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Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
MOTOR CAR MEN WILL
SHOW YOU BIG TIME

According to Harry McPhersn pub
licity director of the San Diego Auto
Trades Association real celebration
is to be pulled by them August 9th
and 2Sth.
On Saturday August 9th the Auto
Trades Association will stage big
parade of cars and trucks. There
will be visits to the Battleships in the
harbor, visits by boats to the Coro-
nado Islands, submarine gardens in
Mexico and trips by automobile
throughout the city if desired and in
the evening a smoker will be held.
This should be fete in it's self.
Sunday August 28th will be the Tia
Juana Barbecue free and All La Mex
icano. Continuous entertainment at
Sunset Inn and other resorts and you
can shoot from twenty-five cents to
twenty-five dollars if you like.
"Hop in the bus and come to San
Diego, I'll show you real time, and
don't forget the date Saturday and
Sunday August 9th and 28th.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
Fits
FOR CHIEF
AMERICAN
LEGION
State Commander to Be
Urged for Position of
Commander of World War
Veterans National Organ
HatiOn.

Buron R Fits for national COM
mander of the Amt\;can Legion will
be the aim of the California delegation
to the national convention which will
be held in Kansas City October 81 to
November 2. Fits is now state COM
mander of the department of Califor-
mia and has been one of the most active
Legion men in the entire country. BY
profession Commander Fits is de-
putty district attorney in Los Angeles
county.
Endorsement of the proposal to run
Commander Fits for the national of
flee will doubtless take place at the
state convention of the Legion which
opens in Yosemite Valley next Mon
day morning. Posts throughout the
state are known to favor his candidacy
and will rally to the fight to make
Fits commander of the national or
ganization.
Nation wide attention has been
drawn to Fits, who is by 10 years the
youngest state commander in the Le-
gion. More relief legislation for form
er service men has been adopted in
California than in any other state in
the union and the success Of the lie
gion's program in this direction is cred
tied largely to Fits. who appeared
personally before the state Legislature
to explain the need of the various
measures.
In addition $4,000 revolving fund
for the relief of disabled veterans has
been established during the present
state commanders term. Former Ma
.tional Commander Galbraith attracted
the attention of every post in the ma
ton to the activity of the California
state leader in letter of commenda-
tion written on the day of his death in
an automobile accident.
Imperial Valley will be represented
at the state convention by about 20
delegates, some of whom will be from
the woman's auxiliary, and most of
whom are already on the way. to Yo-
semitic.
The Valley posts took a leading part
in last years convention at San Diego,
initiating several moves which occa-
stoned hard fights on the convention
floor, but which eventually were
adopted by the entire body
None of the delegates this year have
been instructed to take any definite
course Of action on any of the many
things which are to come before the
convention, while at the San Diego
convention almost every delegates
course was mapped out in advance by
the action of his post.
Clyde F. Rex, <mmander of the
Riverside post. is the only candidate
from Southern California who is after
the state adjutant's post and it is be-
lieved that he will receive the support
of all the delegations from this part
of the state.
Los Angeles, Long Beach and San
Jose have announced their intention of
competing for the next annual conven-
tion and other cities are expected to
enter the competition for this honor.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
ROLLED DOWN
STOCKINGS
BANNED By.
W.C.T.U.
RObbed Hair Is Lovely and
Home Brew a Passing Fad
Sunday Movies, Tobacco,
Both Bad.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19-The
nations conference of delegates to the
Woman's Christian Temperance Un-
ION, has been in session for two days
and in that short time has set itself
straight on a number of subjects
(which the women folk regard as of vi
tai Importance to the moral we'll be-
ing OF the country. Rolled down stock
ings, bobbed hair, blue laws, tobacco,
home brew and some other things.
And it has developed that these sup
posedly austere and intollefant we-
men, often reputed to be militantly
against almost everything are not half
as bad as they have been painted.
One thing though they are just as
firm as the most fanatical could wish
for-they are now and always will be
for IA very dry world.
( But the w. C. T U. will tolerate
the rolled stocking and dimpled knee
that is, for young people.
Antedating the formal sessions of
the organization, DR. Valeria Parker,
chairman of the morality board; and
Miss Julia Deane, editor of the Union
Signal official organ Of the union, dis
cussed a WIDE range OF subjects that
during the convention are to be for
mally acted upon, and here summed
up is what they said the w. c. Il. U.
national organization thinks:
Home brew is a fad, nothing more.
1t won't last-something home brew
ers say they have noticed-but it is
evading the law and hence disloyal.
Bobbed hair is lovely on many girls
and is clean and" sanitary if washed
regularly.
Blue laws are the work of the liquor
interest propagandists. The w c. T.
u. only opposes Commercial sab
bath" and paid movies on Sunday.
Rolled stockings are immodest, that
is for adult women only. Men and
babies are welcome to wear "em short.
Close contact dancing is immoral.
Tobacco is a mighty bad thing for
the immature.
And cover -sexed movies" surely
deserve frown of disapproval
"In ten years the world will be dry"
Miss Ann Gordon, the national pres
ident, prophesied and based the pro-
phecy that in decade "all round the
world the white ribbon will be twin
ed on econimic factors.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
UNEMPLOYMENT
IS WIDESPREAD

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19-Con-
fidence that the future will show i'm
provement in the industrial situation
has been expressed in Oregon, Wash
ington and California, according to a
report made public here by the en-
ploymont service of the United States
department of labor.
widespread unemployment contin-
ues, despite some Improvement in the
industrial situation and increased re-
lief afforded by seasonal occupations
and public improvements" the report
said. "Many workers in shipping and
building trades are idle as the result
of industrial controversies. There Is
slow and only partial recovery in lum-
Der, many plants operating with re-
duced forces and others being closed.
Fishing, fruit and vegetable indus
tries are more active. Shipbuilding is
slackening with further reductions
expected Lower construction costs
have revived home building in some
sections, but no great momentum has
yet been gained. Farm help is plenti-
full for present needs"
Acknowledgements of the State
Public Employment Bureau show
decrease of 26 ner cent from the 243-
S66 positions filled during the fiscal
year 1920. Largest Placements are
recorded among workers in hotels,
restaurants, public institutions and the
building trades. While unemployment
and part-time continue. improvement
is expected to follow reductions in
costs. Horticultural commissions re-
port adequate supply of farm labor,
the demand being met locally, though
Santa Cruz and Napa counties are ex-
pected to need extra fruit help at the
end of August Transient help arriv-
ing in Kings county is considered
sufficient for the peach harvest. Act
ivities in fruit and vegetables show
improvement. While considerable new
home construction is in progress, the
housing shortage is still large. Indus
| try generally seems hopeful and ex-
pectant of continued improvement
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
CL0UDbURSI
WIPES OUT
TOWN Of
HATCH
Wall of Water Rushing
Down Mountain Arroyo
Demolishes Village. Inhab-
itants Escape in Night
Attire.

Ell PASO, Aug. 19-The flood wa
ters which wiped out virtually every
building in the town of Hatch, N. M.
yesterday causing more than 200
families to be made homeless and de-
stroying thousands of dollars worth
OF property, was still several feet deep
IN the town today, and but little effort
can be made at salvaging goods and
valuables. Relief has been rushed to
the town from several different points.
Hatch is 38 miles from Las Cruces
and the cloudburst which destroyed it
came shortly before day break in the
morning. The residents of the town
numbering about 500 escaped to the
foothills, the ajOrity of them in their
nightclothes There was no loss of life
reported, although several women and
children were injured in their efforts
to escape from the fast rising water.
The cloudburst struck Santa Teresa
village in the foothills two miles
west of Hatch. shortly after 3 O'Clock
in the morning. Only one dwelling
was left at Santa Teresa.
Two hours later the wall of water
rushed down the arroyo into Hatch,
the male residents assisting women
and children to the hills, many of them
forced to flee in their night clothes
abandoning everything.
James Clapp, business man who
was bedridden by long illness, was
carried to the hills by neighbors. y.
Den Goddard of the New Mexico
College Of Agriculture and Arne Arnts
and Thomas Brownlee have installed
radiograph to keep the outside world
advised of the situation.
This morning from three to seven
feet of water lies in the stricken vii
lage. Officials of the United States
reclamation service and rail road men
say there is no way to drain the water
off except to dig canal as the town
lies in a basin below the level of the
arroyo.
One hundred and fifty of the resi-.
dents are being cared for with sup
plies sent under charge of arelief COM
mittee from the Las Cruces chamber
of commerce. Farmers, armed with
shotguns, are guarding the bank of the
Rio Grande south of here to prevent
raising of the flood gates. The farm
ers insist that raising of the flood
gates will ruin their crops without be-
ing of material benefit to the flooded
district.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
FARMERS WILL
HEAR BILL TALK

The Farm Bureau meeting tomorrow
morning at 9:30 o'clock with the Boul-
der Canyon dam and power project as
the chief subject of discussion, promis-
es to be one of the most interesting
and the largest in point of attendance
held for some months.
President Irvine has invited the Of
ticers and directors of the Associated
local chambers in the valley to attend
the meeting and every farmer in the
valley will be welcomed at the meeting.
William Mulholand, chief engineer
of the Los Angeles aqueduct, will be
the chief speaker of the day and is
programmed to tell the farmers Of the
Imperial Valley just what benefits the
city Of Los Angeles promises to confer
on the water and power users if ia re-
turn the ranchers will do all in their
power to help the Angel City secure
control of the great proposition. l. is
possible that other members of the
Los Angeles official family will ac-
company Mr. Mulholland, and add
their say to whatever he may put forth
in the way of more or less informative
talk.
1t was announced a week ago that
no representative of the private power
companies, which are also interest
in the Boulder Canyon project, would
be permitted to have any part i'll the
meeting, and consequently the meeting
of tomorrow will be lacking of a great
deal of the verbal skirmishing and fire.
works that characterized the recent
Calipatria meeting of the Associated
Chambers of Commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
CLOTHING MEN
TOLD VALUE Of
ADVERTISING
Expert GtCes Strong Talk Be
fore C0nUentiOn of State Re-
t0iiers in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, AUG. 19-Adver-
tising as "the most important factor"
in building and maintaining a business
was forcibly impressed upon retail
clothiers by Bert Butterworth, pres
ident of the Los Angeles Advertising
Club. At the first session of the Cal
Mr.. Butterworth said:
"You retail clothiers spend yearly in
California in advertising over $2,O00,-
900. Largely as result of that your
annual volume of business approx
mates $40,00O,OOO. Advertising is the
most important factor in your business
in building it, in maintaining it. Let
me suggest to you that when, mad
vertently, you make mistake in your
statements to the public you immed-
lately publish another advertisement
retracting it."
That the clothing business has
"weathered the storm and the future
holds in store steadily improving &C.
trend of opinions confidently voiced
at the session.
Edward Elliott, vice president of
the Security Trust and Savings Bank
pointed to Europe as the "key to the
business situation "
The convention met at 10 a. m. At
ter an address by Sylvester Weaver,
those in session heard a message from
II. w. Frank, president of the organi-
Zation and member of the firm of
Harris e. Frank of this city, who was
prevented from being present by sick
ness. In his message. President Har-
ris urged the delegates to fight for a
margin of thirty days credit more
than that given by Eastern manufact-
urers to Eastern retailers. He stated
that goods could be delivered immed-
lately in the East, while twenty of the
thirty days granted in the case of
Western dealers are consumed in
transportation and that a margin of
but ten selling days remain.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
PROSECUTION MAY
QUIZ OBENCHAIN

Los Angeles, Aug. 19-Ralph r.
Obenchain, former husband and
attorney for Madalynne Obenchain
charged with the murder of J. Bel
ton Kennedy, may be called before
the grand jury to tell what he knows
if anything Deputy District Attor-
ney keyes said today. This follow
ed the publication of an interview
in which Obenchain was quoted as
saying that the defendants will be
cleared in five days by the pred, c.
tiCn of the real murderer.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
STRAY CATTLE is
MENACE AT NIGHT

From observations by representa-
tivesof the Automobile Club of South
ern California, it has been noticed
that a large number of stray cows are
wandering on the highway. At night
this is grave danger to the motoring
public, and several accidents have
already been reported to the Club
also others have been narrowly a
verted. The Automobile Club of South
ern California wishes to remind ow-
ners of cattle, that the Motor Vehicle
Act makes it incumbent on them to see
that their stock does not stray on the
public highway.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
RULES BY WHICH
VETERANS CAN
SECURE RELIEF
Cleanup Campaign for Dis
Gbled Ex-SerUice Men Pro-
crossing SteadIy Throughout
State.

The progress of the Cleanup Drive
to bring government aid to disabled
veterans is meeting with varied sue
cess along its itinerary.
AS previously announced in these
columns, it is necessary for veterans
to secure medical examinations from
local examiners as well as preparing
their own affidavits supported by af-
fidavits of former buddies or employ
ers or physicians who have examined
or treated them since the date of their
discharge, in advance of the arrival of
their squad.
work can only be begun but not com
pleted during the visit of the squad.
Applications should be made at
once to Major Louis r Grant, District
Manager, War Risk Insurance, room
24O Flood Bldg, San Francisco for
transportation to and from the near
est point which the squad visits to the
residence of the applicant A medical
examination is not necessary before
applying for transportation
State plainly, name, address, for
mer rank and name of organization
Describe in plain simple language the
nature of disability on which claim
for Compensation, Training or Hos
pitaliization is based. State over what
stage line or railroad you wish to ira
vel. Also when you will visit squad
If government forms cannot be sup
piled to YOU by local American Legion
or Red Cross, ask for blanks when you
write for transportation. Write at
once.
Now is the time to help the dis
abled help themselves by securing the
assistance which has been provided
for them by the government which
they have preserved,
If you know disabled service
man in your vicinity, go to him at
once or report his address to the near
est American Legion Post or Red
Cross Chapter. Do it today!
The cleanup squad will be in FL
Centre, September II and l3
A civil suit demanding damages
from the Automobile Club of Southern
California is the aftermath of the case
of Bob Davis, who was arrested by
the club officers on charge of con-
spiracy to defraud, the trial resulted
in hung jury.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
DEG[ET MOOR
OFFSH0OTS
To PLANT
HERE
Department of Agriculture
Has Large Quantity
Which Will Be Distributed
to Growers Through IndiO
Firm.

Two large shipments of sr,all plants
(offshoots) of the famous Delget
Moor variety of the date palm have
just reached New York, 1O3 cases on
the steamship Slene and n cases on
the steamship Urbino all consigned
to the United States Department of
Agriculture. These offshoots are be-
ing shipped to Los Angeles, and
should reach the Government Date
Garden at Indio, Calf, by the end Of
August
In order to safe guard the future of
the date growing industry in the
United States ana in particular to
make Delget Moor offshoots avail
able to small growers or to farmers
who may in the future desire to grow
dates, the Department of Agriculture
secured permission from the Algerian
Government, in the spring of 1921, to
import 1,400 offshoots of the Delget
Moor variety this year.
The department has entered into
contract with local finn of date
growers of Indio, Calf, by which they
undertake to root these offshoots,
plant them out in permanent orchard
form, and to return to the depart
ment one-fifth Of the offshoots pro-
duced on the imported trees, and sell
three-fifths of the offshoots to bona
fide date growers living in regions
suitable for the culture of the Delget
Moor variety and who do not haveal-
ready 100 trees of this variety, at
price not to exceed $3.50 each for the
unrooted offshoots. One-fifth of the
offshoots are to go to this firm as
their share, in view of their having
borne all expenses of this introduction.
Further details as to the disposition
of the offshoots produced by this new
importation can be secured by address
ing the Office Of Crop Physiology and
Breeding Investigations, Bureau of
Plant Industry, U, S. Department OF
Agriculture, Washington, d. C.
Date palms unlike other fruit trees,
can not be propigated by budding or
grating, but can be reproduced only
from offshoots produced at the base
of the stem in limited numbers during
the first few years of the life of the
mother tree. After the mother tree
reaches the age of IL to Is years, no
more offshoots are produced
In 1900 the department made the
first large importation of offshoots of
the finest date that reached the Euro
pean market, the famous Delget Moor
variety which grows in the cases OF
the Sahara in southern Algeria and
southern Tunisia. For some years
this variety did not ripen well in the
southwestern United States, but fin
ally in 1910 methods of curing were
perfected by experts of the Univer-
slty of Arizona and the Department of
Agriculture. Large importatons of
Delget Moor offshoots We're made by
the Cochella Valley Date GrowersAs-
sociation, from 1912 to 1914, with the
cooperation and help of the depart
nt.After the war broke out, the AL
gerian Government placed an embargo
unon the export of date offshoots from
Algeria and no further importations
of this variety could be made. TMY'
This importation of offshoots of the
Delget Moor variety, together with the
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
DOWN EAST MOB
is DISPERSED

BARNSTABLE, Mass, Aug. 49,
A mob of nearly 1000 men and WON
EN- carrying ropes today stormed the
local jail threatening to lynch three
Cape Verde island neg Des, who are
charged with highway robbery and
criminal assault upon young white
woman at Buzzard's Bay. Chief
Warden James Boland warned the
mob back, shouting that on the first
attempt to attack the Jail members
of the mob would be "shOt down like
rats" The warning had the effect
of stopping the mob, but the crowd
remained outside the jail for half an
hour before going away.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
HORRIBLE CRIME
OF FORMER CONVICT

PETALUMA, Calf, Aug. 19.-Ev-
elyn Grant, IA, is dead, her body hor-
ribly mutilated with an axe, and her
younger sister, Leona, and her grand
mother, Mrs. Theresa Grant, are dan
ously wounded, as the result of an
attack last night made by Theodore
Hoffer, declared to be an exconvict on
parole, according to the police. Later
Hoffer was found dead with his throat
cut. 1t is believed that he committed
suicide.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
FURTHER TAX REDUCTIONS
WASHINGTON AuU 1Q-Tl

elimination of taxes upon prOprie-
tary medicines was agreed upon to-
day by the house ways and means
committee, which approved more
than 60 changes in the republican
tax bill. The majority members also
voted to reduce the tax on cereal
beverages from the proposed 6 cents
per gallon to cents and to bring
fire and marine insurance companies
under the IL 1-2 per cent corporation
income tax on the same basis as life
companies.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
QUAKERS CAN GO.
TO RUSSIA

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 10
The American Quakers will be per-
mitted by the soviet government to
send an unlimited number of work
ers to Russia to relieve the millions
of needy there, they were informed
in cablegram from Arthur Watts,
Friends representative in Moscow.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
EXCESS PROFIT TAX
CAUSE OF III. c. l.,

New York, Aug. l9---Character-
izing the excess profit tax as one OF
the reasons for continued high
prices John S. Drum, president of
the American Bankers association.
has sent Represenatiy. Foriney and
Senator Penrose a vigorous protest
against its continuance until 1922.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-19
IS OPPOSED TO BARE KNEES
WHOLE TOWN FLEESLN NIGHT ATTIRE FROM WATER WALL
Last Minute
BULLETINS
WOOD BILL.
IS TABLED

WASHINGTON, Aug. l9.-The
administration bill designed to au-
thOrize Major General Leonard
Wood to become governor general of
the Philippines without retiring as
an active officer of the army, was
laid on the table today by the house
military committee without record
vote. Members of the committee are
said to have held that it would be a
dangerous precedent to establish.