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Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
COURT PREVENTS
OPERATION FROM
BEING PERFORMED

LOS ANGELES, Sept. Q. U.P)-
Alma Hodges, l6, fighting confine-
ment in the county hospital for an
operation which would deprive her
of motherhood, today was at the
home of a temporary guardian, pro
tected for at least a week by a
court injunction.
While the girl rested today from
her experiences Of the past week,
her mother, Mrs. Halle Holmes was
preparing to fight the temporary
injunction grant d yesterday
against the proposed operation.
Lined with the girl in her fight
against the operation was her tenn
porary guardian, Mrs. Grace Wells,
and her fiancc, Roy White. The
injunction is returnable Sept. IS.
According to Miss Hodges, she
told her mother she wanted to marry
White and have family. The
mother, on grounds that the girls
health would not permit her to bear
children. placed her in the General
hospital where an operation WAS to
have been performed yesterday.
Friends, including White and Mrs.
Wells, obtained court order re-
straining hospital surgeons from the
act.
DR.. Neal Wood, superintendent
of the hospital, also declared that
an operation was imperative to the
girls health.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
NEW PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINE
GIVES STATEMENT TO PRESS

cand you saw clearly that the civil
population was almost unanimous in
support Of our movement" General
Uriburu said. "Senor lrigoyen has
nothing to fear. When the former
president took refuge in the seventh
infantry regiment barracks at La
Plata | ordered the chief of the reg
iment to protest to him but at the
same time to give him complete lib
ertv to 90 anywhere he chooses and
to give him an escort if he needed
or desired it.
"Senor Irigoyen is remaining at
the Officers quarters of the seventh
regiment because he desires to re-
main there. Not only lrigoyen IS
free but likewise all members of his
cabinet. We have no idea of ven
geance.
ave will detail only such persons
as are dangerous to the peace OF
the country"
ave followed the dictim of pub
lie opinion and took over the gov
ernment only when it was seen tins
was the only method to relieve the
country of administration corrup-
| ton" General Uriburu continued,
Continued cn Page Six
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Gang OF Bandits
Rob Iowa Bank

OTTUMWA, Iowa, Sept Q. UP
The Ottumwa Savings Bank was
held up today by Il gang of bandits
who escaped with approximately
$4,000
Armed with pistols, five men en-
tered the bank simultaneously at
10 II. m, and when all were at the
grated Windows a command was
given to "stick 'em up"
This was followed by an order to
lie down ON the floor, which was
obeyed by seven employees OF tA2
bank and four customers.
4. the door of the bank as the
five inside were carrying out what
appeared to be a carefully planned
robbery, stood two more of the
gang, while another, making a total
of eight, sat at the wheel OF a
Buick sedan with an Iowa license
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
TWO HUNDRED MEN LABORING TO
SAVE DIVER HELD UNDER WATER

sheet piling which was causing
water to seep under a pumping
station. A section of the piling
gave way, wedging him III such
away he could not move. The
current surged about him and
knocked the life line from his
hands.
Efforts to drag him out with
another line led down the air
hose, which remained intact,
failed and volunteer crew of
200 men Immediately began
work on dam up the canal to
check the current.
At midnight a loaded barge
was sunk and piling was driven
i'll today to make the dam tight.
Danese wore only diving
helmet. Despite the pressure of
the current, and the chilly
water, he survived the night.
His two sons, Joseph and
Charles, were in the rescue
crew.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Chinese Behead
Five Communists


HANKOW, China, Sept. 9. U.P)
The feeling against communism
reached a fever pitch here today
when five radicals were seized ON
the streets and beheaded.
The anti-communist drive, which
had been dormant for some time,
was resumed simultaneously with Il
fresh outbreak of communist pro
paganda. The five We're preaching
in the open streets when taken by
a lGrge group Of men to the pave
ment outside the foreign race club
and bcheadcd.
Three radical teachers, also ex-
tolling the crowds ON street corners,
we're more fortunate, merely being
arrested and thrown into Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Gas Association
Meets On Coast

PASADENA, Sept. Q. W.P)-Con-
vening for the second time at the
Huntington hotel here, the Pacific
Coast Gas Association today opened
its three day convention with sew
cral hundred delegates from western
states present 4 similar conven-
tion was held here four years ago.
Some % gas utility company of
ficials, executives and department
heads. from British Columbia to
San Diego, will be present as well
as representatives Of appliances and
other manufacturers allied with the
gas industry,
The work of the association is
devoted to a constant study of ev-
cry phase of gas production and
distribution problems, and the an
nual convention is the elimination
of the years activities.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
ASSERT CHINESE
NOT GUILTY in
BEACH TRAGEDY

san DIEGO, Calf, Sept. 9. U.P)
A Chinese farmland who gave
three conflicting versions of how he
allegedly stabbed Lois Marion
kentle and Francis Conlon to death
on a beach at Ensenada, Mexico,
today had talked himself bevond
suspicion.
The man, Quon Tan, 81, was held
IN the psychopathic ward of the
county hospital here for treatment
Of Il mental affliction assertedlv
caused by drugs, his attempted con
fession of the Ensenada slaying tot
ally discredited.
Detectives who began questioning
the Chinese late yesterday after he
told border police it was he who
murdered Miss Kentle and her fl
anee. said they had learned that
Quon Tan had not been near the
scene of the slaying
The man was brought here by
immigration authorities after he
tried to enter the United States
from Lower California.
In broken English and pantomime
he told a rambling story of how he
had stabbed the Pasadena girl and
Conlon. a Monrovia store manager,
while they were camping near En-
senda.
Later the story was repeated to
hospital attendants and detectives
but in each instance the "confes
sion" varied.
Another suspect in the stabbing
Harry Harmon, Kansas oil worker
held for questioning in Los Angeles
was released after he convinced
police that he hah no connection
with the murder.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
INTEREST
IN STATE
POLITICS
Eight Primary Elections
Today Draw Attention
OF Political Leaders.
CONTESTS SPIRITED
Louisiana And Michigan
Battles Expected To BE
Red Hot Affairs.

Primary elections occupied the at
tcntion of voters in eight states to-
day.
Spirited contests for offices i'll
Louisiana, Michigan, Colorado, South
Carolina and Arizona were expected
TO draw out comparatively strong
voting strength. Lack of outstiand-
ing issues and unopposcd candidates
made for lcSscned interest in Wash
ington, New Hampshire and Yer
mont.
In several instances the primary
was of more importance than the
election that is to follow. In Louisi-
ana and South Carolina the Demo
cratic nomination is tantamount to
election, while Michigan, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont are in the habit
of eleeting Republican office hold
crs.
Louisiana WAS in Il state of tension
because ef threat of martial law Ill
New Orleans. Governor Huey T.
Long, Stormicst figure in the state .
politics since the reconstruction days
following the Civil War, was guard,
ed by state police. Ihere was Il
possibility that the veteran Joseph
Ransdel would lose his seat in the
United States Senate to Long.
Colorado was faced with inVesti-
CATION OF funds spent in the sena-
torial campaign. regardless Of the
outcome.
Michigan Republicans were set
for the gubernatorial nomination,
and the city OF Detroit was eleeting
mayor to succeed Charles Bowles,
recalled.
Senator Cole l.. Blease sought re
nomination in runoff contest III
South Carolina on the basis of an
CONTINUED on page six
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
LOCAL. CHARGES
PREVENT OTHER
RADICAL TRIALS

Los ANGELES, Sept. O. U.P) =
Prison terms Imposed in Imperial
Valley on Frank Spector and Carl
Sklar saved the two asserted Com
munist leaders from prosecution on
misdcmcanor charges here when
Municipal Judge II. p. Wood re-
moved their names from his court
docket.
Judge Wood declared the expense
incurred in conVicting the two men
of participating i'll a riot at the
plaza would not he justified in view
of the fact that they could not pay
penalty for conviction until after
existing prison terms have been
served.
Both were given sentences of from
three to - years in the penitcntiary
in connection with labor troubles in
lmpcrial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
BY JAMES I. MILLER
South American Manager of the
United Press
Copyright 1880 by the United Press

Copyright 1880 by the united fress
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,
Sept. 9. Up)-The revolutionary
government of Argentina will inn
mediately "clcanse the government
al administration and political par
ties" in preparation for constitu-
tional election in which all Will
have complete freedom, General Jose
+. Uriburu told the United Press III
formal interview today.
NATURALLY, we will observe all
existing treaty obligations and hope
to retain the most cordial rela-
tions with all friendly countries,
among which are the tnlted
States and Great Britain" the slen-
der. wirv revolutionary leader said.
General Uriburu was hard at
work in the government house when
he received two representatives OF
the United Press. He delayed his
preparations and cordially Offered
to explain the causes and purposes
of the revolutionary movement
that overthrow the government OF
Hipolito Irigoyen on Saturday.
ave did what the nation desired
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
CONDITIONS IN
SANT0 DOMINGO
HAVE IMPROVED
Many Still Doomed To
Die Because OF made
quate Medical Supplies.
BY FRANCISCO ESCOVAR
United Press Staff Correspondent

IA NTO dom lNGO, Sept. y. iU.DJ
American and native surgeons
worked tirelessly against great odds
today trying to stop the disease epi-
denies sweeping Santa Domingo III
the hurricane s wake.
Although engineers have restored
tarv conditions, pestilencc still
threatens many thousands of the
ruined city's inhabitants.
DR.. Antonio Silva, director of the
Red Cross relief forces, said today
that hospitals contained 1929 pa
tients suffering from gangrene,
lock jaw and severe injuries suffered
in the hurricane of last Wednesday,.
1t was estimated that % to 80 per
cent of the patients would die.
aior Johnson OF the L. 5. Mcdl-
cal corps, working with the medical
men sent from nearby islands, was
designated head of the campaign TO
fight the epidcmics.
President Rafael J. Trujillo, mean
while, dispatched through the United
Press message expressing the
gratitude of Santo Domingo to the
outside world for relief measures
taken in its behalf.
President T'ruiillo said the peo-
pie had been "deeply wounded' by
the disaster, which killed more than
1000 persons, but declared they
reacted quickly in the face of
such terrible happenings with the
determination needed in such eases. -
q send this message through the
United Press, voicing my gratitude
expressed in the name of the Domini-
can people, grief stricken but strong
in the hope Of quick, vigorous re.
coverv,' the President s message
said.
With further shipments Of mcdi-
cal supplies, food and clothing arriv-
ing, the army of surgeons now are
able to work to better advantage
among the injured. Previously they
had to resort to crude instruments
and operated without anaesthetics.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Diegel Winner
OF First Round

FLUSHING. \. Y, Sept. 9. U.P)-
Leo Diegel, defending titleholde'
won his first round match of the
national p. G. A. championship By
s and over Henry Cuici of STRAIT
ford, Conn, on the Fresh Meade"
Country Club course here today.
Diogel had let by up at the end
of the first Is holes. In the after
noon round Dicgel won the 10Th and
goth, getting birdie three on the
latter hole, and after Cuici got 4
birdie three at the 22nd,' they halved
holes through the Goth.
Diegel conceded long puts to his
opponent, evidently disliking to wiz
bv too large a margin.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
ANOTHER CHICAGO
CANCSTER TAKEN
FOR LAST RIDE

CHICAGO, Sept. 9. U.pl-Peter
Maestro, %, arrested many times
but never convicted of a crime, was
shot four times through the head
and tossed from speeding automo-
bile into a street i'll the heart OF
the Gonna West Side gang strong
hold early today. He died 10 min
utes later.
All the bullets were fired into
Nicastro IS head from close range,
each leaving powder burns. Scratches
TN his shoes indicated he had fought
with the men who took him ON his
last "ride,'' and that they had
dragged him into the ear.
Police said Nicastro once was a
member Of the notorious "42" gang
and that they had long suspected
lin of being 4 bootlcgger.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Coast League
Pitcher Sold

CLEVELAND, O., sept 9, Up
Purchase of Fay Thomas, right
land hurler from the Sacramento
club of the Pacific coast league for
$4,000 and two players, was an
nounccd today by Billy Evans, gen
cral manager of the Cleveland In
dians.
Thomas will report to the Indians
at spring training in New Orleans.
Names of the players to be sent
to the Sacramento club will be an
nounccd later, Evans said.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
UR|bURU
T|CHTFNS
HIS HOLD
Stern Measures To Fol-
low AS Result OF Riot
Last Night In Capital.
PLOTTERS WARNED
BuenOs Aires In Turmoil
For Hours During
Sharp Street Fighting.
By WILLIAM FOLGER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1880 by United Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, G.
a. m. Tuesday, Sept. 9. U.P)-Thc
government issued orders today for
stern action to prevent recurrence
of street fighting that broke out
last night Immediately after the in
auguration of the revolutionary
government headed by General Jose
E. Criburu.
The celebration ceremonies in
stalling the new government was
turned into "rei9n of terror" by
the well timed plot of a small
group apparently in sympathy with
the dcposed president Hipolito Iri-
goyen and by confusion that caused
forces supporting the new admin
istration to believe enormously for
a few hours that a counter rcvolu-
tion had been started.
The mistake, charged by the gov
ernment to the Irigoyenist plotters,
was discovered only after severe
street fighting and bloodshed had
marked Inauguration of the Uriburu
administration.
The government ordered the ar
rest of former President Irigoyen
and other leaders of the fallen regi-
me. including the former vice pres
ident Enrique Martinez and all
ministers of Irigoven cabinet. They
were blamed for plotting to spread
terror.
Take Stern Measures
\ proclamation, issued when the
capital-dazed and apprehensive-
calmed down today, warned that
(Cnnfinund ON napA aiYl
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Cat Scratches
Worth Money

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.
UP - Scratches may not
count in Texas-down by the
Rio Grande,'' but they were
worth $4,000 yesterday to Mrs.
Rae Harris, of this city, in a
damage suit against S. Fl. Kress
& Company.
The award was made by
jury i'll the court of Superior
Judge Franklin H. Griffin. Mrs.
Harris asked $4,000, alleging
nervous shock as the result of
scratches sustained when at
tackled by a cat in local Kress
store.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
States Cotton
Crop Is Normal

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Sept. 9.
Cotton crop prospects in California
remain favorable, the condition for
the state being reported today by
the federal state crop reporting serv-
ice as % per cent of a full crop,
The latest report of the service,
based ON Sept. ! conditions, pre-
diets total yield of pa, 200 bales
from the 26s,000 acres to be har-
vested in California California
production per acre is forecast at
400 pounds, as compared to the
United States average of lo3.2
mounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
BRANDS PLAN
GETS APPROVAL
OF EUROPEANS
Foreign Ministers Offer
Support And Congratu-
latiOns To Program.
BY SAMUEL DASHIELL
United Press Staff CorreSponden


GENEVA. Sept. 9. U.H-Aris-
tide Brands plan for an European
economic and political federation
was given fresh impetus today by
the friendly attitude of foreign
ministers of majority of the con
tinental nations who congratulated
the French diplomat and rendered
the support of the League of Ma
tions assembly.
BRAND, who discussed his project
with representatives of - European
nations yesterday, was congratulate
ed by the foreign ministers of Po-
land, Roumania, Belgium, Finland,
.Jugo Slavia, Czcchoslovakia and the
Baltic states when the council of
the league reconvcned for a public
session this morning.
The councils second session was
concluded after an amiable debate
between BRAND and DIR. Julius Cur
thus of Germany, regarding French
troops which still are in the Saar
Basin, on the FrancoGerman Bor-
der. The Saar is under league man
date and France and Germany have
been negotiating for its return to
Germany.
After Dino Grandi, Italian for
cign minister. had reported on the
transport situation in the Saar, DIR.
Curtius arose and asked the council
to consider, through the Saar com
missioner, the complete Withdrawal
of French soldiers at present guard
ing the railways.
BRAND replied France had no IN.
tention Of continuing the occupa-
tion of any region outside its own
territory and that already the Saai
troops had been reduced from SOC
to 80, which were necessary to
guarantee Unrestricted movement OF
trains.
Brands statement was accepted
by Dir. Curtius and the council
providing that the representatives
of Germany and France discuss the
question of troops in the Saar basin
with the high commissioner.
The report of Grandi also was ac
ccpted.
DR.. Curtiss considered the ques
! ton of troops of the utmost import
ance to the German government
because of the Forthcoming Reich
stag elections. The problem will b.
| discussed at an early meeting o.
the council. 1t was considered Ger
tain, however. that France Woult
maintain small force in the Saal
,n,til tha stains of thp rich Goa
basin has been established defin
itelv under French or German pro
lection.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Five Killed When
Engine Explodes

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. o
(UP-SiX persons were killed and
eleven injured when a locomotive of
the Leading railroad exploded in the
roundhouSe at third street and
Erie avenue here today.
The dea !:
John Bimiller, foreman; Fred G.
Spangler, engineman; John Kelly,
Inspector; Crawford Dunseath, as
sistant road foreman; James T.
Smith, shopman.
Eleven employees were injured. An
cello Moretti was SO seriously in
jnred he may not live.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Hart Freed In
Vagrancy Case

LOS ANGELES, Sept. Q. (U.P)--
Herman Hart, arrested in the po-
lice raid in which frankie Foster.
Chicago gangster, was captured, To-
day was free of vagrancy charges
after Municipal Judge Charles
Bogue ruled that the evidence
against him was insufficient for
conviction.
Two other members OF he gang
which accompanied Foster. ,ndief-
ed in the Staying Of Alfred Lngle,
Chicago reporter, to Los Angeles,
are being sought on bench war.
rants. They jumped $4,000 bail on
vagrancy charges.
Foster was returned to Chicago
for investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Large Amount OF
Grain Destroyed

OAKLAND. Calf, Sept Q. up
The Seymour warehouse of the Sut-
fer Basin Corporation, packed to
canacity with $4,000 sacks OF wheat
and barley, was destroyed by fire
of unknown origin late last night.
Two box ears owned by the South
crn Pacific Railroad, on the tracks
bv the warehouse, were also burned.
Farmers in the ncighborhood
turned out to fight the blaze and
prevcnt it from spreading to adj
Joining property, but were unable to
save any of the stored grain.
The warehouse was valued a $2o,-
COO the grain at $40 900 and the
ears at $4,000. All was covered ny
insurance.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
French Flyers
At New York

VALLEY STREAM, \. Y, sept.
.. U.P) = Dieudonne Coste and
Maurice Bellontc landed their vet
cran transatlantic sesquiplane,
Question Mark at Roosevelt Field
at 10 p. M. today after flight
from Washington.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 0. U.D-
Two French aNiators, Capt. Dieu'
donne Costc and Maurice Bcllonte
left here ut l0:l7 II. M. today for
New York in the Question Mark,
the plane in which they flew from
Paris to New York
Despite the busy two day stay
here, in which they were hurried
from one official welcome to anoth'
cr. the transatlantic flyers were
,p early today, and inspected the
naval air station at Anaconstia ne
fore they took off for New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Boy Follows
Dog In Death

PORT TALBOT, Wales, Sept.
9. U.Et-Three days after his
father had drowned the pet dog
of Albert Donovan, II, in pool
here, the lads body was re-
covered from the same spot.
The father, a fuel worker,
told a coroner's jury his son
was grief stricken at the loss
of his pet which had developed
a case of distemper.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09
Panama Cabinet
Officers Resign

PANAMA CITY, Sept. 9. Wp
The members Of the cabinet pre-
sentcd their designations to Prcsl'
dent Fl0rcnrio II. Arosemena today
and the president announced ar
pointment 0f IN entire new cabinet,
Three cabinet members resigned
yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 9.
NJ.P-N. A. Danese, 62-year-old
diver, was trapped i'll piling be-
meath the surface of the Jeffer-
son Parish canal today, while
200 men sought to dam the cur
rent so divers could reach the
imprisoned man.
Danese became wedged III the
piling at 1890 a. m. yesterday.
Air was fed 10 him through an
air line, and occasional tugs on
The line today convinced rescu-
ers he was weakening, but still
breathing.
Danese was trapped while at
tempting to mend a leak III
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8.
U.P)-Captain Nick Danese, 90
year old diver trapped for 26
hours under the swirling cur
rent of suburban canal, was
rescued at l p. NJ. today.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-09

Continued cn Page Six
The border vidette., 1930-05-24
MARSHALL BIRD IN HOSPITAL
(International)

Marshall N. Bird, who will be
remem bered by old timers in
Nogales, Hermosillo and Quay
mas, as one of the Nogales con.
tingent in the Roosevelt Rough
Riders in the war with Spain,
was admitted last week into the
main hospital at Sawtelle, Calf.
for treatment for curvature of
the spine, with possible tuber
culosis of the spine.
He is in the same hospital
where his father, Col. Allen T.
Bird, has been under treatment
more than a year for a cancerous
malady.
Marshall was the first Rough
Rider hurt. In the camp of in
straction at San Antonio, Texas,
q horse ran away with him,
cracking his skull against q low
banging limb of tree. He was
trepanned and blood clot weigh
ing a pound was removed. He
| has been somewhat of an invalid
always but managed to get about
and transact business at Los An
geles where be has resided many
years, accumulating valuable
property in Hollywood and near
Sawtelle. Occasionally be visit
ed Nogales on business.