pars
Of the day 10 consideration of the
uu,olyed problems which still cor
front him, chiefly selection OF lis
cabinet, not Yet fully made up.
Due 10 bitches Of one satt AM
another recently, thcre are somr te"
placcs Indefinite. The United Press
learns, However. that the following
four men Layc been selected drfin-
itcly and have accepted portfolios:
Secretary Of state = Horny J..
stimson, New York.
Secretary of Treasury - Andrew
y. Mellon, Pittsburgh
Secretary OF Interior - Dr.. RaH
Lyman Wilbur, president Of Leland
Stanford University.
Secretary Of Navy Charles Fran-
els Adams, Boston. lawyer, officer in
numerous corporations aad treasurer
Of Harvard University.
An,inouiry disclosc5 his choice for
postmaster general now lies between
two men who took prominent palts
iu the Hoover campaign, Waiter T.
Brown. OF Toledo, Hoover Hhio rri
mary cawpaigu manager. and Jamc-
W. Good, Of Chicago, a director in
thc Hoover Pr"-cnrNautiou campaign
ard western campaign manager.
Two other meH arc regarded a.
most cartaintic, fer the cabinet, hut
the positions they win fin are in
definite. They are Horny Il. Rob
iusou, Los Angeles banker and close
fricud ot Hoover and member of th
Dawes roparatious commission VIII,
conferred at length with the Pres.
idert-cloct yesterday aud last might
and William j. Donovan, assistant
attorney scucraa
Donovan will not ho attorney g.H
,ral. This is definite. TIE attor
nry gcncraishir is our of NJ Hooy
cr's clirf worries since Senator
Eorah of Idaho declined the post.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
AVIATOR TAKES
FOOD SUPPLY TO
STRANDED PARTY
Half Hundred Saved By
Daring Flyer Who Drops
Food and Clothing.
BY United Press Leased Wire

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. %.
The heroic rescue Of 30 men, wo-
men and children from starvation
has been added to the laurcls Of
aviation today.
The 30 persons facing starvation
were members Of motor caravan,
held prisoner by snowdrifts since
Monday at Table Rock, Wyo., %
miles east of Rock Springs. They
had been moving westward from
Rawlins to Rock Springs carrying
construction equipment for a natural
gas line. On Monday they were
caught in one Of the worst Billiards
Of the year.
They struggled forward but the
storm held and the depth of the
drifts increased until the trucks were
practically buried in snow. The
meager supply of food carried in the
cook truck was soon exhausted
Heroic but unavailing efforts to re
lease them were made by rcscac
parties.
An appeal was sent to Rocl,
Springs for plane but there was
none available. The appeal was re
layed to Salt Lake City.
D. B. Collyer, nce-president il
charge of traffic Of the Boeing Ail
Transport Company ordered that ths
fastest plane and most capable pilot
be sent at once. Pilot Edmund T
Allen and Bocing 49, all-meta
plane was the combination selected
Allen flew to Rock Springs where
he loaded his plane with 1909 pounds
of foodstuffs. He reported ittlC
difficulty in locating the stranded
caravan. Circling the camp few
times he selected a spot whore tho
food would be easily accessible be
fore dropping his cargo. He released
his parcels and'noted signals of joy
More food will be delivered il
the same manner if necessary, Coll
yer said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
Clue Obtained I'm
Chicago Killing
Ry Unitea Press Leased Wire


CHICAGO, Feb, ga mysterious
telephone call to "Scarface AP'
Capone in Florida, was placed at the
Congress hotel here on St. Nalen-
tines day within 20 minutes after
seven "Bugs" Moran gangsters
were murdered by machine gunners
in a northside garage, federal au-
thorities said they had learned to
day
It was learned at the federal
building that authorities have smt
for the records of the telephone com
pany in an attempt to learn who
placed the call.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
I..lINDBE'IRGH Will
hln GOVERNMENT
AVIATION PLANS
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON. Feb, %. - Col.
Charles \. oh who flew safe
lv from N5w York . Paris and has
made many other hazardous flights,
las Joined hands with the govern
ment to make the air safe for avia-
tor, ard the grouu3 safe for pedes-
TRANS.
After Secretary Of Commerce
Whiting announced Lindbergh had
been named technical advisor TO the
aoronautical branch cf the commerce
e. c.ear.ucut, it was learned the fly
ina colonel would pay particular at
taAtiru t" regulating planes and
pilots.
Stunting and flying low over
cities, already is forbidden by the
department and it is believed Lind
bergh would offer from time to time
suggestions ON more stringent regu-
'ations accumulated from his various
flights.
The department explained Lind
befgh S connection with the govern
maut would not interfere with his
ether duties. lie viii hc called in
for advice on air problems whenever
needed and Will receive the same
compensation as other technical ad-
NjScrs, estimated at approximately
- a day.
Serving in AN advisory post will
hc nothing Now to Lindbrrgh. He
holds similar assignment with the
panil Gug4cuhcim fund for promo
tiun of acrouautics, the Pan Amer
icau Ajrways and with the Trans
continental Air Transport. He is
now making survey flight for the
lattrr concern.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
Mrs. Coolidge
Goes Sleighing

by United Press Leased Wire
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The
merry jingle of sleigh bells in
terrupted the chugging Of motor
cars yesterday in Washington
and quaint chapter was added
| to White House history. Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge, first lady Of the
land, took ride behind prancing
horses through snow blanketed
streets and parks.
She was the guest on the un-
usual happening, of Mrs. James
j. Davis, wife OF the secretary
of labor, who, with her eight year
old daughter tucked in beside
her, drove up to the White House
in a sleigh fitted with all the
trapp.ngs of q traditional Santa
Claus.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
Keves Will Not
Go To Prison
By United Press Leased Wire

Les ANGELES. Feb. 22-Reports
that Former District Attorney Asa
Keycs, now under one to II years
sentence fer conspiring to receive a
br;bc, might go to San Quentin i'm
mediately, were denied by his coun-
sci here today.
Keyes will remain in the county
Jail pending his appeal to conviction
and pending a second trial in which
he also is accused of conspiring tC
receive a bribc, his attorneys said.
Trial of the second case has beer
set for March t.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
SLAYER ENDS LIFE
BY United Press LenNrd VIII,

SACRAMFNTO, CaIlf., Feb. p
The body Of Charles King Bagwiu
2S, radio repair man, who last night
shot and killed Mrs. Frances G..
Hcssler, 81, at her home hero, was
found today in a barn on the F. q.
Ames ranch at Fruitridge He had
committed suicide.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
Revolt Blamed
On Late Queen
BY United Press Leased Wire

LONDON, Feb GA story that
the secret revolt in Spain was in
spired by the late queen mother,
Maria Christina, who appealed for
help against the dictatorship in be.
la'f of herself and the king, was
printed today in the Manchester
Guardian in a dispatch from its Hen
cave correspondent.
The story from tha French Spanish
border town, uuconfirmed from 9TH
er sources, said Jose Sanchez Guerra,
when he went to Valencia to lead
the revolt, carried a letter from the
queen mother begging for his aid.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
MISSING
Girl. is
I()CA TED
Weird Story Related
By Man Who Returns
Tot Unharmed.
POLICE ARE PUZZLED
Child Missing a Week
Was Object OF Intensive
Search.
ny United Press Leased Wire

san FRANCISCO Feb. a. For
NAL charges Of kidnapping were p!a--
cd against Charles Sharp and his
wifi, Edna, today in connection with
The disappearance last Friday of
year old Doris Virginia Munj.
~ the same time police anHomc-
cd Chat a grlii1E had "compietr.y
shakeu' The rory Of Mrs :.aarp
Of the circumstances in which aa,
came into prssessi.'t Of Boris,
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
N0TABLES HAVE
CLOSE CALL in
PLANE ACCIDENT

GLENDALE, Calf, Feb. %. -
Several notables including Art Goebe
and Ruth Elder, famous flyers, ant
Priscilla Dean, motion picture star
narrowly escaped serious injur,
when they were knocked to tn,
ground by an airplane during tn,
ceremonies dedicating the new SO,
100000 Grand Central Airport her,
today.
Peggy Hamilton, fashion editor o.
a Los Angeles newspaper, and Mis-
Virginia Sullivan, fiancee of d. w
Tomlinson, former member of tn,
navy S famous "Sea Hawks" dit
receive minor injuries in the mishap
Goebel, Miss Dean, Miss Eldc
Miss Hamilton, Miss Sullivan, Mayo
George Cryer of Los Angeles, " T.
Mayo, chief engineer of the T.r
Air Projects, aad his daughter, CIiv,
Mayo, were posing for picture
The side Of the huge Ford p psa
when Tomlinson, plotting the ctat
started to take off.
The tail - the machine ST
the group knocking each ON
the ground.
Tomlinson was not aware Of
presence Of the group at tho
Of his machine,
At first it was peleved that
Hamilton and Miss Sullivan n
have been seriously injured
later it was found they surf
only painful bruises and cuts.
Mayo sustained a sprained a,..
when she was swept off her ~
Some 10000 people attending
airport opening saw tho near
dent.
The Grand Central will scfv
70 terminal for Maddux, Piett
and Trauscontinenta air Inca
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
FATAL ACCIDENT ON STEAMER
ny Unlicd Press Lcnsed Wire

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PLYMOUTH, England, Feb, 90
One man was killed and four injured
aboard the liner President Harding
coroute here from New York when
they attempted TO make fast a life
boat DURING a gale it was announced
when the ship dockcd here today.
The man killed was John Stor-
ling, 80. \ high wave struck Stcr-
ling and flung him across the deck,
fracturing his skull and breaking
his neck, The body was embamod
and brought here.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
Women Want
Jury Service
by United Press Leased Wire

by IhA'ed fFess Lehsed WIRE
PHOENIX, Ariz.. Feb. %. -
Women members Of the Arizona
legislature today were determin-
ed to place az initiative position
on the ballot at the next election
TO secure the right for women to
sit ca juries.
Decision TO take the matter di-
rect 20 the voters followed defeat
III tie house of q bill introduced
By Representative Alice Patter-
sen Of Maricopa, which would
legalizo Jury service for women.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
POUNDS
TIITlN)E
APPROVED
Publicity Committee Isl
Abolished By Santa Fe|
Conference.
ARIZONAN RAPPEDI
California Objects To-
Wards Action In Re-
leasing Statement.
BY United Press Leased Wire

SANTA f'E, \. NJ, Feb. %
Adjustment of the publicity com
mittee was the only business trans.
acted by the tri-state Colorado river
conference today. The action follow
cd an objection by Earl Pound OF
California, who was member OF
the committee, to a statement Civ
en- out by Charles Ward of Arizona
concerning the attitude of Arizona
towards the special session of uppel
BASIN states delegates to which SIZE
was not invited Wednesday. Pound
said that ;nasmuch "a it was agrees
that all official statements giveT
out should come from the commit
tee, lie did not believe Ward had
acted within his rights in issuing
his press notice.
Defending his action Ward said
he he'd not made a statement unit
the publicity committee failed t,
act.
\, H. Favour of Arizona moved
that the committee be relieved from
further duty. Seconding the motion
Pound said he believed newspapci
men present were better able to re-
port what the conference was doin1
than any committee.
SANTA re, n. NJ, Feb. %. !
Permanent ALLEGATION of the water.
Of the Rio Grande would be post
roned six years under terms of tn,
compromise tri-state treaty to bl
'5"i.'"d 70 the legislatures of Colo
raGo, Nasr Mexico and Texas fol
Ilnal approval. The compact wa
signed here yesterday by represerl
tatIVes of the contracting states.
The treaty provides that at the ED
piration of a 6-year truce new com|
mission will meet in June, 1885. Il
work ont plan of definite appor
tlonment. During the truce Colo
rado has consented to divert no more
water from the river than is nov
being used. Draining of the Sar
LUIS valley, however, would remove
this disability, it was pointed out.
The treaty was the outcome of 80
days spent by the commissioners il
executive session. Colorado wa.
represented by DELPHI E. Carpenter
New Mexico by Francis C. Wilson
Texas by T. w. McGregor.
Colorado will still be free to con
struct The Vega Sylvester dam. New
Mexico and Texas likewise have per
mission to build storage rescrvoiI
on the Colorado lineam
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
Hoover Inspects Florida Flood Zone

h Doc and w1d El
h ii
wiho other member errtas the inspect
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22

In 1923 Douglas county. Ncvad
received only 2,5s inches ~ f4I
while the average Of the eight pr
vious years was 7.s7 inches.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
SEVERE COLD
AGAIN STRK ES
IN MIDDLE WEST
by United Press Leased Wire

CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-More cold
and snow is in store for the mid
wes., northwest and the Rocky
Mountain area, already under Il
heavy blanket for the most part, ac-
cording to weather predictions to-
day.
Temporary relief from the intense
cold which swept these areas early
this week was afforded yesterday,
but a new wave IS coming down
from the north.
The snowfall is reported the
heaviest Of the winter It embraced
nearly every state from the Cana
dian border to Texas and from Ohio
to the west coast.
Earlier cold periods this winter
resulted in many deaths but to date
only few directly attributable to
the weather have been reported.
Tempera lures ranged down to II
below zero in Chicago suburbs
Wednesday, rising to a few degrees
below freezing yesterday. Then the
thermometer started sliding again
toward the zero mark.
Montana reported the worst snow
torn Of the year. Highways were
blocked. The St. George lake region
in tae western uar IF the state was
isolated and Butte and Helena were
virtually cut off from outside traf-
f;c.
Silverton, Colo, isolated for many
days by snow, finally was afforded
complete relief when railroad crews
completed their herculean task of
battcring a passage through drifts.
The trains brought fresh vegetablea,
the first since Feb. /, fuel, food and
other supplies.
Snow started falling yesterday in
northern Colorado and Wyoming
and continued most Of the night
Forty persons were marooned in the
Red Desert of Wyoming, east of
Rock Springs. An airplane left from
Salt Lake City, Utah, and dropped
supplies to them.
I The engine of a passenger train
jumped the track when it hit a drift
near Sunburst, Mont, and the fire
3 illU4l, 1 duI VII IttHiHSf WAS hllltQ.
Saskatchewan and Manitoba were
in the grip of n cold wave which
sent the thermometer down to 80
below in parts of those Canadian
! provinces.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-The east
ern states utilized the Washington 5
birthday holiday today in digging
themselves out from the worst snow
storm of the winter and in checking
the damage.
Eight deaths were attributed to
metropolitan area, two in Boston.
one in Philadelphia and two in Read.
/ ing.
AS the sun smiled gcnially over
/ the snow blanketed states today, the
low barometric area which centered
yesterday in the vicinity of Cape
Hattcras was whirling out over the
sea lanes of the Atlantic taking with
/ it snow, gales and rough seas.
The seaboard states were lashed
I from New England to North Caro-
lima with a blizzard that had its
frcakish aspects. Nashville, Tenn,
reported Is inches of snow while
/ New Haven, Conn, had only four
inches.
Steamship service was hampered,
trolley service in the larger cities
was seriously impeded and thou
sands of unemployed were given an
opportunity to earn money shovel
ing snow,
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
TOMORROW

Stcry hour, city library, 1890
q. m.
Jumcr Matinee, Imperial
Theatre, 2 p, m.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
o, E. S. pct luck dinner, 6
p. m.
BcXirg, Caleyico arena, 8:l5.
Adult English classes, High
school, 7 p. nj.
Radio KXO, .G-1O p. m.
Imperial theatre, "Tho Little
wildcat"
Address and Litany, st, Paul
church, 7:30.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-22

Continued on Page Eight
Nogales international., 1929-09-20
The Shiny Trail Of Politics

The recent award of loan of $9,0OO,OOO to the
grape growers of California by the Federal Farm
Loan Board is merely another example of the shiny
trail of politics it is being played by the higher ups
both in Washington and in Hickville. About the
only difference in the game is that in Hickville the
stakes do not run as high.
And it brings to mind some of the tactics used in
the election of year ago when Herbert Hoover was
running for president.
Since 1916 when California went for Wilson and
by it's vote decided the presidency of the United
States in favor Of Woodrow Wilson, the ld-guard G.
O. P.'s have figured that anything might happen It
was necessary for the welfare Of the country (sic)
that Herbert should be the next president. And as
strong Republican state as California is-well, it
went Democratic once, and that only recently. So a
we'll defined campaign was carried there as in
other places to that the United States made
"safe from Democracy.
Probably in no other section was more intense
campaign carried on than in the San Joaquin Valley
the home Of the grape and of Hoovers grape ranch
This section Of California is the greatest grape grow
ing country in America. Before the Eighteenth A
mendment was passed the grape growers were "wet'
though poor. But after prohibition was made the law
OF the land the price of grapes went up and the val
ley was fairly proserous.
And then came the deluge.
The American people, always resourceful, found
that there other things than grapes that would
ferment-and uncertainty again knocked at the door
OF the San Joaquin Notwithstanding Herbert Hoov-