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The Washington times., 1929-01-05

AN AUTOMOBILE salesman
and a motorcycle policeman last
night, after thrilling chase,
arrested the alleged rum runners
whose speeding car knocked down
and killed John #. Luitich, Gov.
eminent printer. Goodman, ern-
ployed by the Ourisnlan, Chevrolet
Motor Company, found one OF
the suspects hiding in a yard.
Schotter, after a daring motor
cycle drive over cObblestOnes,
shot at the tires Of the car
and arrested the driver. Both
prisoners were cOlored.
The Washington times., 1929-01-05
3 Pay $40 Each for
Papers Taken Off Rack

Ten dollars for single news.
paper Is a pretty stiff price to pay,
yet that's what three persons did
today when they forfeited col
lateral of $40 each by failing to
appear before Judge Ralph Given in
United States court on charges Of
removing newspapers from "honor
system racks without paying for
them.
Policeman f. A. Fuller, OF the
Eighth Precinct, was the com.
plainant against Seymour Coleman,
%, 2200 block of Thirteenth st. NJ.
W.; John Osborne, 81. First block
OF C st. s. W.. and Belle Thorn
ton. 35. 200 block Of Thirteenth
st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1929-01-05

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The Washington times., 1929-01-05
BANK STATEMENTS

washington Clearing House.
S5.811, ,1O0.25.
New York Clearing House bal
anee, $3.50, 900, 900.
New York Clearing House *
change, S2.14O, 600, 900.
Treasury balance, $246, ,381 .98I.332.
Customs receipts, S2 1853, ,453.3s.
The Washington times., 1929-01-05

A good closed car for the wife =
properly broken for driving easily !.
Used Car columns Of tOday's Classified
ads
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
MRS. MCPHERSON
FILESDEMURRER
IN DAMAGE SUIT

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23. U.H-
A demurrer, seeking dismissal of the
$324,50O damage suit brought
against Aimee Semple Mcpherson by
her former attorney, Cromwell Orms-
by, will be argued in superior court
next Friday.
The demurrer, filed by George
Acret, new counsel for the evange-
list, contended that Ormsby's suit
contained many legal discrepancies
torney had no right to enter into
torney had not right to enter into
ether contracts with a client.
The action holds that Ormsby,
seeking $250,000 for asserted breach
of contract for making two motion
pictures, failed to show whether
Mrs. Mcpherson made the picture or
how he was damaged in any manner.
1t similarly holds forth that Orms-
by failed to show how he was dam
aged to the extent of $4,000 when
Mrs. Mcpherson discharged him as
manager of her proposed tour of the
Hcly Land.
Attachments filed against Mrs.
McPherson's automobile and her
bank account by Frank Timpson,
discharged Angelas Temple manager,
who is suing Mrs. Mcpherson for
$1,000 We're lifted yesterday when
she posted $4,000 bond.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
ACCUSED SLAYER
IS ASSURED OF
WIFE'S LOYALTY

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. UP)
Two facts served to cheer Lawr-
ence Tulloch today, as the youthful
broadcasting studio director sat in
his cell, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Gertrude Hawkins Lavine in
his apartment last Wednesday.
One was the inability of the cor
oner's jury to arrive at verdict of
murder at the inquest, and the other
was the knowledge that his wife,
Nina Susoff Tulloch, of New York,
would "stick by him." Tulloch spoke
to his wife yesterday over long dis
tance telephone.
The eoroner's jury said that from
lack of evidence it was unable to
determine whether the young woman
committed, suicide, was accidentally
shot, or was murdered.
Police, through a misunderstood
ing, failed to appear to testify at
the inquest.
A San Francisco physician told
police that Mrs. Lavine was in a
nervous and worried condition late
ly, and this fact strengthened the ru-
NOR that Tulloch might retract his
admission that he accidentally shot
the woman, and might return to his
original story that he believed she
committed suicide when he was alb
sent from the room moment.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23

PROCLAMATION
BY GOV. YOUNG

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Nov. 90.
W.H-Governor c. c. Young today
issued his annual proclamation call
ing for observance Of Thanksgiving
day. The governors statement fol-
lows:
"In accordance with the long es.
tablished custom of our country,
the President of the United States
has set apart and designated the
last Thursday of this months as n
day of Thanksgiving to God for
the blessings which have so richly
attended us, and Of prayer for the
continuance of those blessings.
"This beautiful custom is one
which every citizen would desire to
perpetuate. 1t seems eminently fit.
ting that we should devote one day
of each year, in our homes and iu
cur respective houses of worship, to
a rendering of thanks, not only for
the continuance of our material wei.
fare. but also for the privilege which
is ours of living in land of peace,
freedom and equality Of opportuni.
ty. .-,
"Now therefore I, c. C. Young,
governor Of the state of California,
in pursuance of the proclamation of
the President, and in accordance
with the authority vested in me BY
law, hereby declare Thursday, the
twenty eighth day of November,
l929, as Thanksgiving day"
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Fire Damages
English Liner

NEW YORK, Now %. W.H-Fire
was discovered today in hold No. 4
of the steamer City of Manila from
Liverpool, tied up at a Brooklyn
pier.
Three fire companies and two fire
boats were summoned to fight the
blaze.
The agents for the line, Funch,
Edge & Company, said the ship car
ried cargo of jute valued at ST.
100000. Although, they reported
shortly after l p. m. that the fire
was under control they said they be-
lieved it had done considerable dam
age to the cargo.
Spontaneous combustion was be-
lieved to be the cause.
The City of Manila is owned by
Elderman and Buekenll, of Liver.
pool.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Grant Leaves
Small Estate


SAN DIEGO, Nov. o3. U.P)-
Ulysses S. Grant Jr., son OF the
Civil War general, left an estate
valued at less than $4,000 it was re-
vcaled late yesterday when his
widow, Mrs. America V. Grant, Pc
titioned the superior court for per-
mission to probate his will.
A claim of 5000 for the months
salary due Grant as president of
the L. S. Grant Hotel Company, and
a $4,000 interest in trust deed ere.
ated by Julia L. Grant in 1887, were
the only assets.
Grant in his will left out all other
heirs explaining that he had amply
provided for them during his life.
time. He reeited in the will that
each of them had received a gift of
$4,000 and many other smaller
presents from time to time.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
CLOSED MARKET
CONTINUES TO
SHOW ACTIVITY
Brokers Work To Catch
Up On Books Following
Rush.
By ELMER c.. WALLER
United Press Financial Editor

NEW YORK, Nov. %. U.P)-The
stock exchange and other financial
markets were closed today but the
financial district continued to dis
play the activity of an ordinary
day. Brokerage houses were still
working to catch up with their
books after the recent rush of bus
mess and specialists were at their
offices to clear up open trades.
Trading this week was considered
normal, only one of the thrce-hour
sessions running above three million
shares. A week ago business was
at the rate of nearly two million
shares an hour.
This falling off of trading was be-
lieved to be the moving factor in
the action Of the stock exchange in
ordering full session for the first
three days of next week. The last
three days will be long holiday.
Today the committee of arrange
ments of the stock exchange request
ed members that so far as possible
the office be closed on Thanksgiving
day ain order to afford an opportun-
ity for rest to the personnel of men,
ber houses" the committee directed
offices of members to be open on
Friday and Saturday following
Thanksgiving to clear up open
trades. The exchange will be closed
on three days.
These holidays, it is expected, will
bring up the back bookkeeping to
date and permit running of full time
markets in the future.
Dealings are considered subnormal
at the present time. Tickers are
able to keep within short distance
from the actual market and all hys-
terra to sell has disappeared.
Incidentally, the rise of the past
week or more has brought many
prices to where they were as the
year 1929 dawned. Allied Chemical,
for. example, closed last night at
$50, exactly where it left off on
Dec. 81, 1928.
Some issues are l to 80 points
above where they We're the last day
of last year and in a few instances
gains of much larger score are noted.
Not all stocks have recovered to that
point and some are off more than
100 points, but it is considered signif.
icant that the best issues have more
than held their own against on
slaughts of bears trying to depress
them below the levels of several
years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Cardinal Orders
Cemetery Closed

BOSTON, Nov. %. WH-William
Cardinal O'Connell, archbishop of
Boston and dean of the Roman Cath
ollie Hierarchy in America, has or
dercd that Holy Cross cemetery,
Maiden, be closed on and after Mon
day, pending an investigation of
the hundreds of supposedly miracu.
lous cures reported at the grave of
the Rev. Patrick j. Power.
Only funeral professions will be
allowed in the cemetery after Sun.
day, according to n statement issued
by the chancellor's office of the
diocesan house here last night.
"By the request of Cardinal
O'Connell we are asked to publish
broadcast everywhere that the sit
uation in the cemetery in Maiden
has become such that an investiga.
ton is being made into the whole
situation which developed during
the past month";" the announcement
said.
The action of Cardinal O'Connell
will end the pilgrimages of thou
sands of persons to the young
priests grave where many reported
cures have been made.
Despite the chill November
weather yesterday, more than l2,-
COO persons visited the tomb where
eight cures were claimed in the last
81 hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Building and Loan
Company Planning
For New Location

Coming as the first fruit of the
new city planning ordinance; the al
tcrations contemplated for the old
Williams grocery store on the north
west corner of State and Sixth
streets, will be welcome addition
to the business section of the city.
This building will be occupied by
the Imperial Valley Building and
Loan Association, an organization
but 10 years old in FL 'Centro.
This company started operations
under the name of the FL Centre
llomebuilders with the object of fur
nishing homes for newcomers and
aid in the city's growth. They
built 90 homes, sold on small down
payments and then paid for on the
deferred payment plan. 1t was soon
realized that small building COM
pany could not fulfil the needs Of
the city in this regard, hence the
birth of the Building and Loan AS
sociation, two years ago. Since
that time they have financed about
80 units in the community.
Officers of the company are: H.
p. Meyer, president; J. L. Travers,
wee president; o. G.. Horne, treas
urer; j. S. Jones, secretary; Hugh
I. Osborne, assistant secretary and
manager. Directors are C. f. Sones,
w. w. McEuen, w. H. Brooks, A. P.
Nuffer. Stockholders include the
Security Title and Trust Company;
The Pioneer Title and Trust Com
nany, +. c. Glass, Mr.. R. IL. Camp
bell, Mrs. f. B. Fuller, w. II. Tyler,
DIR. F. A. Burger, John Tyler, r. P.
Moore, Elmer Leonard, Ross I. Hick-
cox, Sones Lumber Company, J.
Stuart Ross and the Valley Lumber
Company.
This organization is strictly local
and its purpose is to loan local
money to local people in order to
build up this community. None of
the funds of the company leave the
valley.
The building which it is to oc-
cupy is owned by the Valley Lum-
Der Company. The exterior will be
done over in stucco with new
entrance on State street for the city
Eall, the back part of the building
having been leased to the city for
police station and court room.
The arcade is to be carried along
State street to the alley.
Jasper Travers, the well known
pioneer contractor of Imperial Val
ley, will be in charge Of all con-
s'ruction work. Other improvements
en- State street are contemplated.
On the completion of the present
work, Travers will construct an ar
cade for his own State street prop
e-ty adjoining the Press.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
CONGRESS FACES
MANY TASKS IN
NEXT SESSION
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. U.H-
A busy program, headed by tax re-
duction, the tariff and prohibition,
will face congress when it returns
from its 10 day vacation December
9 to start its long session.
1t mad its fingers crossed when it
passed yesterday the resolution in
forming President Hoover that the
special session he called in March
had concluded its business.
Tie Law establishing the federal
farm board, now functioning, was
the only major item Of legislation
enacted in the special session.
All the business accumulated dur
ing exclusive consideration of the
tariff has been thrown over to the
regular session. Il nakes an enor-
nous program which will keep both
houses busy until next June or later.
Aside from the three major items
there will be radio legislation, naval
appropriations, inland waterways
development, anti-lobbying bills,
proposed restrictions on the stock
market and the case of seating SEN
ator-elect Ware of Pennsylvania,
who spent 100000 in his primary
election.
Tax reduction will be pushed
through speedily. The tariff will be
taken up in the senate as soon as
the Ware case is out of the way and
increasing optimism is felt over the
prospects for final enactment of the
bill.
After the tariff is sent to confer
cncc committees representing both
houses, for working out the COM
promise, the question of prohibition
appropriations will come up. The
Sheppard bill to make the buyer of
liquor equally guilty with the seller
is TO be considered by the senate
Judiciary committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
M'ManuS Case
Takes Recess

NEW YORK, Nov. %. UH-The
trial of George McManus, accused of
the murder of Arnold Rothstein,
last Thursday of this month rs a
firearms experts prepared for test
imony 10 be introduced during the
coming week.
Albert II. Hamilton, expert on
guns, who has testified in many i'm
portant cases, and other experts
from the police department, examin
ed pistol now in possession of the
prosecution.
The bullet taken from Rothstein'S
body had peculiar groove in it..
The experts will give evidence as
to whether bullet fired from the
gun the state plans to introduce
would carry such a mark.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Water Essential
Wilbur Asserts

WASHINGTON, Nov. 90. W.P)-
Invention of q new technique for
handling of the l90,000,000 acres
still remaining in the federal gov
crnment's vast western domain is
essential, Secretary of Interior Will
bur told President Hoover's public
lands commission today.
Holding it's initial session, the 2l
m m bers, representing western
states, he added, has now reached
its limit unless new water resources
are developed.
-Four major problems emphasized
before the commission by Garfield
were: Q' grazing, (2' reclamation,
(3) water power, (4) oil.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Island Epidemic
Takes Big Toll

san JUAN, PORTO RICO, Nov.
23. UP)-Four hundred deaths have
occurred at st. Christopher, British
West Indies, within the last week
from pestilence, advices received
here said today.
Uneonfirmed reports said the pest
Hence was Bubonic plague. Author
tiles claimed the nature of the dis
ease was not definitely determined.
Ships are avoiding the island,
while adjacent islands and countries
are preparing to fight the spread of
the disease. A medical expert from
Venezuela was summoned to st.
Kits by airplane.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
TWO ARRESTED
IN CONNECTION
WITH SHOOTING

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. %. U.H-
Two men, suspected of being mem
bers of the group which shot down
and perhaps fatally wounded two
asserted hijackers here late yes
tcrday. were arrested by police to-
day.
The men, William j. Griggin, 20,
and Carl b. Morris, 81, denied any
part in putting Robert Murphy and
James lie Gros, said to be of San
San Francisco, "on the spot"
Murphy and lie Gros were shot
as they sat in their automobile
waiting to turn a consignment OF
liquor over to an expected bootleg
ger.
"Have you got the stuff said
the driver of an automobile contain
ing several men.
"Yes," said lie Gros and then he
was shot in the stomach.
Murphy jumped from his ear but
he was shot in the back as he at
tempted to reach safety behind a
house.
Murphy told police that the liquor
he and lie Gros were attempting to
sell had been hiiacked several days
ago. He said he presumed that he
and lie Gros had been put on the
spot" by the men from whom the
liquor was taken.
lie Gros declined to corroborate
Murphy's statements. He said that
he was shot accidentally when he
dropped his gun.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Actor And Wife
Are RecOnciled

LOS ANGELES, Nov. %. W.D-
Ted Doner, vaudeville and musical
comedy actor, and his wife, Peggy,
have brought to an end the dise0rd
in the Doner family and as result of
n reconciliation Mrs. Doner's snit
for divorce has been stricken from
The files.
Mrs. Doner recently had her hus-
band arrested on chagc of kid
naping as he was about to leave the
state with their 15 months old
daughter. Doner was released when
the district attorneys office de-
clarcd a man could not be charged
with kidnapping his own child. Two
days later, Mrs. Doner started di-
vorcc proceedings which were ter
minated yesterday with the request
the suit be stricken from the cal
endar.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Final Results
OF Grid Games

Harvard 10, Yale 6.
Army Is, Ohio Wesleyan 6.
\. Y. n. 20, Rutgers I.
Holy Cross 20, Springfield 6.
Illinois 81, Ohio State 0.
Lchigh IS, Lafayette 10.
Fordham II, Bucknell 0.
Temple 16, Drake IA.
Lebanon Valley 10, Quantieo Mar.
ines Z.
Baldwin Wallace 0, Akron 13.
Chicago %, Washington6.
Detroit Z, Oregon IA.
Michigan 0, Iowa 0.
Detroit City college 0, Ypsilanti
%.
Boston college SO, Boston U. o.
Harvard 20, Delaware 0.
Brown II, New Hampshire 7.
Navy 80, West Virginia Wesle-
yam 6.
Villa Nova "a, North Carolina
State 6.
Mount Union "a, Hiram O.
John Carroll &c, Marietta 6.
st. Bonadventure 13, Loyola 6.
Duquesene Z, Haskell 6.
st. John 7, st. Thomas II.
Notrc Dame oS, Northwestern 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
S. P. DECLARES
RAIL EXTENSION
IS NOT NEEDED
BY GEORGE d. CRIssEY
United Press staff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. %. W.H
1T was glaringly evident today
that lot Of good people have made
mistakes in the fight between two
great railroad systems regarding the
right of one group to expand at what
is claimed to be the expense Of the
other faction.
For days now an interstate COM
merce commission hearing has gath
cred evidence pertaining to the ap-
plication Of the Great Northern and
the Western Pacific railroads to
build a 200 mile connecting link
from Klamath Falls, Ore, to Keddie,
California.
Competition in California between
the Great Northern and the Southern
Pacific has been the real issue at
stake.
The Southern Pacific, assisted by
the Union Pacific, is heading the op-
position to the proposed new road.
In brief, the Great Northern and
Western Pacific have introduced
testimony showing the 200 mile strip
to be traverscd contains much tim
ber waiting only for way to reach
market, that hundreds of acres of
rich land are begging for a chance
to be developed and that the. propos.
ed railroad, at an estimated cost Of
$l3, 100000 would be worth while
from either national or sectional
viewpoint.
Everything eontcnded by the APP
plicants is denied by the Southern
Pacific. Over-production is plaguing
the lumber industry, limited guam
tity of water is available for irri-
cation, and in general the freight
possibilities are limited, Southern
Pacific witnesses have said.
To an impartial observer, it seems
that each faction sent men into the
field to find certain things and that
each was successful.
Perhaps the strongest Southern
Pacific testimony to date was the
declaration Of DR.. George Barr, Sou
thern Pacific agricultural expert,
who said that 10000 acres of land
in the area to be traversed were
barren, and that 10000 acres were
of doubtful value and that water
costs to irrigate the remaining
$4,000 acres would be excessive.
The hearing adjourned today be-
cause of the "big game" between
Stanford and California furnished
too much competition.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Three Killed
In Cave-In

LOS ANGELES. Nov. 23. U.P)---
Three men were killed and thres
others were injured when the ex.
plosion of a gas main caused land.
slide which buried them in u ditch
they were digging in Sawtelle today.
r. Navarro, A. Alcalo and NJ. Con.
trares, all Mexicans, were dead when
they were dug from the earth which
covered them. Three Of their com
ranion workers were saved by the
quick work of inhalator squads.
The six who were buried were
digging the foundation for new
building when six inch main eI-
ploded and started the earth slide.
The presence of gas made the resene
work difficult.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
Rich Chicag0an
Tries Suicide

CHICAGO, Nov. 23. W.H-Byron
Dowse, wealthy manufacturer, shot
himself twice with target pistol
in the Morton building today. He
was taken to the county hospital,
where it was said he probably will
die.
Dowse, president of the Garden
City Manufacturing Co., was said to
have lost heavily in the stock market
decline.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
HAM HEADS CITY MANAGERS

FORT WORTH, Tex, Nov. 23.W.H
After electing Clifford w. Ham,
city manager Of Pontiac, Mich, as
their president and selecting San
Francisco as their 1880 meeting
place, delegates to the international
City Managers Association were re.
turning to their homes today.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-23
QUITS CITY OFFICE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. s3.a (UR--
Mayor John c. Porter today accept
ed the resignation of John r. Rich
ards, for the past three and half
years member of the board of
water and power commissioner.