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Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
UP TO THE MOTORIST

Since the first of the year. less than five months,
figures compiled by Frank g. Snook chief of the state
division of motor vehicles show that 529 persons have
been killed by automobiles in the state of California
This that on an average more than 100 per-
sons have been killed each month. In all probability
this will be increased travelling done
by motorists during the summer months.
There is very little likelihood of the average de-
creaslng unless motorists come to their
Contrary to the general belief, the majority of
cdents occurring in the above period happened on dry
pavements and when the weather was clear
total of 100 accidents occurred at intersections
ocaung that drivers Will stlll cling to the right of
manner.
Injuries since the first of the year result of
automobile accidents, have reached the amazing figure
of 1880. There is no record of how many persons
were seriously injured.
The report does not so state, but it is safe to as
sumo that goodly percentage of the deaths and in
juries can be blamed drivers who exceeding the
speed laws, not necessarily travelling faster than the
limit of 40 miles hour allowed by the state Under
some circumstances 25 miles an hour is speedy.
All the laws one could write and all the traffic
figures shown the report without the cooperation of
the motoring public. Taking chance because no
officer of the law present fundamental
Tor the number of deaths and injuries.
If each motorist would pledge himself to abide by
the law for his own safety and that of his fellow
rather than for fear of the consequences if
he caught violating it. the deaths injuries could
be reduced to an insignificant figure Perhaps that
Is expecting too much Too many of US in per-
.Tunney made million in the ring Now failure
to give ring may cost him half his pile
Apparently the senators cannot outgrow their
boyhood days when they .swore 'secrut and bludy
oaths' up in the barn loft.
Wasn't it in Kentucky where they used to shoot
each other off in feuds and nobody prison
it?
The snappy looking officer biting his fingernas
might be Major Spatz reading of the doings of the
Texas aviators.
Discussing ladys legs is not considered good
FORM annent those belonging to Helen Wills we
simply remark that they enable her to win tennis
matches, stockings or no stockings.
Philadelphia may find itself handicapped by hav-
ing lot of the boys follow 'Scarface APs" example.
Bill Williams may not push the peanut to the top
of Pixies Peak but he surely made the front page with
a bang
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

Tunney made million in the ring.
to give ring may cost him half his pile
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

Philadelphia may find itself handicapped by h
G lot of the boys follow 'Scarface Als" example
Evening star., 1929-12-05

make It carry more pay load and con-
sumo less fuel and oil, construct it more
simply and cheaply and make it easier
to maintain and overhaul, make it more
reliable by improving methods and
landing and take-off characteristics of
the airplane so as to enable it to land
and take of in small areas--in short,
improve its aerodynamic efficiency and
make it more controllable, especially at
low speeds.
All of these problems are included
in the current research programs of
the committee and the efforts of all
existing agencies, governmental and
private, it is said, are co-ordinated in
an organized plan to solve them.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
HOOVER URGES j. S.
TO KEEP PACE IN AIR
President Submits Report of
AeronauticS Advisory
Group to Congress.

Despite the great progress in aero
nautics in this country during the past
year, the best efforts of America are
needed to keep pace with other pro-
greSSive nations in the science of aero
nauticS, President Hoover stated in sub
mitting to Congress today the fifteenth
annual report of the National Advisory
Committee for AeronauticS, the Nations
foremost aviation research body.
II concur in the committees opinion
that progress on the two outstanding
problems of increased safety and de-
creased costs neceSsitates continuous
scientific research on the fundamental
problems of fight" the President said
in mis- letter of transmittal. ITO this
end, enlarged facilities are being pro-
vided at the committees laboratories at
Langley Field, Va"
Fills Transportation Need.
The most significant fact in the prog
reSS of aeronauticS during the past year,
the committee report shows, is that the
airplane has found place in the trans
portation needs Of the country. Its
accelerated development as a military
weapon during the World War gave
promise Of its ultimate successful use
for business and pleasure, the report
continued.
"An ensuing decade of scientific re-
search, of military experimentation and
of earnest study and application of fun
damental principles of aerodynamics,"
it is stated in the report, "and we now
witness the airplane used regularly with
increasing safety and efficiency, on
growing network of airwayS, carrying
more and more passengers, mail and
merchandise, at steadily decreasing
COSTS"
The great interest of American youth
in aviation today indicates that the ris-
ing generation may use the airplane
"aS naturally, although perhaps not as
generally, as we use motor cars today"
the committee says. The present tenn
porary overexpansion in certain phases
of the aircraft industry is held to be
Evening star., 1929-12-05

never talked to Daniel p. O'Connell,
Albany Democratic boss, during the
year Of 1927 concerning the Albany
base ball pool; that he, James j. Otto,
did not know anything about Daniel P.
O'Connell's connection with the Albany
base ball pool"
The conviction carries a maximum
sentence of five years or $4,000 fine, or
both.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
Paper-Clip Mouse Trap.

There is no wiser or shrewder animal
in the world than the rat and the
mouse is almost as clever. These ami
mails soon learn to recognize trap by
sight or odor and will walk around it.
The traps are now made in camou-
haged form. The trap for the mouse,
that runs through your desk and chews
your papers, is caught unawares by
trap which has a spring that resembles
the paper-clip. An old tin can with
a smashed top is another of these de-
Evening star., 1929-12-05

but characteristic Of new and promis-
ing industries in America"
The factor that has contributed most
to the improvement in the airplane it
self has been the direct assistance OF
the Federal Government during the
past 10 years, the committee declares,
while other governmental activities have
served to pave the way for greater de-
velopment In commercial aviation in
America, "unin1uenced either in nature
or extent by direct cash subsidies"
Urges Naval Air Program.
The committee recommends firm
support by the President and Congress
of the present Navy rigid airShip de-
velopment program. holding that air
ships have great potential value for
military purposes. chiefly as naval
scouts, and that there are great pos
sibilitieS in the use of rigid airshipS
for commercial purposes, as demon
strated by the round-the- world flight of
the Graf Zeppelin.
The major problems contemplated
for study or now under investigation
by the committee are concerned with
some phase of the general subject of
safety in flight, the committee stated.
The most important of these are the
studies of airplane spinning, low-speed
control, stability and load distribution
under various conditions of flight. A
second group of studies of almost equal
Importance is concerned with problems
of aerodvnamic improvement of the
airplane by reduction of drag or wind
resistance. A third group is concerned
with problems relating to general de-
sign and operation, such as landing
and taking off, local loading on wings,
propeller characteristics and prevention
of ice formation.
Cost Reduction Is Sought.
The great economic problem con-
fronting aeronautics today is the cost
of air travel, the committee holds, de-
claring that costs must be reduced to a
competitive basis with other forms of
transportation.
The answer, it says, is to improve the
airplane, to make it lighter and strong
er. make it faster and more controllable
Evening star., 1929-12-05
LOUIS F. HART DIES.

Former Governor of State of Wash
ington Expires.
TACOMA, Wash, December P).-
Louis F. Hart, former Governor of the
State of Washington, died at hos
pital here last night while sleeping.
He entered the hospital few days ago
to rest prior to having his teeth re-
moved. Physicians attributed his death
to apoplexy.
Evening star., 1929-12-05
OTTO Is CONVICTED
ON PERJURY COUNT
Former Albany Base Ball Pool
Partner Faces Five Years in
Prison or $4,000 Fine.
IN the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 5.-A Fed
eral jury yesterday convicted James j.
Otto, former partner in the Albany
base ball and stock market pool,
charged with perjury for having given
false testimony last February before
the grand jury which was investigating
the affairs of the pool.
Otto was accused of giving false and
evasive testimony in an effort to con-
ceal the identity of higher ups" alleged
by the Government to have been con-
nected with the Albany pool
The charge on which the verdict was
based was that Otto gave false testi-
mony when he told the grand jury he
Evening star., 1929-12-05
LINDMAN'S MOTHER DIES.
Parent of Sweden's Prime Minister
Succumbs at 1O2.

STOCKHOLM, December S (P).-Mrs.
Ebba Lindman, mother of Sweden'S
prime minister, former Admiral Arvid
Lindman, has just died here at the age
Of 102.
Always actively interested in the sue
cess of the Right, or Conservative,
party, of which her son is the leader,
she never failed to exercise her fran
chise. At the last national elections,
through which Mr.. Lindman again was
swept into the premiership, she was
carried to the polling station personally
to deposit her vote.
The Washington times., 1929-04-11
Modes to- &C.
OWN FLYING
STATION

ANNAPOLIS. April 11--Additional
importance has been given TO the
course in aviation, which win be
conducted at the Naval Academy
this summer by making the Acad.
envy a permanent flying station Of
the Navy, with a squadron OF fly
ing vessels here at all times.
The first squadron will be COM
posed of eight airplanes, two Of
which are due here by May /, and
the other six by June !. After
this year they are likely to be re-
placed with airplanes Of more mod
ern type.
Lieut.. Comdr. w. witt G. Ram
sew will be commander of the squad.
ron. and Lieut.. Chester A. Sprague
will be executive officer.
Instruction in aviation and allied
Naval branches will begin for the
$50 members OF the second class on
June 10, and will continue until the
latter part Of August. Members
of the class will also receive instruc-
ton during this time in practical
engineering.
NHd&F TIE llCN SS5NCAhs AAASAAO~hS
of the class which receives instruc-
ton in aviation during the summer
will continue practical work in it
during their final year at the Acad-
envy, and flying will continue at the
Naval Academy during the whole
year unless made impracticable by
the weather.
The administration and care of
material in connection with the
flying squadron will under charge
of the officer commanding the ships
at the station. at present Capt.
William F. Halsey, jr.
Other departments of the Academy
which will cooperate in the in
struction in aviation and allied
branches are: Stewardship and light
tactics, Camdr. William s, Farber;
ordnance and gunnery, Comdr. Will
liam r., Smith: navigation. Capt.
Roscoe G. MacFall; engineering and
aeronautics, Comdr. George M.
Ravenscroft; electrical engineering
and physics, Capt. Jehn n. Fer
guson.
The Washington times., 1929-04-11
COUNTY URGES
NEW SCHOOLS

ROCKVILLE, April 11.-Delega-
tions from two Montgomery county
neighborhoods appeared before the
school board this week to urge
school construction and improve
ments in their sections.
A delegation from Somerset pre-
scented to the board a plan following
the survey of the grounds for the
Improvement and finishing of the
school grounds. The study shows
the estimated cost OF grading and
planting of shrubbery and trees to
be approximately $500.
A group of Colesville citizens re.
quested the hoard to include a
building for the Colesville school in
any program of work undertaken
this summer
Action on both petitions was de.
ferred.
The report of the supervisor of
school property on the sale of
abandoned schools was presented to
the board and bids for the following
schools were accepted and the fol-
lowing sales ratified:
OakdaIe school, to Daniel w.
Bonds for $1,000.
Garrett Park, to Richard A..
Ackers, for $685..
The Washington times., 1929-04-11
Admiral Stirling Quits
Yangtze Patrol Command

Rear Admiral Yates Stirling. jr.,
who has been in command of the
Yangtze river patrol for the past
year. will he placed in command
of the Ninth Naval district with
headquarters at Great Lakes Train.
ing Station. Illinois. after April "a,
according to a Navy Department
announcement.
I Admiral Stirling was formerly
captain at the Navy Yard here. In
January of 1927 he went with the
Asiatic fleet and in December of
the same year he was made COM
mander of the YangtZe patrol.
The Washington times., 1929-04-11
CARDINAL GASoUET RITES

VATICAN CITY. April 10 G.N.sJ
Fifteen cardinals today attended
the funeral of the late Cardinal
Gasquet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22

the Forty-niner and the two humorists
are paid equal homage.
The first of series OF IA or Is
markers has just been erected at Woods
Crossing, directly upon the famous
Mother Lode, the greatest gold-bearing
vein In the world The winding road
leading to the points of historical in
terest has been named Mark Twain
Bret Harte Trail" and the monument
plaque pays equal tribute to the early
day miners and the writers.
The trail starts just below famous
"Jim Town." now jamestown, and goes
to most of the old camps, passing
through Sonora, still fairly prosperous.
and Columbia, which has shrunk from
a one-time city of about 10000 to q
few score. 1t passes the door Of one
of the first Wells-Fargo stations on the
Pacific Coast In this village that once
came within a single vote In the Legis-
lature of being made the capital OF
California, past the venerable site of
st. AIMS Church erected in about 1851
with adobe bricks nodded on the ground
precipitous detour leads to Twain's
cabin, restored in 1922 and now visited
by thousands yearly. There were 900
automobiles parked about 1t when 1t
was dedicated upon restoration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22
BRADsTREET'S REVIEW.

NEW YORK, February 20 .(Pl.-Brad-
streets tomorrow will say:
While the general tone of trade re-
mains cheerful and industry in "heavy"
lines retains all its previous activity,
there is visible this week rather more
complaint OF severe Winter weather
retarding movements of statesmen, dis
couraging rural buying at retail, check
ing production Of lumber and slowing
down building operations and move
ments at mines. There is also more
discussion Of effects of higher money
rates upon possible Spring trade. The
consensus Of reports is, however, that
distributive trade and industry still are
better than last year or in 1927 at the
like date.
Best reports as regards operations still
come from the iron and steel and allied
lines, with production in the first named
lines ranging from IS to IS per cent,
depending on location, but with rela-
lively most manufacturing activity re-
ported In Western mill centers, where
railroad and automobile buying has
largely conferred Activity In steel buy
ing and operations seems hinged promi-
nently on the automobile industry's
takings of material and February out
put Of automobiles is expected to exceed
that of the like month in any previous
year.
Bank clearings viii be issued Febru-
ary 25.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22
VEGETABLE SUPPLY
IS PLENTIFUL HERE.
Dealers at D. C. Market Also
Report Large Stocks
of Poultry.

There was very little trading in the
wholesale market district this morning.
Practically every business house was
open during the early morning hours,
but patrons were not numerous, and ar
rangements were made to close early
in the afternoon.
Cold weather, the snow making driv-
ing difficult and the day being legal
holiday, formed combination that was
not conducive to heavy trading.
Much of the holiday buying was done
yesterday afternoon, retailers realizing
the frozen covering on the streets this
morning would make driving more diff
cult.
Shipments Heavy.
Dealers reported plentiful supplies of
foodstuffS Of every variety. Poultry
dealers continued to have supplies of
fancy poultry Of all kinds, including
many turkeys, and fairly good demand
for the king fowl probably resulted from
cheap prices.
Fruits and vegetables continued as
plentiful this morning as usual, fruits
from the South. West and other coun-
tries beins especially attractive.
Meats, not so much in demand be-
cause of the Lenten season, were plen-
tiful, while eggs, much in demand, were
closed at IL o'clock, much to the salts
faction of retailers, who realized there
probably would be nothing doing In the
afternoon should the market remain
open.
Wholesalers today were deeply inter-
ested in the prospects Of haulers from
Maryland and Virginia being able to get
over the roads with supplies for tomor-
rows market. It was reported that work
on the State roads both in Maryland
and Virginia proved Of great assistance
to haulers.
Several haulers, coming short dis
tances, reached here this morning with
supplies of poultry. meats, eggs and
other commodities. 1t is believed, how
ever, that some of the country roads,
especially those In the mountain Sec
lions, will remain impossible, which, it
is stated, may mean increased receipts
early next week
Prices of most commodities this morn
ing were substantially the same as prices
quoted yesterday.
Today's Wholesale Prices--Jobbers'
Prices Slightly Higher.
Butter-One-poun prints, 501sa5i1a:
tub, 49l2a50la; store packed, 30a35.
Eggs-Hennery, As; current receipts,
41a42
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, 35a36; Spring
chickens. 35a38; Leghorns, 30a35;
fowls. 29a30; ROSTERS. l9a20; ducks, Is:
geese, 20; keats, young, 56a60; old, 80.
Dressed-Turkeys, 40a50: Spring chick
ems, 40a42; Leghorns, IS; fowls, 3Oa32;
capons, large, 45a46; small, 36a4O:
ducks. 32aS3; geese, 25a3o; keats, S0a
100.
Meats, fresh killed-Beef, 18a24: veal.
26a27: lamb. 26a29 pork loins, Is;
fresh hams, 23a24; fresh shoulders,
16al7; smoked hams, IS: smoked
shoulders, 16a17; bacon, 2Oa22: lard. in
tins, 1872. in packages, 141s.
Live Stock-Calves, 16; lambs, I4a14l5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22
TWAIN AND HARTE
DOMAIN NOW BARE
Hills and Clutches Where They
Worked and Poked Have
Been Abandoned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUTTLETOwN, Calf, December H..
Temporarily at least, lean days are
upon this part of the old Mother Lode
country that the miners of 40 worked
over, washed out and abandoned; that
Mark Twain and Bret Harte re-created
and made additionally famous with
their humor and then forsook for more
effete fields.
For miles along the gulches and
streams one finds the crumbling re-
mains Of the cabins and works of the
high old days when gold could be
sluiced from the surface, and old stamp
mills, sun bleached and decrepit, stand
out in rusty idleness above unsightly
ore dumps in witness of the fact that
the era of quartz mining which sue
ceeded the feverish placer stampede has
likewise met its reverse.
Yet one looks in vain for the faded
personalities with which fiction peoples
the ghost towns of mining when the
red-Shirted men and their dance-hall
hilarities have rushed on to fresher
fields.
Crude Drawings Remain in Place. i,
And in most of the early gold rush
country memories of the days that were
predominant here, but not all of the
laughter has been squeezed out of life,
for, except In material sense, Mark
Twain and Bret Harte still live In their
clapboard cabins on the summit of Jack
ASS Hill and Twain's Jumping Frog of
CalaveraS Is to be seen, in poster or
crude drawing, in the windows of
quaint old store buildings, the fronts of
livery stables now converted into ga
RACES, on road signs and on the front of
the old tavern at the City of Angels.
Here. supposedly Mark Twain heard
from the bartender the story Of how
surreptitious feeding of shot to the
famed imported frog caused his defeat
at the legs of a common, ordinary
local" greenback in long distance
leaping contest yariously backed by the
gamblers of the camp.
In the history of the region, fact and
Twain-Harte fiction have perhaps be-
come inextricably mixed. Local resi-
dents are starting to mark the points of
traditional interest, and in this work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22
PERU DENIES DISPUTE
WITH CHILE is SOLVED
President Leguia Unable to Say if
Plan Sponsored by Ambassador
Moore Is Acceptable.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSS
LIMA, Peru, February 22--President
Leguia of Peru, in an interview with
the Associated rress, expressed surprise
at dispatches from Santiago, Chile, re-
porting final settlement of the Tacna-
africa boundary dispute between Peru
and Chile and denied that this long
pending problem already was solved.
The President said that he was unable
to say If a plan sponsored by Alexander
P. Moore, American Ambassador to
Peru, was acceptable or practical for
Peru. This plan of the American AM
bassador by which in rough outline
Tacna would go to Peru and AFRICA to
Chile was along the lines which the
Chilean dispatches have insisted repre-
sented the final settlement of the con-
troversy
Respecting the time when the prob
lem is solved If the plan is acceptable.
I will say it will be necessary to wait
some weeks" the President said. Be
fore announcing any decision on the
part of the Peruvian government it is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-22
COL. GRANT TO SPEAK
AT HISTORY DINNER
Fifth of Series Given by women's
City Club to Be Held To-
morrow Night.

Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, will speak at
the fifth of series of District history
dinners. given by the Womeh's City
Club, at % Jackson place, tomorrow
night.
Mrs. Francis D. Merchant and Mrs.
Edward Quintard, daughters of former
Gov. Shepherd, and Mrs. 4. Reese
Thomson, Granddaughter, with members
Of the board of the club, will receive
the guests.
Col. Grants talk tomorrow night will
cover that period of the Districts his
tory from 1857 to 1878, dealing with
territorial government-its origin, ac-
complishments and liquidations. Gov.
Shepherds administration of the Dis
trict Of Columbia occurred during this
period.