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Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
s. p. AbandOns
Suit Against
Lumber Firm

san FRANCISCO. July %. (U.Pl
The southern Pacific railroad sud
denly abandoned today its fight to
maintain II spur track on the prop
ertv of the Sudden Lumber Company
at Vernon.
A suit brought by the lumber
company seeking a permanent in
junction against maintenance of the
spur was dismissed by Federal Judge
Frank II. Norcross at the request OF
Phillip s. Erich, attorney for the
company. Erlich said that an agree
ment had been reached under which
the railroad would abandon the spur
and build on a new right-of way
near the disputed property.
The suit started July II, when,
the lease expiring, the lumber com-
pany ordered the tracks torn up.
The railroad sent a crew to put them
down again.
A valuable gravel deposit lies
along the right of way, the company
contended.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
VICTIMS
CHEERED
BY KING
Starts Tour OF Quake
Zone In Effort To Calm
POpulace.
POPE SENDS ENJOYS
Hurricane Ravages Add
To DevaS st alton In
Northern Italy.

RENENENTO, Italy, jul %. U.P)
Italy, led by the .llng in person
and the pope through a special en-
voy, worked swiftly today to relieve
the snfferings of a million homeless
in the regions devastated bv Wei
ncsday's earthquake.
The king arrived by train at Ro'
cchetta-San Antonio, headquarters
Of the relief work, and started i'm
mediatclv ON an automobile tour of
the stricken country. The hopes of
the distracted populacc were raised
Immediately by the royal presence,
and the peasants and townsfolk
saw in him the tangible evidence
that the government would feed and
ciothc them. rebuild their homes,
bury the dead and care for the in
jurcd.
The appalling toll of dead and in
lured was in no way reduced as com
munications were almost completely
restored. The estimate of 800 dead
still stood, and tn" government of
ficial tabuation, rising slowly,
neared the 1000 mark. The num-
ber of injured was many thou.
sands
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
FOUR MELFI PHYSICIANS
ARE HEROES OF DISASTER

through the frightful night. Before
outside help arrived, they eXtricated
40 bodies from the ruins, and had
assisted scores of survivors from
the wreckage.
Francis Giuseppe, Mclfi resi-
dent, described the doctors hero
ism. He was sitting in his home,
preparing to 60 to bed, when the
first shock came, precipitating him
and his wife and children into the
street.
The living, led by the physicians,
immediately did their utmost, in the
darkness, to save those whose
screams indicated they were trap
ped beneath fallen stones and
beams. Undoubtedly, Guis e p p e
said, they saved many lives through
their first aid operations.
Many of the houses at Melfi are
split in two sections as though by
4 gigantic cleaver. In some of them,
beds, tables and chairs are suspend,
ed precariously in the open air,
hanging from collapsing floors,
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
Woman Held On
Sanity Charge
Following Fire

LONG BEACH, Calf. July 81.
W.H-With the discovery of a can
of kerosene and II box of matches,
police today were holding Mrs. .jen-
ME Davidson, -. for Il sanity cX-
animation. pending an inquest into
the death of her daughter, Miss
BERTHE Nav Davidson, 40, an invalid
who was burned to death in her
bed early yesterday.
Police at first believed the death
accidental until detectives began
questioning the mother. She told n
rambling story, frequently bursting
into laughter over some detail OF
the tragedy. She stated she had
gone to the store and upon her re
turn found the house on fire and
tn front door locked. Neighhors
called firemen who confined the
blaze to the daughters bedroom.
Among the possibilities under in
vestigation, were that someone had
poured the kerosene over the bed
and touched match to it, that
Miss Davidson might have set fire
to the bed herself with the intcn-
tion of taking her life, or that the
fire was accidental.
An autopsy to determine whether
the woman had been druggcd or
knocked unconscious prior To the
fire, was ordered by police.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
DEATH TOLL RISES

ROME, July %. UP)-The gov
crnmcnt : official death toll in Wed
nesdav S disaster continued to rise
today. with the addition of l0i dead
over Yesterdays total.
Figures received here from reports
filed before II q. m. today brought
the figure to 1883. The number of
injured was unchanged from yester'
day total of l,27l.
The checkup is continuing, while
the government 5 major efforts are
devoted to relief, and the reports are
necessarily Incomplete.
Indicating the probability of
changes in the list, Under Secretary
of Public Works Lconi warned that
"dcaths and casualties ascertained
up to date will be subject TO varia'
tion.
The report on the number of in
jured was unchanged from yestcr-
dday, owing to the fact that the
government S representatives, in the
wrecked provinces are devoting
their attention to the lists of dead,
and counting bodies now being slow
" and laboriously cXtricatcd from
the ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
JUDGE DECLARES
BERMAN GUILTY

Las ANGELES, July %. \U.H-
Jacob Berman, former Julian Pc
troleum Corporation official, today
was found guilty of three counts of
forgery bat was acquitted OF one
count of embeZzlement.
Judge b. Rey Schauer, who heard
the case without a jury, announced
the verdict shortly before noon and
few minutes after final arguments
were closed.
The iurist first read his decision
on the EN- mbezzlement charge, hold
ing that Berman had not intended
to defraud Daniel Barnes of $4,000
Barnes gave him to buy stock.
Judge Schauer then ruled there
was sufficient evidence to prove
that Berman was guilty on the three
counts of forgery and that he un-
doubtedlv signed fictitious names
to over-issued Julian stock certifi-
Gates short time before the Julian
company collapsed.
The court set July 80 as the date
for sentence. The three forgery
counts carry possible penalty of
from three to ~ wears in the peni-
tentiary.
Rcrman already is under seven
wear sentence to Mcneil Island pen
itentiarv on a federal mail fraud
conviction.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
BOR0TRA LOSES
TO TILDEN IN
DAVIS CUP PLAY
Tennis Veteran
Plays Flashy Game To
Down Frenchman.

PARIS, July p. U.P)-The United
States and France got away to an
even start in challenge round play
for the historical Davis cup today.
William r. Tilden II defeated
Jean Borotra in the singles, 30, -,
o.. -. but Henri Cochet evened
matters for France by beating
George Lott. O.. o., o..
Fought before crowded stands in
the Roland Garros stadium, the
days matches resulted quite as the
tennis experts had predicted and left
the issue-thc possible return of the
Davis cup to the United States
still very much in doubt.
In the doubles match tomorrow,
Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn
will play Henri Cochet and Jacques
Brugnon.
The presence of Cochet in the dou
bles lineup for France indicates that
little Henri is at his best and that
the French will make Il bold effort
90 add another point in defense of
the cup.
Two more singles matches will fol
lbh oI .7uH'ldN Win =
Cochet and Lott facing BorOtra.
The original plan had been for
France to play Christian Boussus
as Brugnon partner in the doubles,
providing an even break was oh
tanned on the first day. The team
Of Allison and Van Ryn is regarded
as virtually certain of victory.
Cochet, upon whose slender shoul-
ders rest the chief hopes of the
French, was superb in his victory
over Lott and apparently sought to
finish off the match as quickly as
possible so as to rest up for his
doubles effort tomorrow. He ex-
tended himself in the third set ana
quickly ran it out, scoring ten place
ments to three for the Chicago boy.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
.'SHULER INVITED
TO MEETING OF
HIS OPPONENTS

LOS ANGELES, July %. U.R-
Opponents of Rev. r. p. Shuler,
radio broadcasting minister here,
today called on him to appear at a
mass meeting scheduled for this
evening to discuss "Shulerism."
Invitations also were sent to
Mayor John {. Porter and city
prosecutor Lloyd s. Nix, who en-
gagged in a verbal battle after Nix
intimated that the pastor was con
nected in Il way with the courtroom
assassination of Motley Fl. Flint,
retired financier.
Porter demanded Nix's resigna-
ton. and in complying the prose
cutor charged that Shuler brought
pressure to bear on the mayor.
All three will be asked to speak
tonight. as will George b. Lyon,
former American Legion official,
who instigated proposed federal
inquiry into talks broadcast by
Shuler over his church's radio sta
tion.
Friends Of the militant pastor to-
dav made light of threatening let
ters he received in connection with
the "radio war" saying there was
nothing to worry about.
1t was understood that Nix and
state Senator George Rochester,
another Shuler opponent. likewise
had received letters.
The conflict began when a book.
"Julian Thieves" written by ShuIer,
was found on Frank ID. keaton
when he was arrested for the siay-
inc of Flint. The book linked
Flint in the Julian Petroleum Cor
poration collapse.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
KEY FIGURE IN
MOONEY CASE
IN SECLUSION

Los ANGELES, July 25. U.P-
John Macdonald, key figure in the
new fight to pardon Tom Mooney
and Warren X. Billings, was IN Sc
clusion today at an unnamed south
ern California resort.
Macdonald. suffering from rheu-
matism, was seeking relief by TAX
ing hot baths, but he also was fol
lowing the dictate of Chief Justice
W. II. Waste of the state supreme
court TO "keep out of the public
evc' until the court reopens Bill
ing's pardon application next Tues
day in San Francisco.
Mac Donald and his two attorneys
arrived at San Pedro yesterday on
a boat from San Francisco and left
at once for their unannOunced deS-
tination.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
Doctors Declare
Baby Died From
Natural Causes

Los ANGELES, July %. W.P)-
That temperature of lis degrees
Fahrenheit was not sufficient to
cause death, was the statement of
two physicians testifying in the
damage suit brought against the
California Lutheran hospital here b.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Il. Keirns, follow
ing the death of their baby.
The couple in asking for damages
alleged that the infant had been
placed on a heating table to keep it
alive after birth had been accom-
plished by Caesarian operation,
and that as result of the heating
table, the baby was "baked to
death.
The two physicians, Dir. Earl \.
Tarr and DR.. Lyle &. McNeile, tes-
titled that it was impossible to bring
the temperature of the table over
lls degrees Fahrenheit and that
such temperature would not cause
death. At an inquest coroner's
jury returned verdict that death
was due 10 natural causes.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
CHICAGO BABY
CASE SETTLED


CHICAGO, July %. U.H - The
BAN berger-Watkins mixed babies
case was settled today on the word
of family physicians and a mothers
instinct to recognize her own child.
Ignoring the verdict given by
scientists who decided that the
Bamberger baby really was the
Watkins baby and that the infants
had been switched ut Englewood
hospital, the mothers, fathers, and
Il half dozen physicians met secret
ly at the keystone hospital. In
less time than it had taken to as
semble the scientists not to mention
the hours Of examinations and ar
guments. the mothers and doctors
decided that each mother had her
own child.
They based their settlement on
the shape of the babies heads,
whereas the scientists had employed
their knowledge of anthropology,
dermatology and other sciences that
relate to mankind.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
Bay City Bridge
Nears Reality

SAN FRANCHISCO, July 25.(U,P
The San Francisco bay bridge, for
80 years a project, neared reality
today with the announcement by
the Hoover-Y Young bay bridge com
mission that all sites but one had
been rejected.
The one route remaining is from
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, to Goat
Island to the Oakland shore via the
Key Route Mole.
Tentative plans for the bridge,
calling for two decks, each with six
traffic lanes, will, with special
onc.way regulation at peak periods
care for traffic for many years to
come, the commission estimated.
The commission adjourned until
Monday, when public sessions will
begin. Representatives of all in
terested communities will be heard.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
PIONEER PLANE
MANUFACTURER
DIES IN EAST

SOUTHAMPTON, l.. L., July %.
W.D-Chance Nought, %, airplane
manufactures and designer, died in
Southampton hospital early today,
only two days after his friend and
contemporary, Glenn Curtiss.
Nought, along with Curtiss, the
Wright Brothers, and other pio-
neers, was one of the early eXper
imenters in aviation.
He designed many fighting
planes, one type of which bears his
name, and was the inventor of the
first fighting plane to be catapult-
ed from battleships.
Nought was president of the
Lewis and Nought Corporation
which he organized. The corpora
tion recently merged with the Unit
ed Aircraft and Transport Company.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
RELIEF FORCES
BEING RUSHED
TO QUAKE ZONE
Morale Of Survivors Is
Depressed By Con-
tinued TremOrS.
BY THOMAS B. MORGAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
(Copyright 1880 by United Press)

BE\ENE\TO, Italy, July p.
UP) -- Rapidly modified relief
forces poured into Italy's earth
quake stricken provinces today, to
attack the critical problem of food,
clothing and shelter for the surviv-
ors of Wednesdays disaster, and
to continue the search for hundreds
of victims still buried beneath the
crumbled masonry OF their homes.
The morale of the entire region,
shattered by widespread death and
appalling destruction, was further
depressed by slight earth tremors
yesterday and the continuance of
heat and violent winds which the
peasants describe as "earthquake
weather."
The death toll, estimated by the
United Press at Approximately 300
appeared unchanged today, although
every report from outlying hamlcts
carried with it new discoveries of
bodies within the ruins of houses
and farm buildings.
Inspecting of t h devastated
towns of Lacedonai and Aquilonia
disclosed an estimated death list of
800 and 400 respectively. with
many hundred more seriously in
jured.
The condition of the houses still
standing in Lacedonia and Aqull-
onia is so dangerous that the auth
critics today ordered complete
evacuation of these localities by the
survivors--a task made difficult by
the unwillingness of the peasants
to leave their life long homes, or
to abandon their frenZied search for
missing relatives.
A semi-official estimate of auth
critics within the devastated prov
inces is that at least 1000 are dead
in the province of Avellino, where
the greatest force of the temblor
was exerted. The province of Ben
evento also suffered heavily in loss
of life. though proba bly, to lesser
extent than Avellino. The hghtest
casualty list will be found III the
province of Naples.
Fear that the earth is "not com
pletelv settled" and that more Sc
we're shocks may be experienced,
still grips the inhabitants.
Rumblings Heard
Rumblings still are being heart
a Zungoli, and the collapse of seVe
raj houses in the slight shocks of
Yesterday has intensified the terror
Of the still dazed survivors.
The problem of feeding the surv:
vors is pressing. At Montecalvo
Confined ON page siXl
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
HUSTON DECLARES
HE WILL RESIGN
By PAUL r. MALLON

WASHINGTON, July %. U.P--
Claudius II. Huston. of Tennessee,
has announced his intention to re-
sign on August as chairman of
the Republican national committee,
and has called for that date meet
ing of the party s executive commit
tee to name his successor.
Who the successor will be has
not been determined definitely al
though there are strong indications
Senator Simeon ID. Fess. of Ohio.
may be chosen to serve, at least
temporarily, in spite of some oppo-
sition. President Hoover is under
stood to he disinclined to make a
personal choice.
IlustOn's announcement of his IN
tention to retire was made with
the same unruffled dignity he has
maintained ever since the senate
lobby committce's disclosures CON
cerning him brought a concerted
demand for his resignation.
Behind his announcement is a
story that dates back to last spring
when Huston testified before the
senate committee that he had used
temporarily $4,000 Of Muscle
Shoals lobbying fund entrusted to
him by the Tennessee River I'M
provement association. to bolster his
marginal stock marker account.
During the frequent parleys over
the situation, the only important
leader who has sided with Huston
was Chairman Moses of the Repub-
lican senatorial campaign commit
tee. who has objected to selection
of FesS.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
HIGHWAY
PROGRAM
PLANNED
More Than 800 Miles Of
Secondary Roads May
Be Taken Over.
YOUNG APPROVES
CalexicO Road Comes Un-
der Plan For Inclusion
BY State.

LOS ANGELES, July 25. W.n%--
Announcement that more than 800
miles of secondary roads and high
WAYS constructed and maintained by
counties have been recommended for
inclusion in the state highway sys-
TEN. was made today by B. Il.
Meeke, state director of public
works.
Meeker announced the recommen
Governor G. c. Young and the state
highway commission and only
awaits action by the legislature.
The proposed development program
includes 633 miles of roads and
highways in southern California and
III miles of roads and highways in
northern California.
Approval of the recommendation
by the state legislature will raise
the mileage of state highways from
the present mileage to 1899 miles,
Meeker saiG.
The roads included in the recon-
mendation, Meeker declared, were
determined by engineering surveys
made under the provisions Of a joint
resolution passed at the last session
of the Legislature.
The roads recommended for main
tenance and Improvement by the
state are carrying an ever increas
ing volume of traffic, he said, and
fall into three classes-county roads
| carrying a predominant volume of
state traffic, county roads affording
relief to heavy traffic on present
| state highways, and county roads
serving as important interstate
| highway connections.
Important interstate connections
in the recommendation as reported
by Meeker, included:
caBlythe Highway connec-
tions: (A) to the Arizona state line
connecting with the Arizona high
way system at the Colorado river,
four miles; and (B) western termi-
nus of the present road to San Ber-
nardino-El Centre highway, 1875
miles.
From present highway near FL
Centre TO CaleXico on the Mexican
border. S.5 miles.
Oasis to Nevada state line con-
Meeting with Nevada state highway
system. % miles.
National City to the United
States-MeXico internatio bounda-
~, first state highway south of
San Diego to the border, 10 miles.
Bishop to the Nevada state line
via Montgomery Pass, IS miles.
The county highways CARRYING
large volume of state traffic in
clude:
From Los Angeles to a connection
Continued on page six
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
HURRICANE RACES

TRENISO, Italy. July -. tU.H-
Ten Montello and Montebelluna
zones Of northern Italy resembled II
battlefield today from the ravagcs
of hurricane, adding to the already
devastated areas of the country.
Twenty seven persons were known
dead on latest reports from reie'
workers who went to work immedi-
atclv after the hurricane swept over
the country Yesterday morning. The
dead included five persons who died
in various hospitals last night from
injuries they received during the
hurricane. Hundreds of others were
injured. and homes and buildings lay
scattered over the countryside.
The hurricane had an area of on"
and onc-fourth miles wide and seve
raj miles long, and lasted 10 minutes
as il roared across the Montello and
Mont cbelluna zones, grinding trees
from their trunks and scattering
lumber from houses over farm lands.
Brusa, San Gaclano, Caonada,
Nencgaz2o, Nolpago, Sclla, Nervcsa
Santa, Eurosia and Silna were
among the villages and hamlcts suf-
tcring from the storm.
Hospitals here, at Montcbelluna
and at Concgliano, were crowdc |
with men. women and children who
were Knocked to the ground by the
violent winds or struck by debris
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
KANSAS BANDITS
EXECUTED FOR
SMITHS MURDER
Three Gunmen Guilty OF
Killing Policeman In
Bank HOld-up.

KANSAS CITY, July 80. Up)-
A broad gallows trap was sprung in
the execution chamber of the Jail
here today and three men. convicted
of numbering patrolman during II
bank robbery, fell simultaneously
through a yard-square opening 10
their death.
The trap. which hurtled Tony
Lollypop' Mangiaracina, Carl
Nasello and John Messino. to com
mon fate at the end of three ropes,
was released at 6:05 a. m.
Nasello was pronounced dead at
6:23, and his two companions at
6:24 a. III.
The men walked erectly to their
death. All were smiling.
Nascllo and Mangiaracina asked
Messino to make last statement
for them all.
"Good- bye folks; we have no
hard fcclings,' he said in II voice
without fear.
The hoods were adjusted aud the
three men said good-bycs to each
other.
The ease of the three was given
wide attention throughout the M
ton because the Republican nation
al convention was in session here
when the crime was committed.
1t became a heated local issue
because of the popularity Of the
murdered patrOlman, James H..
"Happy'' Smith, traffic officer
near the Home Trust company which
was held up just prior to the shoot
ing.
1t was on June II, 1923, that six
men entered the Home Trust com
pany heavily armed, obtained more
than $4,000 and were forced to
flee when an employee released a
discharge of tear gas.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
Pioneer Railroad
Man Buried Today

LOS ANGELES, July p. W.p)-
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon for Joseph Levy, rs, pio-
neer California railroad man and
resident Of Los Angeles for 80
wears, who died at his home late
yesterday
Levy was present when Coils 2.
Huntington drove the golden spike
marking completion of the Southern
Pacific tracks to Sacramento. He
was native of New York but
crossed the plains with his parents
when a child
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
Murders Added
To De trOit's
List OF Crime

DETROIT, July 25. W.D-Two
more murders, the latest early to-
day, the other late yesterday, were
added to the growing list of major
crimes in Detroit today.
Jack Brown, "a, landscape paint
cr, was shot to death this morning
while seated in his automobile in
front of boarding house where he
lived. He had been released yes
tcrday from the Detroit house of
correction, where he had served 60
DAYS.
The other killing, Il hammer mur-
der, was discovered Yesterday at
tcrnoon when the body of an un'
identified woman, her head crushed,
was found in a hotel room. Police
are seeking a male companion who
came to the hotel with her Wedncs
day night.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
BY JOHN WHITE
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

PARIS, July -. W.H-W William
7. Tilden defeated Jean Borotra
of France in the first match of the
Davis cup challenge round by
scores of 2-6, 7-5. Ga, 10 today.
Playing in his ilth Davis cup
final. Tilden-who became mem
ber of the 1880 team only at the
last moment-flashed a brilliant
uphill game to down the bouncing
French player. The veteran inter
nationalist counted out by many as
being too old, Offered some of his
brilliance of earlier years to give
the United States the first vic
tory.
Tilden was well off his game
when play started, but improved as
the contest wore ON. He won five
consecutive games in the third set
after having trailed Borotra by
two games to five.
The old Tilden dramatics were
brought onto the Roland Garros
stadium center court.
Continued on page six)
Imperial Valley press., 1930-07-25
BY EDWARD A. STORER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1880, by United Press)

MELT, Italy. July %. U.P-Re-
lief for the city of Melfi, three
fourths of which was reduced to
ruins in Wednesday nights earth
quake tragedy, came today with the
arrival of trucks and workers bring,
ing provisions and clothing.
The death list of Melfi aud in
surrounding towns and villages con
tinueS to creep up as reports filter
ed in from the more inaccessible
localities, but all estimates of lives
lost and property damage are ap'
proyimate.
At the offices of the project of
the Potenza province, the death
figures approach POO, but the auth
critics are continuing to check
them.
The four physicians of Melti,
called from their beds by the catas'
trophc, have become heroes to the
survivors who watched them work