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Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

to submit the wage dispute to an
impartial committee.
Mayor Frank L. Shaw, acting as
peace-maker, was hopeful the arm
istice would be signed by noon.
The agreement represented a re-
cession of both factions. Strike
leaders had held out for arbitra-
ton by the regional labor board
The company insisted the controV-
ersy be submitted TO the state rail-
road commission. Shaw s proposal
that each side name an accountant
and agree on an engineer to serve
on the committee was accepted, the
union specifying as a condition that
all strikers be reinstated. Company
officials promised an answer on this
term at II a. m.
Despite the progress toward
peace, guerilla warfare continued.
A mass outbreak occurred in the
heart of the downtown district last
night that was not quelled until
riot squads used tear gas.
The riot continued for more than
A dozen nen were dubbed into
submission. Tear gas fumes filled
the streets. A policeman was
trampled by the mob when he tried
to arrest a suspected plckpocet
whom the rioters believed was a
striker.
The disturbance started wnen a
gang assembled at Seventh and
Broadway, busiest downtown inter-
section, and jerked the trolley off
the first street car that approach
ed. When the second car moved
into the intersection from an op-
posite direction, the action was re-
peated. Airbrakes we're disconnect-
ed and the control boxes dismant-
led, stalling the cars.
Approximately an hour and a
half after the disturbance started,
the situation was controlled and
traffic untangled.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
IDENTITY OF
THREE GIRLS
Still. HIDDEN
Authorities Report Case At
Standstill As Numerous Leads
Produce No Results.
CALIFORNIAN ELIMINATED
Travelling Minister'S Car First
Believed Connecting Link In
Strange Tragedy.

CARLISLE, Pa, Nov. 81. U.R)-
The mystery of the "babes in the
woods deepened today as one of
the greatest missing persons hunts
CT many years spread throughout
the United StateS-Without yielding
a definite hint to the identity Of
three young girls found dead on a
Pennsylvania mountainside.
Police throughout the east and
in states as far away as California
received countless leads in the
case. Virtually every one of them
collapsed when put to the test.
Almost every hour brought an
other message suggesting a clue to
the mystery but, in the end, serving
only to tangle further the puzzle of
where the children came from, VINO
they are, how and why they were
killed and who tucked them so
tenderly beneath a blanket in the
woodland of the South Mountains
near here. ....- .-....,..-
One line of investigation which
still remained involved the attempt
VI LdlIy Sai IlGi, IllllGuClpllld Wal
veteran, to link the children with
the apparent murder and suicide cf
a woman and man near Altoona
last week. Carney saw Horace
Hughes in Philadelphia last Mon
day. Three girls, who he believes
were the "babes in the woods -
and young woman were with him.
Carr, is now enroute to Altoona
in an effort to determine whether
Hughes was the man III the mur-
der-suicice pact
Early Lead Fails
The leads which collapsed today
included tentative Identification by
Emmett Hamilton, Cleveland, O.,
who mas been separated for three
years from his wife and children
He viewed the bodies and said he
believed they might be his daugh-
terS.
Shortly thereafter, however, his
wife was found in Philadelphia and
said the children were safe.
Another suggestion by an Ohio
woman that the children were the
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
Mrs. Lindbergh's
Sister Improving

PASADENA, Nov. 81. U,P)-Ndrs
Aubrey Morrow Morgan, sister ct
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and
daughter of the late Senator Dwight
w. Morrow, was reported slightly
improved today at Pasadena hos
pital where she is confined with
pneumonia.
Although her condition remains
serious, hospital attaches said g
was showing signs of recovery. Her
mother arrived here by plane to be
at her bedside.
Mrs. Morgan was stricken with
pneumonia after undergoing an ap-
pendectomy.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
SEEK BANKHEAD ACT EXCLUSION
District Board VIII Ask Swing To Present
Valleys Claim.

able a different basis for acreage
to be used here.
Swing met with the board here
yesterday and expects to leave for
Washington. d. c., within a few
days as special district representa-
tive at the coming session of con-
gress. He will attempt to secure
larger quota OF force account
work on the All-American canal;
will represent the district on mat
ters relating to the Arizona suit for
division of the Colorado river wat
er; also in connection with the pro-
pcsed treaty to be entered into be-
tween the United States and Mex
leo on this same question and fin
ally on matters pertaining to the
proposed power Setup In the valley
following the completion OF the
canal.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

Promising to assist as much as
possible to obtain further funds for
force account work on the Al-Am
crican canal, Clarence Lea, Of Son
oma, representative in congress
from the first California district
highly praised the work now being
done on the canal in the course of
a visit here yesterday afternoon,
Lea, who has been in congress for
the past IS years has long been re
cCgni2ed as a friend OF Imperial
Valleys Colorado river legislation.
In September Captain w. N. Gun
ningham, local federai labor repre-
sentative met Lea in Sonoma and
they discussed the canal project
from many angles. When Lea stated
that he intended tC proceed to
Washington D. c., by automobile
Tor the coming session of congress,
it was suggested to him by H. f.
Walker, Of the national reemploy-
mant service in Sonoma that he
ehcult. 5islt Cnan Livings.on. mana
ger Of the local office in order that
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

Phil D. Swing viii be asked by
the irrigation district board of di-
rectors to endeavor to secure the
exemption OF Imperial county from
the terms of the Bankhead Act
relative to cotton crops here, ac
cording to a proposition approved
by the board this morning. This
act prohibits the planting of new
acreage of cotton due to present
economic conditions.
It is pointed cut that cotton
raised in the period from 1928 TO
1888 forms the basis for establish
ing the amount OF cotton TO be
raised in cotton growing areas. n
imperial Valley very little cotton
was grown in this period and it IS
not considered a fair basis on which
to set future acreage Exclusion
from the Bankhead Act would en-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
Coffee Company
Head Ends Life

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27. U.P)
Reuben W Hill 70, president OF
Hills Bros. Coffee company, shot
himself to death at his home here
today, police reported.
A nurse, Miss La Veyn Steffron,
found his body, slunped in the
bathroom, a colt revolver in his
hapd. He had SHOT himself through
the mouth.
Hills had been despondent be
cause Of i'll health, police said. He
had been suffering from asthma.
The nurse had been caring for
him since the death of his wife.
Hills Brothers is enc of the larg
est coffee concerns in the west.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
Cartaloupe Field
Wage Scale Set

Workers employed in covering
cantaloupeS this season will be paid
wages of $3.50 and $2.75 per $1,000
covers, according to arrangements
entered into at meeting held here
last night. This was at the Barba-
IA Worth hotel with Elmer Sears
presiding Representatives of coun-
ty growers, shippers, Joaquin Ter
razas, Mexican consul in CaleXico,
as we'll as from the Mexican unions
in the different valley cities attend
ed.
This price is a decided boost over
the wages paid last season when
cantaloupe coverers were paid $2.10
per $1,000 covers, it was said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
STUDENTS BURNED

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27. U.P) -
Five Los Angeles junior college
chemistry students and their in
structor, who were burned when a
five-gallon jug of concentrated sui
phuric acid crashed TO the labora-
tory floor, received hospital treat
ment today. ALI were burned about
the legs or arms, two severely.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
AWllL
EVRol'et;ERs Rl't;
w 'S0yS:

BEVERLY HILLS, Nov. 26
(SpeciaD-Well sir, guess VINO
showed up out here yesterday.
it wasn't a soul but my coed old
friend Pat Hurley, secretary of
war. He seemed awful pleased
that I remembered him. You
know, there is one thing about
these Republicans. If you are
just the least bit nice to 'cm, or
show 'em the least little cour-
teSy why they are awfully ap-
preciative.
They know they didn't Go
right, but they are repentive now,
and I just haven t got the heart
to not speak to 'em. Pat told
me what their big mistake was
in the last two campaigns.
VIII, we went on the theory
that Barnum was wrong, and
that one WASH 7 born every min
ute. But now we see our mis-
take
Yours,
MGs Ro7~~N
0lVsi AsNsusht Syndicate IRs
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
7 WO DIE: AS
TANK TRUCK
HITS HOUSE
Regular Driver Admits Hitch
Hiker Was AT Wheel Prior To
Tragic Accident.

WICKENBuRG, Ariz., Nov. 81
UP)-A man and his wife were
burned to death and five people suf-
tered injuries early today when a
heavily loaded gasoline truck and
trailer AN wild nd crashed
through a rooming house, exploded
and burned four buildings before
being brought under control
The dead
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A Davis, who
were crushed in their beds by the
heavy truck as it crashed through
their dwelling.
The injured:
E. D. Doyle, Al, Huntington Park,
Calf, truck driver, severed finger,
severe cuts, bruises and burns about
the read and arms and suffering
from shock.
Prank Bartee relief telegraph op-
orator at the railroad station, slight
burns about body and face.
Russell johnson, scratches and
burns received when blown through
the side of the building by the ex-
plosion.
Jack Owings, 60, night marshal,
burned about head and shoulders.
Donald Davis, %, son of the dead
couple, severe burns about head
arms and legs, and cuts and bruises
WICKENBURG, Ariz., Nov. 81
| (U.R)-TWo persons were reported
burned TO death and six others suf-
fered severe injuries when a truck
and trailer loaded with 5000 gallons
of gasoline crashed into a rooming
house here early this morning, ex-
ploded and burned.
The rooming house belonged to
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Davis, who were
believed to have burned to death
in the fire that destroyed the build
ing. The truck was driven by Ed
Doyle. of Phoenix, who suffered
serious cuts and bruises and an un-
identified man, injured when he at
tempted to rescue people living in
the rooming house.
The accident happened W'nen
Doyle, who had left Los Angeles
yesterday, picked up ch-hiker,
whom he had allowed TO drive the
truck, according to hospital attend
ants.
"All can remember" Doyle is
reported to have told attendants, "is
that the young fellow picked up
was driving. He awakened me from
sound sleep screaming, Il can't
hod the brakes"
When 1 came to he had jumped
rom the truck just as we were com,
ing down a slight railroad grade
crossing. I grabbed for the wheel,
but it was too late. The truck kept
going straight ahead instead Of
making the turn and we crashed
into the house. Then The fire broke
out"
Doyle was near collapse from
shock and the strain and horror Of
/ the accident.
The fire spread rapidly through
the Davis rooming house and the
small building where young Davis
was sleeping. From here it spread
to the Ellis lodging house which
was destroyed along with another
small building.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
DISTRICT DECIDES TO END WATER PROBATION
Ali Clues Collapse In PennsyIvania SIaying Case
Ihey're Real HOneyrnOoners Now

ne screens
newest
ne RgyWeds
are
niger Rogers
and
Lew AyreS,
welded in
Hollywood's
title Church
of the
Flowers
in a
ceremony
hat brought
out a
colorful
sprinkling of
film stars.
Their
romance
began more
IlldH d ySdl
ago on the
exciting
night of the
earthquake
that rocked
southern
California.
Il
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

all. This is glacial lake and on it's bed there is approximately 10 feet of slmes the concentrates of which run $500 per ton.' We further learn
 that this vast treasure trove is located seven miles from Wndham Bay on the ledge which the Alaska Juneau Mining Company is located"
 We don't know MT. Dennis Arnold Curtis, local resident who with two companions staked the lake and endeavoring to interest capital to explore the prospect explodes most of his extravagant claims. There is no such thing shines running $l 800 to the ton, according to Curtis. Since Dennis is offering stock for sale to the general public haps the authorities of the State of Washington under which the company is supposed to have been incorporated, will be interested enough to look him up and investigate his claims. The thing looks like sucker bait" Such fantastic promotion schemes hardly appeal to people with ample capital but frequently do trap the unwary and mulct the little fellow who ill afford small losses. If Dennis has what he claims he and his associates are to be congratulated. If he hasn't, there are laws made especially to fit such cases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE.

Recently Chehals, Wash, newspaper carried a display advertisement signed by Frank Dennis, Ta- coma, declaring that the famous lost rocker mine
 of Southeast Alaska has been rediscovered, and of ferng shares of stock in so-called mining company for sale to the general public Every mining country has legendary lost rocker mine of fabulous wealth and Alaska is no exception. If it has been found
 the discovery has been faithfully kept secret And if it relocated claimed by Dennis, the great wealth he claims it is known to contain would make it unnecessary for him or anyone selse to promise to the gullible a return of 1920 for their ST. He describes lake of ground gold quartz millions of tons of bearing sands running $1 per ton, and concentrates Sl68 after high grading" This isn't
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
TREND IN GOVERNMENT.

good deal of capital is being made of the fact that national political system is changing rapidly Political opponents of the Admnistra- ton led by Ogden L. Mills, former Secretary of Treasury and generally regarded a pos sble Republican candidate for President in 1886, points to the concentration of power in the White House and charge desertion of the Consti- uton. Commentators on politics look at the extra ordinary command the President holds the Federal Government and of dictatorship.
 Ie. it is all too easy to exaggerate these trends Mir Gene Howe, Texas newspaper editor, recently asserted, quoted by the Associated Press that MT Roosevelt ranks with Mussolin in the power hs yields, and ahead of Stalin and Hitler. He further declared that the members of the so-called brair trust do not exercise power, but essentially technical advisers, most of them yes-men His analysis seems to be less labored
 The President exercises great powers But these powers which are new to the Executive have beer yielded by Congress for limited time and they may be recovered whenever the Congress chooses The fact that the Legislature becoming reconcec to the loss of sundry powers is not of its weakness but rather recognition that many func- tions of government in emergency be better administered by the Executive rather than through the Legislature.
 Astute manipulation in politics is sometimes con fused with actual power. Much of President Roose vets strength lies in his uncanny knowledge O. when to concede point. His Administration ha been much a story of strategic retreats as O courageous advances and by these means he ha! maintained popularity and power. He has geniu for compromise that has seldom been equaed anc never excelled among his predecessors in the White House. But when his policies have been modified for reasons of political strategy the power really has been exercised by his opponents
 It would be well to take full measure of thes qualifications before reaching the. conclusion tha entering a regime of dictatorship, ever semi-dictatorship Our political order may be under going change, but not in the direction of one man ruler
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
2OO-INCH TELESCOPE ASSURED.

Casting the 2Oo-inch glass reflector for the largest telescope in the world has apparently been successful For time there was fear that the disk had been damaged during the early stages Of cooling after the dramatic casting last Spring But now word from Dr. J. c. Hostetter, director of research and development of the Corning Glass Works, and Dr. George V. McCauley, physicist in charge of the project that success is assured.
 Recently scientists made a preliminary examina- tion of the disk-it was cast March 23-and found that the annealing process, which requires eleven months of regulated temperature treatment in electrically heated cylindrical tank is taking place anticipated and that the disk is solidfying solid cake
 What we saw within the annealer,' Dr. Hostetter said lis proof not only that 200-nch telescope mirror is assured but that larger can be made successfully from the low expansion boro- silicate glass which have been using in the work" This opens fields of wonders to scientists through which knowledge of the universe will be broadened.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
ERSK|NE DROPS FEW POINTS BUT MAINTAINS LEAD.
Falls to .576 During Week Is Leader in Three
 Other Divisions

Claude Erskine during the past week dropped .76 points from his sensational batting average of .652, but he continued to head the City Leagues parade of pill-busters with a mark of .576, according to offi- cial figures released today by Ed. Mize, Official Scorer Diringer Vet backstop maintained his pace and had an average of .4S0 to give him second place.
 Ward McAlister, Vet infielder and pitcher, and Big Mac Mac Spadden, Elk first sacker and pitcher. made their appearance in the ''big ten" batters for the first time.
 Erskine Opens Honors
 In addition to heading the slug gers in points, Erskine tops it ir home runs, doubles, total bases and runs batted in. He has five four -baggers, to four for Diringei and McAlister. eight doubles, twice as many as Livingston and Novel; his nearest rivals, has hit for r bases and batted in IT runs.
 Garn, Elk short stop, has hit for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
~gg@ -o1ze41eZe1 af
 ROCKING HOUSE
 RY c AR0NM
BY WALTER (. sRoWN-

SYNOPSIS. Auhon6h Se7geanc Hurper has Droved thdt the sfrdn- ger aud fhe policeman fon,rd dead in Pierre DHfresue's house foere mHtdered mud did not kill edch other ds the epidence appeared to prOre. he cdn neither identiiU tue murdered strnnger nor ehoto hot0 fhe murderer escaped rom the house mithom fenpiit0 marks fn the snotn Dnfresue dlthon0h he has dn dppdreniiu nirti0ht 0fbi. has aroused Harpe,'s suspicton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
CHINA PIRATES ABANDON BOATS TAKE TO HILLS
Escape from U. s. and British Warships with
 Twenty Hostages

SHANGHAI, June 19.-The Chi nese brigands have abandoned their pirate junks in the Yellow River and fled into the hills with 26 human hostages, six of them Brit ish citizens including two Navy of ficers.
 The pirates landed their victims after racing United States and British warships started to pursue them.
 The pirates overpowered the pas sengers and crew of the British steamship Shuntien and took the 20 passengers as hostages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

a total of 67 bases for second in that division, with Diringer third 6l. J. Orme and McAlister are second in runs batted in with seven each, ten less than Erskine There are four others, not listed by Scorer Mize, who have batted in six runs.
 Few triples have been recorded Six men have hit one each.
 The Bit Ten" Hitters
 The Big Ten" hitters listed to- day by MiZe are.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
Anchorage Girl to
 Make Tour on Bike

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 19. Miss Jean Horning is sailing south to join Winnifred Hopkins in Seattle for e biking tour of Hol- land and Germany. She has been taking a post graduate course in the Alaska School of Mines,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
MRS. c. P. JENNIE TO VISIT
 SOUTH FOR TWO MONTHS

Mrs. c. P. Jenne took passage for the south on the steamer Alaska yesterday aftrnoon and will visit with pr. Jenne's mother, Mrs. T. H. White, at the latter's home Tn Coupeville, Washington, on Whidby Island for the next two months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

Wonder what become of that organization that paraded around in sheets and going to save the country from all the things that menaced it?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
MRS. ELSTAD RETURNS

Mrs. Bert Elstad will return to Juneau tonight on the Aleutian after a visit of several weeks in Petersburg and vicinity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

| Remodeling of the Malony- Cobb i office building and placing a new
 foundation under it began the pre- vious day. The building was to
 be converted into public library and reading room which was ex- pected to open within three weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
20 YEARS AGO
 From The Empire
JUNE 1s, 1914.

Frank Bach and Harry F. Mor- ton began taking the saloon cen- sus in Douglas and expected it to require about two days to complete the work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

MT. and Mrs. Victor H. Wilhelm left for a three weeks visit to Cor dova and Chitina. MT. Wilhelm expected to do some engineering work at Chitina.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

Miss Helen Smith and Buddy Smith, children of Territorial Treasurer and Mrs. Walstein C.. Smith, arrived home on the Ad- miral Evans from Tacoma where they had been attending school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
Help for Municipalities.
CNew York Herald Tribune.)

As was to be expected, there has been rush
 of cities and other local taxing bodies, such as
 was predicted in some quarters, to take advantage |of the municipalities bankruptcies act De-
 fault and composition with creditors reflect the credit of cities much that of individuals The
 prediction by critics of this that political pressure would force widespread repudiation never did sound well founded. Credit once impaired is not quickly recovered. There States that still paying in a somewhat higher rate of interest on
 their bonds for their refusal generations back to honor debt.
 Actually, this new law should help toward sound
 municipal finance, through making it possible to clear out of the remaining wreckage of the
 boom period. While it is doubtless true that large
 proportion of the volume of default by local gov-
 ernmental units is in the two States of Florida
 and Michigan, statements introduced into the debate on the bill in Congress showed that late last year taxing districts in default were scattered through
 pretty nearly all the States. In January it sad the districts in difficulty had to number more than two thousand So benefit from this law should be widespread
 It should not be forgotten that year or so ago Ia moratorium for municipal indebtedness was being
 seriously proposed What is provided is simply that for two years as emergency relief muni-
 cipalities other subdivisions of States drainage and irrigation districts and so on have the oppor- tunity in case of default to negotiate agreements with their creditors in such way as indi- viduals may do, With court approval Before it has
 been necessary to get unanimous of creditors for anything of the kind, in most cases an im- possibility This is another step toward adjusting the burden of indebtedness, of which so much has step toward recovery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

It IS said that tear gas manufacturers are shed Iding no tears the revival in demand for thei
 product.-(St Louis Globe -Democrat)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

We hope those duns to the debtor nations wer ranked It would be shame to waste the postage -tOhio State Journal)