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radio outbursts of activity but nothing
definite developed.
Becker spent all this time in the
death house at Sing Sing, near where
the four gunner were awaiting death.
lis iron nerve never faltcred. Neither
did that of his four hirelings.
It was February "A before a rift
in the clouds revealed to the convicted
police lieutenant chance to escape
the chair. On that date the Court of
Appeals set aside the verdict and or
dercd a re-trial. The same court
however, as a part of the same ruling
affirmed the death sentence of the
four gunner, and they were electro
cuted in Sing Sing on April 10, after
every means TO save their lives had
been exhausted.
Becker was iubilant over his new
trial. He could not see anything but
that he would be acquitted.
On May 6 he was again put on trial
for murder. this time before Justice
Seabury Sixteen days later he again
stood before the bar and heard:
Guilty of murder in the first degree.
But again he kept his remarkable
nerve and walked from the courtroom
without "A tremor. He was again sen
fenced to he executed.
His friends and attorneys, however
cheered him up with prospects of an
other victory on the appeal.
The case dragged along then until
May p, 1918, when the Court of APP
peals all but crushed his last hope
when it affirmed his second convic-
tion. Three weeks later the court
sealed his fate by refusing to listen
to the reargument of the appeal,
There Wa but ono chance left-l
communication from the governor. But
the governor of 1913 and the fighting
young district attorney of 1912 were
the same man, Whitman having
stepped into the governors chair.
Bccker's conviction and the accom-
ranying volumes Of publicity given the
cases all over the United States
cleared New York of the gunmen and
gangsters to a large extent. Before
July, 1912, New Iork's East Side,
with it's labyrinth Of alley-like streets,
blind alleys and squalid tenements and
buildings had been a breeding and
nesting place for Gangsters and gun
men. The police seemed unable to
stop them. Gambling of all kinds
llourished throughout the East Side
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30

chosen next year to- succeed John d.
Works and prominent Progressives
think Hiram would land the place,
which would provide a stepping stone
perhaps for The presidency.
But as for Hiram himself you
haven't heard the tiniest squeak from
him. One semi-official squeak, take
it for what you think its worth, is
that the governor is not very anxious
to leap into another big campaign,
following SO closely upon his strenuous
"stumping" tour of 1914.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30
WILL BE
OUT FOR SENATE

Sacramento, July 30.-Roosevelt is
reported as being strong for Hiram
Johnson and one report goes 50 far
as to say Roosevelt is boosting Hiram
for the Progressive candidacy for
president in 1916
But this one report is not seriously
considered in capitol circles. Hiram
for United States senator is the po-
litical gossip here. A senator will be
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30
Why Pay More?

One way fare between Ell Centre
and Holtville, 35c; round trip, 6Oc.
Ride in comfortable motor cars on a
good roadbed.
Leave FL Centre, 1880 a. m, 1900
M, $40 and 700 p. m.
Leave Holtville, 700 and Sis a.
M; 4:45 and 1880 p. m.
HOLTON INTERURBAN RAILWAY
COMPANY.-Adv
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30
How to Find "yours''

To avoid bndly trying too many different cigarettes
ask yourself first of ALL this question:
"Just chat do like IN a cigarette? ?"
If you smoke only few every day. you NAV prefer
cigarette which is rather rich heavy and oiIy" Or
you may like which has rather strong oriental
taste with pungency almost like perfume. Or you may
want cigarette with that noticeaby sweetish Egyptian
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30

Tastes differ-n fashions foods and pretty girls.
Also in cigarettes
cigarette that started out to please every mans
taste would end up by pleasing
Most of us like cigarette smoke delciously cool
and refreshing The Mexican likes his hot and dry with
a nice little peppery sting in it.
Some men like cigarette wholesomely fragrantly
mad Others of us hunt for cigarette almost heavy
black cigar.
Most of us want ''easy cigarette SENSIBLE
one, SO that no matter how steadily or how many
smoke, We'll feel fit q fiddle. Other men, though
don't care about that. They smoke only few-so they
want a kick like mule III each puff.
All of Us want smoke ull- ull-boded'it must sQtisty
that smokehunger But the cigarette that Just fills the
bill for may not do at all for your door neghbor
Somechere-among all the brands on the marhtt-is the
ono jaSt-21gM cigarette for YOU
Maybe it's the very you have now in your
pocket-6ut are you SURE? Maybe its some entirely
different cigarette-t may or may not be Fatma.
But 'fnd it!' Until you do you're cheating your
self out of whole lot of smoke pleasure Also you re
wasting some money.
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But &he Taste is up TO You

All cigarettes pure but when comes to the tnstc
nobody can help you choose. You simply have to decide
for yourself.
VI course, Fatlmas taste may not appeal to yOu.
But most men who try Fatmas like the taste so we'll that
they seek 20 frthcrothcrwisc atima3 could never have
coR and heid their enormous and growing leadership
amounting to over one and half BILLION cigarettes
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30

1he ono purpose Of this advertisement is to ask you
IN lir and square way to give Fatimas Go for 15c)
good trial If they don't happen to suit vour taste,
You'll quit smoking them of course. But if you like
fatmas as we'll as MOST men do, you'll be mighty glad
you read TINS adyertsement-and ACTED ON IT!
Below are two simple tests which you can easily make
ana winch may help you find Voa5 sensible cigarette.
1t may or may not be Fatima But be fair to yourself
and find ''yourS"
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30

flavor But if you smoke quite oen-if you would like
to smoke whenever you feel like it and without any effect
the tongue throat any fear Of heavy heady"
feeling aterwards-thcn you should choose cigarette
such as Fama cigarette composed of alpure tobaccos
OF considerable mellowed by being aged and
fully blended to produce fragrant and whocsomey mild.
yet jNbOdicd, smoke. And the smoke must be notice.
ably COOL. For otherwise your tongue your throat
will soon signal you to stop smoking often.
II you will ask any Fatima smoker he will tell yon
that Fatimas make him "feel mcan''no matter
how many he smokes
That is why Fatimas are considered The most sensible
cigarette by such large majority of smokers 1fnd
Haf rs probably the main reason 7ciy h0rdly any
Fad smokers S7cch They like sensible cigarette
and one with good pure taste to it.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30

many and Becker passed all of h
life here.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-07-30
; CHINESE TAKEN
TOLOS ANGELES

The 2 Chinese who were arrested
here Wednesday by Inspector Mus
grave of the CaleXico Immigration
service were taken to Los Angeles yes
terday in the custody of ? immigra-
ton officers. They will be hailed be
fore the federal court and face pos
sible deportation.
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Pianos moved with best of care any
where in valley. Ed Royce.-Adv.
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rs n" o"1 sd'f4f Auarlei a, tie fan,ns B1
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BALTIMORE Is INDIGNANT

The report of vice committee
named some years ago by Governor
Goldsborough, arousing the indignation
or Baltimore, to some extent precip-
ltated sharp veering of public in
terest from flesh of horses to sins Of
the flesh.
Men OF Baltimore declare that while
immoral conditions might prevail, it
was with gross eXaggersltion that the
purity squad" declared that annual
ly 10000 babies are conveniently made
away with, and that every citizen has
fallen victim to the wiles of the sor-
ceress. In brief, Baltimore defends
itself by stating that conditions which
prevail are identical with conditions
which prevail in every other Ameri-
can city.
Because of alleged promiscuous re-
quests hailing from every state in the
union, local newspaper has made eff
forts to ascertain whether or not other
governors will follow the lead of the
chief executive of Maryland. Up to the
present time no other governor has
gone on record, and If what the paper
says is true. expression of intense re-
lief are coming from all the various
sections And in this connection it is
interesting to note that a public Of
ficial' of Alabama is alleged to have
written that secret crime does not pre-
vail down SOUTH" that the Lotharios
are apparently content merely to flirt,
and that there is no danger of "our
sane executive proceeding on the hor-
rid path blazed by Goldsborough.'
BACK TO ROOSEVELT
But despite the other topics with
which Washington has been en-
thralled. interest has Invariably re-
turned to the Gary dinner it's prob
able Significance, and the plans of Col
onel Roosevelt.
On the part of the IL Millionaire
celebrants, silence reigns. and as the
old readers with Pathological effect
We're wont to add, mot a sound is
heard"
1t is the consensus of opinion, how
ever, that if the dinner was not
planned with the specific purpose OF
nominating Colonel Roosevelt to the
command of the plutocratic hosts, it
was planned for the purpose of con-
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BIRMINGHAM NOT LISTED AS
AMONG "MURDEROUS CITIES"
Insurance Journal in Washington Puts Memphis at Head OF
Crime Centers, But Birmingham Does Not Appear
in List of IS Cities With s'Unenviable Records
BY HUGH w. ROBERTS

Washington, December 25-(Special AN
insurance journal, The Spectator, issued
in Washington, names Memphis as the
most murderous city in America and
contrary to the perpetual criticism of
certain Alabama "uplifters," in a list of
more than IS cities with "unenviable rec
ords." Birmingham does not appear.
Statistics for the decade, 1904-1913. are
given. and the first six cities mentioned
as crime centers' are In every respect
typically southern, and the seventh,
Louisville. is in part, at least. southern.
In Memphis, an average of more than
63 people out of every 100000 are, accord
ing to the statistics, killed, and the jour-
nal declares that terrible state of in
difference to human life is shown in
Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina.
Louisiana and Kentucky. 1t is shown that
murder throughout the country is on the
increase, and that the favorite weapon
for use in taking life is the pistol.
1t will be noted from the following table
arranged in the order of Killings" to-
gether with the rate per 100000 popula-
ton, that New York Manhattan and the
Bronx, ranks sixteenth:
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ROBBERY OF STOCK
EFFECTED WITH EASE
$500, of Securities Stolen
From Mail Pouch at
Wilmington

Wilmington, Del, December 25-Four
hundred thousand dollars in stock certifi-
Gates We're stolen from registered mail
pouch here late last night while in transit
in a covered wagon from the Wilmington
postoffice to the Pennsylvania railroad
station. The bag contained stock certifi-
Gates of the Dupont, Hercues and Atlas
Power companies. General Motors COM
pany and railroad companies to the value
of $75O,000 but $s50,000 of the securities
were subsequently found hidden in the
vehicle.
Albert Johnson and Earl johnson, ne
groes, drivers of the wagon, were arrested
and held in default of bail for hearing
next Thursday The men are believed.
according to the police. to have permitted
the robbers to ride in the wagon from the
postoffice to the station. during which
time they were able to cut open the mail
pouches and select the negotiable securi
ties. The negroes were employed by the
firm which has the contract for carrying
mails between the postoffice and the rail-,
road station. =
The stock, some of which belongs to the
Dupont company and some to New York
brokers, was en- route to New York.
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NISH SURRENDERED
BY DOUGLASS DOLD
Young Americans Members of An Automobile Re-
lief Squad Have Thrilling Adventure In Servia.
Germans Acted AS Brutes

New York, December 25.-It was an
American who surrendered the city of
Nish, Serbia, to the invading Bulgarian
army after the Servian forces had re-
treated, according to a story told today
by Douglass NJ Dod of this city, who
has just returned to his home after spend
ing several months in Servia. bold and
his brother, Elliott w. Dold, sons of an
alienist, left here in June as members of
an automobile squad, attached to a relief
expedition sent out to aid the Servians.
Douglass M. Dold, who was in charge of
the squad, was stricken blind at Nish as
result of the hardshps, overwork and
privation he endured there, and it was on
this account that he and his brother re-
turned.
Douglass NJ. Dold said that when it was
realized that Nish would be captured,
Servian regiment, the Twentieth Punk,
mutinied, killing their colonel and looting
houses. The soldiers who, he said, wasted
the stores of alcohol and quinne which
were used for the sick and wounded, and
took 2400 pairs of shoes which were among
the supplies. We're painstaking in leaving
the women alone.
After the regiment disappeared the peo-
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THREE SUBJECTS
ARE UPPERMOST
IN WASHINGTON
CHRISTMAS WEEK
Continued from Page One>

the addition of horseflesh to their menus
would be simply a return to the dishes of
their native lands.
An enterprising proprietor of Penn
sylvania avenue restaurant served no.
tice today that should Washington fol-
low in the footsteps of esthetic New
YORK he would extend from the front
of his place of business an electric
sign containing the following:
Colt outlets, 20 cents
Old horse sausage and buckwheat
cakes. 10 cents.
Stallion steak, planked, 35 cents.
Prime ribs of pony with mashed DO
tatoes, 80 cents.
Percheron porterhouse, aux truf-
files so cents
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"Detained"

London, December 21.-Carl Menke, Ger.
man consul at Birmingham for many
years previous to the war, and his bust.
ness partner, Carl Sporn, have been de-
tanned and removed to London, presum.
ably for internment.
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to the crew of the battleship New York
lying at the navy yard here, praising the
men for the generous spirit displa we'd by
them in dining and entertaining 100 or
phaned children aboard the warship. The
bluejackets subscribed $500 to pay the ex-
penses of the feast and provide gifts for
their little guests.
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More Bunk

Berlin December 25.-(By wireless to
Tuckerton. 1.-The professors of the Aus
trian universities according to the Over
seas News Agency, have signed mani
fssto asking the government to establish
q fter the war permanent and close COM
mercial relations with Germany.
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spring to defeat some one of the sew
eral projects entertained or initiated
by President Wilson.
And in either event the colonel has
aligned himself. according to the gem
eral view with predatory wealth as
against the interests Of the people
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pie appealed to the Bishop of Nish to in
duce Douglass Dold to surrender it to the
Bulgarians and asked for protection.
When the Bulgarians neared the city
Dold, the bishop and throng of young
women bearing garlands of flowers went
out to meet them A white flag was raised
and an officer commanding the Buigarians
rushed forward.
The Bishop introduced Dold a an Amer
lean.
Il showed my passport" said Dold,
land asked for protection of the city and
people and for the hospital stores. After
got through he bowed respectfully and
his men behaved themselves splendidly
while in the city. There was no disorder
until the Germans began to arrive, and
then pandemonium broke loose. Their
conduct was worse than that of the Ser
Wan mutineers. Destruction and loot were
on all sides.
when the exodus from Nish began the
agricultural society turned over to me
its belongings and Sir Ralph Paget placed
in my care the entire relief supplies. Men
tried to give me outright their hotels and
places of business and frantic women i'm
plored me to marry them in order to pro-
tect them from the invaders through my
passport. 1t was then that / was suddenly
stricken blind OF course, l was then use
less and in the way"
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THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, December 25.-ForecaSt for
Alabama: Fair Sunday and probably
Monday; rising temperature.
Georgia: Fair Sunday and Monday;
rising temperature Monday.
Tennessee: Fair and somewhat warmer
Sunday; Monday unsettled, probably fol-
lowed by rain.
Mississippi: Fair and somewhat warmer
Sunday; Monday fair.
Washington, December 25.-The weather
bureau tonight issued the following storm
warning:
Change to northwest storm warning,
10 p. M, Cape Hatteras to Boston, Storm
over the middle Atlantic states moving
northeast. Strong northwest winds, prob
ably reaching gale force
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LAND Of GRAVES AND.
TRENCHES, RUIN AND.
CONFLICT IS POLAND
Except Where the Germans
Are in Control Only
Havoc of Untitled
D. Lands Is Seen

Warsaw, November 23.-(Correspondence
of the Associated Press Even more de-
pressing than parts of Belgium and East
Prussia, the worst parts, is Poland-a land
of graves and trenches of ruin and de-
struction on scale that has been
wrought nowhere else by the war. The
conflict has been waged back and forth
across the ancient kingdom so long that
agriculture has had but little chance, and
except in those sections where the Ger
man forces have been in control for some
time, the fields are barren and untitled,
SCARED by miles of earthworks.
ORDER AND QUIET
From the East Prussian boundary to ap-
proximately the old Rawka positions there
is visible the maximum amount of order
and peaceful quiet. At the Rawl<a, how
ever, the interminable graves with their
helmet-adorned crosses, the deep slashes
in the earth that once were trenches but
no ware temporary "homes" of countless
refugees, and the succession of burned
and ruined villages begin.
For miles between Alexandrowo on the
border and Warsaw and between Warsaw
and LODI, the old trenches line the rail-
road tracks-while graves, individual and
common, line the trenches. Eastward of
Warsaw, however, the trenches virtually
STOP for the Russians moved fast once
they abandoned the capital of Poland.
The trenches stop, but the devastated viii
lagos do not. Rather they increase in
number.
The Poles from time immemorial have
been accustomed to building their
matched cottages-huts would be a bet
ter word-close together. In consequence
countless villages have been reduced to
forlorn rows of chimneys which being of
brick and stoutly built, have resisted the
flames.
STRIPPED OF YOUNG MEN
Unlike the cities of Poland, the country
seems to have been stripped of young
men. One sees little else than peasant
women barefoot, ill-clad who struggle
with bundles of wood through the mud
and who generally avert their eyes as
strangers pass.
The Germans, partly for their own ben
efit partly to give employment to the
Poles, have done much to put the notori-
ously bad roads in shape. They have also
altered the railroad tracks from the Rus
sian to the German gauge--a stupendous
work, for all the main lines are now
double track, and at the important points
huge yards have had to be built to con-
form to military needs.
The destruction in many parts of Po-
land is so general that in village after
village not a house is standing Along
the railroad lines freight cars are being
used as houses
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London, December 25-Today's Monte
negrin official statement says:
There has been little change in the
Montenegrin front since December q
The Austrians are entrenching on the en-
tire front in Sanjak. They have driven
away the whole civilian population from
the right bank of the Tara
THE enemy attacked our positions near
Berane. but were repulsed with heavy
losses leaving behind large number of
prisoners from the Nineteenth Hungarian
battalion"
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through an open drain. The walls were
of chalk as hard as flint Unlike the
mud trenches in Artois, there were
no slides to block the miniature ca
nal. 1t was as firm and compact as
whitewashed stone cell From the
main drain on either side ran other
drains. cul de sacs. cellars, trapdoors
and ambushes. Overhead hung balls of
barb wire that, should the French
troops withdraw, could be dropped and
SO block the trench behind them. If
you raised your head they playfully
snatched off your cap. 1t was like
ducking under innumerable bridges OF
live wires.
The drain opened at last into a
wrecked town. It's ruins were COM
plete 1t made Pompeii look like
furnished flat. The officer of the day
Joined us here. and to him the lieu
tenant resigned the post of guide. My
new host wore steel helmet. and at
his belt dangled a mask against gas.
He led us to the end of what had been
a street, and which was now barri
caded with huge timbers, steel doors,
like those to gambling house. intri-
cate cats cradles of wire, and solid
steel plates.
DOWN SLIPPERY STEPS
To go back seemed the only way
open. But the officer in the steel cap
Owed through slit in the iron girders,
and as he disappeared, beckoned. I
followed down a well that dropped
straight into the very bowels of the
earth. 1t was very dark, and only
cross pieces of wood offered slippery
footing. Into the darkness, with hands
pressed against the well, and with feet
cropping for the log steps, we tobog
gained down. down, down. We turned
into tunnel, and, by the slant Of the
ground, knew we We're now mounting
There was square of sunshine, and
we walked out, and into a graveyard
1t was like a dark change in the thea
tire. The last scene had been the ruins
of town, a gate like those of the
middle ages, studded with bolts rein
forced with steel plates, guarded by
men at-arms in steel casques, and then
the dark change into a graveyard, with
grass and growing flowers, gravel
walks and hedges.
The graves were old the monuments
and urns above them moss covered, but
one was quite new. and the cross above
it said that it was the grave of a
German aviator. AS they passed 1T the
French officers saluted We entered a
trench as straight as the letter Y. And
at each twist and turn We were COW
cred by an eye in steel door An
attacking party advancing would have
had as much room in which to dodge
that eye as in a bath tub, One man
with his magazine rifle could have
halted dozen. And when in the news
papers YOU read that one man has cap
tured 20 prisoners, he probably was
looking at them through the peep hole
in one of those steel doors
We zigzagged into a cellar, and be-
low the threshold of someone's front
door. The trench led directly under
it, The house into which the door had
onened was DESTROYED possibly those
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Daniels Commends

New York. December 25.-Secretary of
the Navy Daniels sent a wireless message
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Local Data
Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made at Uni
ted States weather bureau stations dur
ing the "a hours ending p. M, 10th me-
ridian time, December rs, 1915:
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