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or or a a a a a a a a Good Evening The fellow who does not need boss is usually the man who is selected to be one. VOL. 121 Today Still Growing. Los Angeles. Fit at 50? Why Not at 100? Garbo Talks.

Only $150,000 a Year? By Arthur Brisbane Copyright, 1929, King Features Inc. LOS ANGELES, Jan. Angeles, stretching from the mountains toward the east, to the great seaport on Pacific, continues to grow and feel happy. A proud native son talking by telephone to a friend in New York says first of all, "I am sorry for you. The sun shining so bright here, it puts your eyes out." And that is hardly an exaggeration.

Children with bare legs and bare arms play and grow in the warm air, all through the winter. No wonder they produce Californians like Helen Wills. California has a "Fit at Fifty" club, which politely sends you an honorary membership and says it is endorsed by the governor of the state. California and every other state should have a "Fit at One Hundred" club. In this country fifty should be only the beginning of fitness, and hard work.

What ships are to the Clyde, packing houses to Chicago, big banks to New York, and fat goose livers to Strassburg, moving pictures are to this Hollywood land. The two biggest billboards read. "Garbo Talks." They don't even mention the lady's first name, which is Greta. And "at last the voice of voices, Norma Talmadge." Two ladies, Bernhardt and Duse, might spurs that, but they are dead. Y.orma Talmadge is much alive.

A lady stockholder in the Fox Film company complains that "William" Fox pa'd himself a salary of $150,000. If that's true Mr. Fox, like a distinguished servant of the East Indian company, must be amazed at his own moderation. One company that he controls pays each of two managers three times $150,000. And moving picture stars hired by him get $150,000 for one picture.

Even humble newspaper employes get more than that modest $150,000 salary. It isn't what you are paid, but what you produce, that counts. Charley Chaplin has not made up his mind about the "talkies" although friends assure him that he would talk as well as he walks. He will come to the microphone in time. Meanwhile he wants to give up comedy and play Napoleon, Hamlet and Svengali.

Chaplin is a genius and would play the parts well. But to ninety-nine out of one hundred it would be Svangali, Hamlet and Napoleon playing Charley Chaplin. Millions that are vague about Napoleon know Chaplin and would recognize him in any disguise. The printer or telegraphers caused this column to say yesterday in the Los Angeles Examiner, and others papers perhaps "five hundred pounds of water are needed to produce a ton of alfalfa." Production of one pound of alfalfa requires five hundred pounds of water. Under irrigation a ton of alfalfa requires one million pounds of water.

Los Angeles would like you to know that in manufacture of automobile tires, it is now the second city in the industry in America. All great eastern industries will eventually establish branches here as the United States Steel company has done and, gradually, the Pacific branch will outgrow the Atlantic headquarters. Half the water power in America goes to waste in this big ocean. Industry will harness all that and use the water for irrigation after (Continued from Page 2-B) INCE UPON A TIME EFF Harrison Williams, called the greatest present da power in the utilities world, whose fortune is estimated at 50 0.000,000. was a failure AS a bicycle manufacturer in Elyria.

0. That was 25 years Visalia VISALIA, Times-Delta TULARE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930 AMNESIA VICTIM WRECKS ROMANCE NEA Left waiting on two different occasions set for their wedding, Edna Sattler of Los Angeles has asked police to ascertain if James Elliott, the prospective bridegroom, is really a victim of amnesia. Elliott claims his mind was a blank on both occasions. Aid Asked To Get Byrd Out of Danger WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.

(LP) -The state department has requested, through the Norwegian government, that assistance be given Kear Admiral Kichara E. Byrd, whose departure from his base in Antarctica is being hampered by pack ice to the north of his position. JURY SEES BAD BABIES, ACQUITS ALL OF PLAYERS "Burlesque" Declares Grand Jury Starting New Probe SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23. (LP) -Shakespeare may have been right -the play's the thing but the San Francisco county grand jury has labeled the police court trial of "Bad Babies" as a burlesque and plan investigation, it was revealed today.

The Bard of Avon was quoted, the pretty actresses. the and juvenile. the production, "Bad Babies." in Police Judge Sylvain Lazarus' court late yesterday. The jury of ten men and two women saw the show for nothing, and acquitted the cast. director and producer of charges of presenting an immoral and indecent show.

Wesley Barr. former boy motion picture star, was one of the cast on trial and went through his lines and "emoted" for the judge and jury just as if he were on the stage. John P. Murphy, foreman of the grand jury, and members of the morals committee of that august body, witnessed the trial. declared that it was "a burlesque" and stated that the morals committee of the grand jury had witnessed the show at the Capitol theater and reported "If a show isn't good for Los adversely on it.

Angeles it certainly isn't good enough for San Francisco," Mursaid. He plans to confer with phy District Attorney Attorney Matt Brady today. SARAZEN WINS GOLF TOURNEY Last Minute Assault Wins $10,000 For New Yorker AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico. Jan. 23.

(LP)-Gene Sarazen, dapper little golf professional from New York. won the $10,000 first prize in the first annual $25,000 Agua Caliente open tournament today by a marvelous last minute assault, final which 18 holes netted and him a a total 68 on of 295 for the 72-hole tourney. Horton Smith, Joplin, and Al Espinosa, Chicago, tied for second place scores of 297. The Dutra brothers, Lilin from Los Angeles, and Mortie, Tacoma, were tied for third place 298 and MacDonald Smith, Great Neck, L. was fourth with 299.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23. (LP) -Hazel Vallejo King, member of the famous Vallejo family, was in jail again today. Released from the county jail yesterday after serving a yeate for forging the name of a wealthy Fresno woman, Hazel was arrested by Alameda county deputy sheriffs on a charge of passing a worthless check for $14.73 on John W. WarI rall, Oakland druggist.

The Weather Generally with fogs tonight and Friday. Temperature below normal. Light, variable winds. Maximum yesterday ...58 Minimum last night ...32 SUFFERING HEAVY IN VINCENNES AS TEMPERATURES FAIL TO ABATE Sickness and Famine Reported From Many Sections AIRPLANE ONLY PRESENT AIDE Fears Felt for Safety Of Thousands Below Ice Jam VINCENNES, Jan. 23.

(LP)-The grief stricken folk of the flooded areas in Indiana and Illinois pinned their ebbing hopes of relief on the airplane today. Sub-zero weather, sickness and ice have added to the woes of the 2265 marooned families and the only means of receiving aid was through the air. A national guard airplane loaded with food, blankets and medicines, was scheduled to arrive here early today and drop its cargo in case it could not land in the food swept territory. Only faint hope existed today for the well being of the 85 rural district residents of Decker township, Knox county. The territory is under several feet of water and ice and nothing has been heard from the marooned folks for a week, When last heard from they were reported short of food and with the coming of cold weather it was feared sickness and starvation would overtake them.

Nine men, drawing hand sleds loaded with food and fuel, left Patoka yesterday for Gordon Hills, seven miles west, where twelve families have been isolated for days. Fear for their safety also has been expressed as they were reported running short of supplies a week ago. Twenty cases of pneumonia and influenza were reported in the Orville district at the junction of the Wabash and White rivers where Dr. E. F.

Small is working although short of medical supplies. Claypool Hills residents used their last food yesterday as the only store in the community passed out the last of its supplies. Other towns in downstate Indiana, including Vincennes, were threatened by an ice jam formed yesterday in the Wabash at Riverton. If the jam should break, Vincennes would be directly in the path of the flood. A report by H.

D. Williamson, national representative of the Red Cross, said there were 2265 families suffering from the floods in three Indiana and three Illinois counties. APPEAL ISSUED APPEAL ISSUED ROBINSON, Jan. 23. (LP)An appeal for relief of the flood(Continued on Page 6) HALT CHECK TRAIL WITH ARREST HERE A trail of bad checks extending from the eastern seaboard to California and lasting for the past 10 years, was broken yesterday with the arrest in this city of William Wolfe, taken in custody by Chief of Police H.

Davis when he attempted to sell a shotgun. Wolfe is said to have admitted to Police Officer Harold Hicks when he was questioned that he had served time in the federal prison at Leavenworth, had jumped his parole from Elmira penitentiary in New York and for the past eight years has issued bad checks in "nearly every city in the United States." He always used the same procedure, giving a check for some article of merchandise and then selling the article. He attempted to sell a new shotgun to Max Ish yesterday and Ish declined purchase the gun and then phoned Chief Davis. Wolfe was attempting to sell the gun in a local hardware store when arrested. The gun had been purchased with a fictitious check in Tulare and neither the dealer or Tulare police yet knew of Wolfe's operations when he was turned over to Tulare.

OPEN PROBE OF CUSTOM OFFICERS WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. (LP)-Assistant Secretary, of Treasury Lowman today the treasury has started an investigation into charges made against customs officials of 'the port of New York by James K. Shields, superintendent of the New Jersey Anti league. The treasury's action follows dispatch of formal charges yesterday to President Hoover by Shields, who is seeking to prevent reappointment of Arthur F.

Foran as comptroller of customs at New York. Shields accused Foran of serving liquor at his hunting lodge. SEEK CANEDO IN HILLS EAST FROM PORTE RVILLE IN BELIEF HE HIDES Police Believe Took Poison, But Was Only Made Ill WIFE RECOVERING, IT IS THOUGHT Visalian Who Stabbed Woman May Be in County With the discovery of a hunting knife and a small vial which had evidently contained strychnine in the Porterville cemetery yesterday, the search for Gabriel Canedo, 50, accused of attacktacking his wife, centered in the hills east of Porterville today. Mrs. Canedo, while in serious condition, still has a chance for recovery, according hospital attendants.

Her most serious injury and one which may prove fatal is a cut near her heart. She was cut in throat, in the side back, has severe alina then bites on the hand and face. Officers are of the opinion that Canedo, ill from an overdose of strychnine thought to have been taken in a suicide attempt, is hiding in the hills east of Porterville. Tire tracks from the cemetery would tend to show that he was headed for Springville. There are a number of side roads immediately east of the city, with hills and which would easily afford protection, according to Porterville officers.

Deputy Sheriffs Ben B. Gurr and Carl Ensign were assisting Porterville police officers in searching the hills to the east of Porterville, while Deputy District Attorney Leslie Cleary was investigating matters here. Visalia police, under the direction of Officer Harold Hicks watched the Canedo home on North street and the residence Mrs. Rosie Herrera on Fast, South Court street list night in case Canedo should attempt to return to this city. Premeditated Evidence that he had planned to kill his wife and then commit suicide was brought to light today, according to Deputy District Attorney Leslie A.

Cleary, who found that the accused man had purchased a vial of strychnine in a local drug store on the night of the attack. He then went to Porterville, where he waited near the Mt. Whitney hospitall in his car until Mrs. Canedo returned from Strathmore, where she had spent the evening. After talking with her for a few minutes, and following an argu(Continued on Page 2) CHACO DISPUTE PRESENTS HARD LEAGUE PROBLEM By HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan.

23. (LP) It is considered most probably in League of Nations circles here that the latest clash in the disputed Chaco region will finally force Bolivia and Paraguay to agree to a method of settlement while publicly insisting on their respective desires for peace and a pacific settlement constitutes, according to league observers, the kernel of the entire problem. Bolivia has declared she will accept a Hague court settlement of the entire frontier problem, while Paraguay has given wholehearted acceptance of a settlement by the United States, Mexico, Uruguay, Cuba and Colombia. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.

(LP)The Laredo, Texas airdrome and the San Diego municipal airport were designated as temporary international airports of entry by the treasury today pending increased facilities at the fields to make them first class ports Boulder Dam Conference Unable To Reach Any Agreement, Report DENVER-SALT LAKE LINE TO BE BOUGHT IN ON NEW DEAL Burlington Viewed as Possible Purchaser of Road NEW YORK. Jan. 23. (LP)-Purchase of controlling stock in the Denver Salt Lake railroad, by interests thus far unidentified by Wall street, may be the opening in the creation of a new transcontinental rail line. in the opinion of New York financiers.

The Denver Salt Lake is sole lessee of the Moffat tunnel, beneath the Great Divide, which -if connected to a through linewould materially shorten the distance to Salt Lake City. Three possible purchasers of the Moffat road have been associated, hitherto, with speculative attempts to make this line a connecting link of their systems. First is the Denver Rio Grande Western, which runs to the south by the way of the Royal Gorge and Tennessee Pass, second is the Burlington of the north and third is the Rock Island. Of these, the Rio Grande Western has announced that it ts neither the purchaser of stock in the Moffat road, nor does it contemplate asking for the right to assume control of the line. The Burlington is view here as the most logical prospective buyer.

FIRST WOMAN U. S. SENATOR NEAR DEATH ATLANTA, Jan. 23. (LP)Fear for the life of Mrs.

Rebecca Latimer Felton, 94-year-old former U. S. senator, was felt here today with the report from Davis-Fischer sanitarium that her condition continued "very serious." She spent "a very comfortable night," it was said, and at 7:15 a. was unconsicous. The aged woman, only member of her sex ever to sit in the upper house of congress, is suffering from bronchial pneumonia contracted more than a week ago.

Quake Recorded. In the Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23. (LP) -An earthquake last night which centered in the San Francisco bay region was recorded on the seismograph at the University of California at Berkeley. The tremor was so slight that another seismograph at the University of Santa Clara, a short distance south of San Francisco, failed to register the shake as anything more than a local disturbance.

RENO, Jan. 23. (LP)-With no new developments in the Boulder dam conference now under way here, William J. Donovan, representative of Secretary of Interior Wilbur in the parley, announced today that when he feels there is "common ground for discussion" he will call all representatives into general conference. Donovan, acting as chairman for the gathering of delegates from Colorado river basin states seeking an agreement on allotment of power and water from the dam project, has arranged press conferences twice daily, at noon and at 5 p.

in which developments of group conferences will announced. Following meeting with California and Arizone commissions yesteruay, Donovan announced there were no new developments, and issued a warning to the conference members that upon their deliberations rests the immediate fate of the dam project. One Filipino Dead At Watsonville As Rioting Continues Five Hundred Whites Storm Filipino Residences In Renewed Effort to Drive "Islanders" Out of the District WATSONVILLE. Jan. 23.

(LP)-The race riots between whites and Filipinos in this vicinity today had cost the life of one Filipino. Fermin Tobera, 22, was found dead in bed in a bunkhouse on the John Murphy it ranch, six miles from, here, last a bullet when through band his. heart. Tobera, was believed, was night a dentified men fired a volley of shots from rifles and shotguns through the walls of the bunkhouse, where 12 Filipinos were housed. WATSONVILLE, Jan.

23. (LP)-Fresh race riots between whites and Filipinos broke out here today following the sensational riots of last night and one Filipino was reported found dead. Sheriff Carl H. Abbott of to the scene with deputies and county was called on for aid. The battle last night was start-1 ed by a single shot fired into a crowd of whites from a Filipino residence, it was learned today.

Locce Paddon, brother of William Paddon, owner of the Monterey Filipino club, refused, point blank, to close up the club where white girls are kept AS Filipino entertainers. He told Sheriff Nick Sinnott that he would not close the place. All but four of the original group of 12 girls have left the place MANY BEATEN WATSONVILLE, Jan. 23. (LP)Race riots between whites and Filipinos in the Pajaro valley assumed the proportions of a miniature revolution last night.

Scores of Filipinos were beaten, some seriously, when a wellorganized mob of about 500 whites stormed Filipino residence "hideouts." Intervention of hastily summoned sheriff's offciers, state traffic officers and police from nearby cities was all that prevented the whites from seriously injuring the Filipinos. Hatred of the Filipinos because of labor difficulties fanned to flames of violence by their rela(Continued on Page 2) $59,000,000 FOR FARM RELIEF IS GIVEN BY BOARD Totals Thus Far Advanced Checked by United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. (LP)Loans totaling $59,740.000 to various farm cooperative associations have been authorized by the Federal Farm Board during its first six months of operation, according to statistics compiled for the United Press today. Advances of $23.470.0000 have been approved for cotton cooperatives, $10.440.000 for grain associations.

$11.300,000 for livestock organizations and $13,000,080 for fruit, dairy, raisin growers. honey producers, rice and other cooperatives. Money to be advanced for commodity activities amounts to 085.000 while $9.055.000 was allocated to cooperatives for purchasing new facilities or expanding their present facilities. The board started its work July 15, 1929, with a fund of 000 to make advances to farmer cooperatives. As soon as this reserve is exhausted Congress has authorized an additional 000 for farm relief work.

Suit Against Insurance Co. Opens Today Suit for collection of $2500 in life insurance opened in department one of superior court today in the case of Mary M. Graham, administratrix of the estate of Everett E. West, deceased, vs. the National Casualty company.

West was killed early on the morning of February 8, 1929, when he came into contact with an 11.000-volt power line after an automobile wreck on the Porterville-Lindsay road. Loraine Warren, 22, of Tulare, and Miss Grace Chatfield, school teacher then living in Strathmore, were in the party and testified at the trial this The hit morninwer pole and car West was electrocuted as he was getting out of the car, according to Chatfield's story. Warren's story tends to show that West was completely out of the machine when he touched the wire. Payment of the insurance will apparently depend upon whether or not his death came about as a direct consequence of the wreck. BUSINESS MEN CONFER WASHINGTON, Jan.

23. (LP)The nation's leaders in business and finance including the heads of a dozen national corporations. met with President Hoover today to discuss the business situation resulting from the recent stock market crash, NAVAL CONFEREES STATE POSITIONS IN FIRST FORMAL MEET IN LONDON General Tone of Initial Statements Held Promising STIMSON WANTS PARITY ONLY Conferences on Details Bring an Early Recess Monterey county was reported hurrying Sheriff Nick Sinnott of Santa Cruz Vicious Dog Prevents Rescue As Horses Burn NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 23. (LP) Fourteen thoroughbred race horses were burned to death, and two stable hands were badly burned, in a fire which destroyed two stables at fair grounds race track, today.

A vicious dog, stationed at one of the barns occupied by horses of Joseph Leiter, Chicago grain millionaire, in Its attempt to protect its master's property, was held race men to have been responsible for the death of several of the prize animals. MATHER PASSES IN EAST AFTER LONG ILLNESS Well Known Park Enthusiast Dies; Friend of Sequioa Information was received in Visalia today relating the death of Stephen T. Mather. former director of the National Park Service, who died yesterday at the Corey Hill hospital, Brookline, Mass. Mather, who is well-known to many Visalians, took more than passing interest in Sequoia National Park.

During his period as park administrator from 1917 until last year, Mather spent thousands of dollars of his own money, developing Sequoia National Park friends said was his favorite park. One of his last acts in behalf of the park was the purchase of privately owned lands within the park boundaries and this territory has been turned over to the park. Mather was born in San Francisco, July 4, 1867 and graduated from the University of California in 1887. He was a member of the New York Sun staff until 1893 when he became associated with the Pacific Coast Borax company and was later made Chicago manager of the company until 1903. He became vice-president of the Thorklidsen-Mather and the Sterling Borax company and president of the Brighton Chemical company of Pennsylvania.

Mather served AS assistant to the secretary of the interior from January 1915 until March 1917. On May 16 he was made director of the national park service but retired in January of last year because of ill health. He left Washington to go family summer home at Darien, Connecticut to reside and recovered sufficiently to go to the pital for treatment but A heart stroke several months ago, followed by another attack resulted in his death. He is survived by the widow and a daughter. WEST COAST MAN KILLED (Specia Ito Times-Delta7 BAKERSFIELD, Jan.

Forbes, superintendent of construction for Fox-West Coast theatres, was killed here about 8 o'clock this morning the car in which he was riding swerved from the highway near Tejon pass and crashed into a tree. Chester Buckley another official driving the car, failed to see another machine approaching and, rather than face a head-on collision. turned his machine off the road. He was not badly hurt. Both men were en route to Visalia to discuss completion of the new theater there when the accident occurred.

BANQUET POISONING HELD LOCAL ORIGIN SACRAMENTO, Jan 23 (LP) -Health offic.als today deciared the poisonina of 40 persons, mostly women, at a dinner here Monday night of the Companions of the Forest, due to bacterial toxin. LONDON, Jan. 23. (LP)The five powers at the London naval conference today were invited in effect by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson to attempt not merely limitation but a general reduction of navies.

He expressed the willingness of the United States to reduce its navy if the others do likewise. The United States plenipotentiary made his declaration at the first business session of the conference in 3t. James palace. at which the chief delegate of each nation presented his country's naval views in general terms. Stimson's declaration, while cific utterance of He brief, was probably the most spemade no statement of American naval, requirements, stressing merely that equality with Great Britain was an understood principle.

He then said national defense requirements of the various nations and relative and added the significant statement, "and therefore if this conference can find a way by which a general reduction can be secured our own navy can likewise be reduced." The session was private, and digest of the vents was given to the press after the meeting. "It was most interesting, most informing and most friendly," Prime Minister MacDonald told the press in reporting on the session. "The business was a report of the naval needs of ouch country, not in terms of naval strengths but in terms of geographical position and political responsibility. "There were no hostile questions of one delegation to another." Adjourns After electing Sir Maurice Hankey as secretary-general and going all of the to the through formality, of nampermanent committee of a whole, the conference was adjourned until next week. Separate conversations were resumed in the afternoon and the negotiations which have been under way privately all week will be continued.

The five chief delegates will meet at 4 p. m. to consider further procedure, MacDonald' announced. He explained that the (Continued on Page 2) ANNUAL MEETING OF COMMERCIAL CLUB IS PLANNED FOR FEB. 13 Planning for the annual meeting of the organization, the Visalia Commercial club at its session today, named a committee to nominate officers for the LOW President L.

C. Berkshire, who succeeds L. R. Brown, resigned, for the balance of the year, named Isaac Clark, Geo. Williams and H.

C. Locey as a nominating committee. The annual meeting will be held in the evening on February 13. Late Wire Briefs SHANGHAI, Jan. 23.

(LP)-Massed huts of Shanghai's beggar colony were swept by fire today. Loss of life was not estimated. Over 1,500 were homeless. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 23.

(LP)-Governor Young today announced the reappointment of Fred G. Athearn of Berkeley as state corporation commissioner, succeeding Arthur H. Garland, resigned. WASHINGTON. Jan.

23. (LP)The new $250.000 postoffice at Sacramento, will be located on the block bounded by Eighth and Ninth and and I streets. the treasury announced today. The property will be purchased from Leonard Co. WASHINGTON, Jan.

23. (LP)The merits of prohibition will not be considered in the hearings on the proposed transfer of enforce ment activities from the treasury to the justice department, the House expenditures committee decided today in executive session. DETROIT. Jan. 23.

(LP)-While Walter Grunts 27, lay seriously wounded in a Wyandotte hospital today from gunshot wounds. Clea Hopper, custom guard, who admitted the shooting, was held pending investigation..