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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-06-25

ICOntlnueu IfOm rage OHeI
ern division were rained out Sum-
day and the standings of the teams
remain the same. Bertha was here
with their team and were ready to
give battle to the locals, but rain
interfered. At about two o'clock it
began to pour and after the de-
luge the diamond looked like Sank
Lake. All of Sundays games will
be played at a later date.Dates for
games rained out will be set some
time next week by the board Of
directors.
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For Sale Used furniture, dandy
heavy team, auto parts, tires,
farms, lots and whatever you want
to buy or sell see Goodwill Store,
SOC Elm st.
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Next Sundays Games

Sank Centre at Long Prairie
Swanville at Browerville
Parkers Prairie at Henning
Bertha at Melrose.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-06-25

For Rent--Two rooms in Caugh-
rem Annex. Inquire Merchants
Bank.
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Freeport Priest Hon
ored Sum-, June IA

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Memorial to DR..
Palmer to Be Built

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Twilight Baseball
Game At $3.50 Tonight

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Article III
Membership

Section I. Active Members. Any
person of good moral standing may
become an active member, with the
approval of the Secretary or the
Executive Council, upon payment
of the current annual dues.
Section 2. Honorary Members,
shall consist of such persons as
shall be thereunto elected by this
Club. They shall be entitled to all
of the privileges of the Club, ex-
cepting that of voting and shall be
exempt from the payment of dues
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
Firemen Have
Close Escape

NEW YORK, Jan. 80. {Up)-Hun-
dreds of firemen from Manhattan
and Brooklyn fought a S500,O00 fire
which started at midnight in the Ole
six-story Lincoln Square Arcade
building in upper Broadway, rout-
ing over 400 tenants there and in al
adjoining apartment.
The building was destroyed, Il
firemen and two newspaper photo
graphers were injured, and five ten
ants were burned escaping through
smoke-filled Railways. Artists stu
dios, stores and offices, and the ar
cade of the LoewS Lincoln Square
theatre, were in the structure.
The fire started few minutes af-
ter the last performance of the the
stre in an adjoining building. Nc
one was in the theatre at the time.
The firemen miraculously escaped
death when they were plunged from
the fourth floor into the basement
as the floors gave way. Clinging tc
hot beams they broke the fall ano
were dragged out with only minor
hurts
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
SEEK CONFESSION
FROM ACCUSED MAN

LONG BEACH, Cal, Jan. 80. U.P,
Officers sought today to gain
from Ben Avery, 35, plea of guilty
to misdemeanor arising from a
party in Avery's apartment in which
youthful high school students al
legedly imbibed wine and played
strip poker.
Avery was arrested after a group
of six boys and two girls, aged
from IL to IA years, related to po-
lice yesterday the story of the
Party which began during the noon
recess.
The man steadfastly denies Off
ering the youngsters wine and
maintains he admonished them not
to indulge in the card game. The
students told officers that Avery
was out of the room during the
game because one of the girls re-
fused to play in his presence.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
GKM!uL!L-..

HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. 20.
Well here we are IN
Houston, back at the Rice
hotel where the last time l
was here was at the Demo-
cratic convention. The bell
boys tell me they still find
old empties around from
then. | have always said
this was the coming town
of the whole south. This
is the town that dug an
ocean.
That's to bad about
Smedley Butler. Don't
really believe he meant it
that way. Good thing for
our public speakers that
Russia hasn't got an am
bassador here, or he would
have half of America rep
rimanded.
Yours, WILL ROGERS:
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
FEDERAL JUDGE
RAPS DRY USE
OF YOUNG BOYS

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 30. (U.P)-In a
statement from the bench, Federal
Judge Paul j. Mccormick, member
of the Wickersham crime commits
sion, today condemned the use OF
youths" as undercover agents by
prohibition enforcement agents.
The criticism was voiced when
Judge Mccormick pronounced SEN
tence on j. j. Jennings, 80, and r
f. Noonan, 81, convicted of imper-
sonating federal officers.
Testimony at the trial showed the
youths had been used as under
cover men by the federal prohibition
agents and had extracted series
of bribes and extortions.
Both were sentenced to the fedora
prison but were given probation.
I'm this case, am forced to con-
demn federal prohibition agents foi
utilizing youths in gathering evil
dence of liquor law violations,
Judge Mccormick said. IF this is
necessary it is time that something
should be done about prohibition
prosecutions.
Boys of this type are untitled
because of their youthful bravadc
and the ease in which they may be
led into crime.
81 would recommend that this
practice cease or that the federal
prohibition enforcement department
utilize a different and more expe-
rienced type of men for undercover
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
MINIATURE PLANET is SUBJECT
OF STUDY BY FAMED SCIENTIST

PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 30 U.P)-
The little planet Eros, known TO
science for only 33 years, pays its
closest visit to the earth tonight
as astronomers throughout the
world watch. its reflection in gigan-
tic mirrors.
Chief among the groups which
will attempt to measure its paral-
lax, and thus arrive at an accurate
computation of its distance from
the earth in miles, is DR.. Alfred H
Joy. secretary of the astronomical
laboratory at Mount Wilson of the
Carnegie Institution at Washing
ton.
Doctor Joy was making plans to-
day to complete the first spectre
graph ever taken of Eros. For seVe-
raj succeeding nights he will take
these photographs.
DR.. Albert Einstein, noted Ger
man scientist, who paid a visit to
mount Wilson last night, watched
the astcroid through the worlds
largest telescope as it approached
the earth.
Eros. DR.. JOY pointed out, is less
than 20 miles in diameter, and to-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
WILBUR URGES
REDUCTION ON
OIL IMPORTS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 80. U.P, -
Secretary of Interior Wilbur today
supported proposals to limit the i'm
portation of foreign crude oil.
In letter read before the senate
commerce committee considering the
Capper oil import regulation bill,
Wilbur endorsed domestic curtail-
ment and said pro-rated limitation
of imports logically followed. He
suggested the latter be done under
the guidance of the federal trade
commission.
Stating that the limitation of oil
output this year balanced the sup
ply with demand, Wilbur said.
IF proration is the logical method
of control, it would seem logical to
apply it to imports. 1t seems to me
that the evident need is the prora-
ton of imports under the guidance
of some fact-finding body such as
the federal trade commission.
DR.. Ralph Arnold, oil engineer and
statistician appearing in behalf OF
independent producers, resumed his
testimony of yesterday, endorsing
the measure which would limit all
imports to 100000 barrels annual
ly for three years, prorating the inn
ports to various countries on the ba-
sis of their 1928 shipments.
Arnold said the Capper bill would
cut imports to 20 per cent of the
1923 total, and deemed it a good
thing. He also endorsed that por-
ton of the bill which would bar
imports of all foreign refinery prod
ucts for like period.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
DOZEN COUNTIES
WILL SHARE IN
ROAD PROGRAM
Yuma Road Improvement
Included In Projects Or
dered By State.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 30. (U.R) -
First steps toward immediate con-
struction of highway projects in II
counties, at an estimated cost OF
So 3,134 900, were under way here to-
day by order of the state highway
commission.
AT its session yesterday the COM
mission ordered c. H. Purcell, state
highway engineer, to proceed with
the preliminary work, after appro-
priations for the necessary engineer
ing and right-of-way expenditures
were voted.
Among the projects to be adver-
tised Immediately are:
Grading and paving 18 miles be-
tween Los Alamos and Santa Maria
in Santa Barbara county, including
construction of the Los Alamos creek
bridge, on the coast route, 1881 500
Grading and paving five miles
between Claydell station and the
west end of Bostonia line change
Las Caches line change, and Flynn
Springs line change, on the San Di-
ego-El Centro highway in San Di-
ego county, $240000.
Grading and paving 83 miles be-
tween a point six miles north ol
the southerly county line of River
side county and Avenue 81 on the
San Bernardino-El Centro highway
| $481, 400.
Grading and widening pavement
to 20 feet between Highland cana
and sand hills, distance of 20.s
miles, in Imperial county, on the
Ell Centro-Yuma highway, S150,000.
Grading and paving the west en-
trance to San Bernardino, includ
ing provisions for payment of th'
states share of a viaduct on thu
San Fernando-San Bernardino high
way, $15O,0OO.
Construction of the boundar!
creek bridge and approaches ant
the Jacumba grade separation il
San Diego county on the San Diego
Ell Centre highway, 100000.
Grading and paving 81 miles be
tween Newport Beach and Corcoral
Del Beach and Corcoran Del Maj
and bridge across the north channe
of Newport bay, in Orange county
on the coast highway, 1921 300.
The highway commission formal
endorsed and approved the senate
bill introduced to provide for the ad
dition of certain secondary highway
to the state system.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30

night when it reaches the nearest
point to the earth since it's disco
very in 1898, will be approximately
100000 miles distant. Only the
moon is closer to the earth than
this tiny star, the 443d asteroid
discovered in the heavens, and the
only such planet which is not be-
yond Mars in its relation to the
earth.
The Importance of Eros to astro-
nomy lies in the fact that the rela-
tive dimensions of the solar system
are known with high precision, DR.
Joy declared, and if any dimension
can be accurately measured in
miles, all the other dimensions be-
come known at once, in terms of
the Fame unit.
1T is possible. we hope, TO de-
termine the parallax of Eros, and
hence its distance from the earth
in miles, with relatively high pre-
cision and a correspondence accu-
rate determination of the absolute
dimensions of the solar system in
general will result" DR.. Joy said
"As Eros approaches the earth
more closely than any other hea-
venly body except the Moon, its
parallax is relatively large: and the
fact that its diameter docs not ex-
coed 20 miles, SO that it appears in
the telescope as a mere point OF
light without a sensible disk, indi-
Gates that extremely precise micro
metric measures of its position on
the Heavens may be had.
Eros, which revolves about the
sun in a period of 643 days, APP
parently has one side much brighter
than the other, DR.. Joy said, which
would explain why at times it al
most disappears from view while
some five hours later it will be
three times brighter.
Although DR.. Joy is in direct
charge of the photographing and
examining of Eros during its visit
the results of the work are being
closely watched by DR.. Edwin S
Adams, director of the observatory
Dr. Milton Humason and Dr.. Edwin
S. Hubble, his associates.
DR.. Einstein will not be at thc
observatory tonight when Eros is
in its closest conjunction with the
earth due to other engagements.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
OLD SWINDLE
USED TO ROB
EASTERN PAIR

BOSTON, Jan. 80. U.P)-Thomas
Costigan, 60, was in custody here
.oday in connection with the al
legged $4,000 swindle of Mr.. and
Mrs. John H. Callahan of Roches-
ter. N. Y, in San Francisco and
Reno, New, last month.
On a trip to California the CAL
lahans met a man who was intro
duced to them as Jack Corbett.'
Together they attended races at Ii
juana, Aqua Caliente and San
Diego.
In San Francisco Hotel, Corbett
claimed to have picked up a wallet
containing $500, a list of horses
named as sure winners and a $780,.
600 American Breeders Association
bond bearing the name of Harry
Payne Whitney.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
HANDSOME sum
REALIZED FOR
RED CROSS AID

Lettuce men of Imperial Valley
realized $685. at the auction held
yesterday afternoon at the offices
of the Imperial Valley Produce
Exchange, Ltd, at which time they
donated two cars of choice lettuce
to the Red Cross drought relief
fund and did the bidding them
selves.
The sum will be added to the val
ley's quota of the S10,000,000 relief
fund and will be forwarded to
the Red Cross headquarters in
Washington, D. c. One car will be
re-sold in Chicago and the other in
New York and the money realized
will be sent directly to the Red
Cross in Washington.
One car of the lettuce was
packed by the growers in the north
end of the valley and one in the
south end. Best grades only were
included in the shipments.
Growers, brokers. shippers, job
bers and receivers cooperated in
this generous project, the money
realized being raised by themselves,
no local bidders appearing to take
part in the auction, II
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
ENGLISH Mine
BLAST CLAIMS
LIVES OF MANY
Toll OF Twenty-Eight Is
Reported With Total
Expected To Increase.

WHITEHAVEN England, Jan. 80.
U.P)-Twenty- eight miners were
known dead today after an explo-
sion in the Haig mine here.
Eighteen bodies had been rece-
vered at noon. Thirteen men were
in hospitals. Rescue parties fought
the dangers of gas and afterdamp
as they searched the shafts OF the
mine, extending under the Irish
Sea, for further victims or en-
tombed men.
There was little hope that any
one remaining in the mine would
be found alive. Rescuers were
equipped with special apparatus to
enable them to enter the gaS-filled
shafts and chambers.
The dead included three fathers
and their sons. They were John
Richardson Sr., and John Richard
son Jr.; George Parker Sr. and
George Parker Jr., and James Ro-
gan and George Rogan.
WHITEHAVEN, England, Jan. 80.
U.P)-Fighting the dangers OF gas
and blackdamp, rescue parties To-
day sought approximately 20 mi
ners entombed by an explosion in
The Haig mine here.
Eleven bodies had been brought
to the surface. Doctors who de-
scended the mine shaft reported
the discovery of several more. Lit
tie hope was held that men working
in the shaft beneath the Irish Sea
in which the explosion occurred
would be found alive, for even spe-
cial apparatus made rescue efforts
in the gas-filled mine painfully
slow.
Mine officials announced that 20
of the men originally trapped in
the mine had been rescued at $3.50
a. m. today. This left the tate o1
between II and 20 undetermined
! The cause of the explosion re-
manned unknown.
Whitehaven has been the scene
of numerous mining disasters. To-
day anxious crowds of men ano
| women surrounded the pit head
Older residents recalled one of ths
worst underground disasters of al
time which occurred here in 1911
when l40 men were killed in the
Wellington pit.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
By PETER b. KYNE
Written for the United Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 80. U.R)
MY opinion of this bonus agita-
ton is we'll known; will express it
again; it is a grand game of beat
the government" I do not believe
in bonuses for healthy men. For
men who are suffering from illness
or injuries contracted during the
war I favor bonuses, and healthy
ones.
This bonus racket has drawn
a flock of winners, neuroticS and
professional panhandlers, many
| brandishing false certificates OF
, disability. I have repeatedly been
approached by members of the
guild to attest to their wounds
The whoie bonus thing is being
maneuvered by lot of patrioteers,
flag-Wavers, many of whom never
saw actual service. They are trying
to cash in on a time of depression
and popular sympathy for the un-
employed.
If they were sincere they would
have fought because they believed
it their civic duty, with no con-
sideration of money involved. II
they suffered as some of them say
they did, no amount of moneN can
repay them.
In my opinion, the real leaders OF
the old soldiers organizations, OF
which l am a member, are honest
ly and patriotically striving to
make such organizations real serv-
ice organizations.
There is a class of .old soldier
politicians" who have come into
our national life since the war, and
these men are always quick to seize
upon any opportunity to publicize
themselves and ingratiate them
selves with what they foolishly re-
gard as the old soldier vote"
Our times at present are not SO
hard that an old soldier could not
be expected to bear them with more
courage and cheerfulness than
other members Of the population
Yet the spokesman for an immedi-
ate payment of the bonus would
make these old soldiers weak whin-
ers and panhandlers at the expense
of a nation already overburdened
with income taxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
Fair Edition
On Wednesday

Next Wednesday the Impe-
rial Valley Press will issue a
special edition, dedicated to
the Imperial County Fair.
The issue will contain be-
tween 80 and 40 pages and will
be replete with information on
the fair and Imperial Valley
activities, illustrations of val
ley scenes, and data on Impe-
rial Valley industries.
In addition 20 supplying reg
ular subscribers with this edi-
tiOn, the Press plans liberal
free distribution throughout
the valley and at the fair
grounds.
The fair edition will not
only be interesting reading for
valley residents, but they will
find il unusually attractive to
send to friends in other parts
of the country that they may
become familiar with Imperial
Valley.
This issue is published three
days prior to the fair opening
as part of the Press effort
to cooperate with the fair Of
ficials in making the fair
success.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
Posse Seeking
Bank RObber

MURPHYSlNoRO. H., Jan. 30.W.p)
While one suspected bank robber
lay critically wounded in a nospi-
tai here today, posse OF 90 men
under the leadership of Sheriff w.
w. Osborn of jackson county
searched the woods Is miles north
of here for his companion.
George Davis, 81, st. Louis police
character, was shot last night by
members of a posse searching for
the two bandits who yesterday
morning held up the First National
Bank at Gorham. H., and escaped
with $4500. Davis was reported
rear death.
Davis was shot while attempting
to escape from the posse in the
woods near the farm of Vincent
Lee. He escaped after he was
wounded but was captured at the
farm home of Ed Whistler, where
he sought aid.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
HOUSE LEADERS
PLAN MOVE TO
AID PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. tU.pl -
The house today defeated the S25,-
100000 Red Cross appropriation at
tached to the interior department
bill by the senate.
The rising vote was 224 to 90, on
a motion of Chairman Cramton OF
the appropriations committee to dis
agree with the senate amendment
and send the bill to conference.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. U.PA -
Republican house leaders moved to-
day to support President Hoover and
the Red Cross against the senate
by bringing up the S25 100000 relief
appropriation for a vite with the
aim of killing it.
The decision for vote today was
sudden and not altogether expected
Republican leaders, however, appar-
emily were maneuvered into it BY
Democratic charges that they were
trying to hold up the controversial
matter indefinitely These charge
! seemed to bear particular weight a
this time because of the storm ere
ated by the Red Cross refusal t,
administer the $25 100000 if it L
! voted.
Republican leaders heretofor,
have not been deferred from theil
! course by the Democratic charges
and some took their decision tc
vote today as indicating a belief the
house would stand behind them
There was not the confidence or
this vote, however, that has beer
evident on previous occasions. al.
though majority floor leader, Tilson
predicted the house would. vott
against the appropriation.
Democrats, meanwhile were ready
with plan to get around the Rec
Cross refusal, through an amend
ment to vote the money to Presi
dent Hoover to be administered by
some governmental agency desig
mated by him.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
Condemned Men
Become Scared

CANON CITY, Colo, Jan. 30. (U.P)
All pretense had disappeared today
as the hour for execution of three
Manter bandits neared and the men
admitted they were afraid.
The men, Andrew Halliday, Claude
Ray and John Walker, are sched-
uled to be hanged at the state pris-
on sometime before 9 o'clock to-
night.
They were convicted of killing
Coral Hickman, undersheriff at
Eads, Colo, while attempting to es-
cape after they had robbed bank
at Manter, Kansas.
Walkers mother, Mrs. Julia
Rhodes, II, and his two sisters Wis
tied him yesterday for the last time.
The other two men have had no
visitors for more than three weeks
except the Rev. Regis Barrett, prison
chaplain, and Pastors John Tedder
and w. j. Wells.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
FAIR OPENING
AWAITED. WITH
MUCH INTEREST

One week from tomorrow the
gates at the Imperial County fair
grounds will swing back to reveal
the most complete and widely di-
versified collection of exhibits ever
assembled in Imperial Valley.
Arrangements are shaping to-
ward completion as those in charge
make frenzied effort to wind up
the mass of details attending ar
rangements for the opening.
Final approval of the entertain
ment bill of fare was given yeSter-
day by the fair board, and MANY
things of interest and amusement
are provided for visitors of all ages
and walks of life.
The program for each day is
packed to capacity with races, eX-
hibitions, musical entertainments
and variety of features.
Horse races and automobile races
of the first order will contribute
thrills enough to satisfy the most
blaSe.
Music will be provided by every
community in the valley and will
be one of the most enjoyable fea-
lures in that all the entertainers
are residents of Imperial county.
Agricultural and livestock eXhi-
bits will give a splendid idea of the
development and accomplishments
made in these industries. Exhibits
from the schools and from Various
farm organizations will cover those
phases of community life.
All possible provision for the ac-
commodation and comfort Of visi-
tors has been made, and the guests
of the valley will be accorded every
courtesy in order that the far
famed hospitality of the valley may
not be dimmcd
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
Rome Satisfied
With Apology

ROME, Jan. 80 U.P)-Secretary
of State Henry L. Stimson's apology
appeared today to have settled the
incident Of Maj-Gen. Smedley ID.
Buffers remarks about Italian Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini Whicn
brought an official protest from the
Italian embassy at Washington.
Stimson's apology and the news
that General Butler would be tried
by courtmartial appeared In the
press here late yesterday afternoon
There was no official comment,
but well informed quarters believed
that prompt action by the Ameri-
can government had ended an un-
pleasant state Of affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30
Yuma Ratifies
Water Contract

YUMA, Ariz., Jan. 80. (U.P)--A
contract between the United States
and the Yuma county water users
association providing for payment
of project construction costs annual
operation costs and maintenance
was ratified in a special election here
yesterday, according to a final ta-
bulation today.
Owners OF 20,260 acres OF land
voted for the contract as compared
with 672 acres against the plan
Through the contract, construction
costs are reduced to approximately
65 cents an acre and delinquents
will have Is years to make up pay
ments.