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Evening star., 1921-05-02
protest Radical In,priaOnme ent.

MEXICO CITY.-Protests against
the Imprisonment Of radicals in the
United States. Hungary, Spain and
Italy and demands that the present
Mexican government take definite ac-
ton with regard to certain labor re-
forms were voiced today during the
May day demonstration staged by the
Confed Grafton Of Laborers Of Mexico.
The parade was disappointing in
point of numbers and was lacking in
enthusiasm. although several Ameri-
can agitators attempted to harangue
the crowd with a TRADE against
American capitalism.
Today's demonstration was under
direction Of the labor group known
as yellow" as contraSted with the
red" The former are less radical and
their program calls for gradual
evolution accomplished through edu-
cation of the masses.
Montreal Demonstration Quiet.
MOETREAL-The socialists of Mon
treal held their third annual May day
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
TRAVEL DURING
BIC STORM WAS
HARD SHEDDING
Fruit Inspector Has PerilOus
Trin OUer SaltOn Sea Route
Coming Into valley

Mud besmeared, clothes torn, hag-
gard in appearance, Ralph II. Gray
of the Department of Agriculture
Sacramento, and a party Of travellers
arrived in Brawley from Riverside
coming by the Salton Sea route Tues
day. Gray is an inspector Of fruits
and vegetables and it was necessary
to get to Imperial Valley and to get
here in his automobile. The owners
of three other cars were in the same
predicament.
They agreed that they would travel
together, the four auto parties to help
each other out Of the bad places. De-
velopments proved conclusively that
la single car could never have made it.
The going wasn't so bad until they
reached the Palm Springs section, al
Though many detours were necessary.
Near Palm Springs the mountain tor
rents were still pouring down across
the highway and the cars had to take
a running start to get across. In
spots the semblance of pavement had
disappeared.
After getting to Indio it wasn't SO
bad until they reached the three wash
es now being bridged. There the
waters had caused filling in and preci
pices. They took shovels and the
boards they had brought along and
brgded across.
At this point they saw the radiator
of great Packard sticking its nose
out of the sand in the middle wash.
1t evidently had been abandoned and
later the sand had filled around it.
Three other cars were in almost as
bad plight.
When the party reached the Trifo
leum canal and the end of the pave
ment it was 4:30 in the afternoon,
They left Riverside at 6 in the morn
ing. From 4:30 until 1880 they strug-
gled along and finally reached the
Brawley pavement. The worst road
was some six miles northwest of West
moreland.
Two or three days of sunshine will
make them passable for single ears,
but Gray advises no motorist to try
it alone yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
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DEMONSTRATIONS
OF vine PRUNING

Arrangements have been made by
the Agricultural Extension Service
for Imperial County for series of
vine pruning demonstrations to be
held in five different parts OF the val
ley January 9, 10 and Il. Professor
f. 7. Bioletti, chief of the Division Of
Viticulture of the College of Agricul-
ture of the University of California,
will lecture and demonstrate the most
approved practices. Those who have
heard this expert will turn out in full
force, as he is recognized as one of
the foremost authorities on grapes III
the world.
The first series of lectures and dem
onstrations will be on the Tamarack
ranch, which lies 112 miles west and
2 miles north, l y miles and i "A miles
north of Imperial, and from Brawley
2 miles west and then south 3 312 miles
along the Tamarack canal. The start
will be made at 9 o'clock sharp Mon
day, January 8, when Professor Bio
etti will start his lecture and demon
lstraton on pruning of one year old
Malaga vines. This will be followed
by a ecture and demonstration OF
stalking and tying one year old Ma
laga vines. Pruning two year old
Malagas and one and two year old
Thompson seedless will then be dem.
onstrated.e This will be followed by
lecture and demonstration on proper
methods of erecting trellic for {
Thompson seedless vineyard. Lunch
will be served at the Tamarack RN
for 35 cents to accommodate those at
tending the demonstration.
In the afternoon, Professor Biolettl
will lecture and demonstrate on "Se-
curing Proper Cuttings for Plant
ing" ''Preparation and Handling o.
Cuttings for Planting" Making q
Bed for Callasing Cuttings" "Callas-
ing Cuttings for Vineyard Planting"
Due to the enormous demand for
rooted vines the supply was exhaust
ed early in the season. Many intend
ing planters will have to rely on cut
tings for setting out their vineyards,
and unless these are properly handled
there is grave danger that large
number will fail. The Importance of
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
NEEDS OF FARMERS
TOLD BY WALLACE

BOSTON, Dec. 30-Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace in an address be-
fore the Chamber of Commerce here,
offered several suggestions of things
that ought, in his opinion, to be done
to foster American agriculture.
Among them he declared that in the
administration of credit machinery,
whether by government agencies or
otherwise, the effect on agriculture
must be given more consideration
than in the past, and credit must be
made available to the farmer on terms
which the seasonal character of ag
Iricultural production makes necessary.
Improvement in marketing methods
through the organization of cooper
ative association should be permitted
and encouraged. Farm products
should be transported at the least pos
sibe costs.
Statistical information on agricul-
tural products at home and abroad
should be greatly extended, ana made
more generally available.
There should be decided Tightening
up of our policies of land settlement,
including those dealing with Teclama-
tion projects.
Painstaking study of the costs of
production and marketing of farm
crops should be made all along the
line, from the farmer to the consul
mer's table.
A better understanding of the forces
which influence prices is necessary
to the intelligent adjustment OF
production to the ends of consump-
ton. There should be systematic anc
constant study of foreign markets.
Federal supervision of such institu
tions as public stock yards and mar
ket agencies, grain exchanges, an'
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
POMELO PICKING
TO BEGIN MONDAY

The Barbara Worth packing plant
which has been closed for week by
the heavy rains, will resume opera.
tions Monday, when it is believed the
ground in the grapefruit orchards will
be sufficiently dry to permit picking.
The first car for 1922 will probably
90 out Tuesday night, billed to Los
Angeles. An order is in for another
carload for San Francisco, which viii
get the second car. The company has
shipped out for the season so far nine
carloads, between one and two thou
sand boxes by express, and has dis
posed locally of something near q
thousand sacks of culls.
Manager Steve Dolan, who returned
on this mornings train from Los An
geles, reports that the Barbafa
Worth grapefruit is the favorite po-
melo in that section. The only riva
the Imperial fruit has, he says, is the
Arizona product, and that is selling
for dollar less per box than the 10.
cal fruit. The Imperial fruit sells fol
from SIS to $5.25 per box.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
$4,000 BAIL
FIXED F D R
REL EASE
Of \ V|zE
Slayer of TOlbert Will Plead
to Murder Charge Next
Thursday; Extreme Prov
0cation, Says Court

AS soon as the attorneys and
friends of Andy Vie can arrange to
give bond in the sum of $4,000 for
his appearance to answer a charge OF
murder for the killing of John H. Tol.
bert, he will be released from the
county Jail, Judge M. w. Conkkng, sit
ting in Department l of the Superio.
Court, having fixed that amount this
morning.
Vie was arraigned before Judge
Conkling on the information issued
against him, shortly after court open
ed this morning. Deputy District AT.
torney C. E. Scott represented the
state and Attorney c. L. Brown APP
peared as representative of Vize.
As he was brought to the car of the
court, Attorney Brown waived the
reading of the information and moved
the court to fix the time for pleadn.,
to the charge for next Thursday and
also for the admission of the defen>.,-
ant to bail.
In his statement on the latter mo.
tion, Attorney Brown told the cour,
that Vie was a man of such cha.
acter and standing in the community
that he would appear for trial wheth.
er or not he had up one dollar for his
bail. Attorney Scott agreed that Viza
would appear for trial, even withou.
bail.
Judge Conkling fixed the time fct
the defendant to enter his plea on
next Thursday as requested and h
then stated that in view of the fact
that the evidence of the prosecution
showed extreme provocation it was
extremely doubtful if a verdict with
the death penalty attached would b.
returned in the event of the defend
ants conviction; and that all the law
contemplated in a criminal case was
the securing of the appearance of tn
defendant for trial. The court also
stated that in view of the statemen.
of the prosecuting attorney that h,
believed Vie would appear, even if M
bail was deposited, he was inclined tc
giant the motion for Vices release
that he belevecmfwypar hmhmbm-
bail.
Concluding, Judge Conkling stated
that he believed the sum of $4,000
would insure the appearance of tho
defendant at the trial of his case and
he so fixed the amount of the bail.
The court room was crowded with
friends of the defendant when he ap.
peared in court and he received many
expressions of confidence and supper:
in the few minutes allowed him befor,
his leturn to the county jail
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
NEW YEARS. WILL
B T GREAT DAY
IN HOLT WILLIE
CHy is TO Make Coming Fiesta
Greatest in History of the
Vuliey

With the storm signals being low
c.ed all over the Imperial Valley, the
local residents are insistent that the
original plans for a big New Years
fiesta be continued, and the big party
scheduled for January 2, 1922, be
'ushered in with the glory that only
the great Imperial Valley can give the
event, says the Holtville Tribune.
For many years, IN the earlier his
tory Of Holtville, there has been a
New Years fiesta, that was incom-
parable for the interest it called forth
and the great crowds attending.
The day will open at 10 o'clock in
the morning, with proper flourishes
and there will be races for fat men,
and fat women, and lean ones, too
There will be music by the Holtville
band, which made a remarkable rec
ord for itself on Christmas Eve at the
Community Christmas tree. There
will be a baseball game in the after
noon between Holtvile and Brawley
and there will be fistic bout for low
ers Of boxing.
There will be a concert in the al
ternoon, there will be racing in the
afternoon, there will be one of the
biggest barbecues that Holtvile has
ever had at noon, and fully two thou
sand persons from all parts of the
valley are expected to participate in
the huge affair, which will reflect
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
PRODUCTION
IN VALLEY
| n P A s 7
! { A R
Facts and Figures of Lead
ing Crops of County Show
1t to Be Richest Agricul-
tural Community

From the annual review of business.
industrial and economic conditions in
the lmperapl Valley, published by the
Los Angeles Times, the following lead
ing facts and figures about our big
producers are interesting, both for
reading and preservation for refer
ence:
Cantaloupes again took the lead in
number of carloads of single crop
shipped from the valley, with a total
Of 1867 cars from 1862 ac:es. At
an average price of $1.75 crate at
Imperial county points, this crop
brought home total of $G,54S, ,520
Closer attention to shipping and in
spection rules resulted in the sending
forth of a standard product which
found ready sale in every important
market east Of the Rockies. Prepar-
ations now being made indicate an
even greater crop Of cantaloupes for
1922.
Fifteen hundred acres of water
melons returned the growers moro
than $220,000, the melons selling in
the valley for $12 ton.
Early table grapes were shipped
from the Imperial Valley in 163 cars,
and vineyardists profited to the
tune of $268,950 Two thousand and
seventy-five acres produced table
grapes in 1921 and 1900 additional
acres of vines were planted. Vine
yards changed hands for $1,000 an
acre and the growers profit in some
instances was almost as much. A car
load sold in Chicago brought its own
er twenty -four cents pound, but the
average price was around fifteen
cents.
Iceberg lettuce, The variety best
grown in Imperial Valley, filled 342S
carloads in 1921, most of it shipped
before April l, and this winters crop
sold at the shipping point fer l,80C,-
O24, an average of $1.60 crate. This
all came from less than 10000 acres.
The lettuce planted this fall covered
nearly $4,000 acres and the railway
company is preparing to handle 5000
carloads of this crop.
Barley shipped in 1921 was value
at $1O7,500. The volume of grain fec
to stock was reported to be almost
euivalent to that shipped.
Tomato growing is rapidly develop
ing as an Imperial Valley industry Of
considerable value. This year tho
crop volume shipped to market reach
ed 276 cars and it is said almost half
this amount rotted in the fields be.
cause of the speed with which the
fruit ripens in the warm valley sun.
The estimated value of the tomatoo
shipped was $36S,5O0.
* y
An increase of more than 10000
acres in alfalfa brought the seasons
total acreage up to more than no.
600. From the valleys alfalfa fields
were shipped 1926 carloads of hay il
the first nine months of 1921, with q
conservative value of $102,600, and
during the same period ten times this
valume of hay was fed to feeder and
dairy stock.
In the first nine months of the yea
Imperial Valley dairy cows produced
and shipped 4,5OO,OOo pounds of but
ter, with by-products, including skim
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30

Limited mail service from the
United States to Russia has been se.
sumed after lapse of four years.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30

the like, is very necessary to the eff.
cient and impartial funetioning Of
such institutions.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
SLAIN MAN At
I | 4 JUANA
POSSIBLY
SP|ESMAN
Body of Man Murdered,
Robbed and Thrown i'm
River May Be That of Ell
Centran

Search for Al Spiesman, Ell Centro
young business man, who dropped
from sight at Seventh and Main
streets in Los Angeles last Sunday
night, has become statewide, but is
centering in San Diego today, where
yesterday afternoon the mutilated
body of a man of the general deScrip-
ton of Spiesman, was found i.oating
in the muddy waters of the Tia Juana
river.
There is no certainty that the body
found in the river is that of Spies
man. The clothing found on the body
was different from that worn by
Spiesman when he left FL Centre for
Los Angeles to spend the Christmas
holidays with his wife and mother; but
the body could have been stripped for
purpose of removing Identification
marks, and other clothing substituted
The face was so badly niultilated by
blows from blunt instrument that IL
was impossible to tell from it who
the man might have been. The body
is described as that of man 5 feet
T inches in height and weighing about
155 pounds and aged probably 35
years. Excepting as to age, this de-
scription would fit the missing +,
CentGO man.
Advices from San Diego and the
town of Tia Juana, to which place the
body was removed, state that the of
ficers there are of the opinion from
Investigations made by them that the
dead man had just come from Los
Angeles.
The Investigators also stated that
there can be no doubt that the man
was killed by assassins with robbery
as their motive.
They point to the fact, as basis
for their conclusion, that when the
body was examined the skull was
found to be crushed in on both sides.
Also it was found that the slain
mans lungs were free of water, lead
ing the officers to believe that he was
assaulted and then thrown into the
river at a point near the border,
where the body was found.
The work of the murderers was en-
tirely successful in eliminating all
marks which fight lead to the positive
Identification of the body. His pock-
cts were turned inside out and every
possible piece of clothing which might
have borne his name was carefully Gu
off.
A thorough search was made of all
territory adjacent to the spot where
the Staying is supposed to have taker
place, in the hope of finding some of
the dead mans cards or personal be-
longings. But it was in vain. The
officers confessed to being complete
" baffled in their efforts toward iden-
tity.
When the body was found it wae
clothed in reddish brown mackinaw.
The upper row of teeth are false and
one of the lower teeth is broken, but
if is believed the molar may have
been broken by the blows which
caused death.
From every city on the boundary
peace officials started a man hunt
which they believe will lead them to
the slayers.
The hunt is proceeding in all direc-
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30

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Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
.PROF|TEERS IN
FOOD |STUFF TO
GET THE PROBE
Federal Government and State
authorities Join to Bare
High Cost of Necessities

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The gov
ernment nationwide drive against
Iprofiteering and food law violators
gathered momentum today. Launch
ed by Attorney General Daughtery
with an appeal to all state attorney
generals for closer cooperation with
federal prosecutors, it was indicated
today that the movement forecasts a
fight to the finish for lower prices.
The government, it was said, will
use two legal weapons against profi-
teers. These are antitrust laws in
each state and the interstate COM
merce regulations. Enforcement of
the state laws by state authorities
will be augmented, it was learned au-
thortatively by department of JUS
tice agents in every state.
The government was baked in its
original profiteering drive, it was
pointed out, by the weakness of the
Lever act, which was declared uncon-
stitutional.
The state "profiteering laws" on the
other hand, have repeatedly been up
held in the courts.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
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The Post office Department is supply.
ing its employees with sawed-off shot.
guns similar to those used by Ameri.
can troops in beating back German
trench raiders in France and which
brought protest from Berlin. The
War Department has shipped these
guns as well as 45-caliber revolvers
to all postoffices handling valuable
mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30
STILL FT|GH |
EXECUT|0N n
Of HINDU
81 A YER
Another Sanity Test De-
manded for Gaudet Singh,
Thrice Reprieved from
Death on Gallows by Gov
ernOr

Another effort is being made to save
the life of Gaudet Singh, the Hindu
rancher, sentenced to hang BY Judge
M. W. Conkling for the brutal lnur-
der in Brawley of his common Law
wife.
Singh was originally sentenced to
be hanged at San Quentin on Septem-
Der 2. He was reprieved by Cover
NOR Stephens on the representation OF
his attorney and friends that there
was some doubt as to his sanity. Al
the time of his trial here Singh af-
fected insanity. Expert alienists and
Observation-Disclosures testified that he
was feigning insanity, and after thor
ough inquiry and observation by the
trial court, he was sentenced to death.
as all of the evidence in the case
showed that his act was that of
-blooded murderer.
AS the time drew near for his execu-
Ition his friends again intervened and
he received two more reprieves at the
hands of the governor, the latest date
for his execution being set for Janu
AIRY 13 next.
The latest effort to keep the Hindu
from paying the penalty of his crime
was made yesterday at San Raefel
the county seat of Marin, in wh',l
San Quentin is located. District At
torney Henry Greer, of that county
petitioned the superior court to order
a jury trial to determine the mental
condition of the convict. The peti-
ton was taken under advisement and
"a decision will probably be handed
down within short time.
Along with his petition for the
jury inquiry District Attorney Greer
presented statements from the Off
GERS at San Quentin that Singh had
been acting queer since his coNfinc-
ment in the prison. The Hindu "act-
ed queer" from the time he was laid
by the heels by the Brawley officers,
after he had shot down the woman
who lived with him and made an in
effectual attempt to kill himself.
This queer" condition of his has been
inquired into several times, both at
his trial here and after each of the
reprieves granted him by the COVER
nor. Each time the decision of the
alienists has been against him in such
a preponderant way that new dates
were set for his execution.
There is no desire on the part of
local officers to punish Singh for his
crime" said prominent officer this
morning, "if he was insane at the
time he committed the murder. But
he was found to be feignng insanity
here and several inquiries since have
developed the same state of affairs,
and believing him to be sane, we be-
lieve that he should be hanged to up
hold the sanctity of the law in this
county and as a deterrent to others
who might be running around loose
with murder in their hearts"
attending these lectures and demon
strations cannot be brought too
strongly before those farmers who
expect to plant this spring.
While there will be pruning demon
'strations in other parts of the coun-
ty, the only one on preparation and
handling of cuttings will be those OF,
Monday afternoon, January 9, as stat
ed above.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30

A California bank has installed de-
vice which it is believed will protect
it's vault from the most skilled OF safe
crackers. Huge bottles of mustard
gas have been placed inside the heavy
steel door and so arranged that the
slightest ar will break them, allowing
the deadly contents to escape.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-30

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30.-Cali-
fornia has joined with the United
States department of justice in an
investigation of food prices with a
view to effecting reductions if justi-
fled, it was announced today by Harry
S. Maddox, state market director
"The producer feels that he is getting
too little and the consumer feels that
he is paying too much" Maddox said
"the state and the government have
outlined an investigation to last nine
ty days, all products with the eXcep-
ton of milk will be investigated A
separate milk investigation is being
,arried on by the University OF Cali
fornia."
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
40, 900 NeedIeworkers
To Strike Here To-day
Move Made to Enforce Closed
Shop in the Women's
CIosh;nr industry

Forty thousand necdleworkers, fully
half Of who are women, will go or
strike at 10 o'clock this morning tc
enforce closed shop in the women's
clothing making industry, it was an
nounced by union leaders yesterday
after meeting at which Morris Sig
man, general manager of the joint
branch of the Ladies' Dress and Waist
makers Union, is understood to have
presided.
The probability of strike of needle
workers has been discussed for some
time in union circles. 1t is said that
Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union, is in Philadelphia and that
possibly a strike of $1,000 will be de-
clared there.
There are few large factories in the
industry here. Hundreds of small
shops in the Union Square and Madi-
son Square districts will be chiefly
affected, it is said.
Gently thrown out of employment, are
said to have returned to work, which
has been taken as an indication of i'm
provement in the nations business con-
ditions.
An official of the Dress and Waist
Manufacturers Association said yester-
day that not member of the associa-
ton had signed with the union, which,
he said, "hopes permanently to con-
tinue the forty -four-hour week and the
high wages which obtain in the indus
try without any change"