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Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
START PROBE
OF SABOTAGE
IN AIR DERBY

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf, Aug.
q. U.P)-The district attorneys Of
flee today questioned those who
handled the airplanes of the com
petitors in the Women's Air Derby
of the national air races in an at
tempt to sift charges that some
ships were tampered with during
the first overnight stop of the derby.
Field guards, the men who servlced
the planes and race officials, were
called to the office Of Chief Deputy
District Attorney Thompson, in
charge of the probe. Thompson said
he intended to prove or disprove the
sabotage accusations.
Claire Fahy, forced down at
Calexico, contended that acid had
been placed on the struts of her
plane, making it necessary for her to
leave the race. Thea Rasche, Ger
man aviatrix, asserted that dirt had
been placed in her gasoline. She went
down near Holtville but reentered
the competition later.
The opinion prevailed here that
the sabotage charges were not well
founded. 1t was admitted however
that preparations for the handling
ol the planes of the derby had been
inadequate.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
MEXICANS SEND
TROOPS TO HALT
REBEL OUTBREAK

VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Aug. 21.-
U.P-The Mexican cruiser Anahuac
was enroute to the state Of Quin-
tana Roo today with three infantry
batta)ions to suppress an uprising
among the Mayan tribes Of the
Yucatan peninsula.
Professor Moses Saenz Of the fed
eral department Of education, also
embarked for Quintana Roo to i'm
vestigate the cause of the uprising.
CARACTS, Venezuela, Aug. 21.-
'W.G-The Venezuelan port city Of
Qumaana was in the hands Of cove
ernment troops today after being
partially occupied by a band of reb-
els.
An official announcement said
that after being repulsed in their
first attack and driven back to the
steamer Fake, the rebels made
land attack and after two days Of
fighting succeeded in capturing a
part Of the city.
In retiring before an advance of
federal troops, the rebels confiscat-
ed the funds which had been col
lected for the victims of recent
earthquakes. Government forces
were in pursuit of the retreating
revolutionists.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
ZEPPELIN READY
TO START TRIP
ACROSS PACIFIC
Will Leave Capital of
Japan Some Time This
Afternoon.
BY MILES VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent

TOXIC, Aug. 81. W.H-Passen-
gers and crew were notified to stand
by and await orders to board the
Graf Zeppelin for possible take
off at 4 a. m. Thursday e p. m.
EST today for the third leg of her
flight around the world-Tokio to
Los Angeles.
DR.. Hugo Eckener, commander or
the air leviathan, made final ex-
animation of the ship today and
pronounced her to be in excellent
condition for the flight across the
Pacific ocean.
A minute inspection of the motors
found them in perfect condition.
The refueling of the Graf was
completed early today and the food
and water supplies have been COM
pletely replenished. Everything de-
pended upon the weather whether
the dirigible would take off on
scheduled time. So far the weather
reports have been favorable.
Won Schiller, one of the Officers
of the ship, said today that the
course which would be taken across
the Pacific would depend entirely
upon the weather. He said they
probably would choose circular
route, and added the possibilities
were that after leaving land here
they would not be over land again
until they had reached San Fran
cisco.
That, Won Schiller said, would de-
pend on climatic conditions on the
American end of the Pacific. They
intend to make for San Francisco
if the weather conditions permit. If
not they probably viii fly over Vie
toria and then follow down the
American coast to Seattle, then San
Francisco and finally Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
Costes Ready To
Try Ocean Again

PARIS, Aug. 81. U.H-Dieudonne
Costes. famous French transAtlan-
tic aviator, arrived at lie Bourget
Airdrome at ll:45 q. m. today, ready
for another attempt to span the At
lantic by air from east to west.
The United Press learned that
Costes intends to start at dawn
Thursday if weather conditions are
favorable.
Costes, who with Joseph Lebrix,
has a sohth Atlantic crossing to his
credit, turned back a few weeks
ago when 400 miles east of the
Azores on flight from Paris to
New York, when he found that head
winds were causing him to use
gasoline so rapidly that his supply
would be exhausted before reach
ing the American continent.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
One KILLED IN
RUNNING FIGHT
WITH OFFICERS

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, Aug.
81. UP)-As the result of running
gun fight with Officers at Mirimar,
near here, Joseph Barry, 21, Quincy,
Mass, was dead today, Charles
Gillis, %, New York, was wounded
in the shoulder, and Ralph Kemp,
90, was held in the county Jail.
The affair started when Harry
Fryer and Ben Hoover of the sher-
iff's night patrol, found a small
automobile parked near the Mirimar
hotel. While Hoover guarded Barry,
who was in the car, Fryer went to
the hotel grounds and found ellis
and Kemp, sheriff s report said.
When the Officers attempted to
search the pair, Kemp drew a gun
and held Fryer back while he and
his companion escaped to the car.
Barry, ellis and Kemp drove
away in the machine and Fryer and
Hoover were joined by four Santa
Barbara policemen, who had been
summoned.
After race of several blocks be-
tween the police car and the other
machine, Barry was killed at the
wheel of Ahis machine and the chase
stopped.
Police said that jewelry and
money stolen from service station
at Serena and other property re-
ported stolen from Ventura, were
found in the automobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
sun COD SETS
NEW RECORD FOR
LENGTHY FLIGHT

FELTS FIELD, Spokane, WASH,
Aug. 21. U.R)-After spanning the
continent twice without touching it's
wheels to the ground, battling
storms and flying $500 miles in five
days, the Spokane Sun God rested
today, back in it's home hangar af-
ter the longest nonstop flight in
aviation history.
Its pilots, Lieut.. Nick Manner and
Art Walker, bearded like explorers
and tired but happy, caught up on
their sleep after the Gruehng five
day epochal trip.
The orange plane nosed out of
cloud of forest fire smoke yester-
day afternoon and circled lazily
over Felts field just five days after
it had left. After demonstrating
how the flight was made by making
two refueling contacts over the air
port, the pilots touched the Sun
God s wheels to the ground at 8
p. M, five days to the minute after
it had roared away. toward the
eastern seaboard.
The purpose of the flight was to
demonstrate feasibility of refueling
under all conditions.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
Couple Held In
Theatre Robbery

LOS ANGELES, Aug. q. U.H)-
Edward A. Kavanaugh, 33, and his
wife, Mary, 90, were held by police
here today as suspects in the rifling
of the United Artists theatre safe
of $l2,S00 Monday.
Kavanaugh and his wife were ar
rested by detectives, who claimed
that Mrs. Kavanaugh deposited
So 500 in bank under the name of
Mary Goniaglio.
The husband, it was said, had
been head janitor at the theatre for
five months. He formerly was
ianitor at other theatres and came
here from New Orleans, where he
was a detective in the sheriff's Of
flee, police said.
Mrs. Kavanaugh said she did not
deposit any money in the bank and
both denied all knowledge of the
theft,
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
Mexican Held On
Narcotic Cargo

A Mexican booked as John Doe
is being held in the county Jail for
investigation on violation Of the
United States narcotic act. He was
arrested last night by Bob Greer of
the city police force and was found
to have l2 cubes of morphine in his
possession. Based ON Mexicali
prices it would be worth $40, Off
GERS said.
About Q o'clock Louis Mitchell,
traffic officer for the city, arrest
ed Albert Howard Of Westmorland
for making 35 miles in 20 mile
zone. Mitchell was riding in front
of the machine he was escorting 20
the station to book his prisoners
when the Mexican jumped from the
machine in which he was riding. The
motor officer stood by the prisoner
he had and reported the escape Of
the Mexican to Officers on their
beat. Mitchell said he could have
shot the Mexican but was afraid he
might kill him and this he did not
want to do.
Greer was placed on the east side
to watch out for the escaped Mexi-
can. About II o'clock he caught his
man walking down the Southern Pa.
cific tracks at the foot Of State
street. He was then brought to the
police department for booking and
lodged in the county Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
ATTORNEYS WILL
SEEK TO DELAY
PANTACES CASE

Los ANGELES, Aug. 81. U.H-
Attorneys for Alexander Pantages
today were understood to be pre-
pairing a demurrer as part of their
legal battle to delay plea Thursday
on a charge that the millionaire
theatre man attacked II year old
Euniee Pringle.
While the state will oppose any
postponement, one seemed possible.
Pantages' wife, Mrs. Lois Pantages,
will go on trial September 3 on a
charge of second degree murder in
the death of Joe Krokmoto, killed
when his automobile was struck by
that of Mrs. Pantages.
Joe Ford is attorney for both
Pantages ,and his wife and is en-
titled to asAdelay.
Employees of the Pantages thea
tire building, where the asserted at
tack on Miss Pringle occurred,
were questioned furthey yesterday.
Ruth Mays, secretary, and Marie
Lowell, cashier, were quizzed con
cerning the tall man who helped
Pantages arrange hs clothing just
after the alleged assault and regard
ing the woman who was reported to
have attempted to prevent Miss
Pringle's flight.
Connie Hardin, motion picture
operator admitted, according to in
vestigators that he helped Roy
Keene carry chairs and a desk into
the conference room shortly
after Miss Pringle had fled scream
ing from the room.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
AIRPLANES WILL
PAY LAST HONOR
TO DEAD FLYER

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Aug. 21. U.P
-Squadrons of airplanes will fly
overhead and drop flowers on her
grave when funeral services are
held here for Marvel Crosson,
plucky woman aviator, killed when
her craft crashed near Wellton,
Arizona, while she was competing
in the Women's Air Derby of the
national air races.
Ships from Santa Monica and San
Diego will join in paying tribute to
Miss Crosson, holder of the world s
endurance record for women and
one of the best known of the ma
tion s feminine flyers.
The date of funeral services will
not be set until after the arrival
of her brother, Joseph, former pilot
with Sir Henry wilkins south pole
expedition, expected to reach here
tonight or tomorrow by plane from
Detroit.
Miss Crosson s body reached San
Diego today having been sent by
way of Yuma from the place where
she met death.
A coroner jury at Wellton yes
terday decided that Miss Crosson s
death was accidental.
Her body was found early yester-
day morning some 200 feet from the
spot where her plane crashed in a
ravine in the rough country near the
Gila river bed.
Her parachute had failer to open.
Some of her competitors in the
Air Derby were reported to have said
that they advised Miss Crosson nor
to take off from Yuma, Ariz., when
she discovered the motor of her
plane was not working.
She went on, however, expecting
to make repairs in Phoenix, an over
night stop on the route.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
MOVIE MACNATE
ASSERTS EQUITY
CLAIMS UNFAIR

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 21. W.R-
There was no reason for the at
tempt by Actors Equity Associa-
lion to force the "closed shop into
the films, Cecil B. DeMille, presi-
dent of the association of Motion
Picture Producers, said in state
ment last night.
'The motion picture industry has
brought contentment and prosperity
to thousands employed therein. The
conditions of employment are fun
damentally sound. The remuneration
is such that it has attracted more
applicants than can be given
work. - he stated.
DeMille, said that the demands an
nounced by President Frank Gill
more of Equity meant virtual con-
troll of the industry. Gilmore called
a temporary halt because of
"borers Within in Equity's demand
for 48 hour week and Equity
casts.
"This control demanded was pre-
dicted upon conditions, unwise, i'm
practical and unfair,' DeMille said
"The Equity movement did not
have the approval or sympathy of a
majority of the working actors and
actresses in the motion picture stu
dios. We believe that many of Mr.
GillmOre's supporters were recruit
ed in part from the ranks of those
who unfortunately were out of EN-
ployment and in part from those
who had never been able to obtain
employment
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
SENATE LEADERS
BADLY PUZZLED
ON TARIFF BILL
Democrats Shy At Offer
To Shift Responsibility
to Their Side.
By PAUL r. MALLON
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. UH !
Opposition generals of the senate
are silently assembling here to plan
the coming legislative battle against
the Republican $605,000,000 tariff
bill.
The resolution of Senator Thomas,
Democrat, Oklahoma, seeking to
eliminate all save the agricultural
schedules of the bill may be side
tracked because it would Lad to
parliamentary difficulties. Instead
of it, a resolution may be Offered
later seeking to recommit the whole
bill to the senate finance committee
with instructions that the commit
tee make the necessary changes.
A second plan, being discussed,
would call upon the Democrats to
prepare a tariff bill of their own,
including in it only the agricultural
and related rates. This minority bill
could be reported out as minority
report from the committee in pro-
test against the majority bill and
as a report it would have an excel
lent parliamentary status, more
satisfactory than motion to recon-
nit. This plan is suggested by some
independent Republican senators
who want to work with the Demo
Gratis in the tariff contest.
The Democratic leaders have in
dicated no strong sentiment for this
method, because it carries the res
possibility of championing com
plete substitute for the Republican
bill. They are taking the position
that the Republicans were elected
last November on tariff platform
which they have the right to enac!
and that the Democratic responsible
lity goes no further than the neces
sity of seeing that the public in
! terests are protected.
| A third suggested plan is to droI
all these moves for big joint man
euvers and fight the issues out or
individual rates.
A decision may be expected with
in the next few days as the last OF
the Democratic tariff generals, Sen
ator Simmons of North Carolina, i
expected on the scene tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
Refueling Flyer
Falls Into Bay

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21. U.P)
Don Templeman S one-man refuel-
ing endurance flight came to an
end last night, less than an hour
before he would have established
record, when his plane crashed
into a lake.
Templeman was not hurt but was
taken to a hospital to rest and fell
asleep before he could tell the de-
tails of the accident. He had been
in the air slightly less than So
hours when he fell.
Templeman had accomplished 4
new feat in the annals by success
fully refueling his plane six times
while he piloted.
Before the plane crashed into the
lake it hit a power line with a
binding flash. A heavy fog lay
over the field and it was believed
Templeman became so sleepy that
when he was gliding down to the
field to drop note he hit the line.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
Second Blaze
: Aboard Liner

HAVRE, France, Aug. u. W.E)-
A second fire ravaged the French
liner Paris last night.
The flames required several hours
to subside. The salons and other
de luxe parts of the ship were re-
duced to a mass of charred ruins.
experts who had fastened to the
liner after the first fire yesterday
were forced to abandon hope of re-
conditioning the vessel for immedi-
ate service.
A police inquiry was started to
determine the cause of the fires.
The first theory, that the fire was
caused by short circuit in one OF
the cabins, has been abandoned. 1t
was suggested by some that the con
flagration may have been the work
of incend;arists.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
FEAR ATLANTIC
OCEAN CLAIMED
SWISS FLYERS

NEW YORK, Aug. 81. U.H-
The keenest anxiety was felt here
today over the fate of the two
young Swiss flyers, Oskar Kaeser,
81, and Kurt Luscher, %, who took
off Monday from Lisbon, Portugal,
to fly across the Atlantic to New
York.
At a. m. (EST) today their
plane, Young Switzerland, was "a
hours absent from Puncal Field at
Lisbon and unheard from for 43
hours, since it passed over Terciera
Island in the Azores at l p. m. (EST)
Monday. The plane carried little
more than 500 gallons. of gasoline
which experts at Roosevelt Field
here estimated could keep it in the
air not longer than 40 hours.
The merest fragment of a hope
was held that the flyers might by
some miraculous good fortune have
made the New England coast some
where between New York and Cape
Cod in a sparsely settled region
from which report of their pres
ence would come slowly.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
Marital Rift In
Wealthy Family

Los ANGELES, Aug. 81. 'W.H)-
Charging extreme cruelty, Mrs.
Mabel Anna Schiffman today
sought divorce for the second time
from Rudolph johnson Schiffman,
multi millionaire patent medicine
and oil man.
The complaint of Mrs. Schiffman
declared that there is community
property in excess of $lO,00O,0oo
but that Schiffman attempted to
conceal some of it by transfer to
various persons and corporations
named as joint defendants.
Mrs. Schiffman asked $4,000
monthly maintenance, $4,000 Incl
dental expenses, $4,000 attorneys IS
fees and custody of her II year old
son, Rudolph, Jr.
The complaint alleged that Schiff-
man falsely accused his wife of
using narcotics and twice had her
taken to sanatoriums by force.
The Schiffmans, whose fortune
originated in st. Paul patent medi-
cine enterprise, were divorced once
before but remarked in 1921.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
FRIEND TO. BE
QUESTIONED IN
ACTORS DEATH

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21. W.R,
Robert Chapman, leading man in
easy For Zee Zee,' was found
dead today in lightwell of an up
town apartment house.
Tenants of the building told police
they had heard sounds of fight, a
man s terrified yell, and hurried
footsteps on stairway.
The body was discovered by a
janitor. 1t lay below the kitchen
window of the apartment of Allan
Hoffman, playwright and friend OF
the actor.
Hoffman told police he believed
Chapman was thrown from the
kitchen window by two men. The
playwright said he thought the men
had planned to kill the actor fol
more than week.
Hoffman said that after last
night s performance of Easy Fol
Zee Zee,o Bohemia S merriest play
he and Chapman had Joined q
party at an actress apartment, had
few drinks, and then gone to
Hoffman's apartment.
FTwo men knocked at the door
of my apartment, Hoffman said
"They were the same men who call
ed twice within the last week and
demanded l serve them liquor.
The playwright then said that
when he refused to serve the in,
truders liquor he was knocked I'M
conscious.
"When l regained my senses
he continued, 81 went downstairs
and met Paul Bernardo, the janitor. -
Bernardo said he had heard a
"crash, and that when he told
Hoffman about it the latter cried
"It must be my friend falling out
of a window"
Chapman body, clad only in un-
derclothes and shoes, was found in
the lightwell. Death had evidently
been instantaneous.
Hoffman was taken to police
headquarters for further question
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
CYCLONE
WARN|N(,
is GIVEN
Hurrican Causes Heavy
Damage To Venezuela
Capital.
SWEEPING NORTH
Cuba And Eastern u. S.
Advised To Prepare For
Severe Storm.

CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 21.
U.H-A devasting hurricane swept
northern Venezuela causing consid-
cradle damage in the forest district
and disrupting trolley service in
several Of the larger towns, dis
patches from Macuto, Guayra, and
Maiquetia said today.
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 21. U.R)--
A terrific hurricane which has been
expected to strike this island for
the last several days was reported by
the national observatory today to
be approaching the city Of Santi-
ago DE Cuba.
The observatory announced it
would not be able to report until
later which direction the hurricane
would take, thus increasing the
alarm and anxiety here since the
hard rains and extremely low
thermometer began to presage the
hurricane five days ago.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. W.n
huITlcdHe warnings duVlStu CautIOH
in the region of Jamaica and waters
south of Cuba for the next "a hours
were broadcast by the weather bur-
eau today.
+. The warnings advised Of "tropi-
cal disturbance this morning short
distance southeast of Jamaica Of
slight moderate intensity and NOV
ing west -northwestward.' Forecast
er Weighman announced there was
little cause for alarm.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
Loaded Plane
Off For East

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. W.H-
Accompanied by four passengers and
carrying $3,000,0O0 in securities,
consigned to New York bank,
Captain Roscoe Turner of the Nevada
Airways took off from here today
on a speed hop to New York.
He hopes to reach the eastern
city in 1S hours and, doing that, he
plans to return west Immediately IN
an attempt to set round-trlP
record.
Captain Turner left here at N2:45
a. m. He headed first for Albuguer-
que, N. NJ, where he will make a
seven minute refueling stop.
His Lockheed-Vega monoplane has
a speed of nearly 200 miles an hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
Screen Star
Weds Doctor

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 81. W.He-
Norma Terris, who just completed
a leading role in the film Mar
ried in Hollywood" really was.
That is, she was married here
late yesterday to DR.. Jerome Wag-
ner, New York physician, who
rushed west after acceptance of his
fourteenth telephoned proposal.
They were married in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mack by
Judge Hugh J. Crawford. They plan
to leave within a few days for New
York on honeymoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
No Wonder
He tainted

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. (U.P)
Harry Schuller, competitor in
the Pacific coast open pinochle
tournament here, turned up a
double book, the equivalent of
two royal flushes in poker, and
tainted dead away last night in
the finals of the tournament.
A double book has only hap
pened some 80 times in the his
tory of American pinochle, it
was said.
Schuller won the contest.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-21
PAYS Heavily
For Cigarettes

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21. W.H
Five packages Of cigarettes he
obtained by putting slugs in a
vending machine, sent Jack Fish
or to San Quentin today for a
term of from five years to life.
The sentence was passed by
Superior Judge Walton Wood af-
ter Fisher pleaded guilty to a
charge of petty theft. He asked
for probation BUT admitted prior
conviction.