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Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
HOOVER TAKES
STEPS TO GET
TARIFF ACTION
Will Appeal To Public
Sentiment In Effort To
Pass Measure.
By THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. (U.P)-
President Hoover has begun cam
paign to speed up the tariff bill and
extricatc congress from legislative
Jam by an appeal to public scnti-
ment over the heads of the senate.
The President will employ in his
present conflict with the senate a
method he found useful on large
scale in publicity and propaganda
drives for "mcatless" and "wheat-
less" days during the World War.
He dispelled all doubt that he in
tended to use the "big stick"
methods made famous by Theodore
Roosevelt, when he gathered CON
gressional Republican leaders about
him yesterday.
Indirectly, through those who at
tended the conference, he linked up
the business situation with the tar
iff, with the argument that delay
was hurting business and interfer
ing with the stabilization measures
he inaugurated some weeks ago.
This note will be stressed in the next
few days.
His campaign will be directed at
the coalition on Democrats and
western Republicans who have re-
written the house tariff bill. Ad-
ministration leaders told him there
was nothing they could do. since the
coalition was in charge. They hope
to have the tariff bill through by
March 10, but then it will face more
delay in conference.
Republican leaders are admittedly
dispirited and have almost given up
the fight. The only effect of the
Presidents conference was deter
mination to reduce the legislative
program for this session.
The tariff bill, the prohibition
measure-that to transfer enforce
ment agencies from the treasury to
the justice department-and the reg
ular supply bills, are about all lead
ers now hope to have enacted by
the time congress adjourns early in
June.
Democrats are making much of the
Republican delemma. Democratic
Floor Leader Garner, of the house,
said in statement that President
Hoover "is either lacking in courage
or the capacity to lead"
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
BREAKFAST CLUB
GIVES WELCOME
TO C0OLIDCES

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10. U.p)-
An enthusiastic crowd of more than
1000 persons participated in a cere
mony in honor of former President
and Mrs. Coolidge at the Breakfast
club here today.
The Breakfast club was organized
number of years ago by society
leaders of Los Angeles and Holly.
wood and since that time has gained
fame by the unique methods used in
greeting almost every celebrity that
ever visited Southern California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge were guests
of Warren Bovard, vice president of
the University of Southern Califor-
mia, and joined in the gaitv which
accompanied the serving of the
clubs standard repast-ham and
eggs.
Other guests at the breakfast were
Governor and Mrs. c. c. Young; and
Antonio Moreno, members of the
Hollywood film colony and former
residents of Northampton, Mass. :;
the 1T. Rev. f. L. Deane, archbishop
of Aberdeen, Scotland; Nine. Schu-
mann-Heink and publishers of Los
angeles newspapers.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
LONDON
PARLfY
HALTED
French Cabinet Crisis
Causes Delegates To
Take Weeks Recess.
ITALY SETS FIGURES
Willing To Cut Demands
For Tonnage If France
Does Likewise.
BY WEBB MILLER
United Press Staff COrreSponde

LONDON, Feb. 19. U.P)-The five
power naval conference, its proceed
ings brought to standstill by the
inability of the French delegates to
function during the Paris cabinet
crisis. has adjourned for one week,
an official communique said today.
Although the announcement mere
ly said that adjournment had been
taken until Feb. %, it was believed
the delay might be longer, depend
ing on n solution of the French gov
ernmental problem.
The communique said the sub-com-
mitttee of experts would continue
work during the adjournment.
Shortly before the announcement,
the statements of the naval views
of the five powers was made COM
plete when Dino Grandi, the chief
Italian delegate, made public a men,
orandum in which Italy reiterated
her demand for parity with France,
but expressed her willingness to cut
her demands to a much lower figure
if other continental powers-that is,
Francc-did likewise.
Three situations, each more or less
directly involved in the withdrawal
of French representation at the con-
ference until new government. has
been formed, contributed an air of
encouragement at the headquarters
of the different delegations.
Japan Stands Firm
First is the French cabinet crisis
itself, which has brought to stand
still further negotiations seeking to
persuade France to reduce her tom
mage demands.
Second is the continued insistence
of Japan upon 20 per cent ratio
compared to England and the Unit
ed States, a position from which all
argument thus far has failed to
move her
Third is the intimation that Italy,
while regretting frances high tom
mage requirements, will not recede
her demand for equality with France
without concessions on all sides.
The American delegates settled
down today to realization that the
negotiations will be long and tedi-
Gus, and if they are out of st. James
Palace by April, they will be lucky.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
RADICAL LEADER
MAY FORM new
FRENCH CABINET
By RALPH HEINZEN
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

PARIS, Feb 10. U.P - Camille
Chautemps, leader of the radical and
radical Socialist party in the cham
hct Of deputies. was proposed to
dizzy as President CASTOR noumcr-
gpc'S choice to form a new govern.
ment.
Andrew Tardicu. whose cabinet
was ovcrthrown Monday, left his
sick bed to visit the President at
the Elyscc Palace and il was under
stood he recommended that Chau-
temps be called with the understand
ing that, if the radical leader failed,
Tardicu would be willing to accept
= t Presidents request that he un-
drrtakc to reform his governments.
Both Tardieu aud the Socialists
appeared to want the radicals to
G@Vc their chance and il was be
licvcd likely the President would
call Chantcmps tonight or tomorrow
Lean. Blum, Socialist leader, said
his party would support the radicals,
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
ANOTHER BOMB
WRECKS PLANT
IN WINDY CITY

CHICAGO, Feb. 10. U.H-Bomb,
chemical and gasoline explosions
roarcd out III scattered parts of the
city early today, spreading flames
in two structures that did more than
$4,000 damage.
4 half block of ruins marked the
spot where the building had stood
that housed the Eagle Sheet Metal
Manufacturing company, the Para
gon Laundry and the Samogine Cor
pOratiOn, manufacturers of cleaning
compounds.
There the major explosions, at
least dozen in number, accom-
panied fire fed by chemicals in
the cleaning compound plant.
The 18th bomb of 1880 shattered
the front of the Cosmo Products,
me, building in "Little Bohemia"
or the West side. The blast did
heavy damage to the structure and
to its contents, manufactured CO.
llesties and proprietary medicine
stocks.
On the Northwest side. an cxplo-
SION following fire IN the rear of
the Spud lunchroom aroused resi-
dents for blocks. Police arrested
Jchn Diamond, who lived above the
place, after a five gallon gasoline
can WAS found in the debris.
The stock of highly volatile chem
icals in the cleaning compound plant
caused the major explosions, fire
men said. They were harrassed by
fumes.
Flames spread to and destroyed
iour freight ears loaded with mcr-
chandise that were standing on the
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul & Pa
cific tracks. When sparks began
dropping on a number of houses
nearby general alarm brought most
of the available apparatus in half
the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
WIFE KILLED IN
SHOOTING DUEL
WITH HUSBAND

CHICAGO, Feb. 10. U.P)-Peter
and Mary Kosenty fought out their
marital troubles with pistols today
On near. north side street. Mrs.
Kosenty, 81, was killed in the duel
and Kosenty, 81, was taken to the
hospital near death with bullet un-
der his heart.
Separated several months because
Mrs. kosenty said he wouldn't work,
they met as she went to work.
Both reached for their pistols on
sight and they fired the first round
almost simultaneously. Their hasty
aim on the first shot was bad and
both missed.
Mrs. Kosenty was quicker and
more accurate on the second shot.
Her bullet struck Kosenty under the
heart. A he fell he fired the second
time.
Mrs. Kosenty fell to the sidewalk
dead, his second bullet piercing her
heart.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Potts Condition
Still Unchanged

Latest word from the Valley hos,
ptal, Holtville, is to the effect that
Tom Potts, who was seriously in
iured when his car overturned on
the highway near the Harold Bell
Wright ranch Monday night, has
shown little if any Improvement
since yesterday. The injured man
has not recovered consciousness and
the examination made by hospital
authorities to the present shows thar
ne has double fracture of the
skull.
Nothing has been learned of the
cause of the accident, but it is as.
sumed that Potts car struck a rut
IN he road while travelling at fast
rate.
Newspapers throughout the valley
and the hospital at Holtville have
received many telephone calls since
the accident was reported, inouiring
about Potts condition.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
HUGHES INQUIRY
MADE POSSIBLE
BY u. P. MAN

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. U.P)-
wLabor." weekly organ of the Ma
tional Railway Brothcrhoods, today
credited "two young men" Paul r..
Mallon of the United Press Associ-
ations and Senator Robert NJ. Lafol-
lette. Republican. Wisconsin. with
responsibility "for the fact that the
nomination of Charles Evans Hughes
to be chief justice was debated in
the open. with the entire country lis
tening in"
Mallon, chief of the United Press
capitol staff, secured and published
last May Is the secret roll call on
former Senator Lcnroot to be Gus
toms Judge. For l40 years prcvi-
ously, the senate debated and voted
On nominations secretly.
After the roll call was published,
Malion refused to disclose the source
Of his information under question
ing by n senate committee. the pa
per relates. Then Lafollcttc led the
fight which resulted in the change
in rules TO allow the fight to be con
ducted in the open.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Nine DIE AND
MANY INJURED
BY EXPLOSION

ELIZABETH, n. j., Feb. 10. U.P)
Nine men are dead and 54 injured,
nine of them near death lay in three
local hospitals today, victims of a
series of naptha gas and alcohol ex-
plosions which turned the bayway
refinery of the Standard Oil Com
Pany of New Jersey near here into
a veritablc inferno.
Many of the injured are blinded
for life. Others are scared almost
beyond recognition. Throughout the
night police repeatedly blocked at
tempts of women and children to
storm the hospital in the frantic de-
sire to be at the bedside of their in.
iured.
The first of the three explosions
occurred late yesterday as the night
shift was taking its place. All of
the day time workmen had not vet
left the refinery. The first blast oc.
CURED in the alcohol experiment
building. Before those that were
able to could get out, the other two
explosions occurred. The building
was turned into furnace of blazing
blue flame which enve,oned The
stunned workmen.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
GRAHAM DENIES
DRYS PERMISSION
FOR QUESTIONING
By KENNETH G.. CRAWL
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 = The
privilege of cross examining wet
witnesses at the House Judiciary
committees s prohibition hearing was
denied to drys today in ruling by
Representative Graham, republican,
Pennsylvania, avowedly wet chair
man of the preponderantly dry com
mittee.
Graham made the ruling in res
ponse to the request of Attorney
General W. H. Smith of Kansas
that he be allowed to cross examine
Walter Liggett, Magazine writer,
who testified before the committee
last week that Kansas is a wide
open' state.
Information which i have re-
ceived from Kansas since Mr.. Lig-
gett testified, has led me to believe
he did not go far enough in his des
cription of conditions there,' Gra-
ham said today as the committee
resumed hearings on resolutions to
modify or repeal the 18th amend
ment. 81 have an editorial from a
hdHSdS newspaper WHICH virtually
admits the truth of his charges
Graham said that last week he
made statement to Representative
i-ambertson, Republican. X ansas,
that Smith would be allowed to cross
which was interpreted as promise
examine Liggett. The chairman then
explained that this is impossible as
iiggett is now on a tour of investi-
CATION in the south.
Graham said he had been unable
TO communicate with Liggett
81 have decided on reflection
furthermore that such cross exam
ination would not be allowed even
If li"oett were here" Graham add
ed. 'If Smith were given this priv
ilege, every official spoken of here
would demand the same right and
our work would be seriously handi-
capped.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Bursting Dam
Report False

COLUMBUS, S. c., Feb. 10. U.P)
Fears that the Saluda dam located
on the Columbia / miles from here,
had broken today were quieted when
il was ascertained that a slide oc-
cured in the down stream face of
the $20,000,00 hydro electric power
development, causing the loss of wa
ter in the segregation pool!
The chief engineer of the dam re
ported it WAS intact, bat that it
was necessary to open ono of the
dikes and let out sufficient water
to wash away mud and determine
damage to the segregation pool.
People in Columbia, seeing an in
crease in the flow of water, believed
The dam had broken and became al
most panic stricken. The main wall
of the dam is safe, it was under
stood, with no danger of a break.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Gabriel Always
Right On Job

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10. U.H
The Angel Gabriel keeps near
her always or she would not be
able to stand the strain Of her
present troubles, Mrs. May Otis
Blackburn, leader of 1.-The Great
Eleven, testified today at her
trial On charges of having de-
frauded Clifford Dabney, wealthy
oil man, of S45,000 after interest
ing him in her cult.
Il don't always see him but I
know he is near me-" she sobbed
in answer to a question. II see
him sometimes"
The state charges that Mrs.
Blackburn induced Dabney to
give her money to finish her
book, 1.-The Great Sixth Seal"
which was to unravel the nlyster-
les Of the universe.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Byrd Ready to
Start for Home

NEW YORK, Feb. 10. W.P)-The
New York Times. the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, and newspapers affiliated
with them in publishing reports from
Rear Admiral Richard +. Byrd's
Antarctic expedition have announced
that the expeditions ship, the City
of New York, was within sight of
the Bay of Whales at midnight last
night, and is expected to tie up to
the ice barrier near Little America,
the Byrd camp today. The camp has
already been dismantled and Byrd
and his men expect to start on their
hamcward voyage this Wednesday
afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
YOUTH MAKING LONG JOURNEY
IN NORTH TO SAVE ESKIMO

THE PAS, Man, Feb. 10.
W,P)--Every resource of the
north today sped to aid Buu
Stewart, youthful musner, as he
raced with death across the prai-
RE, his seven dog husky team
hauling the emaciated and bare
ly living frame of Egatook, an
Eskimo trapper.
Egatook was causnt in a rag
Ing blizzard in the Churchill
region Feb. Is aud he crawled
back to his cabin with both legs
and one arm frozen. When
meager medical attention at the
outpost settlement failed. Stew
art loaded the Eskimo In his
sled and set out for the Pas,
100 miles away.
Word of the race with death
reached here late yesterday.
M0untoS ,,nlico IJudc1n
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
RescuerS Reach
EntOmbed Miner

WINNIPEG, Man, Feb. 10. U.P)
"Details of the rescue of Frank
Bombardicr after he had been en-.
tombed more than "a hours bv Il
cave-in at the Green Hill coal mine
hear Blairmore, Alta, and of the
struggle to reach his companion,
Frank Cheesek, came in fragments
today over telephone wires whipped
by mountain storms.
Near collapse from the strain of
his burial alive. Bombardier was
brought ont of the mine yesterday.
lie was unable to give rescuers any
information regarding Cheesek and
IT was feared the latter had been
crushed to death by falling rock.
Other miners toiled throughout
the night removing tons of shale and
rock that blocked the mine passages.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Robinson Tells
u. S. Position

LONDON, Feb. 10. WP-The AM
erican people would repudiate any
treaty binding the United States to
employ armed forces for enforce
ment of obligations assumed by 9TH
er nations, Senator Joseph I, Rob
inson told the association of Ameri-
can newspaper correspondents in a
luncheon address today.
Furthermore, they believe that no
special guarantees are necessary TO
assure the performance, IN good
faith, of any agreement reached by
the powers regarding limitation OF
armaments, the American delegate
declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
TEXAS RANGERS MOVE IN AND
START CLEANING UP OFT, CITY

VAN, Tex, Feb. 10. U.P) -
Petroleum's latest capital, Van,
city which has had a mushroom
growth within the past few
months, today was in the hands
of Texas Rangers. and in Can
ton, near here, more than SO
persons prepared to explain to
county officials why they should
not be held to race serious
charges Of lawlessness and dis
orders.
Th5 rangers, lean, hard riding
fellows with absolute authority.
arrived here late yesterday and
before sundown had arrested SO
persons. They smashed their
way Into the "Forty Miner"
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
SOVIET WORKS
FOR COMPLETE
SPECIALIZATION
Suppression of all Private
Effort Ultimate Objec-
tive
BY ENGENE LYONS
United Press Staff Correspontlen%

MOSCOW, Feb. 10. U.p) - Sup
preston Of private trade and work
, and complete specialization of Rus
sia. coupled with abolition of re
'lgions forms, toward which tn,
Soviets are rushing hcadlong, ha,
completely transformed this nation
The Russia of today is wholly
different country from that which
was visited, AS recently as last fall
by American business men. All the
impressions hitherto gained by trav
clcrs here may as well be cancelled.
Ihey are not true today.
Faced by the superhuman task
they laid out for themselves, the
leaders in the Kremlin have gone
back to the fighting mood of the
period from 1917 to 1920, when they
rut down civil uprisings and resist
Cd the thrust of white armies and
foreign invaders.
The policy today is that "the end
Justifies the means" The Soviet is
through with compromising.
The struggle against private trad.
ing has been found easy in the
cities. Private traders, called "nep.
men" offer little resistance to the
rcprcssive acts that are driving them
out of business. Their little shops
ale closing down. This process is
s'mple-heavy taxation, orders to
move, or merely orders to "get out"
Lawyers and physicians are no
longer engaged in private practice.
Their work has been soeializcd. All
other "frec" professions are rapid
ly being absorbed into government
agencies, and registry of engineers
and technical experts is being made
with view to making them, too,
an active branch Of the government.
The great masses of peasant farm
crs are being placed under the con
troll and at the disposition of the
state. There will be Il 100 per cent
socialization of farms within the
next two years. Private farming
viii be abolished, just as private
trading has been abolished.
Everything the peasant owns and
everything with which he works,
land, livestock and machinery. will
have been absorbed in cooperative
or state farms, by the end of 1891.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Just An Old
Movie Custom

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Feb. 10.
W.P)-Carving names on dressing
room doors is just a quaint old
Hollywood custom, Lew Cody,
film actor, sac today in denying
there was anything significant
in the fact that the name Of
Olive Mae Aver was found on
the door Of his dressing room.
Cody was mentioned by Mrs.
Ayers husband, who is fighting
her claims for alimony in the
east.
1T became a custom for visit
ors to carve their initials on the
door" he explained. Just as
they might write their names in
q visitors book"
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19

and National Railway officials
and Indian agents laid their
plans to aid the residue.
A special 1000 type engine
was dispatched from Mile $50
and sped toward the winter
terminus of the Hudson Bay
railroad with medical supplies
to stop the spread of deadly
gangrene.
1t was hoped the crew Of the
engine would spy the desperate
ly plodding dog sledge, take the
two men aboard and arrive here
in time to place the suffering
man in a hospital.
Old settlers and explorers re-
membered Egatook as a native
who aided several expeditions Of
scientists and geQlogists in the
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19

dance hall and arrested IS
dance hall girls.
Others, arrested in smeakeas.
les and poolrooms. face CHARGES
OF assault to murder, bootleg
ging' violations Of the narcotic
Jaw law ana petty thievery. All
were taken to Canton.
For the past three months
Van has placed its confidence
IN Pipe Line Slim" Mcintosh.
SIX iooter' plus, wfbse strong
right arm and mighty fist have
maintained order. But lately
forces have been too much for
sim" S and the Rangers were
&0&AVt11
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
FACTIONS
MEETING
AT |. A.
Another Attempt Being
Made To Settle Water
Differences.
YOUNG IS PRESENT
Governor Hoping State
Can Present u nj t G d
Front To Arizona.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10. U.P)
Representative of the Imperial
Valley agricultural interests and
of the Metropolitan Water Dis
trict will meet late today in an
effort to solve difficulties over
the distribution of California's
share of water from the propos-
ed Boulder dam.
This was announced at 2:30
p. m. at the end Of meeting
attended by members Of the Cal
ifornia Colorado river commits
sion and Governor C. c. Young.
It was indicated that the COM
mission will have recommenda-
tions to make tending toward
an accord.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Race With Death
Won by Minister

LOS ANGELES, Feb, 19.-W.P)-
DR.. Wilmot Boone, prominent Pres
byterian minister of western Shan
tung, China, arrived in Los Angeles
by airplane from San Francisco
shortly after noon today enroute to
San Bernardino, Calf, where his
mother is believed dying.
DR.. Boone disembarked from a
vessel which carried him from
China to San Francisco just three
hours ago.
Henry w. Boone, a brother, met
the missionary at the airport and
the dash against time was continu-
ed. The brother reported that the
mother was somewhat improved
that there was no doubt but tha'
DR.. Boone will see her alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Auburn Rioters
Doomed To Death

AUBURN, n. Y, Feb. 10. UP)-
me convicts who last week were
found guilty of the murder of one
Of their fellows in the Anbnrn nris.
en- riot OF December IL, today were
sentenced to die in the electric chair
at Sing Sing during the week of
March 81.
Automatic stay of execution. how.
over, came when appeals were f;,od
on behalf of the condemned trio.
G'aude Cdwine, William Force and
Jesse Thomas.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
Hope To Catch
Escaped Trio

Reports from the sheriff's office
are to the effect that none of the
prisoners who escaped from the
county jail Monday night has been
recaptured. A large number of dep.
uties is in the field searching the
county in an effort to retake the
men, especially Ponce, Davenport
and Hacuna, wanted on charges of a
more serious nature than those which
brought the other men under the ban
of the law. That ultimate success
will crown this search is the opin-
ion of county Officers in charge Of
the manhunt.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-02-19
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WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

ION lGf11
Benefit bridge, 8, st. Mary's
hall.
Evangelist services, 7:30,
Church of Christ.
Mid week services, churches.
Civic orchestra, 1880, Wilson
school.
City council, 1880, City hall.
Moose lodge, 8. 10000 club.
Oasis lodge, +. g. A. M, I:90.
Masonic temple.
Eagles. 8, 554 Main.
Troop 7, B. S. A, 1880. Elks'
hall.
Dance, 9, Holtville natatorium.
Night school, 7-9, High school.
knights OF Pythias, 8, Davis
hall.
Fox Imperial theatre, "IIit the
Deck"
TOMORROW
Rotary club, Barbara Worth.