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Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Santa Barbara
Turns Back To
Former Tim es

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, Aug.
IA. U.P)-Old Spanish days fiesta,
an echo from the days of the Indian,
the Spanish soldier and priest, and
the Gringo adventurers in Califor-
mia, opened today as Santa Bar
bara s fifth annual pageant again
raised the curtain of time from the
long-vanished days of Don and
Senorita, priest and '49er.
The 1929 festival opened with the
dedication of the new $l,500,0OO
court house at p. m. Tonight at 8
O'clock the old mission Santa Bar
bara will be the scene of public
reception, followed by the presenta-
ton at the Lobero Theatre of the
fiesta play, "1SlS,' which will be
given every night during the
pageant, to last through Sunday.
Tomorrow the days of Spanish
occupation will be re-enacted in the
historical pageant "Romance Cali
fornia, " at the Peabody Stadium in
the evening. A costume parade is
scheduled for the afternoon.
The Ruis Botello pageant in the
gardens of the court house is the
feature event Friday afternoon,
while on Saturday the arrival of the
first Southern Pacific train in the
city will be staged.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
By GOVERNOR c. C. YOUNG

Today the state government of
California is taking on a new activ-
ity-an activity so important to all
our citizens as to be possibly worth
something more than "A passing
mention. | refer to the creation of
a statewide Highway Motor Patrol,
which comes into being through a
law effective today. Through the
generous cooperation of the Califor-
mia Committee on Public Safety
and the press of California, | am
privileged to point out some Of the
aims and purposes Of this new uni
fed Highway Patrol.
Nearly 1000 citizens of Califor-
mia, men, women and helpless chill
d~en, met death on our streets and
highways during the year 1928.
Many other thousands were manned
and injured. Investigation shows
that practically all these deaths
and injuries were avoidable. Care
lcssness, recklessness, intoxication
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
GOVERNOR NAMES
LEADERS OF NEW
STATE DIVISIONS
Departments Created BY
Last Legislature Are
Organized.

SACRAMENTO, Aug. II. U.P)-
Governor Young today announced
the appointment of four directors
of newly created state departments
and the personnel of the new state
crime commission.
The appointments were as fol-
lows:
James A. Johnston, San Fran
cisro, director of the department of
penology.
John Il. Quinn, Los Angeles, di-
rector Of the department of military
and veterans affairs.
James f. Collins, Long Beach, di-
rector of professional and vocation
al standards.
f. Forrest Mitchell, director of
investment.
The newly named crime commits
sion will consist of the following
members:
Jamcs A. Johnston, San Fran
ciseo~. District Attorney Buron r.
Fits, Los Angeles; Attorney Gen
cral L. $. Webb, San Francisco /;
Dean Justin Miller, University of
Southern California. Los Angeles,
and George w. A. Beaslcy, Berkeley
Frank 4. Benson, was appointed
chief of the newly created states
division of narcotics enforcement.
which will be under the department
of pcnology.
Two Legion Men
Two of the new directors are past
state presidents of the American
Legion. Collins, former president of
the Long Beach harbor commission,
was head of the state department
of the Legion in 1923 and 1924. He
is former newspapermqn and an
engineer. The other Legionnaire Is
John Il. Quinn, former national
president of the organization and at
present chairman of the State Vet
Grams Welfare board.
Quinn 5 appointment was recon-
mendcd by Adjutant General h. f..
Mittelsteaedt, commander of the
quested that his name not be con
sidcred III connection with the gov
crnor's appointment.
Johnston, Il San Francisco bank
cr, is chairman of the state crime
commission, and for many years was
warden of San Quentin state pris-
on. He served on the state board of
control in 1911 and 1912 during the
governorship of Hiram w. Johnson.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
SCORE OF WAR
MOTHERS MADE
I'LL AT. DINNER

Los ANGELES, Aug. II. W.H-
An effort to learn the source of
tainted meat which caused % per-
sons to be taken to Georgia Street
police hospital after the monthly
dinner of the American War Moth
ers' Club, was made by health of
ficials today.
The % stricken members of the
club and their guests were taken ill
in various sections of the city.
The first case was that of Mrs.
Mary Huland, who collapsed in a
downtown store. Shortly afterward,
the Emergency hospital received
ambulance calls from residential
districts as others were affected.
The dinner was prepared by Mrs.
Mary f.. Stearn, one of those made
i'll, and served to 90 persons. 1t con-
sisted of veal loaf, hot rolls, potato
salad, tomatoes and eggs and ice
cream. Mrs. Stearn said she pur.
chased the meat from a high class
butcher shop, from which it is be
ing traced.
The last of the % patients was
removed from Georgia hospital just
before midnight last night. Most of
them returned to their homes, in
care of relatives, further treatment
to be given by personal physicians.
Attendants at the police hospital
said that all were expected to re-
cover.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Boxing Gloves
AS Peace Move

GLOBE, Ariz., Aug. IA. W.p)-
Carlos Mencheca sat in the ella
county jail today and wondered
what, if any thing, the Mexican
government can do about the fact
he has worn boxing gloves for
a month.
According to officials, they
fitted Mencheca with the soft
mittens when he persisted in
tearing off his clothing at every
opportunity and using the rest
of his spare time breaking Jail
windows.
Mencheca is a product of the
last Mexican revolution so Senior
Payne, Mexican consul at Phoe-
nix, has started an investigation
of the queer predicament Of his
countryman, who deserted the
rebel army at Naco and walked
to Globe.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
RUSSO-CHINESE
WAR THREAT IS
RENEWED BY ROW
Several Red Soldiers Re
ported Killed In Clash
With Troops.
By EUGENE LYONS
United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Aug. IA. W.H-New
fears of an open conflict between
Russia and China in Manchuria
were aroused here today by an Of
ficial announcement that several
Red soldiers were killed or wound
cd in an attack upon their outposts
at widely separated points.
The announcement said that a
strong force of Czarist Russians,
supported by Chinese troops, at
tempted to cross into Siberia and
clashed with the Soviet soldiers
along the Sungari river and at
Blagoveschensk on the northern
border, as well as at Lake Hanka,
which is on the eastern border be-
tween Manchuria and Siberia.
The Soviet troops repulsed the
invaders, the announcement said,
but several of them were killed and
several others were injured. Sever
al other casualties have been an
noanced at various places along the
danger zone since the break in
Russo Chinese relations, but the
exact number has not been men
toned
According to reports reaching
here the number of White Guard
lists, or anti-Soviet Russians, along
the border continues to increase.
They are said TO be assembling in
Manchuria in great numbers, near
the Soviet frontier.
Red Chief Commands
The appointment of Vasili
Konstantinovitch Blueoher to the
command of all the Soviet forces in
the Far East has had a reassuring
effect upon the general populace
here. General Bluecher, who has had
great experience in the east, is
familiar not only with east Siberia,
but with the psychology of the
Chinese troops massed along the
Manchurian border.
One of the ironies of the new ap-
pointment was that Bluecher, under
the nome de guerre of General
Galen, was the military adviser not
so long ago to General Chang kai'
Shek. head of the Nationalist gov
ernment of China, whose forces
BIuechcr may have to face before
long.
During the wars against the
White armies after the revolution,
General Bluecher commanded all the
Red troops in east Siberia and later
became the war minister of the Far
Eastern Republic, which ultimately
merged with the Soviet Union.
The new commander of the
Siberian forces will have under him
q special Far Eastern army to cope
with the reported intense war prep
arations by China, it was stated to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
COURT DlSMISSES
CHARGE OF LIBEL
AGAINST EDITOR

SAN JOSE, Aug. 14.--U.P)--
Hyland L. Baggerly, publisher Of
the Los Gatos Mail News, was free
today of charges of criminal libel
filed against him by Police Judge
Percy O'Connor, whom he had
criticised editorially.
The crowded court room cheered
and applauded when Justice of the
Peace Chester Moore, before whom
the preliminary hearing took place
acted upon a motion for dismissal
made by Prosecutor Frank Water-
house late yesterday.
Raggerly was on trial because OF
editorials in his paper criticising
Judge O'Connor for freeing Miss
Josephine Grant, wealthy San Fran
cisco society girl who had been ar
rested ON charges of driving while
drunk, reckless. driving and possess
sion of liquor.
Baggerly, former San Franeiseo
newspaper writer aad later pub
Usher Of the San Jose Evening
News, asserted that no malice en-
tered into his articles--merely that
he felt that Judge O'Connor, IN
acting upon the Grant case, bad
been "awed and Influenced by her
wealth, social prestige and the
array Of highly paid legal aud mcdi
cal experts summoned in her de.
Tense.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
DUPLICATE OF
HICKMAN CASE
In MINNEAPOLIS

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. IA,
U.P-Dorthy Aune. a II year old
Minneapolis junior high school
girl, was found murdered in a
street gutter here today under cir
cumstances which vividly recalled
the brutal murder two years ago of
a Los Angeles child for which Will
liam Edward Hickman paid with
his life.
Tightly bound with w.~o and
thrust into two gunny sacks, the
body of the child was found by W.
Stoakes and w. c. Hoag, icemen.
One coarse sack was pulled over
the head of the body and another
over the feet and legs. Wire was
wrapped about the sacks.
immediately upon the gruesome
discovery Stoakes and Hoag notified
police and the body was removed to
the morgue for examination.
Dorothy, the daughter of Andrew
w. Aune, carpenter, had been
missing SiHtt Y. III. utSudy hCh
she left home on an errand to Il
nearby grocery store.
Until the coroner has made a re-
port on his examination of the body
the full nature of the fiendish muir
derer s actions will not be known.
Within two hours after the body
was found, the father and Eilif
Aunc, a brother, identified it.
Elf broke into tears when he
saw the havoc wrecked upon his
little sister by the fiend and cried
out:
"IM hunt this devil down and
get vengeance if it takes my whole
life.
Dorothy's body had been horribly
treated, Her clothing was covered
with blood.
Police Immediately began one OF
the most thorough man hunts in
the history of Minneapolis for a
i" bald headed man about 40 years
old" whom Sylvia Aune, 90, sister
of the slain child, had seen trying
to entice little girls into his auto.
mobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
FLOODS
MENACE
VILLAGE:
Rio Grande On Rampage
Following Unusually Big
Rains.
MANY FLEE HOMES
San Acacia Practically
Wiped Out And Inhabi-
tants Stranded.

SAN MARCIAL, n. M, Aug. IA.
UP)-Great timbers catapulting
down the raging Rio Grande today
threatened the only bridge leading
into their flood menaced town.
Should the bridge be swept away,
San Marcial, already partly SUBJ
merged, would be isolated complete
ly from the outside world
With all women and children re-
moved from the town for fear that
it would be swept away, force of
300 men, the entire male popula-
tion, worked in eight-hour shifts
checking the levee which holds back
the Rio Grande and removing logs
which lodged against the bridge
supports.
For a time it was feared that
breaks in the levee, caused by rat
holes, would make the structure
crumble and let the waters surge
over the town, which is several feet
lower than the river s normal state.
Desperate efforts, however, made
possible the plugging of all the
major holes in the levee which
held, although the rushing waters
apparently were gradually eating it
away.
Reports from San Acacia, village
up the river, said that 60 homes had
been swept away there and that
residents were maroOned on nearby
sand hills without shelter, food or
water
Emergency supplies were being
rushed from Albuquerque.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Aug. IA.
"A mprehensive account of the
major floods which have roared
through the fertile Rio Grande val
ley to devastate several towns and
hundreds of acres of crops was OBJ
tanned today by the United Press
and the Albuquerque State Tribune
which sent an airplane over the
stricken area.
1t is story of enormous des-
truction, of ruined homes and des-
perate workers.
nc llAo l. uCiClO dAu odidQd Ilb>
ers, ordinarily dry flinty creek
beds, were raging torrents, pouring
their muddy waters into the already
Overlooking Rio Grande which stag
gers down through the winding val
ley.
The town of San Acacia was in
ruins. Buildings either had collaps-
ed or had been swept away by the
pounding waters which rushed
through the streets. Its citizens
stood helpless and unprotected on
a series. of hills to the south.
San Antonio was almost as badly
off. Water stood in great lakes
in the streets. They gradually
were getting larger as the water
seeped through the weakened levee,
only breach between the town and
complete destruction.
With all ranches in the vicinity
isolated and with communication
disrupted, there can be no accurate
estimate of the damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Coast AViatOrS
Up For Record

LONG BEACH, Calf, Aug. IA.
(U,P)-Jack Reed and Emory Bronte,
seeking to beat the world S non-re-
fueling endurance record of 65 hours
and 25 minutes were aloft at noon
today.
The two pilots took off in sim
gle motored plane at 6:04 a. m. with
$50 gallons of gasoline, 80 gallons
of oil and % pounds of food.
They took course between Long
Beach and San Diego.
Many valley residents will recall
Jack Reed as one of the trio aboard
the giant plane Albatross when it
tried for the worlds record here
nearly two years ago. Charlie
Rocheville, partner of Reed on the
Albatross, was his partner also on
the first attempt in the present plane
n few days ago. The flyers were
forced to land after being aloft only
n few hours. Bronte has since been
substituted for Rocheville.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Judge Witness
In Bribe Case

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IA. W.P)-
Municipal Judge Daley Stafford
was ON the witness stand today as
the bribery conspiracy trial of
Robert d. Clarke, former municipal
court clerk, and Fred p. Newport,
millionaire real estate man, con-
tinued in superior court.
Testimony offered so far by
Stafford was to the effect that
Clarke, an employee of Newport,
approached him with an offer of
money to alter his decision in a
million dollar law suit in which
Newport was involved.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
By MAURITz HALLGREN
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
Aug. IA. UA)-Passengers and crew
were ordered today to stand by and
await possible summons to board
the dirigible Graf Zeppelin after
midnight tonight for the second
part of the journey around the
world and for the longest nonstop
flight ever attempted-Friedrich-
shafen to Tokyo.
The engines tuned up, her fuel
tanks filled and everything else re-
adjusted, there was little to be done
to the huge ship today prior to her
departure. The officers of the Graf
spent most of their time perfecting
the system of weather reports and
checking all the available informa
tion in connection with the meteoro-
logical conditions over Siberia.
According to latest information
from central Europe and portions of
Siberia, the weather has improved
considerably during the last pa
hours. Locally it was much warmer,
which caused considerable annoy
ance to the officials of the line and
to the officers of the ship.
Needs Cool Weather
DR.. Hugo Eckener, commander of
the Graf, has been hoping that the
weather would be cool when the
time came for the journey to be-
gin, because the gas loses its lift
ing power when warm and the Yep
pelin, with a record load, might be
unable to rise.
For a while yesterday it was be-
lieved that a new passenger had
been added to the list of those go
ing to NTokyo-King Gustav of
Sweden. A surprise visit of the king
to Friedrichshafen momentarily
threw the whole community into ex-
citement and Immediately the rumor
began going the rounds that the
royal visitor was to be among the
passengers.
The rumors, however, were
promptly denied. 1t developed that
the king was merely summering in
the neighborhood, at his wife s
castle on Lake Constance.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Seek Pilot OF
Wrecked Plane

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. IA. U.P)
Search was being made today by
air and sea for John Kasper, CO.
pilot of the Thompson Aeronautical
Corporation amphibian plane
" Miss Detroit which fell in Lake
Erie near Southeast Shoal late yes
terday.
Kasper, alone of the four persons
aboard the flying boat when it left
Cleveland at 8 p. m. yesterday, was
unaccounted for.
Cy Caldwell, pilot, C. A. Lupole,
Wright Aeronautical Association
engineer of Patterson, n. j., and
Mrs, Robert Little of Cedar Rapids,
Ia, were rescued by passing steam
e4S.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
GOVERNORS MESSAGE URGES
MOTORISTS TO BE CAREFUL

'and ignorance were responsible for
nearly all this toll of human life
and limb.
Our State Division of Motor We
hicles is impressing upon the motor
Officers of its new patrol that their
problem in preventing these deaths
and injuries is not with the general
motoring public. The chief concern
must be cheerfully and good-na-
turedly to serve that public by help
ing to make travel on our highways
safe and pleasant. Ninety-nine per
cent of our motorists are careful
and law-abiding. With these the Of
ficers of our Highway Patrol must
ever be friends and allies, all work
ing toward the same end of an in
creasing public safety.
The menace in highway travel lies
with the remaining one per cent. In
this group are found the reckless
and the criminally careless, the
(Nopt;nuoI IN pano Tbrrel
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
CENTENARIAN FETED

PASADENA, Calf. Aug, H.
(U.D-Galusha NJ. Cole, grand old
man of Pasadena and probably the
oldest living member of the
Knights Templar, was banquated
last night by the entire Pasadena
Commandery No. 81 in honor of his
1O3rd birthday tomorrow. He was
presented with a black leather
binder containing birthday letters
from President Hoover and other
national figures.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Heeney Tackles
Giant Tonight

NEW YORK, Aug. IA. U.P)-Tom
Heeney of New Zealand will make
his first appearance in New York
ring since he was knocked out by
Gene Tunney in the latter's defense
of his heavyweight title in July
1928 when he meets Nictorio Cam
polo, Argentine giant, in a 10
round bout at Ebbets Field, Brook
lyn, tonight. Campolo is a 6 to 5
favorite.
1t will be Campolo's S second
American appearance. In his first
a few weeks ago the towering South
American won on Il foul from
Arthur De kuh of Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Howell Reelected
By ChirOpractors

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IA. U,H -
DR.. Samuel j. Howell, of Sacrament
to, was re-eleced for the fourth time
last night to serve as president of
the National Progressive Chiroprac-
tors Association, holding its annual
convention here.
DR.. j. Ralph John of Hollywood,
was elected vice president, DIR.
Claude L. Fishback of Fresno, sec
retary, and DR.. George Shaefer of
PHOENIX, Arizona, treasurer.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Williams Decides
To Enter Races

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Aug. a.
U.R}-Lieut. Al Williams, after re.
ceiving reports of the new British
speed plane which has made $50
miles an hour in tests, has definite
~ decided to enter his 100 horse
power Mercury monoplane in the
Schneider cup seaplane races at
Cowes, Eng, in September.
Rough water on Chesapeake bay
and the Severn river, kicked up by
strong west winds, today delayed
further Williams first flying tests.
He intended to start out at a. m.
today, and may make another at
tempt after . p. m, as the air is
generally quiet at this time.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Woman Channel
Swimmer Quits

CAPE GRIS-NEZ. France, Aug.
IA. U.H-Miss Connie Gilhead, 20
year old London stenographer,
abandoned an attempt to swim the
English channel today after being
in the water for six hours and %
minutes.
Miss Gilhead started out from
here at 2:05 a. m, today in an eff
fort to lower the record set by
Gertrude Ederle. She abandoned
the swim at $3.50 a. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Kiss And Make
Up-No Bet
LOS ANGELES, Aug. IA. W,D

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IA. W.H
Even If she kisses and makes
up each time, a woman who
picks a continuous series Of pet
ty quarrels is too temperamental
to be married, Judge E. N. Rec
tor ruled here in granting di-
vorce to Clarence Ernst from his
II year old wife, Frances, former
juvenile stage dancer.
Testimony at the hearing indi-
Gated Ernst and his wife spent
most of their time together either
quarreling or making up after
ouarrels. The jurist decided
Mrs. Ernst's temperament was
responsible for the situation.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
BY FREDERICK KUH
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)

THE HAGUE, Aug. II. (U.D-
Thomas W. Lamont, partner of j.
+. Morgan and Company, and one
Of the financial experts who fran
cd the Young plan at Paris, has
been invited to come to The Hague
as the individual guest of a mem
ber of the French delegation. the
United Press learned definitely to-
day.
The member of the French dele
cation who invited Lamont also has
been in telephone communication
with }. p. Morgan, who has been
grouse hunting in Scotland.
The financial commission conven-
ed today to hear the declaration of
Louis LouchcuY, French labor min
lister, ON the reparations deliveries
in kind.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
Quick Arrest OF
Bank Robbers

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. IA.
U.P)-Acting on tip, county Off
GERS arrested the two bandits who
this morning held up n bank mess
enger and robbed him of $7,400
The men were taken in custody at
Collins Garden House and placed in
the county Jail. Part of the loot was
recovered and Officers expressed
confidence that all would be in their
hands soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
MAKES VISIT HERE

Mrs. f. S. Worthington. former
home demonstration agent for I'M
perial county, paid a hurried visit
to old friends this morning while
cnroute to San Diego for Il vacation
on the coast. Mrs. Worthington is
now living in Yuma where her hus-
band is editor of the Yuma Sum-.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-14
ECKENER PLANS
DEPARTURE FOR
TRIP TO TOXIC
Graf Zeppelin Due To
Leave Germany Early
Thursday Morning.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
Aug. 14.-UP}-Dr, Hugo Eckener
announced formally tonight that
the Graf Zeppelin would start on it's
trip 10 Toxic at $3.50 am. tomorrow
Qo:30 p. m. Wednesday,E. S. IT,
The Zeppelin, he said, would fly
north to Berlin and thence eastward
past Danzig and Koenigsberg.