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Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
ALL.E:GEODRUG
.PEDOLERS IN
BREAK FROM
CITY BAST|LE.
Twenty-four Hours After
Their Arrest in a Raid,
Pair Escape From Jail
and Disappear.

Twenty-four hours after they had
been arrested as drug addicts and
peddlers, following a sensational raid
made by city police officers, William
Scruggs, better known as Billy
and Dick Wolfe, were the principals
in a jailbreak which brought them
their freedom.
With the aid of a knife and per-
sistent hammering on the sides OF
the building, the pair loosened some
planks forming the wall of the non
descript bastiie and escaped. 1t is
believed that some friends, taking
advantage of the absence of guards
smuggled the knife in to the men.
No trace of the fugitives was dis
covered until this morning, when a
report was made to officers that a
Ford automobile had been stolen from
Ray Edgar. 1t is believed the men
are making their wav over the des-
ert to the Coast in this car.
Messages containing descriptions
of the stolen car and the escaped
prisoners have been dispatched to Of
ficers along the routes to the coast
and inland and it is believed that be-
fore many hours they will again be
apprehended.
Warrants charging them with
breaking jail and damaging a public
building were issued this morning by
Justice Isaac Mayfield. The penalty
for conviction on the series of
charges would be five years in the
penitentiary, the officers declare.
The pair came into the clutches of
the police during a raid made on a
shack located on Broadway between
Sixth and Seventh streets. This house
and it's occupants have been under
suspicion for some time. Saturday
the belief of the officers that the
place was a meeting place for drug
habitues was confirmed and the raid
arranged.
Smashing into the place Marshal
Toney and his deputies, c. J. Hill
and Frank Cleveland arrested
Scruggs and Wolfe. A. third man in
the place. who was recognized by
the officers. ESCAPED. The police de-
clare that they found and confiscat-
ed about 800 worth of morphine. be-
lievad to have been smuggled in from
across the line, and supply OF
needles and all the other parapher-
MALTA of drug dens.
Wolfe. who has been in the Valley
but few weeks. was identified hv
two witnesses rs being the man who
recently robbed the Riverside room
ing house. The officers state that
Scruges and Wolfe have been disros-
inp OF dope to addicts for some time
anl were probably the local repre-
sentatives of drug ring which the
police have been battling for nearly
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
GROWERS AGREE
ON FORMATION Of
ALFALFA ASSOC

Formation of an alfalfa growers
association here to Affiliate with g
state organization fo4-tf1e purpose OF
bolstering up the milo maize market
was decided on at a meeting OF
growers held at the courthouse late
Saturday. The growers, represent.
ing some $4,000 acres, met in re-
sponse to a call from County Farm
Adviser w. o. Johnson and Develop
.ment Agent Don C. Bitter.
Colonel Harris Weinstock, state
market director. will be in the Val.
ley for the week of January to ad-
dress audiences of ranchers on the
subject of organization. His sched-
ule follows:
Monday afternoon, January 6
Westmoreland.
Monday evening, aJnuary 6, Cali
patria. :, '''
Tuesday afternoon. aJnuary 7,
Brawley.
Wednesday afternon, January s.
CaleXico. as
Thursday afternon, aJnuary 9, Ell
Centre.
Friday afternoon, January TO-
Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
2 RANCHERS
CHARGEDW|TH
0bSTRUCT|NG
PUBLIC ROAD
Are S t ed on Complaint
From the District AttOr-
ney's Office, for Alleged
Trespass.

A legal battle involving some
unique points of fact and law will
be fought out in Justice Isaac May
fields court on January 8, when
the charges against OHM Doe Corda
the charges again John Doe Corda
ranchers of the Calexico district,
come up for hearing.
The two brothers, who recently
purchased valuable tract of land
in Water District No. 6, are facing
trial on two charges-trespassing
and illegally obstructing public
highway. They were arrested on
complaints issued from the office of
The district attorney.
The prosecution alleges that the
ranchers have taken forcible posses
sion of section of road thtat has
been used as highway for the past
ten years, and that they have not
only fenced this strip of land, but
have cut down and destroyed trees
along it.
Determined to fight the case and to
enforce their possession of the land
the brothers have entered a plea of
not guilty and have retained Attor-
ney Joseph F. Seymour to represent
them. They declare that the land
has never been dedicated as a high
way and belongs to the land they re-
Gently purchased
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
Seeley Plans
improvements

Residents of Seeley have called a
mass meeting to be held at the
schoolhouse at that place tomorrow
evening, for the purpose of organlz-
ing an improvement club and outlin-
ing a campaign of improvements to
be put into effect during the year
1919.
Besides number of Seeley speak
ers, Don c. Bitter, county develop
ment agent, and /. 7. Sparks, COM
mercial agent of the Southern Pa
cific, have promised to speak. Mr..
Bitter will talk on organization and
Mr. Sparks is expected to tell of
some of the things in store for See
ley during the next year.
The meeting is to be attended by
both men and women, and invitations
are being sent out to all residents of
the surrounding country who are in
terested in the upbuilding of the
community to attend. After the or
ganization of the improvement club
is perfected and the good resolutions
for the New Year have been recited,
there will be a social program, with
refreshments. The meeting is to
wind un in a great New Year watch
sparty.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
Liberty Bonds
Taken as Cash

Liberty bonds will be accepted as
cash on purchases made at the Treas
ter & Abbey auction sale in the No
Ian corral on the west line of the
FL Centre city limits on Thursday,
January 2. The sale, in charge OF
Colonel J. G. Bradley as auctioneer,
will start promptly at 1890 o'clock:
The sale marks the closing out of
a partnership and the offering of rs
head of horses and mulese, all high
class stock. The stock will be sold
without limit or reserve.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
WATER NJ EET|NG
GIVES AD0|P T|0N
TO RES0L LUT|0N

The following resolution was
adopted at the Saturday afternoon
meeting of the newly organized Wa
ter Protective League, held in the
Tulane theatre:
"Whereas, it appears that there is
a demand for an expression by bal
lot by he people of Imperial Irriga-
tion District relative to the adNisa
bility of full cooperation between
the Imperial Irrigation District and
the United States government in the
financing and control of reclamation
in Imperial county, the control of
flood water in Mexico, The unifinica
ton of the Colorado river; now, there
fore, be it
"Resolved, That at the election
January 21. 1919, proposition by
separate ballot be submitted to the
electors of the Imperial Irrigation
District to request the1 Secretary of
the Interior and the Congress of the
United States to include the lmpe-
rial Valley, both improved and un-
improved lands, in a unified Colorado
river project, which by appropriate
federal legislation shall provide (a)
for storage of water f'in the upper
Colorado for irrigatioI of arid lands
and development of power; (b) for
connection with Laguna dam under
conditions as shalD be approved by
the Secretary of the Interior; (c)
adequate provision for the perma-
nent and sufficient control of the
fiSsd. fiUsd men"1S| of the lower Colorado
"Whereas, there is an effort being
made to induce voters to support tins
proposal on the false representation
that it provides for control of our
irrigation system by the Reclamation
Sservice; and
q "Whereas, there is in the resolu-
tion no word that by direct state
ment or implication provides for. or
suggests the Reclamation Service;
and
"Whereas, some of those persons
| who are foremost in the advocacy OF
this proposal in the past have sup
ported proposal for the government
! of the United States to build. at the
Continued on Page Two)
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
DIST A 7 I n !
FRAMES NEW
GOVERNMENT.
BILL FOR CO.
Measure Goes to the Legis-
lature for Enactment and
Provides for Adjustment
of Salaries.

District Attorney E. R. Simon to-
day began the drafting ofLa new
county bill for Imperial county, en-
bodying the recommendations of the
grand jury on the readjustment of
salaries to governmental employees
and providing for the creation of a
few new offices.
This measure will be dispatched to
Assemblyman j. Stanley Brown for
introduction before the legislature for
that body's approval of the recon-
mended changes. 1t is unlikely that
any opposition to the measure will
develop and it will probably become
law within the next sixty days.
County officials decline to discuss
the details of the bill, but it is un-
derstood that it meets the demands
of county employees for increases in
salaries and gives additional depu-
ties to at least three or four offices
and departments.
One section of the measure will
provide for the creation of a new de-
partment of the Superior court to
handle the constantly increasing cal
endar of actions filed in this county
The bench for this second department
would be filled by appointment by
the governor until the next general
election, when the voters have the
privilege of designating the Judge.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
B0[DR0bbERS
SAFE
FRO N RI CE
HARDWARE CO.

Deputies from the sneriff's office
were in Calipatria this afternon in
vestigating one of the boldest and
most unusual robberies ever recorded
in the police annals of the county.
Stealing a truck from a ranch ad-
joining the little town, the burglars
descended on the store of the Nice
Hardware Company, secured entrance
by forcing the back door and carried
the safe off in the automobile: The
safe weighed about 500 pounds and
because of this fact the police be-
lieve that at least three men were IN
volved in the robbery.
At a late hour the safe, opened
with axes or other heavy instruments,
was discovered.
According to members of the hard
ware firm, the safe contained not
more than $50 or $40 in cash, a
number of stamps and some valuable
papers. go
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
WAR AIMS
OF EN(;H
APP| F|()vE:D
B ! Y ((1 {
Chamber 'Of Deputies Gives
a Vote of Confidence, Af-
ter Stormy Debate, to
Premier Clemenceau.
(By Associated Press)

Paris, Dec. 30-Premier Clemen-
ceau was given a vote of confidence
in the Chamber of Deputies, after a
stormy debate in which the war aims
of France were outlined by Foreign
Minister Pichon, and the premier in
dicated his adherence to the "old sys-
tenn called the balance of power" "
Premier Clemenceau said this system
Scenes to be condemned nowadays,
but if such balance had preceded the
war; if England, the United States,
France and Italy had agreed, saying
that whoever attempted them at
tackled the whole world, war would
not have occurred. This system OF
alliance, which l do not renounce,
will be my guiding thought at the
peace conference if your confidence
sends me there"
He made plain his intention to sup
port England in her position regard
inc freedom of the seas.
He declared that President Wilson
approved his attitude.
The premier indicated that the for
nation of league of nations might
l.e- carried ont eoncerdantly with the
drafting of treaty of peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
|NOE N \ | | Y.
IS
SETTLED, SAYS
LEADER
{ By Associated Press

Berlin, Dec. 30.-Mathias Erzber-
ger, member of the German armis-
tice delegation, said the question of
indemnities had been settled between
Germany and the United States and
the Allies. He said the Germans
signed the armistice on condition
that there be restrictions as to in
IDENTITIES. He said each nation it.
self must bear war damages and war
costs unless expressly mentioned in
the notes which were exchanged
He said that Germany would be
obliged to indemnify the districts
which she occupied in France and
Belgium and to pav all losses inflict-
ed upon civilian populations.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
Berlin Cabinet Split.


Berlin. Dec. 3O.-r'oreign Minister
Haase, Minister of Social Policy
Barth and Demobilization Minister
Dittman retired from the cabinet at
midnight Saturday night after the
central council had decided against
the Independents on majority of TIE
questions the Independents had sub
mitted for consideration. Premier
Ebert, Finance Minister Scheide-
mann and Minister of Publicity Lans-
berg are now in charge of the rev.
olutionary government.
The Cabinet and the Council of
Soldiers and Workers sat in confer
ence throughout all of Saturday af-
ternoon in what was cross-exam-
ination by the council of the cabinet
on the cabinets recent a5ministra-
ton. Afterward the council went
into executive session and sat until
late at night.
The impression now is that the
majority Socialists will form a new
government with the assistance of
the Liberal bourgeoise.
Herr Barth told the Associated
Press that his faction does not APP
prove the tactics of the Spartacus
Socialists or violence in any form.
He permitted the inference that HUI
go Haase's party does not at pres
ent contemplate a counter-revolution.
Herr Barth concluded with the state
ment that the general economic and
food situation chiefly would deter
mine the future course of events.
(By Associated Press,
A
miners of the Dusseldorf district
fought pitched battle with soldiers
protecting a mine, according to adj
vices received here. Several We're
killed or wounded before troops arr
rested the miners.
(By Associated Press)
With the American Army of Oe-
cupation, Dec. 30.-Christian Don
Hauser, young German aviator, who
claimed he shot down Quentin Roose-
welt, told a correspondent OF the bat
tle He said:
81 was member of a party OF
siv German aviators who on July Ia
sighted six American machines east
of Fere en- Tardenois. One Ameri-
can who, | learned later, was Roose-
velt, was ahead of the rest of the
squadron and off to one side. lie
came straight at me and | swooped
under him. We seesawed, peppering
each other. trying to gain the advan-
tage by climbing above each other
Roosevelt made several loops. adj
mired his gameness. A second later
he began to shoot and | felt the bui-
lets striking my plane. Then
mounted above him and swooped to
within twenty meters of him, firing
all the time. saw my opponent
collapse and his machine began 10
fall"
Donhauser is on-commissioned
officers who speaks English and who
has relatives living in Michigan. He
is credited with thirty aerial veto
ries.
(By Associated Press)
Berlin, Saturday, Dec. 2S.-If
n. A n
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
WILSON TO
SENATOR ACCUSES
BURLESON.
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press) 4
WashingtOn-SenatOr Hitch
cock declared in the Senate To-day
that Postmaster General lBurle-
son came very close TO bpeaking
faith with Congress "bY taking
control of the cables after the
armistice was signed."f
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
CIVIL STRIFE
R0CKS7URKEY
ACCORDING TO
ATHENS WIRES
MObs Riot and Burn Portion
of Capitol, While Parlia-
ment and Young Turks
Quarrel.
(By Associated Press)

London, Dec. 0.-Disturbances in
Constantinople continue.
Great fires have broken out in the
Parmakkapol quarter of Pera, across
the Golden Horn from the city, and
in the sububr of Kadi Keiu, according
to Athens.
1t is reported that the Turkish
Chamber of Deputies has been dis
solved as the result of opposition of
Young Turk deputies.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
CANDIDATES FOR
BOOST DIRECTORS
ARE NOMINATED

The Nominating Committee, elect
ed by the members of the Chamber
of Commerce on the 18th, submit the
following list from which eleven are
to be elected on January 10 as direc-
tors for the ensuing year:
F. B. Fuller
j. E. Davis
f. E. Clements
J. l.. Travers
Clifford Coggins
|. T. Sparks
George w. Anderson
Will S. Fawcett
J. M. OFT
j. F. Seymour, Jr.
w. |. Stone
Pul Black
w. G. Driver
F. ]. Gianola
J. X. Hermon
John Perrin
C. E. Pitzer
E. d. White
Arthur Rath
@. f. Ohmstede
A. C. Johnston
A. C. Casteel
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
GOVT. TO CEASE
WARTIME PRICE
FIXING ON WE'D,
(By Associated Press)

Washington, Dec. 30.-The Depart
ment of Justice will regard as in re-
straint of free competition concen-
trated price fixing by any industry
after the government ceases to ex-
ercise it's wartime price-fixipg pow
ers Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
I. w. w. TRIAL
POSTPONED.

(By Associated Press)
SacramentO-The In d ustrial
Workers of the World cOnspir-
ICY trial in the federal court has
been postponed for week be-
cause Juror is ill.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
MAURITANIA DOCKS
WITH SAMMIES.

New YOrk-The Mauretania
arrived here today bringing all
of the saith infantry Eighty
seventh division, except Com
pany IL.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
j. s. TRANSPORT
GOES ON ROCKS
IN B|SCAY BAY
(By Associated Press)

London, Dec. 3O.-The United
States transport Tenadores, which
left New York for Brest on Decem-
ber Is, stranded on rocks in the
Bay of Biscay, those on board being
rescued, according to advices.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
DEPORTATION FOR
iNTERNED ALIENS.

by Associated Pressl
WashingtOn-The Department
of Justice will recommend depOr-
tatiOn of most of the interned
enemy aliens.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
PRESIDE 7
j. s.
WAR AIMS
in SPEECH
Only a Just and Lasting
Peace For America, Is
President Wilson'S Idea.
(BV Associated Pressl

Manchester, De-. 30.-"America is
not interested in European politics.
She is interested in a partnership9of
right between America and Europe y
President Wilson declared in speech
receiving the freedom of the city.
America is not interested merely in
people in Europe, but in peace
throughout the world" He added:
"If the future has nothing to Of
fer us but new attempt to keep the
world right by balance of power,
the United States takes no interest
in it. because she will join no combi-
nation of power which is not COM
'bination Of us ALL"
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30

Coblenz, Dec. 30-The steadily in
creasing number of unemployed men
in Coblenz and other towns in the
occupied area are causing the Amer
lean officers anxiety. Many of the
idle are discharged German soldiers.
In the settlement which lies Just
ahead something more difficult than
ever attempted had to be accom-
plished, the president said-a genuine
concert of mind and purpese-but
keen international conscientiousness
would make it easy There is great
voice of humanity abroad in the
world (which he who cannot hear is
deaf We are not obeying the man
date of party or politics. eW are
obeying the mandate of humanity"
He said if the world is to remain a
body of friends. there must be an
easy and constant method of confer
ence, so troubles can be taken when
they are little, and not allowed to
grow big.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30

This is the American Dist;n-
guished Service Cross. the medal
which President Wilson mill pin on
The breast Of General Pershing on
Christmas Dap. As con,mander-in-
chief of the American army, Presi-
dent Wilson is the only man of
higher rank than Pershing and
therefore The only one to decorate
him.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
.B0[SHEV|K|
AR M|E 6. IN
.ADvANCE0N
GIT !
Russian Red Forces Cap
ture Wilma From Polish
Patriots in an Engage
ment Sunday.
(By Associated Pressl

London, Dec. 3O.-Bolshevik forces
have captured Wilma, Copenhagen
dispatchh, quoting Petrograd, reports.
Copenhagen advices report that the
Central Council of Soldiers and
Workmen of Germany have appoint
ed Herr Noseke, governor of Kiel;
Herr Leob, editor of the Breslau
Volkswacht, and Herr Wissell, a
member of the reichstag, cabinet
members of replace Haas, Barthe and
Dittman, who retired Saturday night,
according to eBrlin advices.
London, Dec 3O.-Firing by Ger
man officers on an Allied automo-
bile carrying an American flag was
the cause of street fighting in Po-
sen last Friday, says dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Co
penhagen. The Germans were de-
feated in the fighting. About 1873
persons, including number of wom-
en- and children, We're killed during
the rioting
Amsterdam, Dec. 30.-The sailors
council of the German admiralty and
the marine general staff have issued
4 declaration that they will be faith
full to the government in view of the,
~difficait times Germany is experien-
cling.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30
(By Associated Press)

Paris, Dec. 30.-It has been def
nitely arranged for President Wilson
to leave Paris Wednesday night fol
Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-12-30

CONTINUED on Page Two.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-31
!; Tells HolU to Stop a
Bad Cough
Surprising results from this fsnous
Old homemade gyrup. Easily
prepared and costa little.

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tickle, hoarseness, or difficult breath.
ing, or II your child wakes up during
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