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Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
AMERICA
RE TA|NS
OLD CLIP
Enterprise Takes Fourth
Race From Sir Thomas
LiptOn's Shamrock Y.
LATTER OUTCLASSED
Veteran Sportsman Will
Not Seek Again To Get
Yachting HOnOrs.
BY NORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY
United Press Staff Correspondent

ABOARD L. S. S. KANE, IN
TERNATIONAL RACE COURSE,
Sept. IS. UR) Enterprise today re-
tanned for the New York Yacht
club the historic America IS cup, sym.
bolic of yachting supremacy.
The great metal sloop slipped
across the finish line today fer Il
sourth successive victory over Sir
Thomas Upton $ green challenger,
Shamrock V. The challenger was
more than mile and Il quarter
astcrn.
Enterprise crossed the finish line
ut 1:I0:05, completing the course III
; hours and 10 minutes and ) see
onds.
Shamrock followed her across the
inc at l:55:5j, taking 3 hours, h
minutes and - seconds to do the
80 miles. She was ) minutes and
~ seconds behind the defender,
having picked up approximately
Jour minutes on the last leg.
Thus the silver cup worth ST.
which has caused Sir Thomas Upton
aud American spoftsmcn to cxpend
r4ilions of dollars in periodic races
since 1911. remains in the United
States where il was brought after
the sloop America won it that year
off the Isle of Wight.
Harold =. Vanderbilt, amateur
skipper and sportsman, not only
brought his craft to an outstanding
victory but probably ended Sir
Thomas Upton 5 gallant efforts to
l,gain the cup. Upton has an
nounced he will not challenge again.
The matches between Enterprise,
skippcrcd bv an amateur and equip
tcd with modern mechanical sail,
raising devices. and Shamrock \,
c}inging to old-stylc yacht design
and skippcred by the noted profes-
sIonal. Ned Heard, were & triumph
for American building and seaman
slip.
From the first race to ;hc last,
the British-build sloop hadn Il
chance of beating the fleet winged
defender,
Shamrock s III luck in third,
When she WAS forccd TO Withdraw
after her main halNald parted, had
no material effect on the contest.
The result, in the eyes of expert
enccd scamcn, would have been the
same.
NEWPORT. Il. l., sept. lS. U.P)
THE official time for today $
r1cc between Shamrock and Enter
prise was:
Shamrock , hours, - minutes, 81
seconds.
Enterprise , hours, 10 minutes, l3
seconds.
Enterprise won 10y five minutes
and # seconds.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
POISON THEORY
DISCOUNTED in
COAST DEATHS

LOS ANGELES, Sept. Is. UP)-
Infantile paralysis today displaced
poison in the theories of investi
gators seeking an explanation OF
the illness which caused the death
of three of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Lowe S seven children, and sent the
others to hospital.
The belief that the children had
eaten poisoned food was dissipated
by "A report from county chemists
whose analysis of the victims vita
organs revealed no trace of poisons
Examination of the bodies OF
Betty, >, Virginia, 3, and John
Lowe, Is months, who died last
Sunday, disclosed however, Il con
gestion of the central nervous sys
TENS.
This condition, according to DIR
George II. Roth of the county healtl
department, indicates that intantilt
paralysis germs may have found the
Ealf-starved Youngsters ready vie
TINS.
The pills which the children hat
found ON nearby dump and ha6
eaten. were dismissed as a possibl,
cause of the fatal malady whel
chemists reported last night thai
they We're common variety of live
medicine and harmless.
1t also was believed late yester
day that the Youngsters had eater
food from cans found ON the city
dump not far from their Moneta
home, destitute because of the faith
er S inability to find work during
the past nine months.
Lois. 7, and Robert, II, still wer,
seriously i'll at a hospital. The
other two children, Frances, II, ant
Geneva, 9, were also in the hospita
but their condition was not serious
The father, formerly an Oregon
nill worker, was given a job Garlic,
this week when death of the child
rer revealed his condition of power
tN
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
RAILROAD WORK
AT DAM SITE IS
NOW UNDERWAY

LAS VEGAS, Nev., Sept. Is. tU.P)
The first unit of Boulder Dam WAS
under construction today after the
official start of work at nation
wide ceremony in charge of Sccrc-
tarv of the Interior Ray Lyman Viii
bur.
On a windswept section of the Ne
vada desert seven miles south OF
here. Secretary Wilbur hammered {,
silver spike into the first tie of a
o2.mile branch line railway leading
to the site of the 500 ,O0o,Ooo water
and power project, while notables
from seven states in the great Colo
RADIO Basin looked on and ap'
nlaudcd.
Soon after the brief ceremony
Yesterday afternoon, grading crews
bcoan work on preparing the right
of way into summit, the govern
mcnt built city, which will house the
vast army of workers needed to build
the dam-thc greatest engineering
feat of modern times.
In a nationally broadcast radio
address from Las Vegas last night,
Secretary Wilbur declared the dam
"marks this as the beginning of n
new era in the handling by states
working together of those common
problems upon the solution of which
the continued vitality of our nation
depends. -
''In controlling water, lies the fu
ture of our country, and particular
" that of its western portion, the
cabinet officer said. Millions OF
dollars will be spent III developing
and controlling water and power re-
sources of the nation.
During the course of his speech
Secretary Wilbur revealed a dect
sion to name the project Hoover
Dam instead of Boulder Dam IN ho.
nor of the nation S President and
foremost engineer.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Nomination OF
Butler Assured

BOSTON, Sept Is. W.P)-Wiliam
NJ. Butler, dry, held margin of
some 5000 votes today i'll the con-
test for the Republican senatorial
nomination.
Practically complete returns gave
Rutler, who already has served the
senate by appointment, 100, 100
votes, compared with l5l,627 for his
nearest opponent, Eben :. Draper,
a wet. Andrew J. BoSsy' Gillis,
mayor Of Ncwburyport, and
"moist" polled 22,300 votes.
Butler will be opposed in the Nov.
embcr election by Marvus {. Cool
idgc, Fitchburg manufacturer.
Coolidge received 1862 votes in
Tuesday 5 contest for the Demo
cratic senatorial nomination, defeat
ing four other candidates.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Police Arrest
Young Capone

CHICAGO, Sept. IS. UH-Policc
squads, hunting the 26 gangstcr
public enemies in Chicago S latest
crime drive, today arrested Matthew
Caponc, younger brother of Scar
face Al Capona, the gang leader.
Mat. .hew, 81, and fresh from Mi
ami, Fla, the gangster S winter
home, WAS captured as the squads
lay in wait fo" Scarfaee Al at
his luxurious south side apartment
The Younger Capone WAS held at
the Grand Crossing station pending
further investigation
Afte" arrest'ng Young Capone,
the squads searched the Caponc
apartment house but found no trace
of Al or Ralph. The filst floor of
the flat, where Al lives part of the
time with his wife and two child
rem, was vacant. Caponc' 5 mother
was the only occupant of the two
flats, which a" richly furnished
with Oriental rugs, tapestries and
period furniture.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
TRACE RANCHER'S
SLAYER ACROSS
MEXICAN BORDER

That the two men, who took part
IN the brutal killing Monday night
of X. llamada, Japanese employee
on the Chan Livingston ranch south
west of McCabc school, escaped into
Mexico Il few hours after the at
tack was clearly shown by the dis
covery late yesterday of Hamada S
stolen Ford truck within 30 feet of
the international line, Il few miles
west of Calexico.
The tracks of two men leading
from the car across the border
were clearly imprinted in the sand.
according to ranchcrS, who notified
the sheriff S office yesterday of
the location Of the car, it had been
standing near the line since early
Tuesday morning.
Last night and today police at
MeXicali were checking up ON the
different hospitals and doctors in
AN effort to find out whether or
not one of the two men. believed
to have been injured in the strug-
gle at the ranch house at the time
of llamada S death, has been treat
ed for injuries since that time. The
yard, where Hamada 5 AK crashed
body was discovered last Tuesday
noon, bore mute evidence of ter
rific battle.
4 reward of 800 for the arrest of
either of the two men implicated in
the killing, was offered this morn
ing by the japanese Farmers AS
sociation, which has headquarters
at 5l2 broadway, FL Centre.
Inquest in Hamada s dea.h is
scheduled for Saturday morning at
Lemons funeral parlor where the
body WAS removed Tuesday. funcr.
al arrangements are being help up
pending the outcome of the inquest.
The Japanese is survived by Il
brother T. Hamada, of Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
NEW DISCOVERY
BEARS OUT TALE
OF OLD TRAGEDY
Bones OF Men Slain Half
A Century Ago Found
In North OF State.

NEWHALL, Calf, Sept. Is. (U.H
The bones of four murdered men,
found ON slope of the Tehaehapi
mark the end of a rainbow trail
followed 20 years by a woman pros
pcctor in quest of Los Horse mine
and its vast store of gold.
Anna l.. Rose, the prospector who
led posse of sheriff s deputies on
a successful hunt for the bones, de
clared they were the remains Of
three men and boy who, according
to legend, were slain near the mine
IN 1917 by "Irish y Charlie Reilly,
yirile two-gun man of the west.
If the legend is based ON fact
and pioneers of the district claim
there is strong evidence to support
it-Miss Rose may be able TO un-
cover the oblterated shaft Of the
mine from which "Doc' Ben iamin
Franklin Bragg took $S00,000 in
gold quartz half a century ago.
Bragg, an associate of Lucky
Baldwin of race horse fame, wasted
his easily won fortune, but five
wears before he died mendicant in
1915 he revealed to Miss Rose the
lost mine s location on a crude map.
Bragg himself was 'afraid to re-
turn to the mine for more gold,
although he refused to name the
cause of his foreboding.
The woman filed claims ON the
L. ho+
she traced the shaft first worked
by native Indians in 1913. Two
days ago, digging in what appeared
20 be the site of an old Indian camp
ing ground, she uncovered two
skulls. Yesterday the deputies she
callcd in dug deeper and found two
more.
The deputies also told of finding,
half mile from the crude grave,
traces of an abandoned mine, al
though no shaft was visible.
Traditions of the neighborhood.
say Reilley drank heavily in the
village store one night and boasted
of Staying the four men he found
working the mine. He buried the
victims near the mine, he Sa1d, out
boasted again none could find the
spot.
Three days later he was ambushed
hy dark-skinned night riders and
the next day neighbors came across
lis bullet riddled body.
=" Irish Charlie may have plan
ned to return to the mine to take
- Doe" Bragg 5 work, but half a
! century WAS to pass before humans
/ again set foot on the isolated slope.
And now Miss Rose believe she
has found the Lost Horse mine.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Bryan University
Opens In Dayton

DAYTON, Tenn, Sept lS UP
In the Rhea county courthouse,
where the famous Scopes evolution
trial took place, formal opening eX-
crciSes of William Jennings Bryan
I'niversity-founded to pcrpetuate
the anti-cvolution theories of the
"Great Commoner were held to
day.
The college opened with an enroll
mcnt of 500, The Sl,oo0,00o raised
to found the university, came al
,aost entirely from citizens Of this
country.
The charter of the university de
oicatcs the school to "edncate men
nnd women under auspices distinctly
Christian and spiritual, as testi-
monv to the supreme glory OF the
Lord Jesus Christ and to the divine
Inspiration and infallibility of the
luble.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
New York Facing
Wet-Dry Battle

ALBANY, y. Y, Sept. IS. UP
Dry strength displayed in Tuesday S
pl limaries and the threat of pro-
hibition party confronted Republl-
cen state leaders today in the face
of wet demands for a repeal plank
in the state platform.
Dry advocates, iubilant over vic
tories in three counties which elect
cd dry delegates to the state con
Ncntion, renewed their demand for
a plank declaring for enforcement
of all laws, including the NolStead
&ct.
At the same time Il movement
T. hich began in the Women 5 Christ
ian Temperance Union, for a prohib-
;tion candidate if the Republicans
fail to 30 all the way in Il dry dec.
laration, settled down to talk of
candidates. Since the dry element
in New York state is almost entire
il Republican, third party would
be a serious threat, it was suggest
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
REPORT VESSEL
in DISTRESS ON
NORTHERN COAST
Fear Long Overdue Lum-
Der Schooner May Have
Been Victim OF Disaster

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. IS. W.P)
With boilers working at full
pressure, the Coast Guard Cutter
Cahokia today proceeded to the
point off Cape Blanco, Oregon, where
the steam schooner South Coast was
reported to have foundcred with be
tween 15 and 20 men aboard.
The first intimation that the
vessel was missing was made here
| Cd to the photographic office of the
| 10Th naval station that they ha !
seen dcckhouse, an empty lifeboat
and numerous logs-the South
Coasts cargo-500 miles north OF
| here.
/ The steam schooner left Crescen.
! City, Calf, Tuesday morning bound
for Coos Bay, Orc, where it was
due at t a. m. Wednesday. At an
early hour today the vessel had not
been sighted either at Coos Bay OF
way points.
A heavy fog had enveloped the
ships course since its departure
Officials of the Hobby Wall Com
banv, owners of the South Coast
were unable to account for the re
ported accident, as the ship carried
no explosives and had been over the
! same route under the same Officers
for a number of weeks.
The missing vessel carried no ra
| dio, which added to the alarm fell
that a tragedy had occurred. Tht
i Cahokia was not expected to arrive
before noon today off Cape Blanco.
The steamship TETON WAS the fir5
to report yesterday.
Was Old Ship
Found many logs and signs o.
! wrcckage floating ON the water,
| Master Tornstrom of the TETON said
i"Thc position WAS 42.223 north
| 124.50 west.
A short time later the steame.
Benbow radioed that Il lookout has
spotted signs of Il wreck and askeo
| information concerning any ship re
| ported missing.
/ Company officials estimated the
number of men aboard at Is Will
! Captain Stanley Sorenson as captain
The South Coast was Il woodcr
schooner built in 1887. 1t weighed
30l tons and was 131 feet long It,
home port was San Francisco, but
/ for a number of weeks it had been
carrying out a contract to transport
| logs from Crescent City to Coos Bay
! At its last government inspection
! the vessel was pronounced i'll IA sea
worthy condition, company officials
said.
A dispatch from Marshfield, Ore.
stated that a coast guard crew and
power boat had been sent to the
scene where the wreckage was sight
| ed, but it was thought that the
! Cohakia would arrive sooner.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
F FAMOUS
WA TOR
CRASHES.
Ruth Alexander Instantly
Killed In Early Morning
Fall At Point Iona.
WAS ENROUTE EAST
Nj a d e Notable Record
During Brief Career AS
Flyer.

san DIEGO, Calf, Sept. is. {U.P
The proposed transcontinental
flight by which Ruth Alexander, 27-
year-old San Diego aviatrix, hoped
to increase the laurels which have
come to her through numerous aerial
exploits, ended fatally on high
mesa at Point Iona early today.
The daring young flyer was in
stantlv killed a few minutes after
her take-off from Lindbergh field
here at 3:2S:30 a. M, psf, when her
heavily loaded plane crashed down
On the high plateau.
The belief that Il low-hanging fog
caused the accident gave way later
when residents of Point Iona, scene
Of numerous plane crashes, reported
that the motor of Miss Alexander's
tiny low-wing monoplane was miss.
ing as she approached that section.
Though fog obseured the Barling
ship, which Miss Alexander had
hoped would carry her to New York
with Wichita, Kansas, near where
her parents lived, the only stop,
those who were listening to the
planes progress said it apparently
lad dived to earth from low ats
tude.
They said the motor sounded az
though it were laboring. The engine
purred steadily when Miss Alexander
left the field, but as she stepped
into the plane the flyer said that
because of the great weight of the
gasoline she might not attempt to
cross the mountains in the fog.
Friends See Take-Off
She told flying field officials she
would fly northward to gain alti-
tude, and then head east to try and
rise above the fog. If her ship re-
fused to climb far enough above the
fog bank to assure safety in the
mountain crossing Miss Alexander
said she would return, probably
within l5 minutes.
A crowd of friends who Witnessed
the takeoff waited so minutes, and
believing the flyer had succeeded i'll
steering the monoplane to "a safe
height, left the field.
Meanwhile, however, police were
notified that Miss Alexander S
mancuvcr had failed and that her
mangled body lay half-buried i'll the
debris of the demolished Barling.
Later, when the body was released
from the wreckage, police found the
little toy dog which the aviatrix
had carried as an omen of success
on recent flights.
Police said the flyer apparently
realized she was gGing to crash and
so had turned off the IGNITION
switch, which prevented the ship
from catching on fire.
Miss Alexander had planned to
stop overnight at Wichita to visit
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Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Expect Large
Crowd At Fair

POMONA. Sept. Is. U.R) All
attendance records established by
weekend visitors at the Los An
ccles Counts Fair, now in progress
here are expected to be broken TINS
week end, according to directors to-
day rs plans were made to handle
10000 people Saturday and sunday,
closing days of the 1880 fair.
Today more than 10000 persons
have visited the fair. Saturday $
program is hcadlincd by the horse
shoe pitching championship and the
old fiddler 5 and harmonica con
tests. ....>
Prize awards totaling 100000
lave been awarded in some 1000
separate exhibits since the opening
of the fair last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Psychology To
Aid Dry Agents

WASHINGTON, sept. IS UP
How to get confessions from sus'
peetcd bootleggers by use of mod.
crn psychological methods is part OF
the instruction being given the fed,
eral agents attending classes IN the
prohibition school here.
In Il lecture on interviewing sus'
poets, Harry NJ pengler, school d..
rector told the agents the best way
30 make case is 10 obtain n volun'
tary confession. He warned agents
that such confessions must be legally
obtained without intimidation of
promises Of immunity.
Dengler also recommended the
"frieud and enemy svstam, 10
which one officer pretends friend.
ship for the suspect while the other
appears harsh. BY gaining the con-
fidence Of the prisoner, the friendly
officer il often able TO obtain con-
tession.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Amateur RObs
Bank In Iowa

WESLEY, Iowa, Sept. Is. W.P)--
An amateur bank bandit who wore
grease paint on his face and cal
ried an old fashioned pistol, held up
the Exchange bank today and cs-
capped.
The robber fortified for his task
by drinking heavily, bank officials
said, and appeared nervous as he
demanded the banks money he
handed over.
A quick check of the funds after
the robbery indicated less than
81 900 had been obtained,
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Report Epidemic
In Minnesota

ST, PAUL, Mimi, Sept. Is. U,P)
The state board of health today
declared infantile paralysis was
spreading rapidly throughout the
state and that an emergency exist
ed.
They presented a request to the
S'ate department of administration
and finance for an emergency ap-
rropriation of S6,4S7.50 to aid in
combating the epidemic.
lnfantile paralysis has already
Eeen reported from - counties,
mostly in the southwestern part of
the state, but extending to Mime
apolis, st. Paul, and Duluth, the
health board reported,
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Boys Requested
With All Radios

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1o.
(U.H-Marvels of radio some
how lacked appeal today for
Joseph Turpiano, 10, and
George Duff, is.
The boys were convincing
two police officers that they
had right to be in an automo-
bile and the task was almost
over when radio in the police
car blareG forth:
Stolen, one automobile.
The radio voice then deecrib-
ed the car in which the youths
were sitting.
The older boy was lodged in
Jail and Duff was sent to the
juvenile detention home.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
Poison Dinner
Claims Victims

MILL VALLEY. Cal, sept. IS
U.Pl-Wory over gambling debts he
could not pay inspired poison din
per which led to the deaths of two
butchers Tuesday, police investiga'
tors believed today.
John Eek, a, planned to wipe out
all his associates who might expose
him, officers said, but of those il.
vited only stephen Regan, y, ap
peared, He and Eek are dead.
Patrick Lyons and Edward
O 'Brien declined the invitation.
Dr. Ernest Victor, san Francisco
examined the contents of the stom
achs of the dead men today in an
effort to learn the type of poison
used.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-18
CITY COUNCIL
ASKED TO BACK
HEALTH PROGRAM
County Health Officers
Plan Taken Under Ad-
visement.

Dr Warren Fox, county health of
ficer, appeared before the city coun-
ell in regular session last night and
asked that the board adopt a whole
time health program to be worked
out in conjunction with the county
health office. Mrs. A. b. Hansen,
3. NJ. Gruwell and Guy Beynom also
appeared, asking that the whole
time program be adopted.
The council appointed a comitttee
to investigate the advisability Of
adopting the program in conjunction
with the county. Councilmen Rice
and Clements and Engineer Knights
were appointed on the committee.
Councilman Fred Gianola submit
ted his resignation as police com
missioner and asked that action be
taken bv the council at once. The
resignation was approved. Gianoia
stated that he believed the city
should not be without a police com
missioner, and OH & motion of his,
seconded by r. f. Couch, Councilman
Clements was appointed police com
missioner.
Following Gianola S resignation,
the police commissioner S job was
declined by Councilmen Couch, Rice
and Mayor Fawcett. Councilman
Clements declared he didn' t want it
! but if somebody had to take 1t he
would do so. The motion by Coun-
| Gilman Couch followed this state
/ mcnt.
j. S. Cameron discussed the ac-
! tivitv of the city planning commits
! sion during the past year, and sub
mittcd a tentative program of the
| work contemplated by the body. The
| city engineer was asked to make an
investigation and report on the
feasibility Of widening Imperial
| avenue to 100 feet between Main
| and Adams streets.
Subdivision Approved
f. ID. Griffin was granted permis-
sion to cut the curb and build a
! dive way on the north side of Eu-
cid avenue in park addition, as was
l.. NJ. Harmon, on the north side
| Of Olive street in the third addl-
ton. The board passed a resolution
! tentatively approving the subdlvl'
| sion of the block between Broadway
and Adams streets on Imperial, sub
| .ject to action when presented the
council in regular form.
A letter from the League of Cali
| tornia municipalities, with form
Of ordinance prescribing the addi
| tional duties of policemen and fire
men, was referred to the city attor
! nov for further investigation. He Is
| to report at the next meeting. The
! council also approved at last night s
| meeting the expenditure of 50 per
| meeting of the city planning com
mission to pay for Il stenographer.
The matter of planting trees on FL
Centre street from Eighth to 18th,
to replace those already growing,
was referred to the planning com
| mission.
Water Superintendent Mckibbin
recommended that the council order
the water mains renewed on Broad
way from Imperial to Sixth street,
and approXimately $3.50 feet in the
residential park addition. In regard
to this. the council directed the city
clerk to advertise for bids on the
necessary pipe. The council also
authorized the clerk to advertise for
bids for a new truck to be used by
the water department..
The widening OF the canal to 80
feet at Magnolia avenue and Fourth
street was also ordered before the
meeting was brought to a close.