Show 0 p Ji Jo N RIPS RIP Of OfIL IL AI A AQUEDUCT Officers and Repa Repairmen Rush to Damaged S Section in Desert 7 B Hr A Freit Ird LOS ANGELES Nov 2 A 2 A dynamite dynamite dynamite dyna dyna- mite blast roared through the narrow nil nar row Owens Owen V valley today y and rt ripped oed two sections out of ot the aqueduct that supplies Los Angeles with the major share of its high Sierra water It was the tenth explosion in a series rife with court convictions terrorism terrorIsm terrorism terror terror- ism and armed rebellion Two Tw sections about 12 feet long were blown out of the grapevine Siphon 20 O miles mUe north of Jawbone canyon near the desert Repairmen flanked by deputy sherIffs sheriffs sher slier iffs lUs and city police were dispatched by DY the Lo Los Los Angeles Angeles s bureau of water and md power to repair the damaged portion porton portion por por- tion ton of the mile long aqueduct that hat brings water to this ibis city over mountain ranges granges Peace h his hAs 3 reigned between Owens valley alley ranchers and Los Is Angeles for several everal months H. H A. A Van Norman chief engineer of the bureau said hid in railing falling to account for the ing Ife said there is not a possibility of f water shortage shortage- because other reservoirs reservoirs res res- res- res i are fall full Dynamite has contested Los An An- Angeles Angeles' cles geles' right to Owens valley water for or 01 the past eight years Prior to th the he actual installation of the aqueduct aqueduct aque aque- duct In 1924 city purchasing agents acquiring water lands in inthe the valley met net with rebuffs when they refused t to o pay ten n times the assessed value of f the lands A band of masked men struck truck the first blow on May A large section of the aqueduct near Lone one Pine Inyo county was dyna dyna- This time feet teet of steel suel pipe was shattered and cost the city for fM repairs During a four four- year period from May 1924 until July uly 1027 1927 the aqueduct was blasted seven even times |