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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Friday, March 23,1928 ' .. ........ Page Three ·-"' RECOMMENDS IT TO OTHERS I. • tydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable (:ompo1md Helps Her So Much Cleveland, Ohlo.-"I sur11 recom· tnend: Lydia. E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to any woma.n In the condition I was ln. I was so weak and run·down that I could hardly stand up. I could not eat and was full of misery. A friend living on Arcade Avenue told me about this medicine and after tak· lng ten bottles my rweakuess and nervousness are all gone. I feel like living again. I am etlll taking it until I feeL strong like before. You may use this letter as & ltestlmonlal."-::\lns. Ewz.~aETrr Toso, 14913 Hale Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. l-Air view or flood area In California disaster. 2-Secretary of the Treasury Mellon before senate oil inves· tlgatlng committee. Behind Mellon Is William l\1. Butler, also a witness. 3-Alexander P. Moot·e, appointed AmerIcan ambassador' to Peru. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS The photograph shows tile break In the St. Francis dam o! the Los Angeles waterworks which loosed a wall of water upon the Santa Paula valley, with the loss of hundreds of lives and Immense property damage. Photocraph transmitted by A. T. & T. wires. Wall of Water Carries Hundreds to Death in California. Help for Victims of Dam Disaster ., wall A TilE~mXDOUS turned loose Into San of quito canyon when the giant St. Francis dam burst under pressure of 12,000,000 gallons of water, canied more than 400 sleeping residents of the narrow • valley to death. The great concrete retaining wall, 185 feet high, built less than two ypars •ago to Impound water for the city of Los Angeles, gave way without warning, releasing the flood upon the sleeping Inhabitants of the pic· tm·esque valley. Everything was swept away-human heings, hou~es, tnbins, workmen's tents, orchards and live stock. Of thr e'timntP<l :iOO l>N'<Ons who wc>re In the narrow runyon aud lol';lands be· low at the time the dam g:ll·e way, only a ft'w mon• tht.n u hundl'etl have bem accounted for l'ruperty damage Is estimated at from $10,000,000 to $30,000,000. Some city officials of Los An>:elc>s declare'! a preliminary examination indicatPd the break had been caused as the result of an earth movement or some external fotce. Pas~ing motorists and valley residents declared seeping around the buttress might have been the cause. The canyon bottom and valley w~·e swept clear of all signs of civilization for several miles. In the silt depo~it, which in some cases was 30 feet deep, remained the uncounted bodies of the victims, houses, live stock and other ruins. Red Cross station at ~ewllall, Calif., established to give first aid and food to the St. Francis dam sufl'erer1. Photograph by A. T. & T. wires. LONG ROWBOAT TRIP Map of Dam Disaster Region I water l~rancis· I shifting of a sitle of SUDDE:-1 Serrat, located in the center fRAKCIS ~Iount D~M of the city of Santos, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, crashed thousands of tons of earth and rocks without warning onto a section of that place, and left !l dead and dying toll of more than 200. Houses and buildings In the path of the slide were crumpled and buried, their occupants apparently not dis· cernir.g the Impending disaster until It was too late to escape the huge avalanche. Mount Serrat, with a moderately high peak, is located practically in the center of Santos, Brazil's principal ' coll'ee port, with residences and business buildings spread aJ·ound It on three sides. States senate published T HEtheUnited report on conditions In the The sh_IL!led territory Is the San Franclsqulto canyon and the valley the Salftli Clara river, through which the water from St. Francis dam swept. •t Work of Chicago Bombers Charles Sellltz just completed & bituminous fields of Penn~ylvania by voyage from New York to Miami ln. I the subcommittee which the senate a twelve-foot rowboat. The trip wu sent Into that area on an IDI·estigation that lasted five days. taken as the result of a boast The report declared the conditions to be dangerous to public order and ISHBEL WINS OFFICE deplorable as to morals, housing, sl\n1 ltation, nod general living conditions. It was unfavorable to the methods of most of the operators and It praised "the splendid courage" Pf the women folk of the striking mmers In the face of "privations which make the mothers' lot always the hardest to bear." . Legislation by congre8s was recommended for the correction of chaos in the lndustt·y which the Investigators said, "generally Is not in a prosperous condilion in tltls country." "We most re$pectfully urgP," the Sl'nators concluded. "that the luvesti· gatlon by the whole lntt>J":State com· merce committee of the senate be , searching ami se1·ere in every detail, looking forward to some solution by legislation that wlll put the great coal Industry ot Amel'icn on n t·ensonably pmsperou• IJasis." I ! I ' I Itself of the h·umiliatlng stigma" placed upon It by acceptance of Sin· clair's campaign contribution. 'l'he letter suggested that Butler would ha1·e only to make the ai)peal and thousands of honest Republicans would willingly contribute "from one dollar up to any rea;;onable sum" In ordet· that the money advanced to the party's war chest by Sinclair out of the same fund he u~ed to pay Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the lute· rlor, for the Tl'apot Dome naval oil resene might be returned. T ilE White-Xorris constitutional amendment to abolish "lame duck'' sessions of congress, und change the Presidential Inaugural date was rejected by the house. The 1·ote was 200 to 157, with two members answer· ing present. This was 3G votes less than the two·thirds necessary for appro,·al of constitutional amendments. The amendment sought to change the meeting date of ('Ongress from March 4 to January 4. 'fhis woulu have abolished the "lame duck" ses· sions of congt"'~s. or tho~e In which sit members who were defeated at To conform with earlier elettinns. this change, the resolution propose'l to have the Presidt•nt take office on .Tanuarr 24, inHN'd of ~!arch 4. S ECTIBT.\TIY OF THE 'l'RE..I.SURY Mellon informed the senate •rea· pot Dome committeE' that he recei\ etl $50,000 of the ~2(i0,000 of Liberty bond,; which Harry !<'. Sinclair a,J. Yanced to coYer part of the deficit of the Itepuhlican national committee in lfl~:l. but that he had refused to retain the honds In exchange for a like contribution. The treasurr secretary disclosed that the hoods had been sent to him by Will H. IIays, former chairman of the Republican committee, and that, when Hays subsf'queutly called on. him to explain his purpose, he hat! declined to keep them as suggestl'd. He added that he had returned the bonds to Hays and shortly thereafter made a contribution In the same amount from his own funds. day on the New 'A FI·~VEU!f;ll York stork f'Xchnnge March 9 ~aw the sale uf 3,706,500 shares, Gen· era! Motors being principally involved. The market closed with General The following day ~rotors at 161. the market was checked at 156, but General ~Iotors had regained more than a point at the close. Several things caused the or~y of speculation: A decrease of $26,000,000 in brokers' loans, removing the likelihood of the B'ederal Itl'SNYe hank board immediately rabing the discount rate; 11. widespread feeling that General Mo· tors will be able to compete successfully with the new Ford, and the news that the Mnnage•·s' Security company, owned by General Motors exeeutlYes, had bought 200.000 shares of stock, reflecting the confidence of the eXeCUtil'eS in the ContinUed prOS· perlty of the concem. T ug coal industt·y held attention during the week as the senate's committee continued Its Investigation. John L. Lewis. president of the, Unit· ~line Workers, testified that In his belief laws ~hould be passed to per· mit the closing of uneconomic mines, to prHent railroads from exploiting mines by their Insistence upon cheap coal, and to curb the use of injunc· lions In luhor disputes. W. G. Ward· en, head of the Pittsburgh Coni com· p:lny, attacked the union on the wit· ness stand. He said he believed In democracy In governm!'nt but in a "b~ne1·olent despotism" for busine~s. An attorney for the union miners chargee! that the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ were planning a r€'port to "whitewash" the O[l('rntors of blame In the present strike and Its con seq uenci'S. of New Yorl; nnd Philadelphia died March n. He \\'US rc>portt•d to be the most hpavilJ' lnsuretl man in the L'nited States. PolieiPs 011 his life totaled $7,ROil~lAX Miss Ishbel MacDonald, daughter ot the former British premier, hal been elected as a councillor lu the London elections, running on .. Socialist ticket. Bu/Jy Signal Interior of the dlnl11g room In the nome of .\Ianuel Rudman of Chicago after IK•mbera had placed· one of their "pineapples" in h!l! home. We have letters from many mothers, some saying they have four children, some five and some six. Those with more thnn six apparently hadn't time to wrlte.-Woman's llorne CompnnlOD. M .\1. BIJTJ.EH, chairman W ofILLI.\ the H!'[liiiJiiran national I'OIU• mittee, deni(•d tlmt he recf'il·e<J or handi!'d any part of the ~~00.1)~1 in Continental T~tHlin.~ company Lilwrt:v honds adnUH'{'d by Ilany l•'. Sinelair to help wipe out the committee's 1!J~O l'r!'sitlent!nl cumoaign deficit. Butler's denial was made public al· most simultaneouslv with the text of a l~tter in which Senator Borah (Hep., Id.r1lo), called upon Butler to lend the rtepubllcan party In a mo•·e "to clear 5tHl,()(~l. lie was one of the foremost merHe inherited {'hauts of the worlcl. the widely known Wanamal;e,· stores in Xew York, l'hiladC'lphia and Paris f.-om his famous father, the late John Wanamala•t. Long known as an aviation enthusiast, he gained his chief fame along that llne by backing the WWY, JUfJlOR, IJOBODY OfJ WWATARE 'fOU DOIIJG-, JUk.IIOR ? EARTH HAS EVER. SEEJJ GOD~ VJE DOIJT' !=.VEJ.J KJ.JOW Wf.1AI HE LOOKS LIKE 1\'.1.:\'A~IAKER BELL·ANS FOR INDIGESTION successful flight of Commander Rich· ard E. Byrd to France last summer. At the time it was suid he had spent $500,000 on propo~ed tran~atlantlc flights, about half of that amount b• ing for the Byrd expedition. Home Size J,EGION officiuls are A MERICA:-< mobilizing their forces for what is heralded as the greatest peacetime offensive ever attempted In this coun· tr.v in the Interest of legislation pro· villing for the universal drafting of man 'power and the control of labor antl industry in the event of another war. Backed by Secretary of War Davia and many high army officials, the former service men of the nation will mal;e their seventh efl'ort since the war to convince congress and the American people that steps should be taken in pence time to guarantee the l'resitlent the widest dictatorial powers in case of another national emerg€'ncy. I No More Distress Gas, Sourness, Heartburn Sick Headache, Dizziness after eating t}r drinking 2Sc antl7Sc Packagea Sold Eoerywhere I Stiie Relief I estimate by the A PHOVISIOXAL census bureau plPCed the population of the United Stutes as of July l, 19~8. at 1:!0,013,000, an increase ot 14 [l('r cent o1·er the 10~.710,!l:!O actual eount on January 1, lD~O. 'l'he next fedeml census will not be taken be· fore 1!1~0. 'rhe new total was arrived at by estimating the increase since 1!1~0 on the hasis of the best m·ailable rf'turns on births, deaths, immigration and emigration. APPETITE IMPROVED ••• QUICKLY Carter's little Liver Pills Purely Vegetable laxative move the boweh free from pain and unpleaaant after effeett. They relieve the ayttem of conttipa.o don poison• which dull the deJite for food. Remember they are a doctor'• prea.Jription. and can be taken bv the entire famJ1y. All Druulstl 2Sc and 75c Red Packageo. industry Is per· realization that it may he fol'ced to pay a certain wheel· maker upward of ::::iOO,OOO,OOO for us· ing wheels on automobiles. A patent g1·anted to Edward P. Cowles, o1 Spa,·ta, Mich., in 1914, on Interchange. ahle 1vht>els gil·!'s the manufacturet who today owns Its license rights the authority to make this huge collection from the indu~try, In the opinion of many lawyers. automobile T ITT~ turhed over the CARTER'S mfiPILL~ ('III'SESE ET.'I-Hardy taM growtog, A1kall reH13tant, dry land ~hatlt> tree, lntrot'luced by U. R Gourument. htghly recommended. Washington 1\ursery, ToppE'ni.sh, \Yash, BOOKS Any boo~ you want -by maJI, C. 0. D. Deseret Book Co., 44 East So. Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah for breaking down all ob· PLAXS structions to American supervision of the Nicaraguan elections next October have been under preparation at the State department followinl confet-ences between Secretary ot State Kellogg and Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho), chairman of the senate fol'eign relations committee. American officials, lt Is asserted, are determined to carry out their pledge and give the Nicaruguan people a fair election. Opinions expre!<sed Indicate the administrutlon is prepared to furnish such marine forces as .are necessary. The ~eil which rovers the face ot futurity Is woven by the hand of ruercy.-Bu lwer-Lytton. 'The BABY~ nnvul F OR~HDABLE were announced In preparations the Italian chamber of deputies by Admiral Sir!· ann! of the Italian admiralty. Italy now has under con~tructiou one bll· lion four hundred million lll'e ($73,· 920,000) worth of armed Ye>-,;el~. which include two 10,000·ton cruisers and twelve submarines, started under the W24 program, the admiral revealed. 1 All these will be In operutlon within two years. This year's program In-~ eludes two new crul~ers, four destroyers, and four submarines, he said. 1 DIX0::-1 J OXA'l'HAN pioneer automobile> MAXWJ<;LJ,, manufacturer and one of the three men who built i the machine now pre~en·ed In the Smithsonian Institution, believed to !Jal'e bf.'en the fi(·st automobile, Is dead. l\lr. Maxwell, whosl' name was given to the Maxwell automobile originated by him and manufucturt-d by the com· 1 pany of which he was JH·e~ldent. was assoclnted with Elmer .\pperson and 1 Elwood Haines In builcliug the ma-1 chine believed to have bel'n the pre1 decesRor of the modern automobile. do so many, many babies of tOo I dayWhy escape all the little fretful spells the attempted conquest ot A GAIX t11e western p:ossnge of tlte North Atlantic by a,·iation ha~ failed untl Capt. \\'alter JJinchrliffr and ~~ ss Elsip ~lac·kay, who ~et out from an English airdrome for a flight to Am"l'· i<'n, went down ;;omewhere In the At· !antic. Xo trace of their airship h•ts hc!'n found. of more A :-1 hauAf'l'HOI'HIAT!OX $1 ,OOO,(NJO, to b<' USt'd in re· t fon'stntion of denudp<J Ul'C:t~ nnd In other con,f'nation activities, 11 asked In a hill intro<lucrd In the s~nntr. by McXnrr of Oregon. and lnfnntlle ailments that used to worry mothers through the day, and keep them up half the night? If you don't know the answer, you haYen't discovered pure, harmless Castorla. It is sweet to the taste, und sweet In the little stomach. And lt'l gentle Influence seems felt all through the tiny system. Not eYeu a distasteful do~e of castor oil does ~o much ·good. rtetcher's Cr.storia Is purely vege· table, so you may give It freely, at fir;;t sign of colic; or constipnt on; or diarrhea. Or those many times when you ju~t don't know what is the mat• ter. For real sickness, call the doctor, always. At other times, !l few 'h'ops of Fletcher's C'astoria. The doctor often tells you to do just thut; a,td always says Fletcher's. Other preparations may be just as I pure, just as free from dangcrou3 tlrug'<, ltut why experiment? Beside!!, the hook on care am! feeding of baoies that comes with Fletcher's Castorla Is worth its weight in gold! I l |
