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Leased Wire
TWENTY EIGHTH YEAR
HOOVER AM) CUTIS HEAD G. 0. P. TICKET
HIGHEST HONORS
GIVEN BY PARTY
TO TWO ORPHANS
SELECTION OF CURTIS TO BE
RUNNING-MATE MAY HELP IN
RESTORING GOOD -FEELING
By ItAYMOND CLAPPER
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
CONVENTION HALL, Kansas City, Mo., June
15.—Herbert Hoover of California, for president.
Charles Curtis, of Kansas, for vice president.
That is the Republican ticket for 1928—two men
who started as orphans at the bottom of life’s ladder
—one the child of an lowa blacksmith, the other a
little Indian jockey boy on the plains of Kansas.
Curtis was one of the anti-Hoover presidential
candidates and his selection for vice president there
fore tends to restore harmony between the factions.
This two orphans ticket is ideal to meet the ex
pected Democratic nomination of Governor Alfred
E. Smith, graduate of Fulton FCh Market.
Curtis is an administration regular, but voted
for the McNary-Haugen bill although refusing to
vote to override the President’s veto. He is popular
in the farm belt and is expected to strengthen the
ticket in the middle west.
/ J
Curtis’ nomination was by a,
vote of 1012 with Vice President i
I’awes rcceiving 11, former Attor
ney General Ekcra of Wisconsin lit,
Hanford MacNidor, former assist
a lit secretary of war, and 1 not
\ ot inn
The convention then made the
nomination unanimous by acclama
tion.
Senator Borah, the chief noinina
lor of ('art is. made a brief lauda
tory speech for his candidate and
then a string of other nominating
speeches anil seconding speeches
I olli wed.
The session suffered somewhat
from an atmosphere of anti climax
hut i art is, t hanking tin 1 convention
for its vote, was given tremendous
applause as was his pretty daugli
hr, Mrs. I,eona Knight, Hhode Is
land, who seconded his nomination
in a three line speech.
Several rout in,, resolut ions con
eluded the session.
To the strains o'f “ Auld Lang
Syne" the convention adjourned
and delegates started homeward to
make ready for the great battle of
tlie November elections.
CON V TINTS >X HALL, Kansas
City, Mo., dune 11. The Republi
can national convention convened
here at noon today to hear first a
message from Herbert Hoover, its
presidential nominee, and then to
i house his running mate.
Some of the fir,* and /.eat which
bail marked Hoover's overwhelming
nomination last night and a spirit,
ol haste to turn footsteps home
ward marked the opening.
Chairman Moses presented to the
delegates an inspiring message
from the party's new leader, Sec
retary lloover, in which ti,. prom
ised if elected to foster a maintain
ed national defense and continuance
of government economy as well as
a policy of aiding farmers insofar
as possible while also protecting
American workmen and business
men from foreign competition.
Pointing to a new era and new
forces in our national life, Hoover
pledged himself to foreign commerce
and to develop natural resources,
following in his administration, if
elected the footsteps of President
Coolidge.
The convention was slated, bar
long the unforeseen, to name Senator
Charles Curtis of Kansas, Senate
majority chief, as vice presidential
nominee. This had been ‘‘cyl and
dried ’by the morning state
caucuses and leaders’ conference.
Delegates had taken advantage of
the opportunity offered by a mid
day session to catch up on sleep lost
during the week and it was not un
til just a few minutes before noon
that the bulk had arrived.
Chairman Moses called delegates
to come to order at noon, rapping
sharply to get the knots of talkers
apart and in their seats.
Moses had trouble getting the i
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Imperial Valley Press
HUGE JUDGMENT
AGAINST BANK IN
SUPERIOR COURT
A million dollar judgment was re
turned by .lodge Vaughn X. Thomp
son in superior court this morning.
The judgment was returned in
the case of the First Central Nat
ional I’ank of Calexico against the
I’irst National Hank of Calexico
following a default hearing, At
torney 11. S. MacKinnon of Calexico
appearing as counsel for the plain
tiff.
The court found for the plaintiff
Mid against the defendant in the
sum of $1,01X1.000 with interest in
the sum of *8,.351>.t>,s anil attorney s
fees in the sum of $100,020.
The complaint was based on a
promissory note given by the de
fendant to tli,. plaintiff in April,
1027, in Hi" sum of *1.0H1,240.19.
The note was for a period of *lO
days. The note showed that some
payments en the principal and some
interest payments had been made,
baling a balance dlle of $1,090,000
and some interest.
Nii appearance was made by the
defendants in court this morning,
tli,, judgment of the court being re
turned after testimony of the plain
tiff had been entered. It is under
stood that the note was given in
comieetion with the merger of the
two banks some time ago.
Blackmer to Face
Federal Charge
ll> I nltcil Press I.enMCil M Ire
DENVER, Colo., .lime 11.—-Henry
Hluckmer, multi-millionaire oil man
was indicted by a federal grand
jury here today on charges of mak
ing irregular income tax returns.
The action of the jury followed
the filing by federal authorities on
tax liens totalling *8,408,935 on
Blackmer’s property in Denver and
New Vork. Blackmer fled to Eu
lope in 1024 to escape testifying be
fore the Senate Teapot Dome com
mittee regarding the activities of
the Continental Trading company in
connection with the leasing of the
naval reserve to Harry F. Sinclair.
The indictment was considered
here as the first direct move of the
government to force his return to
the United States.
DIVORCEE TO WED
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LOS ANGKLKS, June 15.—Anne
Hcrh'iibacli, divorced wife of Paul
Herlenbach, well known pugilist will
leave here today for Nogales, Son- i
ora, Mexico, where she will marry
Albert Jay Robinson.
LIVELY BATTLE
BEING WAGED IN
BRIGHTJHEARING
Evidence Shows Some of
Seized Cantaloupes to
He Harrigan’s
Tin- third round in the clash to
(ween Prod If. Bright, grower and
shipper of cantaloupes, and B. A.
llarrigan, horticultural commission
er, is scheduled to he waged in
Judge I. Mayfield’s court this aft
ernoon. Thus far the battle is a
liout even up, Bright having suc
ceeded in making llarrigan more or
less of a eo defendant in the; action
hut being unable to prove himself
as innocent.
The prosecution presented, its
case yesterday afternoon with in
spectors working under llarrigan
testifying to stopping the truck of
melons ciiroutc to San Diego, and
ordering it returned to the Bright,
shed. Evidence was entered to the
effect that nine crates of canta
loupes on the load were over-ripe
and sunburned.
These nine crates of melons were
seized by the horticultural depart
ment and were held as evidence.
The defense, however, in eross
(|Uestioning the prosecution witness
es and in the questioning of their
own witnesses, have sought to bring
(nit that three of the nine crates
were picked and packed on the
llarrigan acres. The evidence a
long this line is rather decisive,
slips showing that the poor melons
were checked against the llarrigan
account .
In establishing this, the defense
however, lias not aided its own case
in a material way but it was
brought out in an effort to make
the prosecution present the seized
melons and crates in court as evi ;
deuce. Tlu* prosecution was Unable
to do so, it being declared that the
melons had been thrown out when
they became rotten and the crates
stolen.
! Through other witnesses the de
fendant claimed that the melons re
-1 jeeted had been held at the Bright
shed for some time before the truck
i was dispatched to San Diego in an
effort to have them inspected by the
horticultural department men. It
was brought out that continued ef
forts to obtain an inspector bad
been unavailing and that finally the
melons had been sent out with only
inspection by the Bright inspector.
11l Feeling Shown
It was further testified that
Bright wrote a note, giving it to
the driver of the truck, explaining
that the melons had not been in
spected and asking that if stopped
on the highway, the inspector do
the job there and allow the truck
to proceed, unloading any of the
melons that failed to pass inspeo- ■
tion.
The hearing thus far has brought
out that there is considerable ill
feeling in a personal way centered
about the ease and the judge has
been kept busy sustaining object
(ions and overruling others in his i
efforts to keep it out of the case. J
At one time til’s morning it was |
necessary for him to caution the;
jurors to disregard any personal |
wars.
The ease is expected to be com- i
plctod this afternoon. Fred Bright
was called by the defense just be
fore noon but adjournment was tak
en early because of the necessity for
the appearance of Kilward B. Pat
terson, prosecuting attorney, in
superior court.
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Bank Stocks In
| Slight Loss
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BAN FRANCISCO, June 11.
| Bank of Italy and Baneitaly corpor
ation showed overnight losses ut the I
opening of the San Francisco Stock
Exchange today. Bank of Italy,
opened at 2Hi%, an overnight drop
of 3,*4 points. It climbed to 217' \
on early sales, then reacted to 217.
Baneitaly lost 2% on overnight sell
ing, opening at 139%. It sold down !
to 139 and then recovered to 139%.
The largest individual loss was
taken by Bank of America stock,
another Ginnnini issue. It opened
at 215%, a drop of 12% points from
Thursday’s high and closing price. ;
Plant Opened At
Scene of Flood
II) l nlteil l*r«-NM l.caseil W ire
LOS ANGELES, June 15.—A unit
of the San Francisquito power
plant, destroyed by the rush of wat
ers when the St. Francis dam broke
March 13 was in operation today, i
The entire plant, situated just
two miles below the water barrier,
was taken away by the flood.
COVERS THE VALLEY LIKE THE SUNSniNE
EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1928
THE STANDARD BEARER
1874—Bern at West Branch,
Ia„ son of a blacksmith.
1880 —Left an orphan and
taken in by relatives in West
Branch.
1886—Moved to Newburgh,
Ore., to live with an uncle.
1888—Went to Portland, Ore.,
to shift for himself, working as
clerk in a real estate office.
1891—Enrolled at Leland
Stanford University, working
his way through.
1895 —Graduated from Leland
Stanford and went to work in
a California gold mine, later
joining the mining firm of
Louis Janin.
1897—Went to Austra'ia as
mining engineer for a British
syndicate.
1899 — Married Misß Lou
Henry of Monterey, Calif., and
went to China as mining expert
for the Chinese government.
1900— Helped other Ameri
cans defend Tientsin during the
Boxer rebellion.
SENATOR CURTIS
i ALSO ROSE FROM
i HUMBLEST BIRTH
1
II) lulled I‘ri-MM I.cased W ire
CONVENTION HALL, Kansas
City, Mo., June 15.—From jockey
boy to tli,. Republican candidate for
vice president is the thumb nail
story of Charles Curtis, —the des
cendant of Chief White Plume of
the Kansas tribe of Indians.
| A short, stocky, dark skinned man
j with straight black hair, ‘‘Charlie’’
i Curtis shows his Indian blood, ex
; cept that in temperament he is
rather more jovial and easy going
than ordinary red men.
He was born near North Topeka,
j Kansas, but when orphaned at the
1 age of five, he was sent to live with !
, relatives on an Indian reservation I
■ in Kansas.
! At l(i, he signed up as a jockey on j
the Kansas tracks but he soon real
ized that he had better get an edu
cation so he worked as a newspaper |
reporter in town and studied law at ;
night.
At 24, he was made prosecutor of
Shawnee county, Kansas.
In 1903. he tried for the Senate
but was defeated, making it on the
second attempt, however in 15>i»7.!
lie was a victim of the Pull Moose j
split in 1912 and was defeated but
came back two years later.
Curtis has been majority leader;
of the Senate since the death of j
llenry Cabot Lodge. This has given
him a tremendous number of con
tacts with persons in political life,
and it has been his nature to make j
the most of his friends.
In choosing Curtis, the conven
tion has not only sought to render;
honor to him in compensation for;
years of party devotion, but it has j
picked a man who is tremendously !
popular in the farm belt and there- !
by strengthened th 0 ticket in one of,
the weak spots of lloover.
HERBERT HOOVER
1903—Entered partnership
with a group of mining en
gineers in London.
1906—Changed his legal resi
dence to Palo Alto, Calif.
1914—1 n London when war
broke out, was appointed to
take charge of relief work in
Belgium. *
1917—Returned to the United
States to become food adminis
trator.
1919 Made dictator general
of relief work by allied pow
ers and organized American Re
lief Administration.
1920 Ran unsuccessfully for
Republican nomination for pre
sident.
1921 Made secretary of com
merce in President Harding’s
cabinet.
1927 Directed relief work in
Mississippi flood.
1928 Became a candidate for
Republican nomination for pre
sident.
!Wisconsin Gives
Cordial Greeting
To The President
Hy lulled Pres* I.eased \Mrt‘
SUPERIOR, \Vi«„ .1 uue 15.—-The
state of Wisconsin, honored hy tlit?
visit of the nation's chief execu
tive, greeted President and Mrs.
t’alvin Coolidge here today with an
acclaim that was noth clamorous
and understanding in its courteous
weleonie of Mrs. < nidiilgc, who was
confined to the presidential train
hy illness.
The presidential train arrived
here shortly after 10 a. in., drawing
up alongside an open station shed,
i where an official reception commit
tee had gathered.
Mr. Ooolidge stepped from the
train immediately after it eame to
a stop. lie was received formally
hy a delegation which included
Governors Zimmerman of Wisconsin
and Christianson of Minnesota.
Although enabled hy a specially
installed radio set to keep abreast
of the convention developments at
Kansas City, the president retired'
last night before the nominating’
speeches had been concluded and,
was asleep when Herbert Hoover
"as named as the Republican candi
date.
Apparently Mr. Coolidge was more !
interested in a gold plated, non
resident fishing license presented to
him on the train at Madison, Wis.,,
than in the direction of political
winds.
Tip. president is eager to get set
tled on the island estate of the late!
Henry Clay Pierce, and has given j
consent to plans for the official]
welcome at Superior.
—— ,
Yuba county owners of 7000 acres ■
of land will cooperate with the
state forester in brush-burning ex- j
periments.
VICTORY
POM
Selection Marks Epochal
Step In History of Re
publican Party.
CHOICE ONE-SIDED
Secretary Is Easy Winner
on First Ballot Taken by
Convention.
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
KANSAS CITY, June 17. The
Republican party selected Herbert
Hoover of California for its ['resi
dential nominee and in so taking
has taken an epochal step.
For the first time it has passed
over the professional politicians and
has picked a product of the indus
| trial age, as the man best fitted in
| its estimation, as the man to guide
| the nation through the next four
! years.
| The convention spoke decisively
on this point. The ballot taken in
j t (invention hall late last night gave
Hoover the nomination with 837
! votes. His nearest rival was Frank
jO. Lowden of Illinois with 74.
I Hoover was 763 ahead of his near
est opponent—none of whom receiv
j ed even a hundred votes in the con
test. President Coolidge received
| 1 7 voles.
Jt was as decisive a victory as a
Convention could give and the de
j ision was made after the most
! searching kind of a campaign dur
ing which Hoover’s life record was
! scrutinized closely by hostile eyes.
1 Now the Republican party has de
-1 tided to cast its lot with this new
sort of figure on the political hori
zon, a young man as statesmen go,
an engineer, a born organizer, a
man of the machine age.
Hoover is independent by temper
ament—and so made enemies. He
will be his own boss, as he always
has been; and if he is elected it is
probable a new conception of Amer
ica’s greatest administrative office!
might be developed—one more in
keeping with modern times and less j
tied to the traditions of "Washing- ;
ton and Jefferson.
During the campaign however, |
there is little prospect that the ,
country will be kept awake nights j
by Hoover torchlight parades and
bands. Hoover himself is quiet, t
shy—not given to ballyhoo. His I
public speeches are always painful
to himself and sometimes to his au- !
dience. I
The demonstrations for him ini
Convention hall last night probably ,
would have caused him to cringe
with modesty, had lie been there. It
was the only real show so far put
on in this convention.
When John 1,. MoXab of Cali
fornia took the platform to place
Hoover’s name in nomination, he
violated the rule requiring that the
name be held out until the end of
(lie speech, and instead, mentioned
it at tin' start.
This, set off a demonstration which
lasted 23 minutes, producing the
most terrific mixture of noise from
several thousand throats, scores of
cowbells and other tumult makers.
Utah delegates marched around the
hall bearing a Inigo paper elephant
on their shoulders.
HOW TO STOP FALLING HAIR
AND GET BETTER PORK CHOPS
f'LA REMOXT, Calif., June
—Localization in the gas
trula of tritiums torosus (uro
dele) as influenced by a ther
mal gradient will lie one of the
subjects discussed at today's
meeting of the 12th annual
Pacific division conference of
the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
In all probability it will be
more interesting and less com
plicated than it sounds. Yes
terday an outrageous title turn
out to hear merely on the meth
od of obtaining bigger and bet
ter porkehops.
Another title, unintelligible
to the layman, merely concern
ed the way salt eating stops
the loss of hair. Still another
brought on a discussion of in
sect fights.
Regarding the porkehops, Dr.
Women Flyers
Still Held Up
ny I’nltril I’rcs* l.on«r<| Wire
ST. JOHNS, X. E 4) June 15. —Two
airplanes were poised today for a
great trans-Atlantic air race with
their women commanders eagerly
scanning weather reports before
giving the signal that will start the
contest.
The Fokker airplane Friendship
was at Trcpassy Bay while Miss
Amelia Earliart, Wiliner Stultz and
Lou Gordon attempted to decide
whether to try the long flight on
750 gallons of gasoline.
The Bellanca monoplane Colum
bia was at Harbour Grace where
Miss Mabel 8011, Captain Oliver C.
Leboutillier and Captain Arthur
Argles waited for favorable weath
er.
CANTALOUPE MEN
PLAN TO START
! CLEARING HOUSE
An effort is under way for the
establishment of a clearing house
j for cantaloupes in Imperial Valley
and at a meeting to be held Satur
day at 8 p. in. at Elks club, Brawlev
plans for the organization of such
clearing house will be perfected.
A call has been sent out to all
growers,-shippers, chambers of com
| merce representatives and to vari
j ous industrial centers interested in
! furthering the development of can
j taloupes.
Donald C. Coon, managing uirect
jor of the Vineyardists Association*
| of California, will be present at the
j meeting and will assist in bringing
j about the organization. Hi' has had
I considerable experience in this
j work. Other prominent men of the
j Pacific Coast region w ill be pres
, ent.
It is believed by those backing
i the project that with a clearing
j house system it will lie possible to
j ship 23 per cent more cantaloupes
j out of the valley and that a better
I profit can lie realized per crate than
| the present price returns.
Full cooperation is necessary to
j make the movement a success and j
j if it is found that immediate organ-
I ization can be effected, it is expect- j
!»d that the movement will have aj
j bearing on the present season.
The persons planning tin l organ-!
j ization are therefore anxious that ;
j all chamber of commerce officials, I
; railroad representatives, bankers,
and others interested in cantaloupes
lie present at the meetng. Tt is be-
I lieved that the handling of melons
I through a clearing house, central
1 izing the exporting of the crop will
jbe of great advantage to all con
,corned.
Wilshire Church j
Goes Bankrupt
-
Hy Vnlfeil PreN* l.ensei! Wire
I.ON .WGKI.KS, Juno Id. - List- !
ing assets above liabilities, the
Wilshire liottlevard Congregational i
church has filed petition in volun-!
tarv bankruptcy. Total debts are:
$30(>,004.1id while assets are $6112,-
'06.07 according to the petition.
The Wilshire church for more
than two years has been engaged in j
a factional fight centering on itsj
militant pastor, Dr. Prank Dyer, j
In removing him from fellowship, j
the Los Angelos Congregational as-]
soeiation charged him with conduct |
unbecoming a Congregational mill-]
inter, including mismanagement of!
financial affairs. Dr. Dyer said his!
friends intended to buy in the i
, church.
:
L Hanzlik told the conven
tion that iodine iu prescribed
doses would make a porker mar
ketable in 100 instead of the
usual 120 days.
Dr. Hanzlik did not advocate
general use of the discovery un
til it has been better adapted
Nome of the hogs which under
went the experiment didn’t
turn out any porkehops, he said.
Dr. Hanzlik also made it
known that regular consump
tion of iodized table salt tend
ed to keep human hair from
falling out.
Iho fight against various
crop destroying insects was re
lated to the conference. A cer
tain species of beetle is more
effective than chemicals in
eliminating the Australian
mealy bug, one of the menaces
to citrus orchards, it was said.
Bar.k Clearing*
$104,614.48
PRICE FIVE CENTS
'MEMBERS
or CREW
RESCUED
" S*
Three Survivors of Nobile
Disaster Reported Taken
Aboard Steamer.
SEEK COMPANIONS
Thirteen of “Italia’s’*
Men Still Missing on
Arctic Wastes
By ERIC BERNDSEN
(U. P. Special Correspondent)
KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, Juno
li. Three members of the crew of
the lust dirigible Italia, stranded
tor three weeks in the bitterly cold
Arctic wastes, have been rescued
according to an unconfirmed story
hunters told today when they hoard
ed the steamer Braganza off North
east la ml.
The three including Fenn Malm
gren, were rescued by a relief expe
dition sent oiit bv the Norwegian
steamer Hobby and now are aboard
that craft, reports said.
The Braganza readied Northeast
land last night. As the rugged
steamer, chartered by General Um
berto Nubile’s own government,
cruised into the ice-dotted waters
the huntsmen were taken aboard.
They immediately told the grati
fying news that the Hobby party
had rescued three men who had
made the adventurous and disas
trous tour over the North Pole tho
latter part of May. They did not
say, according to advices here,
where the three had been found.
It was presumed that the three
men were those who split from Gen
eral Nobile's immediate party after
that group of nine had been left
stranded on an ice block when the
big dirigible suddenly sank and
scraped of one gondola.
If the story of the huntsmen is
found true, that will leave 13 men
to be accounted for. Six are in the
party with Nobile now huddled
about a silken red tent on floating
ice, waiting for rescue and suffer
ing from cold, exposure and hunger.
Seven others remained with tho
dirigible when it was blown east
ward after its sudden descent, in
which the gondola carrying the nino
members was broken.
They have not been heard from
since the disaster on May 23.
KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, Juno
13.—A heavy southwest storm last
night hit the little encampment on
the Arctic iee in which six of tho
crew of the polar dirigible Italia
arc waiting rescue, General Umber
to Nobile, the Italia’s commander,
radioed the supply ship Pitta di Mi
lano today.
What effect the storm had on tho
crew and the silken tent, in which
they have taken refuge, Nobile’s
first message did not say.
Man Injured As
Autos Crash
A'. Coiistoncion of Imperial and
F. o. Kent of Kl C"ntro were tho
drivers of two automobiles figuring
in an accident on the Calexico high
way last night.
Machines were being held up hy
traffic polio,, at the 15 mile cross
ing and the driver of one of tint
cars failed to stop and crashed into
the rear of the other machine,
i’nilcy was quite badly injured,
suffering a deep laceration over tho
right eye from broken glass. He was
taken to the < alexieo hospital where
the injury was attended.
What’s Doing j
TONIGHT
Airdomc Theater: “Lovo Me
ard the World Is Mine.”
Radio : KGEN, 6 to 10 p. in.
I Calexico Airdome: Boxing,
j 8:40 p. m.
I. V. Pyramid No. 37, A. E. O.
I Sciots: Masonic temple,
i Indoor baseball • Wilson Field,
| 7: IS p. m.
I Baseball meeting: Press office,
| 7:30 p. m.
I TOMORROW
| Radio : KGEN, 11 a. m. to Ip.