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Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
1900 BALES
C0TTONCR
START FOR
N ILLS
Calexico Makes Shipment
Which Will Be Put Into
Finished Product by Cali
fOrnia Spindles; Prompt
Return Made to Growers.

The first cotton, of the 1920 crop
to be moved under the plan outlined
here, has been started to the mills at
Oakland, California, by Calexico grow
ers. The shipment will total 1900
bales. The cotton will be turned into
yarn for filings and used in the man
ufacture of towels.
Relief is in sight for the cotton
growers of Imperial Valley whose 1920
crop of approximately 237 900 bales is
still unmarketed.
In manufacturing centers cotton
spindles in factories now idle are be-
ginning to turn, furnishing employ
ment again to scores of men and w0-
men.
Under a plan devised by E. M.
Fowler of the Edward III. Fowler
Company, local cotton producers,
through a pool under control of
trustee, will ship their product to the
mills, which will manufacture it into
twine or fabrics, adding differential
for their services.
The manufacturer will then start
the finished product into the channels
of trade at the prevailing market
prices. The differential to be charged
by the manufacturer is to cover
freight, insurance, processing, pack
ing and selling the finished product
and in collection of the money and will
be deducted by the manufacturer from
the price received for the goods and
the balance forwarded to the trustee
of the pool for distribution among the
owners of the cotton.
1t is said that in the majority Of
cases the prices received by the cot
ton grower for his product in this way
will be considerably in excess of that
which the raw material would direct
ly command.
For their work in manufacturing
the California Cotton Mills Company,
located in Oakland, will add total
differential of 13c per pound. The
prevailing market price of yarns for
filling Saturday was Csc After the
differential is subtracted from that
amount the cotton grower would act
ually receive 15c per pound as COM
pared to the prevailing market price
on low grades of approximately 6hc.
From this would be deducted a small
amount for waste.
The Fowler plan grew out of a sit
uation where raw cotton lay unpur-
chased in the growers fields while at
the same time the spindles of cotton
factories largely remained idle ''due
to lack of confidence on the part Of
the public as whole in all prices"
The alifornia Cotton Mills, in let
ter Mr.. Fowler recently, expressed the
belief that "the cotton market has
reached low ebb and we are looking
forward to higher prices" hould cot
ton prices advance, the retail prices
of the finished commodity would adj
vance in proportion, the mills pointed
out, and the returns to the cotton
growers would be increased because
the mill has agreed not to increase its
differential in the manufacturing Of
the commodity.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
JONES GOES FREE
ON KILLING CHARGE

At preliminary hearing held in
Calipatria yesterday, with Deputy
District Attorney Scott, representing
the state, Matt Jones, colored, who
shot and wounded E. l.. Felix after
Felix had severely beaten Maggis
Sharp, % years old, was dismissed
on grounds that Jones killed the man
in elf defense and while offering aid
to the woman.s
Felix entered the pool hall owned
by Jones late Saturday night and fol-
lowing an argument with the woman
struck her several blows. Jones at
tempted to aid the woman and finding
that he would be over powered shot
the intruder.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
ATTORNEY AND
PEDAGOCUE ARE
WIDE AP Arr

The discussion of the child labor
situation as it is in the Imperial VAL
ley at the meeting of the Community
Forum last night brought out a wide
difference of opinion as between
Joseph +. Seymour, the principal
Speaker of the evening, and Superin-
tendent Shibley, Of the school board,
as to the weight of thought to be
given recent magazine article deal
ing with the question, and as to the
seriousness Of the situation as it act
ually is. The report Of the meeting
by Mr.. Violette S. Campbell, the well
known writer, follows:
On account of threatening weather
attendance at the Community Forum
meeting last night was much less
than on former occasions, but the au-
dience was perhaps the most widely
representative of any before assem-
bled for the discussions. Present
were teacher and school officials,
members OF the Chamber CT Com
merce, of the Parent Teachers Asso-
citation, Women's clubs, Red Cross
workers and bushes and profeional
men, howing the wide interest that
has been awakened in the subject of
Child Labor since it was published in
the Literary Digest that Imperial
County has a real Child Labor prob
lem. Community singing ed by
Superintendent of Schools Enyeart
and two delightful solos by Attorney
Wilbur Randall opened the program.
Attorney Joseph Seymour, the
principal speaker, in dealing with the
subject of Child Labor as it is pre-
sented in the american Child" the
original magazine from which thA
Literary Digest quoted, was disposed
to treat the subject rather lightly. He
expressed the opinion that the writer
of he article had exaggerated the
true facts and that she had not been
entirely fair to the Imperial Valley in
picturing the shacks and unlovely
conditions without telling something
of the better phases of rural life. He
stated that in his opinion the state
Labor Commissioner is superfulous
adjunct Of State Government, failing
to function not only in the enforce
ment of Child Labor laws, but in re-
spect to other law enforcemtnt for
which it is supposedly responsible. In
closing, the speaker advised that the
article which he had been reviewing
be taken not too seriously; that it be
forgotten, explaining later that in
making this last suggestion he meant
that it be forgotten insofar as any
attempt be made to answer it.
City Superintendent of Schools
Shibley, for several years county sup>
erintendent, and thoroughly conver-
SAINT with facts, took sharp issue with
the speaker of the evening. In his
Judgment the article of Miss Duke is
absolutely true to facts carefully Sc
cured from actual survey of child
labor conditions in the Valley at the
time the writer was here. Before Mr..
Sibley had spoken a minute he had
the wrapt attention of the audience
who, before he was through realized
Continued on PAGE 6)
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
RED TRIANGLE
IN CHARGE OF
SAVINGS DRIVE

This is National Thrift Week, which
is sponsored throughout the country
by the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation and is being Imported by the
Savings Division of the Treasury De-
partment. The Ell Centre Y. M. C. A.
is whole heartedly at work in the
drive. 49,.
The Governments particular inter
est in this week lies in the fact that
it's sales of Savings securities, such
as 25c Thrift Stamps, 81 and S. Saw
ings Stamps, and $25, 500 and
$1,000 Treasury Savings Certificates
are determined by the thriftiness of
the American people The Govern
ment is still in need of money and
the sales of these securities form an
important part of its postwar finan-
cling.
All of these Savings securities of
the Government will be on sale
throughout 1921 at post offices and
nearly all banks in the country. The
81 Treasury Saving Stamp and the
$25 Treasury Savings Certificate,
the latter bearing 4 per cent interest
compounded quarterly, are new issues
which are expected to take their place
with the older securities in public
favor
eve want the American people. to
start bossing theirsdollars," says Will
liam Mather Lewis, director of the
Saving Division of the Treasury De-
partment. Thrift and safe invest
ment in government securities will
make US bosses of our dollars and
economically independent"
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
Heavy Rainfall,

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18.-Gutters
in the lower section of the city are
overflowing from rain which fell al
most continuously last night. From
indications further precipitations are
expected. The report indicate that
practically all sections of Southern
California was visited by storm. In
Los Angeles 2.Q3 inches fell up to 5
o'clock this morning and brought the
seasonal total to 5000, compared
with 4.57 last year to date. The rain
was responsible for number of
minor automobile accidents and in
terruptions of the street car service.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
Harding in Another Band.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 1S.-Presi-
dent-elect Harding is a regular men,
Der now of another band, in addition
to the one he footed the sliphorn in
in his youth. In addition he has per-
mitter his new musical outfit the use
of his gold cornet, presented to him
by an Indiana band instrument max
ing company.
The next president is member of
the Shrine Band, Of the Scioto Con-
sistory here. He was made an honor
ary member, after he had presented
the gold cornet to the band, for its
use during his term of office.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
CALEXICO WEARY OF
BORDER RED TAPE
Especial to The Press.1

CALEXICO, Jan. 18-Business
n:cd here, especially member ot. ,;.e
Chamber Of Commerce, confidently
expee. the reopening of the bor'ler
minus all red tape, shortly after
March a. The people here are un-
able to understand why old peace
time regulations are not in vogue.
There is no gambling across the line
here and there can be no reason for
the most morally inclined to oppose
the opening here, other than that pro-
hibition does not prevail in Mexico
anywhere at this time.
So far as other immoral practices
are concerned, it is declared, there are
no more in Mexicali today than in
many United States communities.
The Chamber OF, Commerce i urging
Washington officials to do away with
the present so-called "farce."
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
kavanaugh Assembly's
Youngest Chief Clerk
(By Associated Pressl
SACRAMENTO, Cal. Jan,

SACKAMENTO, Cal. Jan. 1S.-
Jerome b. Kavanaugh of San Bernar-
DINO, former service man and chief
clerk of the assembly at this legis-
lative session, the younget chief clerk
The lower houe has ever had He is
thirty years old, but says he feels
Younger, his trip by motor car to
Sacramento having been his honey
moon.
He was married to Miss Marie In
gram on December %, 1920, and inn
medlately after the wedding started
to the capital.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
GIVE FIGURES
ON WHAT Il
WILL COST
THE CITY
Board of Trustees Issue
Signed Statement of Pur-
ported Facts for the Con-
sideratiOn of the Voters
and Taxpayers.

The members of the city cOun-
Gil, properly the Board OF Trus-
tees of Ell CentrO, have naturally
taken a great deal of interest in
the election staged for next Fri
day en- the question Of voting
bonds for the requirement CT the
gas plant. They have prepared
q signed statement for the con-
sideratiCn of the voters and tax
payers of the city which purpOrts
to present the facts in the matter
as they appear to them. The
statement follows:
The Board feel it their duty to pres
ent few facts regarding the purchase
and re-equipping Of the old gas plant,
whereby the voters may more intelli-
gently cast their ballots for CT
against the proposition next Friday.
In doing this, we desire to express
ly state that we do not want to take
stand for or against the PROPOSE
tion, but only to present the facts
which we see after a very close study
Of the plant.
First, we feel that, at the price of
$4,000 the old gas plant as it stands,
is good buy provided the city wants
TO have municipal plant, and, also
that with tht expenditure of an ad-
ditional $4,000, the plant could be
placed in good temporary condition
We mean that it would probably not
need any more money for new out
lay of machinery, etc, for from three
to five years to manufacture gas.
However. we believe that at the end
of that time, repairs and alterations
would be necessary in the plant itself.
For instance, the present holder of
10000 cubic feet capacity, and pres
ent boiler would be inadequate to
serve FL Centre within five years, and
an additional holder and boiler would
be necessary. Besides, we are in
formed that in first class plant, a
second holder is necessary to make
gas into; then letting it into larger
holder, which does away with the
napthaline (or the element which
closes W the gas pipes and causes
trouhle), the idea being that the first
holder allows the napthaline to settle,
thereby making practically pure gas
which goes into the second holder, and
then into the main. We have not pro-
vidcd in the present bond issue for
any money for this purpose.
Another feature is that the pres mt
pipe lines are considered to be in 50
per cent condition by Engineer Berk
e!ey. hus from past experiences with
pine in this soil, the Council considers
this improbable and fee that a vari
consider allie amount would need te
eAnended each year for. replacement
Of pipe on tie old distribution syste,:
The Board also feel that the opera-
tion expense, estimated by Mr.. Berk-
eley is much out OF proportion of a
practical operation expense, and we
pive below about what we consider it
would take each year, using as a
basis Mr.. Berkeley's estimate of an
average consumption Of gas per
meter, which is $4,000 cubic feet per
year. d. a.
Basing this estimate on 600 consum-
ers, which is probably more than we
could expect for few years, the
sales would be:
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
TO EXPLORE THE
MODOC LAVA BEDS
(By Associated Press)

ALTURAS, Cal, Jan. 15.-Plans
for an expedition of exploration into
the anciet lava beds of Modoc couty
are being made by George w. Court
wright, county game warden. Mr..
Courtwright believes there is volcanic
activity in the lava country and hopes
to learn the facts.
For a number of years, rumors
have been circulated here that the
lava beds are still activt Recently
Mr.. Courtwright returned from that
section and said that from an eleva-
tiCn near the beds he saw a cloud of
steam and heard rumblings. The
section has been visited by few white
men. Mr.. Courtwright expects to ex-
piore the beds next spring.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
KID BANDITS
HOLD UP BIG
MAIL TRUCK
(By Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-Five youth
full bandits, armed with automatic
pistols held up and robbed big mail
truck on its way from the general
postoffice to the union station here
this morning and escaped in an auto
mobile with twelve sacks of register
ed mail. The sacks contained cur
rency shipments from several Chicago
banks to out of town correspondents,
Liberty and other bonds of a value
not yet determined, and a large
amount of Federal Reserve notes des-
tined for the Reserve bank at st.
Paul.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
LOOKING FOR REDROZA

That Daniel Redroza, about 25 years
old, who killed his 20 year old sweet
heart, Miss Colotilda Barrera with an
axe early yesterday morning at Mex
icali, is hiding somewhere in the I'm
perial Valley north of the interna-
tionaf line, was the theory advanced
by Chief of Police Dave Matiock this
morning.
A photograph of the man is on file
in the chiefs office and every effort
is being made to locate him.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
COMMUNE MEMBER
SHIP REASON is
FOR DISCHARGE
(By Associated Press,

ALBANY, N Y, Jan. 18.-Mem-
bership and participation in the acts
of the Communist Party of America
is sufficien grounds for the discharge
of public school teacher according
to a decision made public today by
Acting Commissioner of Education
Gilbert. He stated that he had dis
missed the appeal of Julia d. Pratt,
a teacher, who had been discharged
by the Buffalo board of education.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
COUNCIL SAYS GAS GOOD BUY
CALIFORNIA SENATE
HAS GIRL PAGES
(By United Press)

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 49,
For the first time in it's history,
the California senate has girl page
Miss Ruth Elizabeth Patricia Crow
ley, daughter of Senator j. J. Crow
ley, San Francisco, and sister of
Rowena Crowley we'll known swim
mer, was the first girl appointed this
session. She is aged IA.
Later Mis- Barbara Young, the lit
tie daughter of Lieutenant Governor
&. c. Young, was named page.
Elmer Rigdon, 9-year old son of
Senator E. S. Rigdon, San Luis
Obispo, is the youngest page in the
legislature. He held this distinction
also last session.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
Want Information.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. ia reso-
luton calling for all public utilities
corporations to submit for the infor-
nation of the legislature complete
list of the salaried officers receiving
an excess of $4,000 annually each.
was introduced to the assembly by
Jones, of Ontario, and Prendergast,
of Redlands. They did not ask i'm
mediate consideration of ten bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
Gigantic Squirrel Drive.


VlSALIA, CAL, Jan. 18.-Three
hundred miles of carbon bisulphide
"smokeballs" stretching four times
across Tulare county's agricultural
lands, are being used in what has
been decribed as the most extensive
qulrrel eradication campaign ever un-
dertaken in the west.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
Explosion Causes Death.

BAYONNE, N. j., Jan. l8.-Tw0
were killed and more than ten in
jured when an explosion caused fire
in a building housing several film
manufacturing CONCERNS. The bodies
Were badly charred, one was apparent
ly that of a woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
NOTICE

Imperial Irrigation District Gener-
al Fund Registered Warrants are pay
able down to and including Register
ed Number 20407.
= r. H. MADDUX, Treasurer,
Imperial Irrigation District.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18

Daily
Weather
Report

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - To-
night and Wednesday, rain. Strong
southwesterly winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18

Continued on Page y
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-18
The Markets
New Orleans
NJ
Courtesy DAILY Brothers)
Now Yovk

Spot 1919.
Sales 2,4sS bales.
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M BE- W

: the project of reaching the
moon by rocket, recently put
forth by Prof. Robert H. God
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IN and going out. They handle quickly
md easily more goods than is possible
where human porters truck the pack
ges about tho building, getting into
ach others way and requiring con-
siderable time to handle one box or
barrel. Portable conveyors, mounted
on swivel wheels, are used by the
stock clerks to carry the packages to
The bins or stock piles.
No HOld-Ups of Material.
In the factory, conveyors increase
production by keeping the workmen al
ways supplied with plenty of material.
Parts and products are conveyed from
machines, departments and buildings,
Materials are not held up on the floors
or at the elevators. but are carried di-
rect to the next operation Immediately
after they are finished.
Conveyors greatly speed up the work
Of the assembling departments in many
manufacturing plants. They bring the
necessary pieces to the workmen when
wanted, and when machines are as
sembled for shipment they are often
placed on wooden skids and conveyed
through the assembling room, AS they
pass along the conveyor the crates are
holted to the skids and the shipping
addresses are stenciled. The Grated
machines are then conveyed direct to
he waiting cars or delivery trucks.
In canning and other facories where
arge quantities of perishable foods are
handled daily, conveyor belts are al
most universally used, because they
feep moving, at uniform speed, the
products handled. Tubs, baskets or
PANS carry the food to be processed,
md as the cans are filed, other con-
reyors carry them through the sealing
machines, into the cooking or steriliz-
ng drums, and finally to the cooling
warehouse. When ready for labelling
and boxing, the conveyor again takes
are of their transportation from one
step to another. BY installing scales
along the line of the conveyor, the
Goods can be accurately weighed as
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ROCKET MIGHT
MISS THE MOON
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And the heat engendered in the first
hundred miles will "have disastrous
effect upon the 10 tons of explosives
that are, by successive charges, to
speed the rocket to its destination"
Then, again, it is almost mathemat-
ically impossible to aim certainly from
an object moving, as the earth does,
about 10 miles a second in one direc-
ton and nearly 1000 feet a second in
another, and each direction varying
with every microscopical fraction of
second of time, at target 100000
miles away, also moving at another
speed, especially when the actual
speed of the rocket throughout the
journey can not be known.
Besides, the graEitational pull of the
earth is complex and is varied by the
tidal pull of the moon and there are
unknown air currents and many other
factors that will make the rockets
destination problematical in the ex-
treme.
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fast as they pass over the scales. there
by avoiding unnecessary handling in
weighing.
Gravity conveyors assure continuous
production at maximum capacity in
dairies, bottling houses, and similar
establishments. In modern dairy,
for instance, the conveyors receive the
big milk cans from the delivery trucks
and carry them to the bottling depart
ment, where the milk is bottled, capped
and sterilized almost automatically.
The human hand does not come in con-
tact with the product from one stage
to another and the conveyors trans
port the marketable product direct to
The delivery department or to the cool
ing room, as desired.
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~ f the project Of reaching the
q moon by rocket, recently put
forth by Prof. Robert H. God
dard, of Clark College, Worcester,
Mass, George F. Morrell, writing in
the London Graphic, points out the fol-
lowing difficulties:
ITO have any chance of success the
rocket needs to travel at something
over six miles a second-that is, about
IL times as fast as bullet leaves n
rife. Now, the possibility of this
speed being attained is not the crux of
the problem, which is to be found in
the fact that when it is reached the
rocket will vanish in an incandescent
wisp of flame and smoke; for it is
well known that bodies when they
speed through the air are subject to
friction, and If they travel at even two
miles a second the friction against the
air is sufficient to generate tremend-
GUS heat. while at a greater rate a
consuming white heat is soon reached,
even if the body be of STEEL
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Ug1iest Woman in History
What a Title to Hold!
" X "

%TAHE ugliest woman in history
What claim to fame and one
which would hardly be dis
puted. Fancy the brave woman who
would proclaim, mo, she is not the ug-
liest woman in the world; 1 ami"
The recent sale in London of the por-
trait of the Duchess Margaret Of Tyrol
brings forth an article in the Illustrat-
ed London News which concerns the
history of the so-called ugliest woman
in the world.
Why the Nickname.
Her nickname, "Maultasche," of which
the usual rendering is "Pocketmouthed
Meg" was probably derived from an
incident which was fated to have the
most far-reaching results in the stored
history of. her country. In the YER
nacular of her time MauItasche meant
blow inflicted on her by one of her
Wittelsbach cousins in the course of
youthful squabbIe that, more than 80
years later, caused the Duchess to dis
inherit these selfsame Bavarian kins-
men, and to bestow Tyrol and the rest
of her vast possessions upon her Habs-
burg cousins, in whose family Tyrol
remained for five-and-a-half centuries,
until recent events severed a connec-
ton of unusual historical interest.
Born in 1918.
Born in the year 1913, as the only
child of the last but one of the original
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Where packages or materials are to
be raised from one floor to another. a
booster" or elevator is used The in
clined elevator is built to convey prod
usts between floors, while booster is
simple elevating section used on
long line of conveycrs for raising
packages to point where gravity can
operate. Both the booster and inclined
elevator are built into conveyor sys-
tenn to receive and deliver packages
automatically without care or atten-
ton. For operating these raising de-
vices, power must, of course, be used,
but in all downward movements or on
level ground, gravity alone does the
work.-Philadelph Record.