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THREE CHILDREN
die AS BLAZE
DESTROYS HOME

OROVILLE, Calf, Aug. %. W.P)
Three small children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Emory Counts were burned
to death today when the cookhouse
of their camping outfit was de-
stroyed by fire at Woodleaf, a min
ing town near here.
The dead were Howard, 1o
months old, and Beverly and Bar
bara, twins, aged three months.
The fire started from gasoline
stove over which Mrs. Counts was
cooking breakfast. She had step
ped from the cookhouse for a few
minutes and returned to find the
door blocked by flames.
She attempted to fight her way
into the structure, the stove ex-
ploded, scattering the bla 2 e
throughout the building.
Mrs. Counts then tried to gain
entrance to the house through a
blazing window, which collapsed,
burning her severely.
Two passing motorists, Rufho
Bean of Clipper Mills and j. E.
Partridge, Butte county superinten-
dent of SCHOOLS, went to the aid OF
the frantic mother but were unable
to effect a rescue. They then took
Mrs. Counts to Woodleaf Lodge fol-
medical attention.
The children's father, Emory
Counts, was away from home, work.
ing at the Mount de Orc mine at
the time of the fire. He had
brought his family to Woodleaf
from Trinity county about two
months ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
L. A. Council
Endorses Loan

LOS ANGELES, Aug. %. U.P)-
Efforts of the Los Angeles Water
and Power board to obtain a $32,-
100000 loan from the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation to pay
for construction of a transmission
line to Hoover Dam, was endorsed
by city council today.
The vote was II to 3, only Coun-
cilmen Robert L. Burns, Howard w.
Davis and E. Snapper Ingram op-
posing the motion, which was a
defense of actions of the power
board majority in employing Will
liam Gibbs McAdoo and Joseph
Scott to represent the commission
at Washington.
The council yesterday refused to
sustain the removal by Mayor John
G. Porter of Commissioners John
R. Haynes, A. F. Southwick and
John w. Baumgartner, who seek
the loan from the government.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
Sheriff Destroys
Pickets' Camp

ATHENS, O., Aug. %. U.P)-A
picket camp of striking miners on
the road to the Lick Run mine Of
the New York Coal company, near
Nelsonville, o., was broken on or
ders of Sheriff Wayne Wingett who
said the camp was public nui-
sance."
Squads of Ohio national guards
men tore down tents and burned
tables, benches and other equip
ment. The pickets dispersed.
Other disorders reported today in
the strife-torn Hooking valley min
ing district included stoning of a
miners automobile by pickets, dy-
namiting of a house owned by the
New York Coal company, firing by
snipers upon the No. 25 mine of the
New York Coal company and cut
ting of street car power line be-
tween Athens and Jacksonville.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
Death OF Girl
Termed Suicide

SAN BERNARDINO. Aug. %.
U.P)-Frances E. Ross, winsome IT.
year-old Inglewood, Calf, girl, was
not victim of a jealous lover when
she died at Ludlow on Friday, but
committed suicide by firing bull
let into her head, authorities de-
decided today
Richard Stubbins, 80, who was
detained in connection with the
girls death, has been released.
Officers said Stubbins brought
the girl here two months ago from
the Inglewood home of her mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Ross.
Miss Ross body was found in
her hotel room at Ludlow, desert
town, a gun at her side.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
Government Cuts
Bond For Weir

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. UP)-
The war department today granted
permission to the Imperial Irriga-
tion District of California to re-
pair and rebuild it's temporary di-
version dam in the Colorado river
near Hanlon's Heading and to
maintain it unity July /, 1888.
Acting on advice from the inter-
ior department, the war department
also reduced from $500,000 to $780,
900 the amount of bond the irri-
cation district is required to furnish
to protect the United States and
the Yuma County Water Users as
sociation from damages in erection
or maintenance of the dam.
While the application for the
weir in the Colorado river is rou-
tine, being made and granted an
nualy, district officials today were
pleased that the amount of the
bond, which is provided as a pro-
lection for property, has been re-
duced from 100000 to $100, 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
HEAD OF STEEL
FIRM PREDICTS
BETTER BUSINESS

NEW YORK, Aug. %. W.P) -
Indicating there is a better feeling
in the business world, Myron c..
Taylor, chairman of the board of
the United States Steel corpora
ton, today announced the corpora
ton has authorized expenditure of
about $5,O00,000 for requirements
and improvements that will give
employment to a considerable num-
Der throughout the winter"
Taylor said the present period is
comparable to that which followed
the World war.
"The stoppage of production due
to the depression, the consumption
of supplies, the wear and tear from
use of all materials and equip
ment added to that natural adol-
escence which takes place in all
industry are creating a similar
vacuum which in due course will
have to be filled" he said
"It would seem the buying move
ment cannot long be delayed"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
NEW BOOK REVEALS 'SWINDLE
SIDE OF CONGRESSIONAL LIFE

head removers at three cents each,
all out of government funds.
Author Helm has written
travelogue of congress which by lit
orally hundreds of examples shows
how the old slogan, public office
is a public trust" is construed in
the Pickwickian sense by the
smarter senators and congressman.
I'm fact, every senator starts his
public career by perpetrating a
petty swindle upon the people of
the United States,' Helm says on
his first page "The cheating be-
gins when he hurries for his train
to Washington. The swindle op-
crates even before he takes the
oath of office. 1t consists of his
taking from the treasury, to cover
his trip, a sum approximately four
times as much as his actual, neceS-
sary travelling expenses. He calls
it mileage; but the public has an
other name for it-graft. If it is
graft, it is legalized graft; senator's
have been doing it since their
grandpas wore diapers"
Graft Revealed
The book lists senator's who took
mileage for the special senate ses-
sion in 1890, when they did not
leave Washington. 1t does not
mention, however, the case of Sena-
tor Brookhart, described by the
United Press last spring. He was
out on chautauqua tour throughout
the entire session and galloped into
Washington on the last day to
qualify for his mileage. These reve-
lations figured in the primary cam
paign in which Brookhart was de-
feated by Henry Field for the Iowa
Republican senatorial nomination.
The senate committee on wild
life is described hard at its re-
searches with rod and reel, buying
bicarbonate of soda and fishing
bait, hiring boats, taking out fish
ing licenses, hiring wranglers on
dude ranches, and spending Is
cents for a notebook, all at govern
ment expense.
In an appendix the list of con-
gressmen who have practiced the
family payroll racket is published.
The classic college text is Wood
row Wilson's Congressional Gov
ernment." But Author Helm has
discovered whole bookful Of
things that Wilson apparently
didn't know about congress.
And, it is suspected, a good many
things the average voter didn't
know when he voted last time.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
SEVEN FAMOUS
FLYERS ENTER
RACING CLASSIC

LOS ANGELES, Aug. %. U.P)-
The finest speed creations in the
country will carry seven famous
pilots in the Bendix trophy race
from Los Angeles to the national
| air races at Cleveland next Sat-
urday.
Shortly before dawn, the flyers
will take off from United airport at
Burbank, hoping to reach Cleveland
before sunset. There is added pos
sibility that two or three of the
men will continue on to Newark,
N. j., in an attempt to set new
transcontinental speed record.
Maj. James H. Doolittle, who last
| year set mark of IL hours, 16
minutes from Los Angeles to New
ark while competing for the BendiX
trophy, will defend his laurels.
Major Doolittle will be flying an
improved Laird biplane, with re-
tractable landing gear, and large
fuel capacity. The pilot plans to
make one stop between Los An
geles and Cleveland for fuel.
Closest competition is expected
from Claire Vance, veteran Boeing
system pilot, of Great Falls, Mont,
who will fly a ship of his own de-
sign. Vance's plane is two-tail
Flying Wing" monoplane, for
which it's builder claims flying
range of 1900 miles.
Vance is perhaps the only one
of the seven flyers who could make
a nonstop fight between the two
coasts, touching his wheels to the
ground at Cleveland in order to
be eligible for the Bendix trophy,
according to G. F. Lienesch, flight
manager.
Thaw To Fly
A new figure will be seen in
the speed classic this year-a youth
whose aeronautcal achievements
have not been exploited. He is
! Russell Thaw, son of Harry K.
Thaw and Evelyn Nesbitt. Thaw
will be flying Hall high-wing
"gull-type" ship, equipped with a
Conqueror motor.
Jimmy Wedell of New Orleans,
who set a new speed record of
324 miles an hour at New Orleans
last week, will fly his newly con-
structed Wedell-Williams special in
the air race. Another ship of the
same design will be piloted by Col.
Roscoe Turner of Los Angeles.
Turner now is in New Orleans
testing his plane, and there was a
remote chance he would not be
back in Los Angeles in time for the
start of the race.
James Hazlit, st. Louis, another
old-time flyer, will be at the con-
trolls of a Laird biplane, similar to
Doolittle's ship.
The seventh entrant is G. H.
Gotch, Los Angeles, who will fly
a tiny home built ship equipped
with a super charged motor.
Gotch's plane has wing spread of
only Is feet.
Vance is the only pilot so far to
check in here preparatory to the
races start.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
Fall Fatal To
Mexican Boxer

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. %. U.P)-
Ramon Juan Vargas, Mexican box
er, was dead today, believed the
victim of a boxing match from
which he emerged uninjured.
According to Vargas handlers,
he left an Aqua Prieta ring Sun
day night after his match with Kid
Roberts, slipped or his dressing
room floor and fell, striking his
head against the bathtub.
He suffered a conclusion from
which he lay unconscious for two
days, dying last night as an opera
ton was being planned.
Vargas was rs years old, ma
tive of Mexico City, where his
mother and brother live.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
Street Railway
Crew Attacked

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. %. U,P)--
Three street railway employees were
injured when about 40 persons,
characterized by police as Com
munists, resisted an attempt by a
conductor to collect fares on
street car.
1--WE won't pay fares" one of the
crowd shouted. "The corporations
have stolen our money"
A free-for-all fight resulted with
the conductor swinging black jack
and the motorman welding his iron
controller handle. The crew of
passing street car joined the melee
but was unable to control the mob
which escaped after disarming the
employees and breaking several
windows in the car.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
CONFERENCE AT
CAPITAL WILL
BE RESTRICTED
Credit Expansion To Be
Chief Topic Of Busi-
ness Leaders.
BY LYLE G. WILSON
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

ChhbCu Il tCoo
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Pres-
ident Hoover will restrict the &C.
onomic conference, summoned to
meet here this week, to the problem
of expanding credit facilities and
stimulating employment.
Plans for the conference revealed
today include a preliminary meet
ing Thursday of chairmen of var
ious business and industrial COM
mittees invited to convene here.
Mr.. Hoover feels that credit diff
ficulties have decreased since June
when the credit strain was sever
est.
1t is the purpose of the admin
istration to obtain through the con-
ference a coordination of private
and government effort generally to
widen credit resources SO that all
industry may benefit.
The President will preside at the
first meeting Friday of the full
conference.
Mr.. Hoover expects to confine
the conference to such limited fields
that it could not be termed a gen.
eral economic conference. Some
business groups, misunderstanding
the scope, have intimated their de-
sire to be represented.
1t is Mr.. Hoover's purpose to
get credit machinery to operate
better to sustain commerce, indus
try and agriculture. Mr.. Hoover
feels that some industries at some
points suffer from a disarrange-
ment of credit facilities.
Some of the reserve district COM
mittees already actively are en-
gagged with the problem. The Pa
cific coast committee has been
most active, it is understood.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
Eastern Flyers
Proceed West

MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, BIRM-
INGHAM, Ala, Aug. %. W.P)-John
F. Touhy, Jr., Olean, N. Y, led the
25 Cord cup air racers enroute
from Washington to Cleveland for
the national air races into Birm-
ingham today.
Touhy set his Waco plane down
here at 11:59 m, one hour and
IA minutes after leaving Gambler
field, Atlanta, where the racers
stopped over night.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
nkNlnLdL-,e
V 'Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Aug. %.
(SpeciaD-Well, the old gentle
mems game of politics is just
starting to hit her stride.
Roosevelt, in his Ohio speech,
gave seven points where he
would remedy things. The
Hoover bunch are trying to
get the market up seven points
SO this is a seven-point cam
paign.
The minute one side makes
a speech, the humorously called
"strategists" on the other side
go into a huddle to pick 1t
apart, which all don't mean a
thing.
There is not a voter in
America that "a hours after
any speech was made could re-
member two sentences in it.
Politicians amuse more people
than they interest.
Yours.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
Mrs. Mccormick
Continues Fight

CHICAGO, Aug. %. W.P - Mrs.
Edith Rockefeller Mccormick today
continued her staunch fight against
the disease which physicians say
must inevitably cause her death.
Her condition was reported un-
changed from the. improvement
noted Sunday when specialists
found her stronger than for the
past three weeks.
Relieved by the gain made by
his sister in her courageous strug-
gle to live, John D. Rockefeller, jr,
and his wife were enroute to
Harmon, N. Y, summer home of
the senior Rockefeller.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
Leaps TO Death
From Airplane

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. %. U.P)
"A young, attractively dressed
woman leaped to death from an
airplane three miles west of here
today. The plane was flying at
an altitude of 1900 feet when she
jumped.
In her pocketbook, found in the
front seat of the open cockpit plane
in which she rode as a passenger,
was a sheet of stationery engraved
H. G. McConaughty".
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
T|ON'S
T TURMOIL
GROWING
Much Unrest Recorded
By Outbreak In Va
riOus Areas.
STRIKES EXTENDED
Farmers And Miners In
Protest Moves Against
Conditions.
(By United Press

Men fought with their fists,
argued, schemed and went to
law today in a half dozen focal
centers of economic strife over
the nation today.
The age-old human wants
hunger, the need of shelter,
the will to exist-prompted the
outbursts, which took the form
of riot in street car by
passengers who refused to pay
fares, of a rebellion Of thou
sands of coal miners against
pay cut, of a strike" by farm
ers enraged at low prices for
their produce, of a revolt by
subscribers in a telephone sys-
tenn against service rates.
Tired of theories and pref
ects that failed to make their
oats and cream and hogs sell
for more in the markets, farm
ers massed along countryside
highways, stopping city-bound
trucks and trains, dumping
milk, beating those who tried
to run the blockade, engaging
in fist fights.
AT Omaha, Neb., and Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, 200 farmers
picketed highways. Leading
them was white-haired James
Hawn, go, Woodbine, Ia, who
said he would willingly go to
the penitentiary for five years
If it would result in betteiing
conditions on the farms.
Sioux City, Ia, faced a mill
shortage because producers failed
to agree to a distributors contrac
and because pickets linee
the roads, turning back mill
trucks. Only six head of livestock
reached the stockyards.
Elsewhere in Iowa, North ant
South Dakota, Minnesota and Illi
nois, the farm strike" slowl,
gained momentum.
The street car riot in CLEVELAND
broke out when a passenger shout
ed:
1--WE won't pay fares. The cor
porations have stolen our money.
A free-for-all fight ensued IL
which three railway employees wer,
beaten.
Plans went forward for a march
Of $4,000 Illinois coal miners, pro
testing against a $1.10 a day wag'
cut under a new contract, to marcl
on mines in the southern part O
the state where fellow miners ar,
at work at the reduced scale. two
men have died from bullet wounds
many have been hurt and hundreds
have been threatened.
A mass meeting of telephone
subscribers was called at Hutchin.
son, Kans., to determine the> mex
move in their fight to force tn,
telephone company to lower rates
The telephone users insist on
reduction of 81 a month.
At Tiffin, Ohio, approximately
5000 Seneca county taxpayer
on the county court house
demanding immediate reductions o.
salaries and merging of certain Of
fices. Farmers left their fields ant
closed their stores Il
join the marchers.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
AMELIA MUST PAY

LOS ANGELES, Aug. %. U,P)-
Amelia Earhart Putnam, famous
woman flyer, today was ordered to
pay an airplane repair bill in
CURED nine years ago.
A default judgment for the More
land Sales corporation for $275
plus $l6520 was entered against
Mrs. Putnam.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
AL Smith To Be
Outlook Editor

NEW YORK, Aug. %. U.P)-For-
mer Gov Alfred E. Smith has ac-
cepted the editorship of outlook
magazine, the New York World
Telegram said today.
The newspaper said Smith would
become editor with next months
issue and formal announcement
to that effect would be made later
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
AKRON DAMAGED

LAKEHURST, N. j., Aug. %.
U.P)-A few structural members in
the stern lower fin of the naval di-
rigible Akron were damaged last
night as the airship was taken
from the hangar for a training
flight, it was learned today. The
craft was returned to the hangar
for examination and repair.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
AvIAT AT|ON
WING
R Ev|vAL
Two Planes Leave In At
tempted Race Over At
lantic Ocean.
OTHERS ALSO ACTIVE
Captain MOllisOn Like
ly To Start Home Trip
Tomorrow.
BY United Press

The North Atlantic, already
crossed by airplanes at Least a
score of times, today drew fur
ther aeronautic endeavor with
the possibility of a race over
the hazardous course.
Thor Solberg and Carl Peter
sen Left New York for HarbOr
Grace, N. F., where they will
take off for Oslo, Norway. A
few hours later Clyde Lee and
John BOchkon left Barre, VT,
also for Harbor Grace where
they will start to Oslo. There
was a possibility the two craft
might race over the course for
the honor of the first arrival
in the Norwegian capital.
The Hutchinson family
George, wife and two children
left New York for st. John, N.
b., on a Leisurely trans-Atlan-
tic crossing to London. They
plan stops in Iceland and
Greenland.
Capt. James A. MOllison, who
last week flew from Ireland 20
New Brunswick. was in New
York preparing to fly back to
England. He hopes to get
away this week. Also in New
York, Ruth Nichols was prepar-
ing her new plane for a "long
distance" flight. the destination
unreveaied.
Captain Wolfgang Won Gronau
Who recently made his third Nortl
Atlantic crossing via Iceland anl
waited at Juneau, Alas
"a, for clearing weather to permi
lin to continue across the Pacific
Also on the west coast was Amelia
who twice has flown tn,
once sclo, now preparing
or fast transcontinental dasl
rom Los Angeles.
Cleveland, o., fast was becoming
he aviation center of the natiol
n the eve of the national air races
Two groups of racers now are en-
cute to Cleveland. One group lef
Ga, today for Birming
lam, Ala. Another left Ell Paso
Tex, for Lubbock, Tex.
Mrs. Louise Thaden and Mrs
frances Marsalis, who landed yes
erday at the Valley Stream, L. 1.
irport after establishing a new
endurance record of 19'
lours and five minutes, rested to-
lay preparatory to going to Cleve'
and in their record breaking plane
FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT
JEW YORK, Aug. %. U.H)-Twc
of the vikings of ole
ook off at daybreak today on al
erial journey intended to retrac'
he route of the Norsemen across
he Atlantic ocean.
Thor Solberg, an old time motor
ycle racer, and Carl Petersen, wht
vas with Byrd in the Antarctic
ct Harbor Grace, Neb., as theil
irst and only stop on their pro-
ected flight to Oslo where Sol
erg's bride of a year awaits him
Their Bellanca Sesqui plane tool
IF at 4:43 a. m. heading directly
or Harbor Grace.
Solberg was at the controls al
he plane lifted after a $500 foo
un.
He told the United Press he eX.
ected to take 10 hours to reacr
Iarbor Grace, stopping only for re-
ueling. They plan an immediate
akeoff across the Atlantic.
They expect to follow the Great
,ircle route to Scotland, then heac
asst to Oslo. Solbery estimated he
rould reach Oslo within "a hours
n
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23
BY T. w. INGOLDSBY
limited Press Staff Correspond

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 23.-Federal
intervention in the farmers strike
appeared as a possibility today
after 300 men stopped a freight
train at Emerson, Neb.
A car of cattle consigned TO the
Sioux City livestock market was
unloaded and turned loose along
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-23

Continued On Page 81
Milford chronicle., 1932-02-19
I'hiptu
One
Years
Ago
Taken From February, 1901,
Files OF Milford Chronicle

DR.. and Mrs. Frank L. Grier en-
tertained a number of their friends
Monday night at progressive
Euchre Party. Those in attendance
were: Governor and Mrs. HUM and
daughter, Miss Williamson of Will
mlngton, Miss Sadie Goodwin of Bal
timore, Samuel H. Baynard of Will
mington, Mr.. and Mrs. George H.
Hall, Dr.. J. G. Stanton and wife,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Richards. DR..
George W. Marshall and wife, DR..
G. Layton Grier and wife, Mr.. Harry
l.. Grier and wife, DR.. J. Lynn Pratt,
and wife, George H. Baynum and
wife, Charles G.. Prettyman and wife,
Mrs. John S. Abbott, Mrs. Hynson,
Misses Mary. Anna and Lucy Hall,
Linda and Maria Draper, Edna Bar
ker, Annie Radcliff, Maria Causey,
Lizzie Collins, Mary Hall and Miss
Caulk, of Camden, Delaware; DR..
John Prettyman, DonneL Marshall,
Trusten P. Causey, Peter F. Causey,
Jr., Daniel G. Collins, DR.. Walter
Grier, VIM. V. Sipple, Jr., VIM. T.
Watson, Jr. and John Holland.
Prizes were awarded as follows:
First lady's prize, Miss Lucy Hall;
second ladys prize, Miss Anna
Hall; BOBBY lady's prize, Mrs. Frank
Richards; first gentleman's prize,
DR.. ]. L. Pratt; second gentleman's
prize, George H. Baynum; BOBBY
prize for men, D. G. Collins.
Milford chronicle., 1932-02-19
MILFORD CLUB LUNCHEON

The Milford New Century Club
celebrated it's 34th anniversary at
the Windsor Hotel, Monday, Feb
18th, with many out of town guests
attending. The state officers and
club presidents followed by the men,
bers and their guests entered the
beautifully decorated diningroOm to
music furnished by the high school
orchestra under the direction of
Prof. Hudson. The luncheon took
the form of Valentine birthday
party and the room was decorated
with hearts, red candles and flowers.
The blessing was sung by the club
chorus. Luncheon followed imme-
diately, interspersed with orchestra,
violin and vocal numbers.
Welcome was given by the presi-
dent, Mrs. w. X. Barrett, and rath-
er unique program was offered,
known as vanishing Speakers.
Mrs. A. D. Warner, Sr., was toast
master, and with an original poem
presented DR.. Dalema Draper, the
State president. The speakers fol-
lowing were Mrs. VIM. H. Beacon,
Mrs. Clarence Fraim, Mrs. John III.
McCabe, Mrs. Beniah Watson, Mrs.
w. A. Covey, and Mrs. Robert E.
Lewis, each in turn presenting their
before vanishing. The
program ended with two vocal num-
bers given by Mrs. Harry Stewart, of
Elliott City, Md, accompanied at the
piano by Mrs. e. T.. Hurley. Mrs.
numbers were "Out of the
Dusk to You" and "a Perfect Day..