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Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
WARRANT FOR
M0T0RLST Who
ATTACKED Man
Aftermath of Accident
On Highway Sunday Has
Many Ramifications.

A complaint charging battery was
issued yesterday afternoon by the
district attorneys office against
Ray Cats of Tejunga, Calf, as an
aftermath of collision on the high
way near Coyote Wells Sunday even
ing when the cars OF \. Davis of
351 Holt street, this city and that
of Oats sideswiped each other.
Judge Mayfield issued a warrant
of arrest Immediately after the fill
ing of the complaint and the sher-
ifs department is preparing to
serve it as soon as they have located
Oats.
Davis told the district attorney Is
office that while travelling on the
San Diego highway Sunday evening
Oats car driven by c. E. Wynn, 447
Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles
crashed into his, damaging both au
tomobiles.
Oats is alleged to have been under
the influence of Intoxicating liquor
and is said to have climbed from his
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Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
UNIVERSITY OF
DES MONIES IS
BACK TO NORMAL.
BY JOSEPH F. HEARST
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

DES MONIES, Iowa, May IA. U.P)
Higher education by injunction
was resumed peaceably on the cam
pus of Des Moines Baptist university
today as fresh breezes from the corn
belt carried away the last taint of
bad eggs which students had hurled
at their administration building in
week end rioting.
Only an occasional dark splotch on
the brick walls of the building and
here and there broken window re-
manned to remind students of the
outbreaks as they picked up the
threads of Latin and Theology where
they had dropped them last week to
take up brickbats and spoiled vege-
tables.
Miss Edith Rebman, secretary to
the board of trustees, and one of
the persons against whom the stu
dents revolted, last night departed
for Buffalo, her send off being q
chorus of jeers and American patri-
otic songs.
The students had gathered to say
goodbye to the Rev. Minor Stevens,
pastor of the Calvary Baptist
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Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
CLEAN BILL OF
HEALTH AWARDED
'COHENS-KELLYS'

NEW YORK, May IA. W.D-
Anne Nichols today lost her suit
against Universal Pictures, Carl
Laemmle, and Harry Pollard for
alleged plagiarism and approxima-
tely $3,000,000 damages. The suit
was based on her charge THAI Uni
versal and Laemmle as producers
and Pollard as the author of the
"The Cohens and the Kellys," Il
screen production, had pirated her
successful play, "Abie s Irish
Rose
Federal Judge Henry w. God
dard, who heard the case last fall
and viewed not only the stage pro-
duction but the screen production
of Miss Nichols play as we'll as
"The Cohens and the Kellys, "
held in his decision that although
there was ''strong inference that
the author of the latter production
got some of his ideas from Miss
Nichols play, that nevertheless
the portions of the play which were
protected by copyright had not
been infringed upon.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
FILM COMPANIES
WILL BE TRIED
ON TRUST CHARGE

Los ANGELES May II. U.p)--
Eleven motion picture companies,
including the largest studies, and
Harold b. Franklin, president of
the West Coast Theaters, Inc, will
he tried on sept II for asserted
violation of the sherman antitrust
Law.
Franklin and the other defendants
pleaded not guilty to the charge in
|. 5. District Judge IIenning 5
court yesterday.
Among the defendant companies
are Metro Goldwyn Mayer Distribu-
ting Corporation, First National
Pictures, Inc, United Artists, Uni
versal Film Exchanges, Inc, Fox
Film Corporation, and Warner
Rrothers Pictures, Inc.
Discrimination against indcpend
ent motion picture thcaters is the
specific charge,
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
FARMER R-EDITORS
DELIGHTED WITH
IMPERIAL VALLEY
Visiting Scribes Given
Warm Welcome At
Breakfast This Morning.

Editors of agricultural papers in
the south and middle west, mem
bers of the American Agricultural
Editors Association who with their
wives made a party close to 100,
were entertained here this morning
by the Imperial County Board of
Trade with breakfast at the Barbara
Worth hotel.
The visitors are making a tour
of the country and Will spend sew
eral days in California, later going
north and starting on the return
trip east some time next week.
A delegation of imperial Valley
businessmen and ranchers met the
editorial party this morning at
Calexico, bringing them to this
city IN Pickwick stages.
For many of the party this was
their first visit to Imperial Valley.
All had heard about it, and con
fessed that ii loomed ON their
itinerary as one Of the high spots.
The trip from Calexico to FL Centre
gave them their first glimpse of the
valley and they were greatly sur
Irised at the Development here, con
ditions being entirely different
from what their imaginations had
conceived
~ IN loyal to our Rio Grande
Valley said II. II. Williamson,
assistant director of the extension
service in that section, "but Impe.
rial Valley certainly has surprised
me- 1t IS a real wonder spot and al
members of the party are delighted
with ii. -
Imperial Valley eantaloupc, fur.
nished through the courtesy Of the
Fred Bright Company and Miller
Cummings, were served at break
fast, causing new wonder to the
editors who thought valley canta-
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Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
BOYS TELL HOW
FATHER KILLED
THEIR MOTH Err

LOS ANGELES, May IA. W.H-
The two small sons of Francis j.
kennoy today explained to Supe
ior Judge Carlos Hardy how their
father committed the murder of his
wife, Emma, to which he pleaded
guilty yesterday.
Chester, s, and Billy, 7, took the
witness stand as the court sought
to determine from their testimony
the degree of the crime before
sentence is pronounced.
Mama was washing dishes in
the Kitchen Chester said, "and
Billy and me had been sent to bed
early because we got our feet wet.
When daddy came home we got up
and saw him point black gun at
mama like this. -
Using a pencil for a gun, Chester
demonstrated.
Daddy told us to go back to
he'd, Chester continued. "ln a
few minutes we heard shots and
found mama on the floor. l ran out
of the house and daddy went away
but a policeman brought him
back.'
Billy gave similar testimony
adding he heard his father say
I'm fix YOU before the shots
were fired
kennoy, formerly of Pittsburgh,
Pa, was accused of killing his wife
last January 20 after she refused a
reconciliation.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
Texans Remain
Ever ChivalrOus

LA GRANGE, Tex, May Ii. U.P)
Texans who once upon time
hanged men who stole cattle, find
II difficult to sit in judgment on
& pretty "cocd' who robbed u
bank, examination of Jurors in the
trial of Rehccca Bradley Rogers
showed here today.
Only six jurors from 60 pros
poets examined have been chosen to
hear the ease of the University of
Texas girl charged with robbery of
the State Bank of Buda, Tex, two
years ago, The panel was expected
70 be completed this afternoon.
Counsels plodded through heavy
examinations of vcniremen only to
have their successive choices in
terrupted when c. G. Robsonn, for
mer mayor of La Grange, said he
could not serve because he thought
lit was ridiculous for three men
to let a little girl rob their bank. -
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
MUCH DAMAGE
RESULTS FROM
TEXAS FLOODS

LIVINGSTON, Tex, May IA. W.D
Five members of one family were
believed drowned when trapped in
their home, other casualties were
feared and property damage was con-
siderable in the wake of Polk county
floods, a survey showed today.
Long Kain creek was reported to
have engulfed Mrs. Burks, her
daughter, son, son-in-law and child
when their home was swept away
south of here. High waters prevent
ed rescuers reaching the spot.
Rescue parties told of whole fam.
lilies marooned in tree tops or on
roofs and said other victims may
have been claimed by the waters
which rose suddenly after torrentiai
rains.
With roads and railroads still
flooded, transportation in the affect.
ed areas was conducted by comman-
deered boats and improvised craft.
Creeks were out of their banks in
many parts of the country. Water
was reported eight to 10 feet deep
at Doorieh when the Trinity river
went out Of its bank. Water SUBJ
sided here.
Trains have not run in the dis
trict for 36 hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
BY ERIC KEYSER
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

RERLIN, May II. UP)-Not
until just few hours before the
giant dirigible Graf Zeppelin draws
out of its hangar at Friedrichscha-
fen early tomorrow morning viii
DR., Hugo Eckner, its pilot, know
definitely what course he will take
on its second transatlantic flight
to the L. S.
Everything else seemed perfect
ed today. The crew of 40 men was
ON the job, putting finishing
touches to the giant of the air. The
10 passengers marked time bit
nervously prior to embarking for
their adventure of a life time.
1t was not believed today that
the Graf Zeppelin would take the
shortest route to Lakehurst, n. j.,
via Ireland and Newfoundland.
The dirigible was almost certain of
encountering fog and head winds if
it went that way.
DR., Eekner was known to be con
sidering three different southern
courses. One of them would take the
Graf via Bordeaux, the Azores and
Bermuda. Another would take it
along Gibraltar and Bermuda, and a
third would take it along the south
ern fringe of the trade winds where
constant tail winds would assist the
flight.
The extreme southern route would
be almost twice as long as the Ire
land Newfoundland route. and
therefore DR.. Eckner might decide
ON one of the more northerly routes.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
TO ASK
FOR BIDS
ON POWER
Plans For Boulder Dam
Reported To Be Near
Completion.
TO RESUME FARLEY
Tri-State Conference To
Meet Late This Month at
Washington.

WASHINGTON, May IA. U.H -
Engineering blue prints for the
construction of Boulder dam are
nearing completion and the bureau
of reclamation plans to ask for
formal bids on power rights within
three or four months, it was learned
at the interior department today.
Bids ON alternate plans-either to
erect a power plant and buy only
water rights from the government,
or to purchase current from gov
ernment owned plant-probably will
be asked, it was said. Under terms
of the Boulder dam bill these con-
tracts, which must provide sufficient
income to pay for the dam within so
years, must be obtained before con-
struction can begin.
The city of Los Angeles, it was
said, probably will use half the pow
er generated at the dam. Although
the reclamation bureau has had no
definite understandings with the
city, informal discussion has center
ed around a rate of two mills per
kilowatt hour for current, should
the government generate and sell the
power itself.
This amount, it was said, is con-
siderably less than the rate Los An
geles can obtain in the open power
market, but it was said it would
yield sufficient money to iquidate
the dam s cost, including interest.
! Meanwhile, California, Nevada and
Arizona are planning to resume
here May 25 the meeting started un-
successfully at Santa Fe and Yuma,
to reach an understanding regard.
ing distribution of water in the low
er Colorado basin.
Under terms of the Boulder Cam
yon act, the compact will go into
effect June 81, since it has been
ratified by six of the seven interest
ed states. Until the power contracts
are obtained, congress is to approp-
riate money to begin actual con-
struction it was said.
F. II. McIver, secretary of the
Imperial Irrigation District, and
also secretary of the California
! Colorado river commission, stated
today that date for the Washington
! difference has been definitely set
for May 2S. He will leave this city
on May % to attend the conference.
Earl c. Pound, president of the dis
trict, and member of the river COM
mission, will also attend the con
ference.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
BY PAUL r. MAIIoN
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May IA. W.P =
The senate went on the war path
today when ii heard reports that the
house would refuse to accept the de
henture provision of the farm relief
bill which il contemplates passing
by nightfall over the objections OF
President Hoover.
The move of house leaders was dc.
hounccd by Senator Robinson, the
Democratic floor leader, as q" o
towardly attempt to interfere with
legislation. and SENATOR Brookhart
OF Iowa advocated that the senate
refuse to receive any bills or com
munications from the house If tho
farm bill should be held up there.
The house leaders were in confer
cnce and would not say what they
were going to do. They were busy
with tariff troubles, watching th,
progress Of the new ways and means
committee hearings where 81 Re
publicans were pleading for revision
of the bill now under consideration
in the house Advocates Of increased
duties on agricultural by product
were heard and the committee re,
ecssed until tomorrow.
The house leaders are known to be
strongly opposed to the debenturs
plan and refused to permit it TO be
voted upon when the farm bin was
under consideration in the house
several weeks ago. There has been
talk that they would postpone action
on the senate bill until after tn,
tariff measure is passed and let the
senate carry ont its threat to put the
debenturc plan on the tariff bill
too.
'Such tactics would preeipitate =
war between the two houses, stale
mating al legislation, and creating
u congressional condition which new
cr before has arisen in this cOun
try Robinson said.
''For the house to refuse to ac
cept this bin would be a mere sub
tcrfugc,' Robinson said. cit would
be a cowardly attempt to prevent an
expression of the views of the peo
pie on a question which has arisen
in the congress.
cit is Il mistake for anyone tC
assume that the debenture plan was
originated for political purposes, tC
harass the President or confuse the
true friends of farm relief. -
Robinson says such refusal of the
house to accept the bin would create
legislative anarchY.''
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
CHlCAGO'S NOTED
GOLD COAST ON
PINS & NEEDLES
Heirs of 'Squatters' File
Suit Against Wealthy
Families.
By EARL j. JOHNSON
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, May IA. W.D-Uni-
ted States Deputy Marshali John
Oros adjusted "a gardenia in his
lapel, twirled his malacca stick
nonchalantly and stepped into the
rear seat Of his luxurious limousine
in front of the Chicago federal
building today.
cup along the gold coast,
Harry" Oros said to his liveried
chauffeur, Harry Bloom. eve have
a number of stops to make SO drive
slowly and III read them off to
you"
On the immaculate deputy's call
ing list We're the Potter Palmers,
the SUifts, the McCormicks, the
Benz Carpenters, the Lake Shore
Athletic club and hundreds of other
names and addresses which mean
wealth and social position in the
exclusive district bordering Lake
Michigan north of Towertown and
east of the world of furnished
rooms.
Thirty five hundred persons, in
Guiding countless social registerites,
Deputy Oros must see personally
serving on each one notice that he
must contest a suit which has been
filed against him in federal court.
If the suit is won it will mean the
| election from their palatial homes
and apartments and places of bust
ness all $500 of the persons who
now live on the property to which
% heirs of old Capt. George Vel
lngton Streeter claim 'squatters
rights = 1t also will mean that the
inha bitants of that gold coast
sector must pay the heirs $5,00Oo0
| in damages.
In the seventies, when the present
! gold coast was mere sand waste
"Tepa' and "Mao Streeter came
! ashore from their lake boat and
started Il settlement of their own
They claimed ''squatters rights'' to
a strip of land that nobody wanted
For in those early days no one
could foresee that Chicago i'll less
than half Il century would expert
ence Il mushroom growth which
would carry it over and far be
yond the dingy novels that compris
! ed Streeterville.
Put that is just what happened
and today the % Streeter heirs are
suing to evict and penalize the rich
and prominent inha bitants of their
ancestral habitat.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
SENATE
GOES ON
WARPATH
Pecved At Refusal Of
House To Accept Deben-
turc Plan.
ROBINSON BITTER
Arkansas Senator De
nOnnces Leaders For
Interfering.

WASHINGTON, May IA.
tU.p)-The a-mn!stra ion
farm relief bill with the dis
puted debenture included was
passed by the senate today and
sent back to the house for ad-
jnstment of differences be-.
tween the two houses.
Chief of these differences is
the debenture> provision adopt
cd by the senate over the objec-
tions Of President Hoover. The
house is expected to appoint a
committee to meet with the SEN
ate committee to thrash out the
final form of the measure to be
submitted to Mr.. Hoover for
signature.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
HOOVER ORDERS
TARIFF RAISE ON
FARM PRODUCTS
Several Commodities Get
Increases Under Flexible
Tariff Law.
BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May IA. U.D =
While farm bloc leaders were de-
manding greater agriculture tariff
protection before the house ways
and means committee today, Presi
dent Hoover took matters into his
own hands by ordering sharp in
creases on several farm products
under the authority of the flexible
tariff law.
President Hoover, acting upon
recommendation Of the United States
tariff commission, ordered the fol-
lowing tariff increases into effect:
Flaxseed-40 cents to Sc cents a
pound.
Milk-2H2 cents to 3al cents a
gallon.
Cream-20 to 50 cents a gallon
Window glass-sliding increases
ranging from fiveeighths of a cent
to one and one-half cents above
existing rates.
The President pointed out in his
/ announcement that the new rate ON
] cream will be lower than the rate
! proposed in the new tariff bill now
before the house, but explained that
under the 1922 tariff act changes
under the flexible tariff provisions
are limited to so per cent of existing
rates.
His conferences with leaders of
! the house and senate had convinced
him, the chief executive said, that
the farmers should have the benefit
i of the increased tariff at once
In announcing the new schedules
the President refrained, however
from any comment indicating his
views on the general tariff bill
! about which so much controversy
now RACES on Capital HILL Neither
! did he take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to clarity the situation which
has arisen from conflicting reports
! published during the last week pur.
! porting to represent his views or
the bill.
At the same time Republican farm
bloc leaders in the house were ask
ing the house ways and means com
mittee for tariff of seven cents
pound on long staple cotton, now OF
the free list; a rate of 20 cents 6
bushel on flax which the President
today ordered to Sc cents from the
40 cent rate in the present law; and
a rate of eight cents pound or
casein.
j Rep. Swing, Repn., Calf, asked
for tariff of seven cents a pound
on long staple cotton, one and one
| eighth inch cotton, used in making
automobile tires. He pointed out
this was the emergency rate levied
on cotton in 1921.
I More than 80 Republicans were
I waiting to be heard by the commit
I tee when the meeting recessed unit
| tomorrow. Those waiting included
representatives. Dickinson, Repn.
Iowa, who wants a high tariff OF
live stock and Barbour, Repn., Calf
an eight cent tariff on figs.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14

The United Press today is in
position to state authoritatively
that the president already has
communicated his intention to
retire to his friends and political
advisers. He has confided that
under no condition would he ac-
cept a second term or the pres
idency.
:" As soon as | am relieved of
the burden of office" he told
friends, 81 shall retire to my
country estate in Hanover and
pass my last days there. | hope
still to be able to sally forth for
an occasional hunt after my re-
tirement. But once | have set
tied down in Hanover | shall
never aoain cross the Vistula.
| want to die there and be
buried next to my wife,
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
WON HINDENBERG WILL QUIT
PUBLIC LIFE WHEN TERM ENDS

BERLIN, May IA. WP)-Prcs-
ident Paul Won Hindenburg,
Germany's soldier statesman,
will retire from public life at
the expiration of his present
term of office in 1882 and spend
the remainder of his days on his
country estate, it was learned
today.
Called out of retirement in
1914 TO command Germany s
armies on the eastern front and
ultimately on all fronts, recalled
again after the war to take the
presidency of the republic and
thus, for the time being, settle
internal political strife, Hindcn-
burg, now 81, feels that he
would like to spend the re-
mainder of his life in tranquil
ity.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
COURSE OF BIG
ZEPPELIN NOT
YET DECIDED
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN,

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Ger
many, May IA. W.D-Dr. Hugo
Eckener, commander of the disigible
Graf Zeppelin, announced today
that the start of the Zeppelin on its
second westward voyage across the
Atlantic, scheduled for tom orrow
morning had been postponed.
The flight was postponed indefin-
itely for two reasons, namely, un-
favorable weather over the English
Channel, the German and Dutch
coasts, making it impossible for the
dirigible to take the northern
route, and secondly because France
has not yet answered DR.. Hugo
Eckener' application for permis-
sion to fly over French territory.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
Teddy Knows
His Master

NEW YORK, May IA. U.P) -
Teddy, 212 pound Manchester
Toy Spaniel, convinced Magis-
trate Vitale he belonged to Julius
Kahn and not to Elsie Cambridge,
who had claimed him. At Kahn's s
command he stood On two feet,
rolled over and barked. When
Kahn handed him a cigarette in
a holder Teddy held it in his
mouth awaiting a light. 1.-THE
dog is yours the Judge said to
Kahn and Teddy got his smoke
outside the court room.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
Spanish Vets To
Name Officers

SACRAMENTO, Calf, May Ia.
(U,P)--Nominatlon of officers today
occupied the attention of veterans
attending the twenty-sixth annual
encampment of the United spanish
War Veterans, gathered here frons
all parts of the state.
Election OF officers and their in
stallation at a banquet tomorrow
night viii bring the convention to
close.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
Americans Body
Found I'm Mexico

WASHINGTON, May IA. u.H -
Identification of a body found
buried in a trench at Aqua Prieta,
Mexico, as that of Thomas Cham
bers, an American citizen of Doug
las, Ariz., was reported to the state
department today by American con
sular authorities.
Chambers was TAXI driver and
he disappeaed from Douglas, which
is just across the line from Aqua
Prieta, May s. Mexican authorities
promised to do their utmost to appre-
hend the murderers.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
FAMOUS LONG DISTANCE HIKER
MEETS DEATH IN WHEEL CHAIR

NEW YORK, May IA. U.P)-
Edward Payson Weston, walker
of magnificent distances, rode
wheel chair to his last goal
death.
The "king of walkers passed
his Goth milestone, a mark he
had set for himself, but the end
which came yesterday found him
unable to use the legs that had
carried him to triumph in more
than 1000 athletic tests.
Weston had scorned any other
mode Of travel than his legs.
As spy and dispatch bearer
during the Civil War he learned
to rely on his own locomotion
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14

when the enemy shot his horses
from under him.
The feat started Weston on
professional walking career. In
1867 he paced the 326 miles
from Portland, Me-, to Chicago in
20 days. Forty years later he
made the same distance in 10
hours less.
At 70, he walked from New
York to San Francisco, 1895
miles, in I04 days and seven
hours, fighting billiards for 80
days on the way. The next year
he walked from Santa Monica,
Calf, to New York, $500 miles,
in 76 days and 23 hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-14
HELEN JACOBS SAILS TONIGHT

NEW YORK, May Il. ,UD-
Helen Jacobs of California, who is
No. . in the women's national ten
ms rankings, will sail tonight on
the Berengaria for an invasion of
the European courts. Miss Evelyn
Collier and Mrs. John Hill will ac-
company her, All three expect to
compete in the French champion
ships starting May 90