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Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
LOSS IN BLAZE
AT FILM PLANT
EXCEEDS MILLION

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. Oct. %.
U.P-Officials of the Consolidated
Film Industries, Inc, motion pie.
ture film developing concern, said
today that damage of a fire which
swept the plant Thursday night was
estimated at $1,5O0,000.
Fears that the fire loss might
reach Sl0.000,0O0 or more were end.
ed last night when the " fire proof -
vaults of the laboratory were open
ed by insurance adiusters and sew
eral valuable original negatives
were found to be safe.
Had the original negatives been
Scorched several companies would
have been compelled to retake ex.
sive pictures or count time and
money already expended as a total
loss.
II. X. O., announced that Crush,
esq or newly made film. of several
pictures now being made had beep
destroyed and would be retaken at
a cost of about $500,000.
Metro-Goldwyu Mayer also lost
some film, but lost no original mega,
tives. Officials at this studio made
no attempt to estimate the damage.
Caddo Productions reported that
some the the "rushes' of "Hell IS
Angels y were burned and that the
loss would be about 100000.
1t was said that most of the loss
to the laboratory and 90 the studios
was covered by insurance.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Many Fans Will
Fly To Game

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25. W.H-
Approximately $50 persons will leave
here tomorrow morning by airplane
to attend the Stanford University
of Southern California football class
ic at Palo Alto, officials of all
transportation companies announced
today.
Pickwick Airways announced that
three planes carrying a total of Is
passengers would depart in the
morning, Maddux Air Tines are send
ing planes with 4S passengers
aboard, Western Air Express has As
people going in planes with the
possibility of II fifth plane being
chartered before the ships take off
Seventeen people will go by Contin
entail Air transport and IA by Stan
dard Air Lines.
The number of people who will fly
to the game in private planes is not
known.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Former Boxer
Escapes Jail

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25. W.H-
johnny Buff, former fly weight
boxing champion, escaped from the
Los Angeles city Jail today by saw
ing two bars, iailers reported.
Authorities said Buff used soap
to deaden the sound of his saw on
the steel and worked hole through
which he could squeeze his ll2
pounds.
Officers discovered the escape a
short time after the noon meal and
found tracks on top of an automo-
bile which was parked under the
cell which had held the boxer.
All available officers we've order
ed to search for Buff.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
MARKET STEADY
ASLARCE BANKS
LEND SUPPORT

NEW YORK, Oct. %. W.H-Mil-
lions of dollars from Americas s
greatest banks vert to the support
of the stock m2rket today-just
when q definite down trend had
started-and brought about an
easier tone.
The closing gong at 8 p. m. found
some gains, some few losses, Il little
irregularity-bur in all much
easier trend than there had been
after the getaway this morning. The
trading was active and at the close
tickers were running 80 minutes be
hind the market.
The market opened in rampant
buying fashion--on the basis of
100000 share day-and prices
gained support. United States Steel
was one of theupswing leaders.
Then recessions started in. Steel
lost. A. T. & 7, went down. Other
leaders were hurt. Most of the sales
were from closing out accounts of
yesterday which had been held up
merely to prevent Il down swing
today.
Then came the announcement that
such big firms as j. P. Morgan &
Co., the Chase National Bank, the
First National Bank, the Guaranty
Trust Company, and the National
City Bank had formed an organiza
tion to prever: reckless losses in
the good securities. This ended the
nervousness and better tone de
veloped from there out.
Bears were frightened. They
quit activities. Bulls were buying
moderately. The list held steady
and the majority of early losers
gained back their early declines and
closed slightly higher,
1t was estimated that the last
quotation would not be reached un.
til 4:30 p. NJ.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
JURY WILL GET
PANTACES CASE
BEFORE NIGHT
Defense Attorneys At
tack Girls Character
In Final Arguments.
BY GEOPGE II. BEALE
Omitted Press STAFF Correspondent

LOS ANGELES Oct. %. ,tU.P)-
Defense attorneys attacked the char
acter of l. year old Eunice Pringle
as they presented final arguments
today to the jury trying Alexander
Pantagcs on a charge of assaulting
ler.
"You heard the state term her a
Little Red Riding Hood who fell
into the hands cf the wolf" Joseph
Ford said. 81 win tell you she was
a Carmen in red dress.
Tf this had been her first ex-
pcricncc, as she claimed on the wit
ness stand, she would have wanted
to- go home to the arms of her
mother rather t'an to have hunted
officers to arrest Pantages.
"You heard physicians testify
here they could find no evidence of
an attack having been made within
a week of the dag of August 8.
Don't forget that some girls of II
already are deep in sim"
Superior Judge Charles Fricke in.
terruptcd Ford st this point and
ordered him to dcsist from further
similar references.
Throughout his argument Ford
made thrusts at District Attorney
Buron Fits.
"Buron Fits has number of eff.
ficient men in his office" Ford
said at one point. why did he
enter this case himself7 Do yor
suppose it could have been for pub
icity purposes?" 2"
Scores Fits
Ford also scored the district at
torney for failing to place on the
witness stand tie physicians who
examined the girl for the state the
day after she said she was assaulted
by Pantages.
The attorney continued the enc
compromise verdict plea whicl
counsel for both sides have mad,
since the start of arguments.
The officers who testified for the
state that Pantqges told one story
to the jury and another the day OF
his arrest furnished the weakes
kind of evidence, Ford said.
They described Il conversation
which Pantages, With his poor un
derstanding of English, was no
capable of making, the attorney de
clared.
Ford was to be followed by De
fense Attorney w. |. Gilbert ant
then Fits was 10 make the states
last address.
The jury will get the case late
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
LARGEST TELESCOPE IN WORLD
TO BE BUILT IN SOUTHWEST

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25. W.H
Details Of the largest telescope
inthe world, with a 200 inch
mirror disc and weighing more
than 80 tons are told today in
an article in the November issue
Of Harper's magazine by DR..
George Ellery Hale, honorary
director of the Mt. Wilson OBJ
servatory and chairman of the
observation council Of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology
at Pasadena.
According 70 the article, the
huge telescope Will be built and
located either in Southern Cali
fornia or Arizona. At the pres.
ent time the telescope on top of
Mt. ilson is considered to be
the largest in the world. The
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25

Mt. Wilson telescope has 100
inch mirror disc.
The new telescope, DR.. Hale
says, will be 10 times as effec
tive as the Mt. Wilson telescope
and will penetrate more than
three times as far into space
than any existing instrument.
By means of the new instru-
ment an unexplol ed sphere 80
times the VOLUME of that al
ready studied, Will be open for
study and exploration.
So that the layman may get
some idea of the power of the
telescope. DR.. Hale says that in
certain ways it will be equiva-
lent to a humal eye with a
pupil II feet III diameter.
Construction of the huge tele-
scope is to begin soon, accord
ing to the article.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Mrs. Pantages'
Case Deferred

LOS ANGELES. Oct. 25. U.P)-
The sentencing of Mrs. Alexander
Pantages, wife of the millionaire
show man, on charges of man.
slaughter, was continued today I'M
til November s.
Superior Judge Carlos Hardy
granted the delGv when he was told
that officers desired more time be,
fore reporting on Mrs. Pantagcs'
plea for probation.
Mrs. Pantages, critically i'll since
q jury held her responsible for the
automobile collision death of Juro
Rokumoto, was attended in the
court by two nurses and a physician.
Her husband, now on trial on Il
charge of assaulting a young girl,
and her daughter and two sons were
i'll court with her.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
HALF HUNDRED
LOSE LIVES in
LAKE MICHIGAN
Crew OF Car Ferry Boat
Lose Lives During Ter
rifle Storm.
(By ROBERT +. LOUGHRAN
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent }


CHICAGO, Oct. 25. U.H-The
cold, gray waters Of Lake Michigan
gave up their prey stubbornly to-
day, rclinquishing one by one the
bodies of the more than so sailors
who went down with the Grand
Trunk car ferry Milwaukee.
At dawn, airplanes flew over the
choppy waves through which coast
guard boats plowed in the search for
victims. No trace had been found
of the hulk of the ferry which was
believed to have slid under in a
storm Tuesday night.
Five bodies, including that of
Capt. Robert Mckay, were known to
have been recovered. Others possibly
had been picked up by lake craft or
by landsmen along the shores where
breakers were casting up wreckage
torn from the ferry.
Coast guardsmen said they believ
ed the Milwaukee foundered off
Wind Point, peninsula which ex-
tends seven miles into the lake
three miles north of Racine, Wis.
There the storm struck with the
most fury. Waves crashed over the
narrow neck of land, swirling over
the top of 4 20 foot lighthouse at
the end of the peninsula.
The Milwaukee last message,
fragmentary sos, was picked up on
a radio at $50 o clock Tuesday
night by A. w. Pfeiffer, Racine in.
surance agent who had been naval
radio operator. He notified the Ra.
cine coast guard. The message, prob,
ably cut short when water closed
over the head of the ferry's opera.
tor, was: SOS-water up to"
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Probably Under
Length OF Hose

EVANSTON, ILL.,, Oct. 25. U.P,
Everybody for blocks around
ran out to watch when Evan
ston's new hook and ladder truck
changed UP to house on Demp'
ster street. Flames darted from
second story story window.
Run up the ladder, boys"
barked Capt. John Mersch, while
the admiring crowd edged closer.
where is it, chief?" asked a
fireman, hesitantly.
The captain looked at the
truck. The ladder was not there.
It was not at the fire house. The
firemen are still looking for the
thief.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Serious Damage
In Alpine Fire

ALPINE, Calf. Oct. 25.-U.H-
a serious brush and forest fire was
burning beyond Alpine today after
causing damage in the town estimat-
ed at 100000.
A tubercular hospital and two
houses were destroyed and the avn
ing was burned off the post office.
Fire fighters reported that the
blaze probably would be controlled
unless fresh winds set in today.
1t was said that three fires were
burning in the hills in the vicinity
of Alpine and Ramona, but that
weather conditions were favorable
at present and rangers believed the
situation to be more favorable than
for several days past.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Graft Trial To
Start Monday


LOS ANGELES, Oct. %. W.H-
First evidence in the trial of War
rem C. Earle, former city engineer
of Pasadena, William j. Watson,
an inspector, and Oliver X. Hearte,
a contractor, charged with two
counts of grand theft, will be heard
by a jury of six men and six women
Monday in the courtroom of Superior
Judge Thomas McComb.
Earle and Watson are alleged to
have entered conspiracy with
Hearte to put through contracts for
public improvements in Pasadena
containing excessive bids. The diff.
ference, it is asserted, was diverted
to their own uses. Tho trial was con-
tinucd until Monday after the jury
was selected.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
ATTACKS
BUILDING
OF Dam
Member of Sibert Board
Changes Attitude When
Addressing Power Meet.
HINTS AT DANGER
District Officials Not
Alarmed By Professor
Mead's Statement.

MADISON, Wis, Oct. 25. U.P1
Daniel W. Mead, Coolidge appointee
on the committee to investigate
feasibility of Boulder dam, declared
his opinion here that the project is
an unwarranted threat against safe
ty of persons living below it and a
too expensive power system Sfor
California.
Mead, professor at the University
of Wisconsin College of Engineering,
expressed these views before the en-
gineering section of the Great Lakes
division of the National Electric
Light Association convention.
"Boulder dam will solve the ques-
tion of water supply ror the whole
valley, but it will not take care of
bigger floods,' Mead said. off this
dam should ever fail, it would mean
destruction and death. I do not think
it is ever warranted, and the United
States has not the right to endanger
the lives of the people below the
dam with an experiment.
"The project will pay for its own
upkeep by money raised by subscrip-
tion to its power and water. But the
cost of transporting power to Cali
fornia from the plan will be nearly
double the cost of the installation of
the dam and powerhouse. In my opin-
ION it would be just as cheap to con-
struct a government steam turbine
plant outside the city of Los Angel
es.?
"Daniel w. Mead should not be
confused with DR.. Elwood Mead,'
officials of the Imperial Irrigation
District stated this morning when
Informed of the above dispatch.
cdr. Mead has always been an
advocate of Boulder dam, and is do
ing all in his power to speed up the
work of actual construction on the
dam.D
The district officials pointed out
that Daniel w. Mead was one of the
signers of the Sibert report, sub
mitted to congress after President
Coolidge had appointed board to
investigate the entire Boulder dam
project, prior to the passage Of the
bill. It was largely on the recon-
mendation made in this report, that
the bill received favorable action
in congress. DR.. Mead was also a
member of the board.
District officials were at loss to
understand the change in attitude
displayed by Daniel W. Mead, in
executing an about face from his
previous stand on Boulder dam.
They did not hesitate to say that the
statements credited to Mead would
have no effect on the progress of
the project.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Incorporate Air
Freight Company

LOS ANGELES, Oct. %. U.P)-
Incorporation of what is said to be
the first air transport company de-
voted exclusively to freight trans
portation, was announced TODAY by
Alfred Mailing, general manager of
the company, known as the Aerial
Express Corporation, Ltd.
The route of the new line will cx-
tend from the Gulf of California to
Seattle with a branch line to Impe-
rial Valley. Operation of the service
will begin about December l, ac.
cording to Mailing.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Huge Raid By
L. A. Police

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25.-W.P)-
City police, Federal prohibition
agents and operatives of the dis
trict attorney today We're engaged
in liquor drive WHICH extended to
all parts of Los Angeles.
More than so prohibition arrests
had been made and records apparatus
and liquor said to value almost 81
100000, had been seized.
jim, Joe and Antonio Mumulo,
alleged to be heads of huge liquor
ring, were among the prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Movie School
Case In Court

LOS ANGELES. Oct. %. U.D-
John Ince. V. M. Barnett and U.
Daley. charged with petty theft
in connection with motion picture
school, testified today as the de
Tense side was called in municipal
court.
So far in the trial several persons,
including an Episcopal church pas
tor, Rev. Franklin Hoyt Miller, of
San Fernando, have testified they
took the school course with high
promises of film success but failed
to secure jobs in the movies.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Army Aviators
Forced Down

SAN DIEGO, Oct. %. U.P)-Offi.
cials at Rockwell field here were
notified today that two officers of
the 10th observation squadron of
Detroit, Mich, were forced down
rear Hachita, n. NJ, while deliver.
ing a new national guard machine
from San Diego to the Michigan
City.
The officers, Major Floyd E.
Evans and Lieut.. w. f. Nicol, were
said to be safe. Two bombing planes
and three fast pursuit ships which
left Rockwell field to hunt for the
missing plane when it failed to re.
port at Tucson, Ariz., were expected
to return here some time today.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
CONVICT
FALL Of
BRIBERY
Jury Finds Former Cabi-
net Officer Took Money
From DOheny.
LONG BATTLE ENDS
I'll Health Causes Recon-
mendati0n Of Mercy In
Verdict.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)

WASHINGTON, Oct. %. W.P)-
bert B. Fall was found guilty by Il
jury here today on a charge of re-
cciving Il 500. 900 bribc from r.. H.
Doheny, oil millionaire, nearly eight
years ago. The Jury recommended
mercy.
Fall, who leased the valuable Elk
Hills, California, naval oil rcresve
to- Dohcny's Pan.American company
in 1922, had been pn trial here since
October :. His illness at one time
threatened to cause n mistrial.
The jury was ont % hours and 80
minutes.
1t received the ease at 1880 yes
tordnv and returned its verdict in
open court at ll.20 Il. m. today
though the decision was ready some
time earlier.
Fall, who has been i'll with n lung
ailment since the trial started, sat
still in his big green leather easy
chair in the prisoners dock, as the
verdict was read. Dohcny stood at
lis left and his ri Paso physician,
II. 7. Stafford, and Il nurse were at
has rlght.
Every member &C the jury recon.
mended "the merry of the court"
when the II were polled at request
of defense counsel.
Thomas t. Norris, % year old
bank teller. clectca foreman Just be.
fore The jury came in, read the yer.
diet in single word, guilty"
Berates Judge
la the back of the courtroom,
Fal's wife broke into sobs. An at.
tendant quoted her gently and the
sobbing spbsided.
Justice lIitz then directed the
Jurors TO sit down. He told them
then of the illness of Fan during
the early days of the trial, and the
report of physicians that he was
then suffering from a serious lung
illness
Fall showed little emotion. lie
wipcd his eyes once or twice.
In his hand Fall held cluriously
'"iNt' t"hc, pi'bhDiN Spuit ilouitH'
to of his cattle days in the west and
gripped it tightly. Defense Attorney
Frank J. Hogan gave notice he
would present motion for n new
trial and motion in arrest of
Judgment. Under the law he has four
davs to do this.
If these are denied, as is usual in
criminal cases.. the judge will then
impose sentence. Thereupon an ap-
peal to the District of Columbia
court of appeals can nc noted.
When court adjourned the 73 year
old Dohcny made an impassioncd
outburst of rage to friend.
'Thc Jury didn t try this ease,
the Judge tried it, he shouted. a
similar bribery indictment is pend
ing against him.
Counsel Collapscs
Mark X. Thompson of Phoenix,
Ariz., Falls former ranch neighbor
and personal counsel for many years,
collapsed in the courtroom 10 min
ntes after court adjourned. The tall.
sparse, good humored piaInsman had
sat at Fall's side throughout all of
the trials. He was confident of ac.
quittal when he talked with a Uni.
(Coptipuad nm DaOa Civil
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
o. E. S. No. 276, s. Masonic
Temple.
Boxing, 8, El Centre arena.
Troop 25, B. S. A, 7;30, Nc
Cabe school.
Troop Is, B. S. A. $780,. scout
hut.
Troop 81, B. S. A., 7:3o, M
E. social hall.
McCabe farm center, 7:45.
McCabe school.
Fox Imperial Theatre. "The
Return of Sherlock Holmes"
TOMORROW
Junior matinee, 2:i5, Fox
Imperial Theatre.
Rummage sale, Til, Amert-
canization cottage.
College Woman's club, 2;30,
Holtville high school.
Story hour, 1880. city library.
Football, $3.50, Central Union
high school.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
JURY CONVlCTS
TWO OFFICERS
FOR BRIBERY

LOS ANGELES, Oct. o5.-tU.D--
Miles Ledbetter and w. f.. (Bob)
Evans, Los Angeles policemen, TO.
Evans, Los Angeles policeman, to.
day were convicted of accepting q
$3.50 bribe from Harry Mcdonald,
confessed bootlegger. The jury de-
liberated 10 hours.
Superior Judge William c. Doran
will sentence the men October %,
he said. The conviction carries a
sentence of one to Ia years in San
Quentin.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
Angelus Temple
Books Searched

LOS ANGELES, Oct. %, up
With the books and financial state.
ments of Angclus Temple in their
possession, Investigators for the
grand jury today began a systematic
search for evidence to support
charges of mismaHagement of funds
by Aimee Semple Mcpherson.
The evangelist appeared in the
jury room yesterday for the pur-
pose of turning over the records,
She was not questioned.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
TRAIN HITS AUTO

CULVER CITY, Calf, Oct. 25.
U.D-lMrs. Kate Crane and an I'M
identified woman companion were
injured seriously here today when
their automobile was struck by a
Pacific Electric train. Witnesses said
the woman drove on to the tracks
from behind one train directly in
front of another.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25
THAW CASE TO JURY

NEW YORK, Oct. %. UP
Marcia Estardus' 100000 suit
against Harry X. Thaw, based on
the charge that hs injured her with
a hairbrush at a party on New
Years eve, 1927, may be in the
jury's hands before nightfal.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-25

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-25

favorites, and two comedy songsters,
Gus Van and Joe Schenk.
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra,
Claude Burroughs conducting, enter
tains with an overture OF popular airs.
LITTLE THEATER--"Homecoming."
It is not within the power of this
reviewer to recall any picture he has
ever seen which eclipses in values OF
realism those of the German UFA Aim,
Homecoming" now showing at the
Little Theater.
What subtle craft is given the Ger
man directors Gin this case one Joe
May, very American sort of name. as
a matter of fact) to pack such eloquence
into apparent trivia and thus to make
a picture great cannot be readily ex-
nlained. It is not the sense of scene
that fingers Gas it does, for instance,
in the realism of such pictures as THE
Big Parade" Beau Geste" and others,
but the disturbing impression OF emo
tional strife in the minds OF the three
cast" actors. UFA made another pic
ture of the same type, "Backstatrs. 1t,
too, had only three principal charac-
tiers whose deStinieS were based upon
the eternal triangle theme. The two
films have much in common, but
Homecoming" Is even more ruthless.
though there Is no murder at the end
to add final shock. There Is, instead,
very simple farewell between two men
who had suffered unspeakable privatlon
and hardship together; the switching
of the affection of woman from one
to another had separated them ire
vocably.
A very unadorned story, yet one that
moves to its inevitable climax with the
applicability of an approaching exc
cution. The title itself in one word
carries the significance of the whole
tragedy. A homecoming that had been
looked forward to for more than two
years, that had obsessed the husband
through all the horror Of persecution
In Siberia as prisoner Of war, his one
anticipation - this Homecoming had
crashed in one terrible instant, max
ing the husbands suffering all in vain,
leaving him a stunned empty figure with
the sole ambition Of forgetfulness.
The acting is superb. Lars Hansen,
as Richard, gives a repressed vivid
characterization. Dita Parlo, the Anna
of the story. shows a degree OF I'M
sophistication thoroughly in keeping
with stark truthfulness. Gustav Froe-
lich's work shows a vast Improvement
over his portrayal of Armand In youth