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Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
MAN
SHOT AT BORDER
BY LINE JUMPER

c. b. Griffith, b, member OF
the L. S. customs mounted patrol
under command of c. Flammery, was
painfully hurt early last night when
he was shot in the hip by an an
known man who was endeavoring ia
crawl through the international
boundary line west of Calexico.
The shot inflicted only a flesh
wound which bled profuseiy but did
not prevent Griffiths from getting
back TO town to report his expert
cHcc.
According to Flammery. Griffith
had attempted to stop his assailan'
from crawling through the fencH
about $50 O'Clock last night. The
officer called on the man to halt
but did not draw his gun. The latter
answered ine command with SIN
gle shot hitting Griffith just below
the hip joint.
An intensive search Is being made
on this side of the line and coope-
ration OF j,,e Mexican authorities on
the other side has been asked in an
effort to apprehend the person re
sponsible for the shooting.
Griffith will probably be laid up
for several weeks from the injury,
Eiammerv stated this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
FLYERS CLOSE
TO DEATH IN
DARING DEED

ATLANTA, Ga, July Sup =
Four Atlanta flyers told a story to-
day of a hair breath escape 1000
feet above the ground.
Some body remarked to Pilot
Beeler Blevins and Parachute Ar
tist Bonnie Rowe that there was
one thing you couldn't change in
the air, and that was q landing gear.
So Blevins and Rowe went along
yesterday in an old Curtiss ..Jen-
ny 20 show that the trick merely
hadn i yet been done.
Above them flew assistants Mack
ey Solenberger and ". C. Stripiin
in another biplane.
A thousand feet up Eowe climb ii
out of the cockpit of the Jenny
and hanging by his. feet from a
wing, pulled off a wheel and tossed
it back into ;he cockpit. He then
signalled Striplin in the plane above
TO lower another wheel.
Striplin hfted TIE wheel over the
side of the plane on i 1epe and be
gan TO lower 1t. A gust of wi III
caught the rope aud fltng it into
the propeller of the II. ne beneath,
smashing the blades 9na draggl 1 :
the planes together. Striplin, hang
in. head down, cut the rope with
his. pocket knife.
The planes veered apart again,
leaving Blevins at the stick of Il
propellerless plane, on the wing Of
which Rowe hung. Blevins headed
for cotton field gliding slowly.
Rowe climbed up, pulled the wheel
out of the cockpit ami worked dos
perately 70 replace it.
A hundred feet aDore the ground
he finished fastening the wheel and
slid back on the wing IS BleFils
glided 10 erfeet> landing.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
KINGS HEALTH
GIVES RISE TO
some CONCERN
By WALLACE CARROLL
TTri4ad Press staff CorreSoonCle1 Ell

LONDON. July s. U.R9-Kecn
anxiety for the health of Kiu1
George Y, for whose recoverr
Thanksgiving services were held
throughout the empire yesterday,
was aroused again today by the sud
den change in the royal plans to 20
70 Sandringham castle.
Postponement of the trip, although
decided upon last night, was not
announced until the train was being
made up today. The purpose of the
postponement was to permit the
roval physicians further to X-ray
the chest cavity in which their
treatment of sinus condition has
not progressed as favorably as they
have wished
1t was announced authoritatively
that there has been no rise in the
kings temperature and that tie
monarch is not confined to his bed.
His health is said to be still quite
good and the postponement of the
"trip to Sandringham lin no wise
connected with yesterdays thanks
giving services Following the
visit to Lord Dawson Of Penn lass
night it was decided that the sinus
condition in the chest should be
x-rayed. 1t is understood the doctors
wish to be thoroughly satisfied
that there will be no recurrence Of
fhe abeess which formed under the
scar OF the old operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
STATE PLANNING
TO OIL HIGHWAY
NEAR DESCANSO

Valley residents who have been
doing considerable grumbling over
the condition of the state highway
to San Diego via Descanso, since
the new road has been opened, are
somewhat justified in their protests
according to the local office of the
Automobile Club of Southern Cali
fornia.
However, club officials state, i'm
provement can be expected very
shortly as the state plans to oil the
new road and put it in good condi-
tion at the earliest possible moment,
The road was opened earlier than
the state highway commission de
sired, because of the dissatisfaction
with the detour
The new road is wide and is
without grades or sharp curves, but
is cOrduroved and extremely
dusty.
Motorists familiar with mountain
driving, and not bothered by the
sharp curves and grades on the
Campo route, are using that route to
90 to San Diego, but for others the
Descanso road is advised.
The Automobile Club office stat
ed that efforts to get the San Diego
county supervisors to oil the new
Descanso road were unsuccessful
that body evidently believing 1T is
up to the state highway commits
sion to put the road in good condi
tion
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
GIANT AMAZON
C0NFESSES SHE
KILLED LOVER
Illinois Mystery Death
Cleared Up When Wo-
man Admits Crime.

T0ULSoN, Ill.,, July 8. (U.P) - A
trial of evidence built around the
eeAarred fragments OF red and blue
patchwork quilt, found among the
ashes of the funeral pyre of Wilmer
4. kitselman, 50, ended today in a
complete confession by u year old
farmer Is daughter of Stark county 5
mysterious torch murder. -
The confession which solved the
week old murder was made by Laura
Weaver, daughter of 4 wealthy
farmer, and sweetheart of the elder
ly kitselman. The young woman ad-
mitted that she strangled her lover
in his home, June 80, while he lay
in drunken stupor. Wrapping his
body in the coiored quilt, she ear
ried it in an automobile 30 miles.
saturated it with Naptha and set Il
afire.
The young woman said she and
Kitselman had quarrel continuously
over his drinking. On the night of
the murder. sac said, he had broken
wall mirror over her head, and had
tried to beat her with chair. The
quarrel ended, she said, when Kit
seiman collapsed in stupor.
She said she choked him to death
with his belt.
The confession then described
how she trnssed up the 200 pound
body with fish line and wrapped
it is the quilt. The manner in
which she lifted the body and ear.
ried it to AN automobile was eX-
planned by the young woman's size.
She is six feet tall and weighs $50
pounds.
From the Kitselman rooms to the
deserted roadside where the body
was burned was about 80 miles
The drive, Miss Weaver said. requlr
ed nearly enc and one half hours,
during which time she stopped Tor
gasoline, oil an1 naptha.
When she reached the deserted
road. two miles west Of Annawan,
Miss Weaver said she threw the
bo6y into the ditch, piled up dry
weeds and brush, saturated the quit
should with naptha, and then fired
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08

to gain admission of all the records
of the sheriff IS office evidence and
the constant objection of the de-
Tense to all that was or is consid-
cred in material.
Defense Promises Speed
Ernest Utley, defense attorney,
stated this morning ne was confl-
dent he would not have to take as
much time with his witnesses ana
that once the state was through pre-
senting its ease the trial would be
finished speedily.
The defense has summoned the
majority of county Officers holding
office in the past and at present.
Even the district attorney proceed
ing Utlev when he held office, Er-
nest II. Simeon, now of Los Ange-
les has been Summoned. J. Roy
Adams. former county supervisor,
who was sent to prison for alleged
peeulations, is also scheduled to APP
pear.
As the ease now stands the state,
despite the stipulatlons and admis-
sions of the defense, is still trying
TO introduce rs evidence through re-
cords and testimony the fact the
sheriff got certain sums of money
and used them for his own beneflt
as well as failing to account for same
to the proper authorities.
The defense, il is understood, VIII
attempt to prove the sheriff had a
right to do what he did, under the
law, and therefore could not legally
be held responsible.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
Strikers Will
Fight To End

NEW ORLEANS, July 8. up
\ flight to the finish - in the
strike of 1000 street railway EN-
ployees of the New Orleans Public
Service Co., was forecast in state
ments issued here today by company
and union officials.
Both sides agreed to meet the
government representative in an eff
fort to settle the strike.
AT the same time, however, they
issued statements reaffirming their
intention of Fighting to the fin
ish - if their demands were not met.
Neither would agree to arbitration
of the dispute over wage increases
demanded by the union and refused
by the company.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
Bootlegger Ends
Officers Life

.CHIDESTER, Ark, July S. W.R)
Walter Patterson. 40, alleged boot
logger and Marshal +. X. Marsh,
80. were shot to death in n gun bat
tie between Patterson and Officers
here last night.
The officers, Marsh, Deputy Sher-
iff John Pruitt and Constable Luth-
er Meeks, had gone to Patterson IS
home to arrest him and his brother,
Albert, on prohibition charges.
Patterson submitted to arrest and
then grabbed Marsh's pistol and
emptied it into the officers body,
killing him instantly. He then at
tackled Pruitt with the empty gun.
Meeks shot Patterson to death.
Albert Patterson was arrested and
brought to Ouachita county Jail
where he is held ON bootlegging
charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
Tax Expert To
Give Address

Won T. Ellsworth, tax expert Of
the California i-drm Bureau Fedora
tion, viii be guest Of honor at n
banquet to be given tomorrow night
at 7:30 in the Barbara Worth hotel,
by the Imperial County Farm Ba-
Teau.
Ellsworth, who has made an in
tensive study of the California tax
situation, will give Il talk which is
expected 70 be OF considerable in
terest, particularly to farm taxPay-
crS
President Sam Robinson wilt pre-
side at the banquet, which will be
an inyitational affair
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
Bandits Hold Up
Clothing Store

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calf, July
S. U.P) - Two young bandits held
up the Southwicks store here today
and escaped with 500.
II. W. Jacobs. manager or the
store, had just taken the money
from a safe when the two bandits
entered. hey locked Jacobs in
dressing room and fled with the
money.
Jacobs gave police Officers a good
description of the pair.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
Gerard Co. To
Offer Stock

NEW YORK, Guy 5. U.hl-
What may be the forerunner OF q
vast amount of common stock I'm
aneing for the farming business was
seen in the announcement today
that ". A. Hartman and Co, Inc,
and Charles ID. Barney and Co.
would make public offering tins
week of 62,500 shares of no par
common stock OF s. A. Gerard Com
pany, which is engaged in E. large
scale production and marketing Of
fresh fruits and vegetables and IS
the country 5 largest shipper -oI
eantalonpes and lettuce.
The Gerard Company originates
most of tine tonnage handled in the
fertile sections of Arizona. 1alifor-
MIA. Colorado, and New Mexico,
many of the lands of which produce
two crops annually.
: The company has under contract
either through lease or ownership
$4,000 acres of farm lands in
Southern California and other pro
ducing centers. A portion is under
sub-le to independent growers.
The Gerard Company is one o.
the heaviest operators in Imperial
Valley lettuce and cantaloupe
deals, with headquarters at Braw-
lev.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
ARMY FLYERS KILLED

BALBOA, c. T., July 8. U.D -
First Lieutenants Henry F.. Ses.
sions Of Georgia and William H
Bleakley, a native of Ireland and a
resident Of Brooklyn, United States
army -aviators at France Field, were
killed today when their plane crash
cd to the ground at Fort Clayton
and burst into flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
GUARD BURNED AREA

MILL VALLEY, July 8. Up
Despite few unexpected flareups
of fire from embers in already
burned homes, the Mt. Tamalpais
region was declared today free OF
fire menace, but additional pre-
cautions were being taken against
looters. Scattered instances Of
providers invading summer ana
week end homes caused new guards
to be posted throughout the see
tion.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
GEN. FELAND PROMOTED

MASHINGIUN, JuIN y VU.HJ-
Brig. Gen. Logan Feland, l. 5, n,
C.. viii sueceed the late Maj. Gan.
Eli X. Cole as commanding general
of the department of the Pacific,
with headquarters at San Francisco.
it was learned today. Feland now Is
on duty at marine corps hcadquar-
ters nj Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
rice Of Valley
Hay Holds Up

Imperial Valley hay prices on the
los Angeles market are holding up
well, according 10 Scott y. Fouds.
secretary of the Imperial County
Farm Bureau, who reports a price
Of approximately $2@ per ton
"ln spite Of heavy shipments be
ing received from Antelope Valley
Foulds said ",he local product is
receiving a brisk demand. The SUI
perior quality of hay being shipped
from the valley is being recognized
by coast buyers and the market
shows no inclination Of a sudden
break
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
QUARANTINE TICHTENED

WASHINGTON, July s. UP)-
Arrival at Pacific ports during the
last six months of II transPacific
vessels carrying cerebro-spinal men-
ingitis infection among Oriental
steerage passengers, has caused
President Hoover TO order stricter
quarantine regulations, It WAS
learned today.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
HOOvERS ENJOY TRIP

WASHINGTON, July 5. (U.H =
President and Mrs. Hoover and
their party which included Herbert
Hoover Jr., returned to the capital
at 10:45 n. m. today after week
end spent at the chief executive :
fishing preserve in the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
SENATOR JONES ILL

WASHINGTON, July 5. tU.P-
Senator Jones, Republican, Wash
inetos, author of the ''five and
ten prohibition enforcement Law,
entered Emergency hospital today
for kidney operation. The opera
ton is to be performed tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
At Cleveland

Boston 002 900 000-2 II !
Cleveland 900 GOA l0x-J s /
MacFayden. Bayne and CASTOR,
Shaute and Wyatt.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08

Examinations of trial alkali plot
at OXnard, Ventura county, showed
one month S flooding has not remov-
ed enough alkali to allow crop
growth. Other floodings will fol-
Iop-
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
At Boston

Chicago 040 120 400-1l u II
Boston 100 300 00G- 3 5
Carlson and Schultz, Gonzales; !;
Leverett, Cunningham and SpOhrer.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
AMERICAN
At Detroit

Washington 10I 001 010 - II J
Detroit 800 100 600 o. II ]
Jones and Spencer, Tate; Uhic
and Eargrave.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
At Brooklyn

Pittsburgh 020 210 2l0-8 > Q
Brooklyn 0l0 600 102 4 9 ::
Grimes and Hargreaves; Morfi-
son, Ballou and Dcberry, Picinich.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
At Philadelphia

st. Louis 2l1 00G 00I-5 u >
Philadelphia 112 10 00x-G II :
Mitchell, Swectland and Wilson;
Willoughby, McGraw and Davis
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08

Here g Alexander Iegge, president
of the international Harvester Co,
when President Hoover has offered
a place on the new federal farm
board that viii administer farm re
lief.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
Baseball Results
Score Of Today's Games as Furnish
ed by United Press Leased Wire
Up to 2:45 P. M
NATIONAL

At New York
Cincinnati 600 000 600 3 .
New York 102 600 00x-3 8 q
May and Gooch; Benton and
Hogan.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-08
Third Week OF
Trial Started

Continued From Page ~
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SESSION PLANNED
BY PRESByTER|ANS
Location and Merger of Ex-
eCutive and PromotionaI
Agencies Proposed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTREAL. N c., Nav l5-Loca-
ton and merger Of executive ana pro-
motinnal agencies OF the church and
selection OF a central church treasurer
will hold major positions on program
OF issues facing the elghty-ninth general
assembly of the Presbyterian Church In
the United States, opening its annual
session here tomorrow.
Three hundred and fifty commission
erS, representing 80 preSbyterleS in II
Southern and Southwestern States, are
expected to attend the session, with DR..
r. c. Anderson, president of the Noun
tain Retreat Association, and DR.. Willis
S. Wilson. pastor of the Montreal Pres
byterian Church, in the role of hosts.
Chief interest of the opening meeting,
in the opinion OF church leaders, will
center around the election of new
moderator. Among those mentioned for
this office are DR.. w. r. Dobyns. Birm-
ingham, Ala; DR.. j. NJ. Wander Meulen.
Louisville, KY; DR.. T. C. Johnson,
6 6ichm9nd, Va; DR.; G; F. F., Myers H;
Greenville, S. c.. and DR.. j. L. Mac
MILAN. Norfolk, Va.
DR.. J. d. Leslie, Dallas. Tex, is stated
clerk of the assembly and E. c. Scott
is assistant clerk.
DR.. Harris E. Kirk of Baltimore, re-
lrlng moderator, VIII preach the open
ing sermon. DR.. j. Sprole Lyons of
Atlanta, will be the annual stewardship
speaker Sunday night. Among other
speakers on the program were DR..
Samuel Zwemer and DR.. Charles L.
King of Richmond
II was pointed out by assembly lead
ers today that many issues OF vital con-
Germ to Presbyterians throughout the
assembly are on the program for dis
cussion and probable settlement. In adj
dition to the question of locating and
merging agencies and the selection of a
central treasurer, the ministers an
nuity fund is regarded as a matter of
chief concern. This fund, it was re-
called, was authorized by previous as
SemblieS and is scheduled to claim
much attention throughout the assem-
bly, during 1880. Plans are under way
for launching a drive for $4,000, 900 for
the operation and maintenance of the
pension plan.
The seventeenth annual report of the
Woman's Auxiliary and the recent re-
tirement, on account of i'll health, of
Mrs. w. c. WinSborough, superintend-
ent and secretary of the auxiliary since
its organization, are other matters that
will claim more than ordinary atten-
ton. assembly spokesman say
The report Of the committee on as
sembly'S work will be submitted by DR..
Ernest Thompson of Charleston, w.
Va; w. NJ. Everett of Atlanta and A.
S. Johnstone of Richmond.
All sessions will be held in the An
derson Auditorium and the commission
ers will be entertained in the new as
sembly inn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-15
BACKED BY PINEY BRANCH,

Action of policemen in firing upon
automobiles using smoke screens was
approved In resolution adopted by the
Piney Branch Citizens Association at a
meeting in the Hamline M. E. Church
Monday night
The association adopted another reso-
luton urging the Federation of Citi-
Zens' Associations to investigate to de-
termine whether it would be feasible for
the Traffic Bureau to come under the
direct command of the Police Depart
ment
The association adopted a resolution
of regret to be sent TO the family of
the late J. Bradford, vice president Of
the association, who died recently.
Capt George l.. Storey presided at
the meeting in the absence of E. B.
Henderson, the president
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BATTLING MURDER
CASE IS DROPPED
London Police Are Reported
to Have Ceased Work on
Poison Mysteries.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. August 29-It was report
ed here yesterday that because of lack
of evidence authorities had decided not
to bring charges against any one In
the so-called Croydon poisoning cases
involving the sudden death of three
members of family.
If the reports are correct. 1t will mean
that one of the greatest poisoning mys-
terieS of modern times may remain I'M
solved. Scotland Yard has been work.
ing on the case for months.
Efforts to evoke a workable criminal
theory from the web of circumstances
seem to have proved futile. Edmund
Creighton Duff. Miss Very Sidney and
Mrs. Violet Sydney. all members of
family living in Croydon, a suburb
south Of London, have died during the
last year and a half under suspicious
circumstances. and in each case a jury
found the death caused by poisoning
Duff and Miss Sidney we're found to
have been willfully murdered by per-
son or persons unknown, but the jury
was unable to determine whether the
death of Mrs. Sidney. Mr.. Duff's moth
er-in-law, was a case Of suicide or
murder. The whole case has been
characterized in England as the most
baffling murder mystery Of modern
times. The suspected murders seem to
have been as deliberate as they were
lacking in motive. This Is one of the
most puZzling features of the case.
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FIND DISCREPANCY
|NBOARD MINUTES
Findings Read in Record of
Halls Suit for Control of
Augusta Chronicle.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MACON, Ga, August 29.-Min-utes
Of the meeting of the directors of the
Augusta, Ga, Chronical Publishing Co.,
on May 13, showing apparent discrep-
ancies in the records as prepared by
an attorney and as finally signed yes
terday, were read into the records
in the suit of Harold Hall, for operating
control of the Chronicle and three
South Carolina newspapers. In certain
paragraphs the name William Lavarre''
had been substituted lin the signed
minutes. where Hall and Lavarre" had
appeared in the other copy.
The minutes recorded the transfer
OF the Chronicle from T. j. Hamilton
to Harold Hall, as president and La
varre as chairman of the board.
Previously j. c. McAuliffe, secretary
of the Chronicle. had identified the
final minutes as bearing his page initial
and signature. He said they were sub
mitted to him by Lavarre shortly after
the meeting and he signed them without
question.
The carbon copy submitted by Hall
today, was certified without the appear
ance of George Barrett. Augusta, who
as attorney for Hall and Lavarre, had
sat in the board meeting for the pur-
ported purpose of keeping the minutes
straight. Barrett said he had prepared
the copy.
The Barrett copy in an early para
graph began:
"Mr Hall called attention to the fact
that all of the stock of this company
was held and owned by Messrs. Hall
and Lavarre. with the exception Of eight
shares of preferred stock"
The final minutes which McAuliffe
testified last week had been brought
to him by Lavarre for his signature as
secretary began:
Mr.. Lavarre called attention to the
fact that all of the stock Of this COM
pany was held and owned by him with
the exception Of eight shares Of pre-
ferred stock"