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The Washington times., 1929-08-26
PLAYERS GIVEN DINNER

CUMBERLAND, Md. Aug. 2e.--
John A. Gallen, a director OF the
Community Baseball. Inc. was host
at q banquet at the Queen City
Hotel to the players OF the Cumber.
land team In the Middle Atlantic
League, directors Of the club and
workers and fans. The dinner was
given the players In recognition Of
their having taken the lead In the
league by the margin Of one full
game.
The Washington times., 1929-08-26
Man Hurt in a Fight
Is Accused as Drunk

Samuel J. williams, 2s, 200 block
q st. N. W., was treated at Emer.
gency Hospital yesterday for a scalp
laceration said by police to have been
sustained when he was struck over
the head with blunt instrument
after an alteration with an ur.
identified assailant at Third and e
SITS. N. w.
After treatment Williams was re-
moved to the Sixth precinct station
where he was held on charge Of
intoxicatiof.
The Washington times., 1929-08-26
MD. CORN CROP SHORT

HAGERSTOwN. Nd. Aug. 2e.
The shortest corn crop Ia two
decades in washington county. Is
forecast by farmers. according to
reports received by County Agent
Milton d. Moore at his office in
Hagerstown. The prevailing drought
since July II blamed for the
unusual number of ''nubbirs" in
cornfields.
The Washington times., 1929-08-26
Sun Tan Addicts Face
Jail for ZeaIOuSness

u ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 26.-Male
Cor female, bathers who unfasten
their shoulder straps on the beach
are committing indecent exposure
and hereafter win be arrested.
So ruled Safety Director William
ID. Cuthbert. The sun-tan craze
Is all right, said Cuthbert, but like
all good things, it can be carried
too far, and visitors have been
complaining it has.
The Washington times., 1929-08-26
HOSPITAL LEFT 5000

LEoNARDToWN, Md. Aug. 2e.-
Mrs. Mason Chichester. Of Philadel
phia, Pa, whose will has been ad.
nitted to probate. bequeathed to the
Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg. the
sum OF 5000.
The Washington times., 1929-08-26
DOG BITES WOMAN

Mrs. Iva Eumsteait, rs, OF sos
Maine Ave. s. W., yesterday was
bitten by a dog in an alley in the
400 block Of Maryland Ave. s. w.
She was treated by a physician.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
SLOW TRADING
REPORTED FROM
|. A. EXCHANGE

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Is. W.H-
Trading was slow on the Los An
geles Stock and Curb Exchanges to-
day with the market irregular. New
York money was at Az.
Associated Gas rights lead the
board in sales with 1000 at l6, up
l cent.
The oils continued to be the cen
ter of trading activity, although
even in this division trading was
slow. Rio Grande sold 700 shares
at 20 for no net change. Richfield
was off ;is at 27as with 700 shares
trading. Statdard of California lost
* with 100 trading at 621s. Union
Oil of California showed y point
gain with 100 trading at 46h.
Southern California Edison, cont
mon was the only active utility, with
100 trading at 56, no net change.
Emsco was up * with 100 going,
at 1875.
Transamerica traded 900 shares at
43s, off n. Pickwick Stages sold
800 at ~, up u. Aero Corpora
tion was up 5 cents at $50 with
200 shares trading.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
I Err
QUOTES
HOOVER
President Indicated AS
Being Friendly To Gu
ban Sugar Lobby.
MORROW is NAMED
Second Epistle Read At
Hearing Mentions En-
vOy To Mexico.

WASHINGTON, Dec. IS. U.p)-
A letter written by Herbert G.
Lakin, president of the Cuba COM
pany, declaring President Hoover
instructed his secretary to bring the
sugar lobbyists into contact with
members of the house ways and
means committee, was disclosed to-
day by the senate lobby Investigate
ing committee.
The letter, written by Lakin to
Mason B. Starring, president of the
California & Pittsburgh Utilities
corporation, New York City, said
"Hoover has instructed his secre-
tary Mr.. Newton to establish con-
tact between the committee and our
selves"
The text of the letter follows in
part:
"Several members of the (house
ways and means) committee have
appealed to President Hoover and
he has instructed his secretary, Mr..
Newton to establish contact between
the committee and ourselves. l un-
derstand that some suggestion Of
this came from the individual men,
bers of the committee.
owe are incline to be a little
doubtful about this step but in the
end would of course, have to do what
/ President Hoover desires, especially
as he seems to be genuinely interest
ed in our cause. Heretofore our
work has been in the direction of
leaving final negotiations to Sena-
tor Smoot, who after all, is the
spokeman for the beet sugar inter-
ests."
Conversations between Lakin and
Dwight Morrow, United States am
bassador to Cuba and former j. P.
Morgan & Company partner, regard
ing the Cuban situation were reveal
ed in another letter read to the COM
mittee.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
DISTRICT AGAINST
; ASKING CONGRESS
FOR PROTECTION
Rose And Aten Oppose
Suggestion Made At!
Weekly Meeting.

The advisability Of asking con
sressional aid to protect Imperial
Valley against the danger of floods,
was brought up by Chairman Pound
at the afternoon session of the r.
rigatiOn District board of directors
meeting yesterday. In the discus
sion which followed its introduction,
the proposal met with strong oppo-
sition on the part of two directors.
Ira Aten opposed it becaus" he
thought that it would be cheaper to
nave the district attend to that
work, should such danger arise
at any future day, with its own men
and money. Director Mark Rose
opposed any such appeal to congress
and was strongly in favor of some
thing in the way of 4 permanent
relief proposal. We have done our
own relife work in the past and can
continue that until it is made per-
manent, was the gist of his remarks
on the matter. The proposal was
not carried further.
The collectors reports, that Of the
c. w. Barry, from November l to
November 26, and of d. w. West
:or the balance of that month, were
accepted and filed. Floyd K. Brown,
n certified public accountant of Los
Angeles, sent in his audit of the
books and records kept by Asses
sor c. w. Barry from January ! to
November 26, 1929. All these rec
ords were found to be in excellent
condition and were accepted as such
by the board.
A resolution was passed by the di-
rectors to cooperate with the I'm
pcrial county fair board in all pos
s;ble ways. District equipment
would be placed at the disposal of
the fair committee should need fol
it arise.
D. C. Milligan and James G.. Cor
tclyou, owners Of the c. NJ. Duck
club, appeared before the board
asking for delivery Of water for d.
mestic purposes. Being outside the
district they were cut off from the
water supply. Arrangements will
probably be made at an early date
for the petitioners to be included
within the the district.
George Burger of Brawley put in
a claim for damages done to his
property by the overflowing Of an
irrigation ditch. The matter was
referred to the district engineer for
further investigation.
Six lots were purchased by the
district in Calipatria for their own
use, 800 being paid for the prop
erty.
The greater part of the board
meeting was taken up in discussing
assessments and other routine mat
ters.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
Frisco Lawyers
Against Dry Law

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. IS. (U.Pl
The San Francisco Bar association
was on record today as favoring re-
zeal of all federal prohibition legis-
lation and remission to the states
cf the right to legislate on the sub
ject.
The actual vote, as expressed
through postcard ballots" was
$40 to l03, in favor of the resolu-
ton, or more than five to one for
repeal of the Volstead law and pro.
mbition amendment.
Three hundred and 81 members
did not vote.
Maurice +. Harrison, president Of
the local association, stated that IL Q
San Francisco lawyers action WAS
similar to that of expressions OF
sentiment throughout the country,
but that it was more significant in
that the vote was more nearly rep.
resentative of the opinion of the
entire membership than that of
other sections.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
Doctor Victim
OF Drowning

OCEAN PARK, Calf, Der. IS.
W.P)-The body of Harrington b.
Munro, prominent Hollywood physi-
rian, was found in the surf at the
beach here today.
The physician, suffering recently
from i'll health, had been missing
since late yesterday. Police said
the body apparently had been in
the water since last night.
When it was recovered, DR..
Munro's body was fully clothed and
even his eye glasses were in place.
just previous to the finding of
the body, DIR. Munro's nurse had
called his brother, DR.. William Ben
nett Munro, head of the department
of history at California Tech, to tell
him of the disappearance of her
patient.
The nurse said DR.. Munroe had
been despondenr.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
Delayed Dispatch
Tells OF Attack

TOKYO, Dec. 1S. W.P)-The for
cign office today received the first
official telegram the Japanese con-
sulate at Manchuli has been able to
send in month.
The telegram said that Russian
occupation Of Manchuli was contin-
uing but that reports of new Rus.
sian advance or additional Chinese
retreats were false.
Prior to occupation of the city
November 3, Soviet airplanes drop.
ped 40 bombs killing three Chinese
and three Russians, the telegram
said.
The missivc also stated that II
windows in the japanese consulate
had been shattered, 80 per cent of
the shops in the city looted and four
japanese homes pillaged and burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
SHIPS CAPTAIN
and CREW TELL
VARYING STORIES
Countercharges Fly AS
Skagaway Personnel Re-
lates Disaster.

SEATTLE, Dee. 1S. U.H-Men
and Officers who faced death in roll
ing breakers on the rocky coast OF
Washington, while their ship was a
roaring furnace, today fought bit
terly.
The crew was drunk the whole of
the disastrous trip from San Fran
cisco to Seattle, was the charge OF
Captain f. Strandquist of the
freighter Skagway.
Hints of sabotage and open
charges that it had been necessary
to run the ship onto the rocks were
made by members of the crew.
The 26 men who were saved from
the Skagway when she piled on the
rocks off Tatoosh Island Monday
with fire in her hold, arrived IN
Seattle late yesterday and were pre-
pared to testify before federal in
spectors today.
Members of the crew were open
lv bitter. They charged they were
without funds and had been unable
to buy food since being landed at
Port Angeles.
"They all have money in their
pockets and each one just received
$3.50 pay a few days ago." the cap
tain countered in his first interview
since the wreck.
Members of the crew said they
could prove sensational charges at
the federal inquiry "unless we are
treated right"
Martin Larsen, who was at the
wheel when the fire broke out, said
Bleaching of the ship on the rock
was unnecessary.
ave could have reached Neah bay
or even Port Angeles" he said.
"The boys had the fire under
control when the captain ordered me
to head for the rocks. It's plain
murder if you want my honest opin-
ion."
No lives were lost in the acci-
dent, however.
Possibility that plot against the
ship existed before it left San Fran
cisco was admitted by Captain
Strandquist. just before sailing
from San Francisco he engaged in
a fist fight with first mate Rymberg
and sailed away without the mate.
"The boat was a roaring furnace
when the man on watch told me
about the fire. There was danger
of the oils exploding and the only
thing to do was to beach the ship"
the captain said.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
TRIPLE SLAYER
WHISKED AWAY
TO AVOID MOB

ROMNEY, w. Va, Dec. IS. UP,
-Enraged because of his arrest on
a liquor law charge, Walter Crab
tree, 28, called three men to the
door of their homes here early to
day and shot them to death.
The victims were Justice of the
Peace II. c. Inskipp, 80; Ben Mil
Ter, As, of the Hampshire county
Jail, and ID. Wolford.
Three women, caught in the line
Of fire, were slightly wounded.
Crabtree, described by the sher-
iff as a "bad man." was arrested
last week on charges of intoxica,
ton and possession of liquor.
He was arraigned in Squire In
skipp's court, fined and sentenced
to three days in Jail.
Young Wolford, according to the
sheriff, gave the information which
resulted in Crabtree's arrest.
Shortly after last midnight, Crab
tree, armed with a shotgun, knocked
on the door at Judge Inskipp's
home.
81 want to see the squire" ha
said.
AS Inskipp appeared in the door
Crabtree fired, killing the justic,
instantly.
From Inskipp's home Crabtree
went to the Miller and WolforG
homes and followed the same pre-.
cedure.
Crabtree was arrested by State
Police Corporal Joe Ruckman and
Deputy Sheriff Horne while re
turning to his home. He offered nc
resistance, although he still carried
the shotgun.
AS news of the triple killing
spread, public feeling became in,
tense and Crabtree was removed to
the Keyser, W. Va, Jail for safe.
keeping.
The sheriff's office said Crab.
tree has long police record. He
has figured in numerous shootings
IN the past, it was said.
Details concerning the wounding
ct the women were vague. TIL.
sheriff assumes they were standing
behind the victims in the doorways.
They We're Mrs. Wright, Miss
llogtz and an unidentified woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
WINTER HOLDS
SWAY AGAIN IN
MIDWEST AREAS
Four Deaths Recorded AS
Snow And Cold Sweep In
From Canada.

CHICAGO, Dee. IS. U.P-A
snowstorm swirled out of Canada
today to replace fog and mist in
the middlewest which has obscured
the sun for more than a week and
in some regions established new rec
ords.
The snowfall was graduated from
Denver to the Great Lakes with a
threat that it would continue east
ward tonight.
Four deaths have been recorded
so far. Two persons, Mrs. Irma
Johnston and her son, 5 Arthur Jr.
were killed at Camp Grant, near
Rockford, H., last night when their
automobile was hit by a train.
Johnston, who was injured, said his
vision was obscured by the snow.
Carl J. Wass, window washer of
Minneapolis, slipped from an icy
ledge and was killed.
One unidentified man was found
dead on street here.
Patrolman Walter Zech walked
out over the ice ON Lake Michigan
today to get body he saw floating
in clear space of water and fell
through the ice. He was rescued
by coast guardsmen and in five
minutes became human icicle. His
condition is not serious.
Two convicts who escaped from
the North Dakota prison at Bis
mark were found almost frozen in
nearby Indian school. One OF
them, George Arnett, probably will
lose several toes.
With the mercury at 16 above and
o furry of snow in Denver the
storm ranged in intensity from a
coating of sleet and snow in Nebras
ka, and Kansas, to three inches in
st. Louis and ended for the time
being with a four inch blanket in
central Illinois.
More Snow Expected
Forecast for Indiana and east
ward was snow tonight and de
cided drop in temperature. Thirteen
days without sunlight in Cleveland
promised to clear with the advent
of storm of flakes by tomorrow
morning.
Fringes of the storm were expect
ed to bring rain and snow to Ken
lucky and Tennessee before another
"A hours has passed.
Temperatures stood eight degrees
above in Iowa with hard roads slip
cry and all traffic slowed down.
An old fashioned blizzard blew
down the loop canyons of Chicago
and the weather bureau asserted il
would last all day with lowering
temperature to the zero mark OF
even farther.
At a. m. the mercury stood al
eight below zero in st. Paul and
probably will dip to Is or 20, the
weather bureau said.
Prince Albert, Sask.. shivered
with 80 below; today Winnipeg re
ported 2S; Williston, N. D., "a, the
coolest in the nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
HUNT FOR BURKE
TO Be AIDED BY
FAMOUS EXPERT

CHICAGO, Dee. 1S. W.H - The
latest scientific discoveries, which
so many times enabled Fred X.
Burke, "the most dangerous man
alive", to avoid capture, were en-
ployed against him by police today
in an effort to establish more firm
~ his connection with the st. Val
entine's day massacre.
Major Calvin c. Goddard, New
York, one Of the greatest experts
in the science of ballistics, which
interprets markings guns make up
on bullets, was here comparing slugs
from machine guns found in Burke's
st. Joseph, Mich. bungalow, with
those removed from the bodies Of
seven members Of the Bugs Moran
gang.
Burke, who had been posing as
Fred NJ. Dane, retired business.
man, fled from st. Joseph after kill
ing Policeman Charles Skelly dur
ing an argument over a minor traf-
| fie accident. Police have since con-
nected him with at least IL mur-
ders and numerous train and bank
robberies. His photograph also has
been identified as that of the leader
in Chieago's biggest gang massacre.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. l8. W.P)-
Los Angeles authorities admitted to-
day that vigilant watch was main
tanned here in the belief that Fred
crick Burke, said to have been ident-
flied rs n notorious killer after
Staying a policeman in st. Joseph,
Mich, may be on his way to Los
Angeles to join Denny Chester, alias
ID. A. Womack, who has been hunt
ed here for many months.
1t was said that evidence in the
hands of officers indicated Chester
and Burke were members of the
Dale Jones bandit gang which was
credited with sensational robberies
and slayings in the east and middle
west.
A man believed to be Chester
and n woman companion recently
held up "petting party" here and
after wrecking their automobile in
flight persuaded two motorcycle po.
licemen to aid them in towing the
ear to garage. they then escaped.
Chester became widely known
when he was acquitted several years
ago on charge Of Staying a girl
in Kansas City "petting" holdup.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT


Elk's Dance, SAB, Hcltville
Natatorium.
Institute banquet, 6, Barbara
Worth.
Drum and Bugle corps, 1880.
court house.
Midweek meetings, churches.
City council. 7:30, city hall.
Moose lodge, 8, 10000 club
SEQ. house.
Oasis lodge. F. and A. M, 7:30
Masonic Temple.
Eagles, 8, 554 Main.
Troop z. B. 8. A., 1880 Elk's
hall.
Fox Imperial Theatre, "Sun-
ny Side Up"
Bronson Players in "The II
Girl,' Palace Theatre.
TOMORROW
Rotary club, Barbara Worth.
10000 club, 2:30, club house.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
OCEAN AVIATORS
RELATE GRAPHIC
TALE OF FLIGHT

NATAL, Brazil, Dec. 1s. UP)-
The tired and shaken transatlantic
airmen, surplanted with graphic de-
tail today the silence which envelop-
ed their flight from Seville, Spain,
to nearly fatal crash in the edge
of BraziPs dense forests, ~ hours
later.
Lieut.. Col. Tadeo Larre Borges,
the Uruguayan, rested at Santo An
tonic, from the strain and shock of
the second air accident which has
marked his attempts to link his ma
tiveland with Spain.
In "A hospital here, 65 miles from
the forest section of Maracuia.
where the white transatlantic BIZ
plane crashed at a. IN. @ a. m.
EST) yesterday, Capt. Leon Challe,
Larre Borges' French companion, be-
Titled the serious cash above his
eye and the body bruises which he
suffered. He chose to thank fortune
for directing them through the
dense fog to landing from which
they survived.
"Fortune smiled" he said.
Challe was brought to the hospit-
al here in a plane of the Aeropos-
tale Latecoere company, which had
been dispatched from Pernambuco,
near the scene of the crash.
From his cot, the Frenchman re-
vealed that the flight of the Breguet
land biplane had progressed without
incident for great part of the
journey along the northern African
coast, where Larre Borges and
three companions were forced down
at sea two years ago and held cap
tive by mnnrs
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
Mabel NOrnand
Suffers Relapse

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1s. W.R-
Mabel Normand, screen actress
and wife of Lew Cody, actor, again
is in Il serious condition at a sana-
tarium near Monrovia, according t,
wcrd received by motion picture
fiiends today.
Miss Normand was stricken with
tuberculosis a year ago and since
that time has experienced alternate
improvement and relapse.
Recently her physicians believed
she was improving but this improve
mcnt was halted by relapse few
days ago, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
STATE SCHOOL
LEADER TALKS
AT INSTITUTE
Kersey Stresses Import
ance Of Education In
Shaping Character.

Yierling Kersey, state superin-
tondent of public instruction, WAS
the chief speaker at the opening
session of the Imperial County
Teachers institute held this morn
ing at the local high school.
Beginning with the statement
that the local schools compared very
favorably with those in other 10
calities and that he recognized the
attainments which had been made
by the teaching force, he went on
to discuss the ideal education.
The speaker declared that every
phase of education was important
in shaping the future youth and
that financial recognition should
not be made on the basis of the
grade taught by the teacher, but
rather, the single standard salary
schedule should be adopted since
every teacher is factor in the de-
yelopment of the child.
The home, the church and the
schools are usually given as the
three influences shaping the child's
development, but Kersey added ii
fourth, the influence of the other
fellow, this social influence being
the dominant one from the sixth
grade through the junior college.
From this statement he went on
to develop the contributions made
by these four influences and then
considered briefly the seven stan
dard detectives of all education,
saying that he would add others to
the list: the development of dy
mamie, contagious personality, the
training in teaching the child t,
think, the teaching of what jobs
must be done and how to do them,
and lastly, training in the arts o.
life, the cultural side, which makes
for a richer individual life.
The true test of the child in the
future, he concluded, will be his
ability to master situations, rather
than to let them master him and
it is the function of the teacher 70
aid the child in this development.
Banquet Tonight
Mrs. Pearl Kendall Hess, director
Of the scientific temperance instruc-
tion department, made 4 brief ad-
dress entitled "Youth Holds the
Key" whose theme was that the
solution of modern problems rests on
youth of today, the key to these
problems being truth. She advo-
Gated the cooperation of the schools
in seeing that the truth of the pro-
hibition situation be presented the
youth.
Tonight, Vierling Kersey will be
guest of honor at a banquet TO be
held at 6 o'clock at the Barbara
Worth hotel. During the dinner
hour Il splendid program consisting
of musical numbers by DR.. and Mrs.
f. o. Carter and their son Addison,
as we'll as selections by an Hawaiian
orchestra, will be presented.
II. c. .Coe, superintendent of
schools, viii make the introduction
and brief addresses will be made By
local speakers, the main speech OF
the evening to be given by the Hon
orable Vierling Kersey, whose talk
is greatly anticipated by those hear
;ng his splendid address this morn
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
Marines Ordered
Back To States

WASHINGTON, Dee. ls. U.P)-
The aircraft tender Wright, with
approximately 500 marines aboard,
has been ordered to return to the
United States, it was announced at
the state department today.
The Wright was ordered % hail
during the disturbances of fort
night ago but at the suggestion of
Brigadier General John II. Russell,
the Wright was diverted to Guam
tanamo bay, Cuba, when Haitian
conditions suddenly improved.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
Pantages Allowed
To Visit Home

Los ANGELES, Dee. Is. W.p)-
Alexander Pantages, multi-millior-
aire theatre man convicted Of at
lacking II year old Eunice Pringle,
dancer, was granted permission to-
day to visit his wife at their home
here.
Pantages was taken from the
county Jail under guard and was
allowed to spend three hours "a.
home.
Judge Charles Fricke, who signed
the order, said physicians testified
Mrs. Lois Pantages, on probation on
a manslaughter conviction, was toe
I'll to visit her husband in Jail.
A business conference was hello
at Pantages' home, it was explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-18
Another Attempt
To Wreck Train

LOS ANGELES, Dee. IS. U.6-
Leonard Fuschino, San Francisco,
was under observation of alienists
today after an asserted attempt to
derail a Union Pacific train near
East Los Angeles station.
Fuschino was arrested by deputy
sheriffs after railroad track in
spector found Instructions on the
rails near that station.
Police declared footprints found
at the point of obstruction were
made by Fuschino, whom they ar
rested near the spot.