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Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
OF HERS
DEAD IN
TRAGEDY
Famous Football Coach
EnrOute To Coast At
Time OF Disaster
PLANE EXPLODES
Crew And Passengers
Have No Chance As
Blast Occurs In Air

BAZAAR, Kansas, March 81. {U.0
-Knute Rockne, noted Notre Dame
football coach and eight other men
were killed in an airplane crash
near here today.
Western Air Express here an
nounced at 11:20 a. IN. that it had
received confirmation of the plane
crash from Kansas City sources.
No mention was made of Rockne,
| however.
The plane, operated by the Trans
continental and Western Air, Inc,
was enroute from Kansas City to
Los Angeles.
Rockne was listed as a passen-
ger on the plane when it left KAN
sas City earlier in the day.
Persons who reached the wreck
age of the craft said there were no
survivors.
The plane crashed on the farm of
Steward Baker near here.
1t was a combination passenger
and mail plane and was delayed Is
minutes in it's departure from KAN
sas City.
The delay was caused by late ar
rival of mail.
All of the victims were found
dead in the wreckage of the ship,
which was badly shattered by the
terrific force of the impact.
IdentifAcatAon WAS dilficNAk. -
there was long delay be&cxe~Olle
names of all the dead were estab-
lished through check with Kan
sas City officers of the air lines.
County Officials at Cottonwood
Falls were notified and preparations
were made to remove the bodies
! there.
The plane crashed on a level
| pasture in what is known as the
Flint Hill district.
Mail pouches were strewn all the
way from the wing to the wreckage.
Before the crash the craft was
seen about 10 miles north of the
spot where it fell, circling as If the
pilot had lost his bearings.
The plane was completely de-
stroyed, although there was no fire.
Three ambulances from Cotton
wood Falls arrived at the scene and
the bodies were placed in them to
be taken to the morgue there.
Witnesses who viewed the bodies
as they were being placed in the
ambulances said they were mutilated
and mangled almost beyond recog-
milton.
The lost wing landed about half
a mile from the spot where the
plane crashed.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
Natural Born
High Flyer

WINNIPEG, Man., March 81.
U.P)-The child born Sunday
to Mrs. Alex Miller while she
was in an airplane 1000 feet in
the air, was given the name to-
day of Lindbergh Wright Cook
Miller.
The 21-year-Old Indian
mother and her baby, the first
ever born in an airplane over
Canada, were reported doing
splendidly."
Mrs. Miller was at Mile 2l4
on Hudson Bay Railway when
it was decided to race the
stork to The Pas" The trip
was made in 4 speedy Fair
child ship of the Royal Cam
adian Air Force.
z L. A. Bailey, mechanic, was
the only other passenger with
Mrs. Miller in the cabin of
the plane when the child was
born.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
Mx& R1~~
q 1850 MsNausht Syndicate. gns.
BABOON SLAIN
AFTER INJURINC
FIVE PERSONS

VENICE, Cal, March 81. U.P)-A
giant baboon ran amuck after
breaking from a cage on the Venice
pier today and injured five persons,
one seriously, before police shot
and killed the animal.
The baboon ragged through a
crowd of men, women and child
rem on the amusement pier.
Captain Robert Kallmeyer and a
police sergeant named Bundy were
called to the scene and responded
in an automobile.
While Kallmeyer leaped from
car and grabbed two children who
were in the path OF the animal,
Bundy drew his revolver and took
one haSty shot which dropped the
baboon.
The injured were taken to Venice
hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
SITUATION AT
SACRAMENTO IS
AGAIN TANGLED

SACRAMENTO March 81. up
Refusing series of proposed
amendments, the senate reappor-
tionment committee today further
complicated the tangled reappor-
tionment situation by approving the
congressional redistricting bill of
Senator j. w. Mckinley, Los An
geles.
The vote was 13 to 2, Senators
Roy Fellom and Thomas A. Ma
loney, San Francisco, casting the
only dissenting votes.
The measure as approved would
give 10 congressman to Southern
California. nine to Northern Cali
fornia and establish a middle dis
trict in San Luis Obispo, Santa Bar
bara. Ventura. Kern and Tulare
counties, which Senator Walter H.
Duval Santa Paula, designated
strictly independent"
Under these terms, Los Angeles
would receive eight congressman
and San Francisco two.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
KNUTE ROCKNE KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASf
Coast Pilots On
Ill-Fated Plane

Los ANGELES, March 81.
W.P) - Western Air Express
headquarters here today an
nounced that they were ad-
vised from Kansas City, that
the list of victims in the Ba-
zaar, Kansas, air crash were:
X. X. Rockne, l417 Wayne ST.,
South Bend: Ned Goldthwaite.
333 East - St., New York; ].
II. Christensen, Chicago; ii. ].
Clifton, 400 North Michigan
Blvd, Chicago; J. II. Hopper,
2037 Powell St., lperhaps San
Francisco; w. b. Miller, 720
Pennington Ave., Hartford,
Conn.,, J. Roach, 10 Ash Ave-,
Wheeling, West Virginia; Pilot
II. G. Fry, 826 South Hobard
Blvd, Los Angeles; Pilot II. ].
Mathis, 337 West Arden, Glen
dale, Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND ANCIENT
INDIAN VILLAGE IN ARIZONA

TUCSON, Ariz., March 81. UP
Ruins older and more extensive than
any previously found in Arizona
have been uncovered by group of
archaeologists and Papago Indians
near the historic Mission San Xavier
del Bac, it was revealed today by DR..
Byron Cummings, dean of archae-
ology at the University of Arizona
Believed to have been inhabited
at least 5000 years ago by a simple
race of Indians who never left the
stone age, the ruins were unearthed
by Papagos and viewed later by a
party of scientists headed by DR..
Cummings.
Four pueblos were found near
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
Report Group OF
COnvicts Killed

OROVILLE. Cal, March 81. W.P)
Several San Quentin convicts
were reported killed today in q pre-
mature dynamite explosion near
the prison road camp No. "a of the
Feather River highway.
Details of the accident were not
given, but DR.. c. B. Griggs of Oro-
vile. who left Immediately for the
scenes, said he was informed that
several prisoners were killed and
some were injured"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
DIRIGIBLE ON VOYAGE

LAKEHURST, N. j., March 81.
UP)-The navy dirigible Los An
geles was flying westward today on
a training cruise that will take it
as far rs Pittsburgh.
The ship left the naval air sta
ton here at a. m today and is
expected back before night,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
H0over's Assistant
Relinquishes Office

WASHINGTON, March 81. W.R
President Hoover announced today
the retirement OF French Strother,
New York, administrative assistant
to the President.
Mr.. Hoover said Strother's work
in organizing the sociological COM
missions on child health, social
trends, home building and illiteracy
had been completed. His post will
not be filled.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
HOTEL MAN BETTER

BOSTON, March 81. U.p) ID. M.
Linnard, Los Angeles hotel man who
was operated on Friday for brain
tumor, had restful night at Peter
Brent Brigham hospital and was
comfortable today, hospital author
tiles reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-31
ASK BOND ISSUE

WASHINGTON, March 81. U.p)-
The Southern Pacific company ap-
piled to the interstate commerce
commission today for authority to
issue $5O,00o,oO0 in 50-year Az per
cent gold bonds, the proceeds to be
used in refinancing.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
BLOSSOM TIME IN THE
PRIEST RAPIDS VALLEY

The orchards in the valley right
now are sight for sore eyes. The
colors of blossoms range all the way
from the white Of the cherries and
pears to the deep pink and almost
red of the peaches and apples. One
of the most striking is the three-acre
Rochester peach orchard Of r. D..
Barge. The color Of the blossoms of
this block are very deep pink, in
fact are almost red and are beau
tiful sight.
The petals of the blossoms on the
cherries and peaches are falling, but
the apples will be in full bloom next
week.
1t is a little early yet to determine
the set of the fruit but the condition
of the blossoms at this time would
indicate that some Of the peaches
were killed in the freeze in the latter
part of March as were some Of the
cherries, particularly on the younger
trees. But the older cherry trees, in
most of the orchards, will apparently
have full crop unless later damage
should occur.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
FLOWER EXCHANGE TO
MARK APRIL CLUB MEETING

Features of the April meeting of
the Woman's Club on Wednesday
afternoon, April 22, will be the ex-
change of flower seeds, plants and
bulbs by those attending, and
flower exhibit.
The meeting will be in charge of
Mrs. F. E Taylor, state chairman of
Art in the Home and Garden, who
has arranged the following musical
program in connection with the show
ing of COLLECTION of slides furnished
by the State College. of Washington
and illustrating beautiful gardens:
Songs:
can Old Fashioned Garden"
Mrs. F. A. English
"Tiptoe Thro the Tulips"
Mrs. A. c. Wade
"A Bowl. Of Roses"
Mrs. Alex Parke
"Trees'
Mrs. F. E. Taylor
Reading:
"The Flower Fairies"
Elsie Taylor
Hostesses, for the afternoon will be
Mrs. F. M. Wheeler and Mrs. w. A.
Joyce.
Roll call will be answered by my
favofite Hover song"
This meeting Of the club is open
to the public and cordial invitation
to attend and to participate in the
flower exchange is given to all.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
MRS. |. &. PURDIN
KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT


Mrs. L. E. Purdin, 81, former
resident of Hanford. died at St.
Elizabeth's hospital in Yakima
Tuesday evening of injuries re-
ceived a few hours earlier in an
auto accident while on her way to
her home in Yakima from Union
Gap where she worked in the state
highway department office. The
Purdins left Hartford about five
years ago. Mr.. Purdin is farming
near Granger. A 10 year old
daughter, Betty Gay, lived with
her mother in Yakima.
The funeral will be held from
Shaw and Sons chapel in Yakima
Saturday at 2 p. m.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
HOME RUN IN NINTH
WINS FOR HANFoRD

The ball game At Han4ord last Sun
day proved close and hard fought
contest and to climax It, Hartman,
who had pitched a fine game for
Hanford, drove a long ny over TIP
toms head in left field IN the last
half Of the ninth and by fast sprlnting
crossed the plate just ahead OF the
bail. which had been reiayed from
deep short, giving the game to Han
ford by score of 4 to 8.
The White Bluffs lineup was weak
ened by the absence of Joe Wagner.
who was out of town that day and
was further crippled when Charles
Kingman hurt his hand in the second
and had to retire. This necessitated
using three high school boys, Albert
Barnes, Emil Wagner and Tom Wade.
In spite of their inexperierce these
youngsters played nice game, their
principal weakness being in hitting.
Walker for White Bluffs and Hart
man for Hanford went the distance
and both turned in well pitched games
The hits were about equally divided
between the two clubs but Hartman
turned in 13 strike-outs, which was an
unusual performance.
Hanford scored three times before
White Bluffs could get a run across
the plate but they picked up one at
a time until they evened the count at
3 all. With the score tied in the eighth,
Hanford filled the bases with one out,
but forceout at the plate from third
retired another man and Bud Heath
took Billy Syfford's high foul back Of
first for the third out. White Bluffs
was unable to score in the ninth, al
though they got a man as far as
second. Hartman was the first man
up for Hanford in the last Of the ninth
and he put everything into a swing
and drove long fly out into left, on
which he scored his home run.
There was large crowd on hand
to witness the game and they thoro-
ughly enjoyed the close contest.
The two teams will meet in an
other battle next Sunday on the
White Bluffs grounds.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
-M'cORD TAYLOR DIES
AT MANSON HOME

MaCord Taylor, 43, former res
ident of White Bluffs but for the
past ten years prominent orchardist
at Mason, near Chelan, died at his
home Sunday afternoon, April IL,
of anthrax, after an illness Of two
weeks, according to a news item pub
lished in the Wenatchee Daily World.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday under the auspices Of the
American Legion Post at Chelan with
A. T. Kemp, Post chaplain, in charge.
The body was taken to the Coast for
burial.
Mr.. Taylor is survived by his wild
ow, Helen Taylor; his mother, Mrs.
Mary T. Taylor, and sister, Mrs.
A. F. Shonse, both of Lexington, Ken
lucky, and an uncle, e. s. McCord
of Seattle.
He was a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Kentucky and played football
for that institution and with the over
seas expeditionary all-star team in
France.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
TWO CHERRY GRADES
URGED AT YAKIMA

Different prices will be paid this
season by his concern for small and
large cherries, H. w. Donahey, dis
trict manager for the Pacific Fruit
& Produce Co., announced Friday.
He asserted too little attention has
been given in the Yakima valley
to the production of the proper size.
Yakima cherries generally do not
grow to as big size as those in
The Dalles district of Oregon, with
the result that they take lower
price on the market.
Donahey is of the opinion that
the size can be greatly improved by
the use Of fertilizers, which may be
applied this spring. Quick acting ones
should be used, he. suggested. Yak
ina Herald. h
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
AMOS N ANDY TO ATTEND
SENIOR CLASS PLAY

Every one who can get there to-
morrow, Friday night, is planning
to see the senior class play, "The
Yellow Shadow" to be given at the
high school auditorium. Attractive
posters advertising the play have
been on display for the last week or
so around town and the per-
Torrance is scheduled to begin
promptly at 8 o'clock with the radio
report Of Amos n Andy, so there
will be special reason for all to De
on time. The receiving set that Will
bring in these comedians Of the air
will be installed by the Pacific Power
and Light Company for the evening.
Those who are in the play say that
"The Yellow Shadow" will keep up
the high standard set by the high
school entertainments during the
last few years.
The admission is IS cents for ad-
ults and 25 cents for children.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
MANY new SETTLERS
PREPARING TO COME

During the past month or more
there have been more visitors and
prospective settlers here than
during any other spring, prob
ably, in the history of the valley. A
few of these are from other states
some as far away as North Dakota
but the majority of them live in the
Wenatchee and Yakima valleys.
Those from the other irrigated
sections have witnessed the devel-
opment Of their own projects, and
know the Importance of the water
users owning their own irrigation
systems if constructive progress is
to be made. They all appear to be
much interested in the possibilities
Of this valley but none Of them are
willing to purchase land here until
the settlers actually acquire the
ownership Of all of the irrigation
properties, including the power plant,
Many Of them say that when that
takes place following the bond cleo
tion, they plan to become residents
of this valley.
Some Of these newcomers will buy
raw land, they say, while others will
want improved places. Because of
stabilized conditions in the older dis
tricts, due in large measure to the
fact that farmers own their own ir-
rigation systems, land values have
advanced to point where it is no
longer possible for a man with
small means to purchase farm, and
such farmers are looking with long
ing eyes to this valley.
With the earliness of this district,
the unlimited water supply and pos
sibility for very cheap maintenance
charge as soon as the power plant is
developed to a point where excess
power NAV be sold. this valley has
= powerful appeal for those who are
onerating under bandicaps in other
districts.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16

While installing a telephone in the
house on the Ira Jones place lasS
Friday evening, D. S. Wilkinson step
ped off the porch with his leg turned
at such an angle that one of the
bones just above the ankle was broken.
He was taken that evening to Yakima,
where the broken bone was set and
the lower part of the limb placed in a
cast. The injury, while not very seri-
Gus or painful, will keep him con-
fined pretty much to his home while
the fracture is knitting.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
FIRST CAR OF ASPARAGUS
ROLLS FROM KENNEWIck

The first car of asparagus was
shipped from Kennewick Monday,
April IL. The asparagus season is 16
days later this year than last year,
when the first car was shipped on
March 20.
Of the 70 cars Of fresh asparagus
sent to the market last season nearly
40 had been shipped by April 13.
A short cutting season for the
fresh market may be expected this
year, as the Eastern demand, in pre-
vious years, has decreased after the
first of May.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
MRS. SALLIE A. BRICE,
PIONEER WOMAN, DEAD

After an illness Of about q week,
Mrs. Sallie A. Brice, 81, pioneer Of the
early days in the Priest Rapids val
ley, died Friday night at her home in
Yakima,
With her first husband, Rev. G.
w. Strong, Mrs. Brice crossed the
plains from Ohio in covered wagon
in 1880, first settling in Cheney. After
living there year they moved to the
Old Town of Yakima, making that
their home for two years. During
their residence there they witnessed
the moving of the town on wheels to
it's present location. From Yakima
they went to Prineville, Oregon, where
the Rev. Mr.. Strong died and where
several years afterwards his widow
married ]. w. Brice.
In 1883 the Bricss came to White
Bluffs, finding here at that time only
a few families between Priest Rapids
and Ringold. They homesteaded the
tract of land known as the old Brice
place, just south Of Colonsay Farm.
They lived here for many years and
saw the first irrigation development in
the valley. When Mr.. Brices health
began to fail in 1916, they established
a temporary residence in Yakima,
where he later died. Since then al
though Mrs. Brice maintained her
home in White Bluffs, her fuJniture
still being in the old log house on the
she has lived most of
the time with her children and grand
chilc-ln, dying at the home of her
granddaughter, Mrs. Ora Headrick in
Yakima.
She is survived by her three daugh-
tiers, Mrs. ]. E.. Laricheliere of Grand
view, Mrs. Addie Pitt of Yakima and
Mrs. Lucy McManamon of Othello;
nine grandchildren and thirteen great
grandchildren.
Mrs. Brice was member Of the
Pioneer Association. the Methodist
church in Grandview and the Woman's
Relief Corps of Yakima. Her funeral
was held Monday morning from Shaw
& Sons chapel in Yakima, members of
the Woman's Relief Corps taking part
in the service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
ASPARAGUS CRATES
REQUIRE MARKINGS

With the Asparagus shipping seas
on starting, some asparagus is being
packed and offered for sale, that
does not meet the obligatory stan
dards of the State of Washington as
marked, and others that are not
marked at all.
A crate of asparagus to be marked
"Washington No. /" must contain
clean, fresh stalks of asparagus, fair
ly uniform in length, which are not
wilted or crooked; which do not show
broken or spreading tips and which
are free from damage caused by dis.
ease, insects or mechanical or other
means and shall not show more than
IN inch Of white. A 10 per cent toll
erance, by count, is allowed for de-
fects of grade, and an additional 10
per cent may be allowed for white.
Crates containing asparagus not
conforming to the above grade shall
be marked "Unclassified."
All boxes or crates of asparagus
shall be conspicuously and legibly
stamped with the name and address
of person, firm, or association ship
ping the asparagus asparagus. grade,
and net weight. The grade shall be
stamped in letters of at least 3-8 inch
tyne.
The cooperation Of growers and
shinpers in this matter will be APP
prn"iated bv the Horticultural Office.
Copies of the ASPARAGUS grades
NOV be bad at the Horticultural
Nff;co Of Prosser or bv the Horti-
cultural Tnspector in YOUR district.
DOYLE B. STARCHER,
District Horticultural Inspector.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
State Grange
Master Is
Guest of Club
A. D. Goss Tells Business
Men OF Causes And
Effects of Depression

Although there is a general feeling
that the bottom has been reached in
the present depression, there is still
generally is back on normal basis,
and while the best minds in the coun-
try are working on the problem to re-
store prosperity, no definite program
has yet been worked out, said A. D,
Goss, Master of the Washington
State Grange, in addressing the White
Bluffs business men at the CONNER.
cial Club luncheon at the CONNER
cial hotel, Saturday noon, at which
he was an invited guest.
Continuing, Mr.. Goss said that no
person, political party or other body
or organization could be prperiy
charged with the depression; that it
was due to natural conditions, world
wide in their influence, and in
certain measure can be attributed to
the after effects of the world war.
Different remedies for relieving the
present conditions have been offered
by statesmen and leaders in the vari-
GUS industries but MIR. Goss thinks
that the first thing that must be
done is to restore agriculture, repre-
senting about one-third of the popu-
lation in the country, to paying
basis; that it is impossible to expect
general prosperity with farming in it's
present condition. He said the leaders
of the different farm organizations
have no set plan but are willing to
cooperate in any movement that
promises to bring about the desired
results. He said that statistics show
that this country is producing about
200,0O0,000 bushels of wheat more
than is consumed at home and about
twice as much cotton. The Federal
Farm Board has recommended that
the acreage of those two main crops
be cut to point where the produc-
ton will about equal the consump-
ton. Mr., Goss said that the pro-
gram might be economically sound
but he did not believe it could be
brought about.
In his capacity as State Master, Mr..
Goss said that he had travelled more
or less extensively over the country
and from his observations and in
talking to farm leaders in the diff
ferent states it is his opinion that the
farmers generally in Washington are
much better off than in any other
state in the Union. He has spent 4
good deal of time in Washington, D.
C., and has had many conferences
with officials there including Secre-
tary of Agriculture Hyde and also
with President Hoover, with whom he
is very well acquainted, having known
him quite intimately while he was
Secretary of Commerce prior to his
elevation to. the presidency Mr.. Goss
said the most encouraging feature 81
the whole situation is the sincerity
and earnestness with which officials
in high places and leaders generally
are tackling the problem.
The State Master was accompanied
to White Bluffs by Mrs. Goss and
they were here to attend the meeting
Of the Pomona Grange held Saturday
afternoon and evening.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-16
LISTEN TO THIS BROADCAST

A radio program commemorating
the San Francisco Fire will be broad
cast over the Columbia network on
Saturday, April 10, from 6 to 2 p. m.
Pacific standard time. The broadcast
is sponsored by the Pacific Board OF
Fire Underwriters and the American
Legion Department of California
under the. heading of conversation,
will participate. B. w. Gearhart, Cal
ifornia Department Commander OF
the Legion; the Governor Of Califor-
mia; the Mayor Of San Francisco and
other prominent men in public life,
will speak.